At last a brief glimmer of hope that families that follow the GFCF diet may not be foolishly wasting their time and money.  I found this article today and found this excerpt particularly interesting: Continue reading →

I was reading a blog that looks at scientific research and autism and came across these 2 posts regarding autism and the GFCF diet.  In fairness, they look at the proposed underlying hypothesis (“leaky-gut”) and try to discern if there is any merit to the idea.  Both papers, as well as others I have read (you can look here for more), indicate that there is no evidence of leaky gut from their trials.  It is then easy to make the inference that by extension there is little reason to try a GFCF diet. Continue reading →

I recently attended an information session regarding a nutraceutical product and some of the research behind it and its benefits. I must say that initially I was a bit wary. It had the air of a multi-level marketing “presentation” but I was pleasantly surprised. The presenter gave a relatively strong scientific presentation about the benefits of Immunocal and the research behind it. I would have liked to have had more research and more of the scientific details but I’m fairly certain that I was in the minority.

I was prepared for the usual bias due to receiving the information from the company and it’s paid researchers, but was pleasantly surprised by a comment from one of the physicians that was speaking. Continue reading →