Natasha Campbell-McBride - Gut and Psychology Syndrome

Gut and Psychology Syndrome

Natural treatment for

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD, MMedSci (neurology), MMedSci (nutrition)

Natasha Campbell-McBride, 2010

Gut and Psychology Syndrome

ISBN 13: 978-0-954852023

First published in the United Kingdom in September 2004 by Medinform Publishing. Cambridge, UK.

Revised and expanded edition published November 2010

Eighteenth reprint July 2018

The right of Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Patent and Designs Act 1988.

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Gut and Psychology Syndrome is an international trademark of Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride and its use is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride.

To my sons, Nicholas and Matthew, and to my husband, Peter, without whose support and encouragement this book would never have been written.

Reviews

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride is to be congratulated on putting together such a well-researched and provocative book. From the overuse of antibiotics to the promotion of breast-feeding and healthier diets, Dr. Campbell-McBride writes with the authority of a practising doctor and with the warmth and feeling of a mother of a child with autism. Every parent with a child who has autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia or dyspraxia will find much to value in this book, which in turn delights and shocks the reader. I warmly recommend it.

Dr Basant K Puri, MA, PhD, MB, BChir, BSc MathSci, MRCPsych, DipStat, MMath, Head of the Lipid Neuroscience Group, MRI Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London; and author of the books The Natural Way to Beat Depression; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; and Natural Energy.

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride has done an excellent job of summarising the nutritional biochemical connections with pyschiatric and neurological disorders and gastrointestianl function. She has done an admirable job in relating specific digestive disorders in conditions such as schizophrenia, autism, attention deficit disorder and other problems of child development. The book is full of valuable and interesting facts that can be used by people to optimise the health of themselves and their children.

Dr. William Shaw, PhD., Great Plains Laboratories, Kansas, USA

Dr. Campbell-McBrides book provides important information and great insight into the understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders in those with developmental disabilities and other disorders. The book contains basic information for the beginner as well as indepth information for those at an advance level. Thank you Dr. Campbell-McBride for writing this book.

Dr. Stephen M. Edelson, Ph.D., Center for the Study of Autism, Oregon USA.

This book is fantastic and will become a classic. Every medic should have one No, every household should have one!

An invaluable resource for patients with syndrome diseases and so-called mental health problems. The medicine of the future already in practice.

Martina Watts BA(Hons) DipION MBANT, practising nutritionist and journalist

This book presents the case for investigating the nutritional aspects, how the gut works and how poor gut function seriously impacts not only physical health but also brain function, for all children with learning and behaviour difficulties.

Countless parents seeking help from The Hyperactive Childrens Support Group find their children benefit greatly from dietary and nutritional interventions. Vitamin, mineral and essential fatty acid deficiencies are all too frequently discovered.

This book offers an insight to how the digestive system affects the brain.

Sally Bunday, Founder Director, The Hyperactive Childrens Support Group,UK

W ICKEN F EN

The old wooden gates swinging wide open

leaving room for a path of wood stretching out in front of you.

The heavenly scent of the clean fresh air.

The whistling sound of the grass and the trees

swaying left and right in the breeze.

At night you stare at the wonderful sight.

The path leading over the moist soft grass.

You walk on the bridge over a gently flowing river.

The hill reaching so high, almost touching the sky.

The windmill still stands as you walk the stairs

which have been there for years.

The buzzing of the bees busy in their hive.

All the sounds surround you.

The warm feeling of welcome is quick to arrive.

The sun shining bright on the grass

as green as the leaves in summer.

The way forward getting thinner leaving the feeling that lasts.

The adventure is over.

Feeling warm inside.

Farewell until next time.

Nicholas Campbell-McBride, 11 years old, Cambridge, UK

Contents

Not many people would choose to become parents of an autistic child. Yet it is happening to more and more of us in our modern world. There is an unmistakable epidemic of autism going on across the globe. If this can possibly be of any comfort for a parent, then I would say that you are certainly not alone!

Autism used to be a rare disorder, so that the majority of doctors never saw it in their practice and most people had never heard of it. About twenty years ago in Western countries the incidence of autism used to be on average one child in 10,000. Now according to the UK Department of Health 1 in 150 children in Great Britain are diagnosed with autism. According to the USA Centers for Disease Control (CDC) around 1 out of 150 American children are diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders now and the numbers are growing every day. Similar numbers are reported by the Autism Canada Foundation. A Finnish study published in the European Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2001, volume 9) reported an incidence rate of 1 child in 483 diagnosed autistic in Finland. In Sweden a rate of 1 child in 141 was reported.

So, what is happening? Why do we have such a dramatic increase in the numbers of children falling prey to this terrible disorder, deemed incurable by orthodox medicine?

Is the reason for this epidemic genetic? The truth is we dont know! However, what we do know, is that genetic disorders do not show such a sudden increase in incidence. Genetics just dont work that way. This kind of increase in new diagnosis of autism cannot be explained by genetics. On the contrary, it provides a strong argument to support the statement that genetics may not play an important part in the development of autism after all.

Is this epidemic due to better diagnosis? That is what some very well-established British medical experts are trying to tell us. So, in effect, are they saying that 15 years ago doctors in the UK were so bad at recognising and diagnosing autism that they were missing one child in 150? If that is the case, where are all these children today? They would by now be teenagers with autism, because we know that this disorder does not disappear with age. We clearly do not have 1 in 150 teenagers in the UK with autism. So, this argument does not convince anybody. Something else is going on. Something that cannot simply be explained away and something that cannot be fixed with a pill.