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02 of 63 - Overview of the Gut - Health Challenges Autistic Children Experience (see description for video presentation link and full lecture series) image

02 of 63 - Overview of the Gut - Health Challenges Autistic Children Experience (see description for video presentation link and full lecture series)

Children's Health Podcast (formerly Autism & Children's Health)
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Children's health consulting: https://christianyordanov.com/childrens-health-consulting/

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The courses are:

  • The Healthy Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet for Autism. ADHD, and Gut Dysfunction
  • Nutrient Supplements for Autism, ADHD, and Children's Health
  • Health Challenges Autistic Children Experience

You will learn a ton and there will be more educational content for parents on the free member plan. Members can also suggest topics for me to research and publish in the community platform. Join us today: https://members.christianyordanov.com/

The above 3 courses cover topics such as gut dysfunction and infections, clostridia bacteria, Candida, oxalates, methylation, excitotoxicity, zinc / copper imbalance, going gluten-free and how to do it well, heavy metals and chemical toxicity, probiotic supplementation, mitochondrial dysfunction, immune system dysregulation, neuroinflammation, and much much more. I even show you how to select high-quality supplements and avoid the junk and hype - with real examples and analysis of ingredients on screen...

Every parent of an autistic child must know this information that is why I want to share it with you for free. And parents with kids that have an any health complaint will also learn a ton. In fact, every parent will learn a lot of value information from each of these courses - so please help me share this information with more parents! Thank you so much.

Watch this presentation video directly here:  https://zencastr.com/z/N-GsVHMk

Listen to the introduction/overview of this series so you can get the most out of it: https://zencastr.com/z/9VJYthUA

Links to my book Autism Wellbeing Plan: How to Get Your Child Healthy:

US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Wellbeing-Plan-Child-Healthy/dp/1916393004

UK Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Autism-Wellbeing-Plan-Child-Healthy-ebook/dp/B084GBBDL9


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Transcript

Introduction to Gut and GI Tract

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So when I say gut, let's just get the terms right. So when I refer to the gut, it's the simplest, easiest way to refer to it. But what I'm really talking about is your child's gastrointestinal system. We can also call it the GI tract, the GI system, the digestive system. These are all

Role of Gut Health in Autism

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interchangeable terms that I would try to use gut just for the sake of simplicity. So I don't inundate you with too many technical terms. There will be some technical terms.
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in this module, but as I explained earlier, once you understand a little bit of the science of the health challenges that autistic children experience, then you will gain a much deeper appreciation for the various strategies that I outlined later in the course. So the

Importance of Testing Health Challenges

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diet, the supplementation,
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All the other things are important because they address in some way directly or indirectly the health challenges that your child may experience. Of course, you will learn in the next module how to actually test
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for those health challenges to identify them, so you're always working on actual things that pertain to your situation. So we're not guessing, but we're testing, we're identifying things to work on, and we're basically going for not just the low-hanging fruit, but the things that will have the biggest impact in terms of improving your child's health.

Components of the Digestive System

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So a quick overview of the gut. Now, the digestive system isn't just the intestines. It starts at the mouth. You have the salivary glands there. When your child starts chewing on a piece of food, enzymes are released that already begin to break down certain food molecules. It signals to the pancreas that digestive enzymes need to be released. So it starts at the mouth.
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Then the esophagus is part of it. That's the tract where the food goes down into the stomach. From the stomach, then the food goes into the small intestine. And you have the liver, which is a large component of the digestive system. I'll explain later its function. You have the gallbladder. You have the pancreas, as I mentioned. And then the food goes into the small intestine where a large part of the nutrients are absorbed.
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After that, it goes into the large intestine and eventually it makes its way down to the rectum and is excreted through the anus.

Impact of Gut Microbes on Health

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So that is the entire human digestive system. And before I go into a little bit more detail of what the various organs do, let me read to you a quote from a research paper that I cite in my book talking about gut microbes.
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Gut microbes are part of the unconscious system regulating behavior. Recent investigations indicate that these microbes majorly impact on cognitive function and fundamental behavior patterns such as social interaction and stress management.
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In the absence of microbes, underlying neurochemistry is profoundly altered. Studies have got microbes may play an important role in advancing understanding of disorders of cognitive functioning and social interaction such as autism.
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So that is to say that the gut, the microbes in the gut, they affect cognitive function and fundamental behavior patterns, right?

Digestive Process and Functions

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So the gut's function isn't just to process our food so that we can have energy and proteins building blocks for muscles, bones, brain cells, etc.
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But the gut literally has an influence on everything in the human body, including behavior, including social interaction, including basically feelings, how we feel. Are we in a state of stress or are we in a state of calm? So I'll expand a lot more on this area.
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So very briefly, the major functions of the organs of the gut, so the stomach, you may know some of this of course, but this is just a refresher. So the stomach releases digestive enzymes that break down food and acid that kills harmful bacteria, so the hydrochloric acid. The pancreas releases digestive enzymes that help to break down food.
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The liver and gallbladder release bile that helps with the digestion of fat and the small intestine is where about 90% of the nutrients that we take in are absorbed. Most of those nutrients go to the liver where their further processed liver is almost like a command center and it sends nutrients to the right places in the body.
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It detoxifies the harmful compounds that we inevitably will consume as part of our food and so on. The liver, as I already mentioned, detoxifies harmful substances and processes digestive protein and carbohydrates, then sends them out to the rest of the body.
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The large intestine, also known as the colon, is where the stool is formed and certain bacteria help to process indigestible fibers and create beneficial compounds such as vitamins and short-chain fatty acids. So most of the bacteria in our gut is situated in the large intestine.