Today Drew and I went down to Atlanta for a check in with
his coach, Jessica, and to get the results from his blood work that he had done
a couple of weeks ago. I’m going to
start with the blood work since that is the inspiration for the title. The lab test he had done is called a TRIAD
profile. The urine portion tests
nutrient markers, cell regulation markers, toxicants/detoxification and compounds
of bacterial or yeast/fungal origin. The
plasma portion tests essential amino acids and 5 different functional
categories and the blood portion tests food sensitivities. His urine showed that he is low in B vitamins
and high in sulfate. The plasma shows
quite a deficiency in amino acids. So
for all of that he has to take a plethora of vitamins and supplements twice a
day. In the morning on an empty stomach
he has to take base amino acids, branched chain amino acids, probiotics,
glycine and N-Acyticysteine (another amino acid). He can’t eat for 30 minutes. Then with breakfast he has to take liquid
vitamins, minerals, B complex liquid, fish oil and hemp protein powder (because
he eats NO protein). He has to repeat
the amino acids, probiotics and glycine in the afternoon.
And here’s the one I was not expecting…his blood work shows
that he has NO food sensitivities!! Well,
2 (sunflower and zucchini) but they were so mild that the nutritionist said
they weren’t anything to worry about. The
2 main foods that they tell you to eliminate before you even get the results
back are gluten (found in grains) and casein (found in dairy products). On the classification scale 0-40 is negative
meaning no sensitivity and class 1 is 41-80.
In grains his highest marker was 13 and his casein marker was
<10! What does all of this mean? First thing is that I had myself in a tizzy
for weeks worrying about this for nothing and second is that we don’t really
have to avoid any foods. He wants us to
eliminate dairy for 2 weeks and see if we notice any changes in behavior or
focus and if we don’t notice any changes then dairy is not off limits. Then he wants us to do the same with gluten
for one month and if there are no changes there is really no reason to avoid
gluten either. Matt and I will decide at
the end of the month whether to re-introduce gluten or not. Basically we have decided as a family that we
will eliminate all refined grains and sugars, all corn byproducts (98% of which
are GMO), especially high fructose corn syrup, soy (all GMO), MSG, artificial
sweeteners, flavorings, colors and all genetically modified foods and we will
start buying the “dirty dozen” fruits in organic. Our meats and dairy will also be switched to
organic. Now I wish I had done the nutrition post earlier so some of this made
sense. Hopefully I didn’t make your head
spin like mine has been for the last 2 weeks.
Now for his check in with Coach Jessica. She watched Drew do some of his home exercises
to see how he was progressing. If you
remember from one of the first posts, I told you that we are born with 8
primitive reflexes that go “dormant” by the time we are 2 and that Drew only
had 2 of the 8 that had done that. Well,
he has dropped 2 more and is really close to dropping another 2!! So she took out 2 of his primitive reflex exercises. However, we added 3 core exercises. She also took out one of his eye exercises
but added a new one.
I have to tell you that during the ride to Atlanta and back
Drew was a ROCK STAR!! I didn’t let him
watch the DVD player in the car at all.
He asked once on the way down and once on the way back and that’s
it!! He is so awesome! 6 hours in the car with no whining!! However, I did hear “Where are we going?”
every 5 minutes. He’s a little leary of
long car rides because it usually means we are going somewhere for him to get
poked and prodded.
Well, it’s getting late and I’m exhausted from the day. Why does driving make you so worn out??
Good night!
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