Our eighty-second show!
Ep. 82, Autistic Spectrum Disorder
In this episode Stacy and Sarah are joined by Kelly, The Spunky Coconut, to hear about her experience with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). Kelly reflects on how diet and lifestyle impacted her daughter Ashely's ASD, and helps Stacy and Sarah address related reader questions.


The Paleo View (TPV), Episode 82, Autistic Spectrum Disorder
0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - News & Views
Welcome everyone!
And welcome to this week's guest Kelly from The Spunky Coconut - Stacy learned about Kelly at the very beginning of her paleo journey and her site was one of the main two sites that Matt and Stacy used as they were evolving into the paleo lifestyle
Kelly has written multiple cookbooks, Stacy's favorite is her Dairy Free Ice Cream cookbook and that is one of the first cookbooks that featured recipes with gelatin (this book is out of print until later this year when an expanded version will be released through Victory Belt)
In 2013 Kelly released The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook - read The Paleo Parents review of that cookbook here
More on Kelly
The Spunky Coconut began in 2008 and was created so she could show how her family was eating gluten-free and dairy-free
The site evolved as they took away grains from their diet, not knowing about the paleo movement
As Kelly found out about paleo they removed the few items that weren't paleo
Her recipes are known for very low amounts of sugar
The Spunky Coconut site just got a facelift to be a little more user friendly

From Sarah & Stacy's weekend of book signing fun
Sarah flipped a 350 pound tire three times while training with Stacy, she also did a 300 pound farmer's carry
The book signings were a lot of fun - Russ, The Domestic Man, hosted Stacy and Sarah on Saturday night and they had a wonderful evening, he even made recipes from The Ancestral Table
On Sunday they all went up to Philadelphia for another book signing and fell in love with the restaurant Pure Fare
The fans who showed up for the two book signings were awesome - thank you to all who came out!

Kelly recently did some book signings, road-tripping from Southern California to Seattle and her entire family had an amazing experience - meeting the readers and seeing their well-loved books was very rewarding
On this week's show Kelly will be chatting with Stacy and Sarah about her experience with autistic spectrum disorder and how diet and lifestyle have impacted her daughter's specific case

26:45 - Science with Sarah
One of the most common questions that Sarah gets is whether or not autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) is an autoimmune disease - and the answer is that there is some intriguing research that there may be a link, but we don't really know right now for certain if it is an autoimmune disease
There is a strong association between kids with ASD and a mother who has celiac disease or rheumatoid arthritis, and there is a very strong link between ASD and any family history of type 1 diabetes - these associations are why people think ASD may be an autoimmune condition
When Kelly's daughter Ashley was a young toddler she had severe autism symptoms and severe sensory processing disorders - the situation was bad, and the minute they put Ashley on a gluten and casein free diet most of the symptoms vanished over night
They took Ashley to a doctor in Pennsylvania to get additional help, and when they did a blood test she was tested for MTHFR and they found an enzyme mutation that showed that Ashley wasn't properly detoxifying
Since then they have struggled to help her detoxify and to understand how best to assemble her diet to support her body and her development
Through additional testing they found out that Ashley's lead and mercury levels were so toxic that it was a surprise that she could communicate at all - they then did their first round of DMSA and handled the process as gently as they could and the results after three months of treatment were impressively shocking
After