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[quote=Anonymous]Hi

Both my daughter and I have difficult to control neurological problems.  I have battled migraines for almost 40 years.  My daughter has primary generalized epilepsy and Jeavons syndrome.  She has tonic-clonic seizures, drop attacks and absence seizures.  She is extremely photosensitive.  Bright lights and flashing lights give her seizures.  We are both on daily medications to help with these problems, but the problems persist.

My Neurologist recommended that I go on a glutamate and aspartate restricted diet  (G.A.R.D.) to see if it would reduce the number of migraine headaches that I have.  I have been on the diet for about a month.  Since I do all the cooking, the family has gone on the diet with me.  LOL   I am feeling much better.  Even better, my daughter is having far fewer seizures!!!  She has gone from about 10 absence seizures a day with the occasional tonic-clonic and drop attack thrown in, to only having seizures two days in the last month.  (1 short tonic-clonic and 6 short absence seizures that were triggered by unavoidable intense light.) Her Epileptologist is thrilled with how she has improved and strongly encouraged us to stick with the diet.

You can learn more about the G.A.R.D.  diet at this web site if you are interested in learning more about it:

http://dogtorj.com/

There is a problem with the link that he has for nutritional information.  Here is the correct link:

http://www.foodcomp.dk/v7/fcdb_namesearch.asp

This diet is HARD to follow.  I had to buy a gluten-free cookbook and I have to cook everything from scratch!  But the results are worth the work.

HTH.

me
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