DETOX WORKED: ARFID to Eating and NONVERBAL to Verbal!
THIS STORY HAS BETTER FORMATTING IN THE LESSON I POSTED IN THE DETOX SECTION: https://www.skool.com/the-vaccine-free-child/classroom/30c56314?md=6ffc744c596d4ed3b2c7889a259cb5df [Skool does not offer as much formatting control in community posts vs Lessons] An Inspiring Story of Detox ARFID is an acronym that stands for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, where a child may have (justified) fear of choking and/or sensory / tactile issues while eating and therefore eats minimal or no food, except “safe foods.” “Safe foods” are foods that a child knows he or she can eat without gaging or choking – a self-preservation strategy. Story by Rebecca, child’s mother: My boy was around 2 years old when we first started Pure Body Extra in 2022. Had great eye contact, but had no interest in mimicking or making noise. He could communicate with us by pointing. We had him seeing a speech therapist because of the complete lack of sound, and the fact that when he ate he would hold on to food for a long time. I mean sometimes an hour later we would discover he was just holding a bite in his mouth. He loved soft foods but he gagged a lot. He gagged on avocado, could not eat meat, would only like broth or baby foods. Eating was always very slow, and he was always chewing for 10 minutes at a time for solids until he spat it out at our request. He was being vaccinated, at a reduced rate per our pediatrician’s guidance (he later encouraged us to not vaccinate our second, a big relief as we already made that decision). However, we moved away from the city to the mountains and had trouble finding a pediatrician willing to take us without doing all the missed vaccines at an accelerated rate. We decided to just stop. There was some improvement on the eating front, but not the speaking front. This is when we realized that when he was born he was unable to latch [caused by the HepB vaccine], and seemed to “forget” how to eat a day or two after every doctor visit. We were recommended your twitter account [Larry Cook] by my brother and he got us the zeolite [detox].