Dr Sarah Warley

So as I said, meats, pulses, all that sort of thing, shellfish.

Omega-3s, definitely make sure you've got those.

I've talked about controlling sugar spikes and try to avoid the ultra-processed things that, you know, that would be it.

And really, it's about...

realizing that what you're putting in your body is literally affecting your brain.

So it's an act of self-love.

If you see it not as an act of denial, which I think that's the trouble with the word diet, you think, oh, you can't have this and you can't have that.

No, you could have lots of food, but just make sure it's stuff that's going to be really good for you and is going to really be nutritious and help you.

So it's an act of love rather than denial.

That's how I like to see it.

So that's a whole big one that we can cover another day because there are so many things I'd love to talk about here.

I'd like to talk about the gut microbiome because we know that it is

Generally dysregulated in people with autistic symptoms.

I was mentioning in the break about a particular diet that, again, for a subset of people can be really, really effective at helping improve things.

That's a gluten dairy free diet.

It's called gluten casein free diet.

You may have heard of it.

I would point you in the direction of the Autism Research Institute in America.

And they published findings on a study of 25,000 parents of autistic people.

And they said, let's go through everything you've tried and tell us what made things worse, what didn't do anything and what helped.