I almost got rid of my tics entirely through diet, supplementation, and optimizing thyroid hormone. They were AWFUL before I started changing my diet. I cut out foods that spike insulin (gluten, dairy, processed foods), those that cause allergies (pesticides, antibiotics, dairy, grapes, etc), and that are just not healthy for you (preservatives, artificial flavoring, coloring). Apparently there is a large correlation between insulin resistance, allergies, and tics. * I use to have OCD as well. My anxiety and depression went when I started eating differently as well.
You should look into the gut connection. I don't think there are many studies on this but that is why gluten affects tics (as well as how it affects insulin). It can take 3-6 months to 'heal' your gut. Gluten does not immediately cause my tics to become worse because I do not have an allergy to gluten. Over time if I consume gluten they will get worse. Dairy immediately affects my tics because I have an allergy.
100% this. Eliminating dairy was more effective in reducing my tics than taking antipsychotic medication 3 times a day. I was gluten free for a year but sadly that didn't work as well. I was able to go off all medication for a while as I hardly ticced for nearly 2 years after cutting out dairy but my tics returned along with severe neurological, psychiatric and physical issues after an infection so now I am going to soon get tested for Lyme and Bartonella and see a naturopath to see if they can help heal my immune issues.
One more important thing - you should look into autoimmune disease and MCAS. I have autoimmune disease and that is why I embarked on my journey to get healthier. The elimination of my tics almost entirely was not expected. Autoimmune disease is common and largely undiagnosed. I had to go to a NP to run blood work and finally get diagnosed. I absolutely knew I had it but my doctor would not the possibly that I had it.
I'm glad you were finally able to get diagnosed and get the blood work done! I have autoimmune issues too - likely PANS and possibly something else too. Discovering autoimmunity and finding the root is such an important step! 😄 I will also look into histamine issues similar to MCAS one day as that could also explain some of the issues I have. Everyone should have this knowledge that you have!
I am glad to hear someone being relieved of these symptoms of Tourettes. One Question: When you said you noticed you were eating Cheese and it made the ticks worse. Were you eating breakfast Cereal at the time or around the time when you ate Dairy?
The crux is to try a cancellation food plan for 3 months with the objective of better health. What epitomises cancellation diet is clean Carnivore. To acclimate, 6 months of CLEAN Keto sticking to 3 meals per day: Foods Salt, Peeper and any other spices Eggs (preferrably pasture raised organic) Asparagus Leek Broccoli Cauliflower Swiss Chard/Silverbeet Avocado Cucumber Cabbage Butter Onions Aged cheese Grass fed, grass finished 80/20 Ground beef (Beef Mince) Mushrooms Sardines (Spring water Tuna (wild caught, spring water) Chicken (preferrably organic free range. Drumsticks or Breast) Pumpkin seeds (handful), Brazil (only 2 per day) and Walnuts (handfull) Beverage: Water (reverse osmosis 4 stage or bottled mineral water in glass preferred) Raw Sauerkruat Raw Kimchi Extra Virgin Olive Oil Extra Virgin Avocado Oil Feta (goat cheese, no additives except Salt) No grains or processed foods, this includes porridge and oats, crackers. No refined vegetable/seed oils like Canola, Soy, Sunflower No fast food. Only exceptions are usually Salads Optional: Chicken liver, heart, neck, feet Beef heart, kidney Meats should only be that meat. There should be no additives like canola oil, soy etc. Look on bag for 100% of the selected meat. I would suggest following a thoroughly researched Carnivore heat-to-tail Meat, Water and Spices, including salt, diet after 6 months of Keto. Remember, 3 times a day and always have enough food to the point that youre not hungry at all until your next meal. For id eat at 5am, 1pm, 7pm but I eat 2 meals a day which are 1pm and 5pm. I dont recommend 2 meals a day for you. Example of what I eat: 1st meal: 2 avocados, 5 eggs done in butter (lightly scrambled) or 160g tuna, cheese omelette. 2nd meal: Half head of cabbage, broccoli, onion, 100-200g of chicken or beef mince (and/or chicken liver occasionally) done in EVOO and Butter. Pumpkin seeds and 2 Brazil nuts. No added sugar.
Wow.. so much information. I have noticed potato and chicken triggers my son's tics. I also read that " changing bile will stop tics" which shows that gutmicrobe got affected and changing bile stopped tics completely for a 9 year old child
Thanks for the video it was very inforrmative. I think I may have some gluten issues and need to pay more attention to reducing gluten intake. I find I'm ok with rice where as Pasta gives me problems.
There is a blood test that can determine food sensitivities. Much easier than going through the elimination.rotation diet. Also avoid applied kinesiology to determine food reactions as the same person can go to five different chiropractors and get tested and they arrive at five different conclusions.
I know but a lot of people have gotten inaccurate results from the blood test (some people say they are very helpful though). A lot of us can't afford the food sensitivity testing so we have to look for patterns and eliminate based on that which has worked very well for me.
I have that book too it also says vaccines could be a huge cause .. Also children’s health defense says attributable to vaccines…. But I don’t want to trigger any vaccine lovers but this is just what natural cures book says. Anyways green juices I notice drastically improve my tics
I personally haven't found supplements helpful but elimination of food sensitivities have been helpful for me. Magnesium is reported to be helpful for some people though. Some people have found using both magnesium and Vitamin B6 to be helpful. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19087826/ The book "Natural Treatment For Tics And Tourette’s" By Sheila Rogers Demare has more information on supplements which is helpful. The group "Natural Care For Tics and Tourette’s" on Facebook has some good information too.
@@ChronicAdvocate I took Sheila Demare's book from the library but haven't started reading it yet. Magnesium hasn't done much despite the fact he's been taking it for almost 2 months so I'm going to start working on cleaning up his diet and I know you talked about eliminating dairy which I'll try as well although my son does love his cheese.
@@ChronicAdvocate By the way I haven't watched that many of your videos yet but have you address the social stigma that comes with having tics? (ie. being made fun of, people not understanding what tics are, etc...)
@@ChronicAdvocate Thanks. Even though it seems like you have your tics under control I hope you keep up with your great work helping and educating people like me trying to help their kid. What about doing a video interviewing others who were able to get their tics under control?
Has it worked for you? I'm going on it now after strict medical keto did nothing. Then I found out I was allergic to kale/broccoli/avocado/almonds etc.
@@illavitar I didn't have tourette's but sometimes OCD symptoms, even while oxalate detox they come up sometimes. I had depression, anxiety, diabetes3 symptoms and felt horrible... But I saw vids from others claiming they got rid of T...
@@janigrohn4516 How severe were your tics? Mine are unbearable both motor/vocal. I did strict keto had no luck with it so I'm trying carnivore/lion diet next
@@janigrohn4516 Thanks! I never had a single tic until I turned 19. One day I just started thrusting/tensing my body, then at age 25 the vocal tics started. Nowadays it's shouting/verbal outbursts/yelling swear words/bruising my body/biting myself and seems to happen around 30 times a minute. So weird after never having them and yet I've had them half my life now. Can't drive the last 3 years or leave the house. My gut is awful and im ige allergic to everything, I've also had chronic Bartonella since I was 18 and lived in a water damaged building the last 6 years. I've read carnivore is a brilliant tool for mitochondria/leaky gut/immune regulation so I'm hoping the lion diet brings me some instant relief while I tackle the underlying cause (leaky gut/mold/bartonella). Great to hear you got rid of them after that long! I'm personally terrified mine are permanent as they're severe, and there's some literature on pandas/autoimmunity attacking intercholinergic neurons in the basal ganglia. But perhaps the body can heal that. Only one way to find out though!
I am getting genetic testing soon as you are right - a lot of SNPs impact how you process certain nutrients, it's so expensive to get the testing done though.
I almost got rid of my tics entirely through diet, supplementation, and optimizing thyroid hormone. They were AWFUL before I started changing my diet. I cut out foods that spike insulin (gluten, dairy, processed foods), those that cause allergies (pesticides, antibiotics, dairy, grapes, etc), and that are just not healthy for you (preservatives, artificial flavoring, coloring). Apparently there is a large correlation between insulin resistance, allergies, and tics.
* I use to have OCD as well. My anxiety and depression went when I started eating differently as well.
You should look into the gut connection. I don't think there are many studies on this but that is why gluten affects tics (as well as how it affects insulin). It can take 3-6 months to 'heal' your gut. Gluten does not immediately cause my tics to become worse because I do not have an allergy to gluten. Over time if I consume gluten they will get worse. Dairy immediately affects my tics because I have an allergy.
100% this. Eliminating dairy was more effective in reducing my tics than taking antipsychotic medication 3 times a day. I was gluten free for a year but sadly that didn't work as well. I was able to go off all medication for a while as I hardly ticced for nearly 2 years after cutting out dairy but my tics returned along with severe neurological, psychiatric and physical issues after an infection so now I am going to soon get tested for Lyme and Bartonella and see a naturopath to see if they can help heal my immune issues.
I'm glad that your tics have gone almost entirely!
One more important thing - you should look into autoimmune disease and MCAS. I have autoimmune disease and that is why I embarked on my journey to get healthier. The elimination of my tics almost entirely was not expected. Autoimmune disease is common and largely undiagnosed. I had to go to a NP to run blood work and finally get diagnosed. I absolutely knew I had it but my doctor would not the possibly that I had it.
I'm glad you were finally able to get diagnosed and get the blood work done! I have autoimmune issues too - likely PANS and possibly something else too. Discovering autoimmunity and finding the root is such an important step! 😄 I will also look into histamine issues similar to MCAS one day as that could also explain some of the issues I have. Everyone should have this knowledge that you have!
Love these videos as it gives individuals and parents dealing with tourettes first hand information. Thank you so much for sharing.
In combination with avoiding triggering foods, green juices help tremendously too. Haven’t tried green smoothie but I imagine it’s the same thing
I am glad to hear someone being relieved of these symptoms of Tourettes.
One Question:
When you said you noticed you were eating Cheese and it made the ticks worse. Were you eating breakfast Cereal at the time or around the time when you ate Dairy?
Both cheese and milk from the breakfast cereal triggered me, ice cream too, so that's why I went fully dairy free. ♡
You are so underrated ❤ thank you for sharing
Wow lots of information, and presented very well. Thank you!
The crux is to try a cancellation food plan for 3 months with the objective of better health. What epitomises cancellation diet is clean Carnivore.
To acclimate, 6 months of CLEAN Keto sticking to 3 meals per day:
Foods
Salt, Peeper and any other spices
Eggs (preferrably pasture raised organic)
Asparagus
Leek
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Swiss Chard/Silverbeet
Avocado
Cucumber
Cabbage
Butter
Onions
Aged cheese
Grass fed, grass finished 80/20 Ground beef (Beef Mince)
Mushrooms
Sardines (Spring water
Tuna (wild caught, spring water)
Chicken (preferrably organic free range. Drumsticks or Breast)
Pumpkin seeds (handful), Brazil (only 2 per day) and Walnuts (handfull)
Beverage: Water (reverse osmosis 4 stage or bottled mineral water in glass preferred)
Raw Sauerkruat
Raw Kimchi
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Extra Virgin Avocado Oil
Feta (goat cheese, no additives except Salt)
No grains or processed foods, this includes porridge and oats, crackers.
No refined vegetable/seed oils like Canola, Soy, Sunflower
No fast food. Only exceptions are usually Salads
Optional:
Chicken liver, heart, neck, feet
Beef heart, kidney
Meats should only be that meat. There should be no additives like canola oil, soy etc. Look on bag for 100% of the selected meat.
I would suggest following a thoroughly researched Carnivore heat-to-tail Meat, Water and Spices, including salt, diet after 6 months of Keto.
Remember, 3 times a day and always have enough food to the point that youre not hungry at all until your next meal.
For id eat at 5am, 1pm, 7pm but I eat 2 meals a day which are 1pm and 5pm. I dont recommend 2 meals a day for you.
Example of what I eat:
1st meal: 2 avocados, 5 eggs done in butter (lightly scrambled) or 160g tuna, cheese omelette.
2nd meal: Half head of cabbage, broccoli, onion, 100-200g of chicken or beef mince (and/or chicken liver occasionally) done in EVOO and Butter. Pumpkin seeds and 2 Brazil nuts.
No added sugar.
Thanks so much for putting this information out into the world!!! 🙏🏽
Wow.. so much information. I have noticed potato and chicken triggers my son's tics. I also read that " changing bile will stop tics" which shows that gutmicrobe got affected and changing bile stopped tics completely for a 9 year old child
Thank you so much for this wealth of information. :)
Last comment for now.
You are very intelligent girl.
Thank you, you are my hope ❤
You are brilliant! Thank you for this video
As far as the caffeine. Could it be the sugar they sweeten the caffeine drink with?
Sugar is a common tic trigger, but caffeine is for a lot of people too as its a stimulant.
I had a form of OCD. Then started taking Ritalin in university and then my TICS go out of hand from that
Thanks and best wishes always
You too!
“stimming”. I learned a new word. Strange that I’ve been earning about this subject for many years and never came across that word.
i’m a really big fan of ur videos i have been for a while i have tourettes too . i dont show them in my videos but they can get really really bad
Thanks for the video it was very inforrmative. I think I may have some gluten issues and need to pay more attention to reducing gluten intake. I find I'm ok with rice where as Pasta gives me problems.
I love your film
There is a blood test that can determine food sensitivities. Much easier than going through the elimination.rotation diet. Also avoid applied kinesiology to determine food reactions as the same person can go to five different chiropractors and get tested and they arrive at five different conclusions.
I know but a lot of people have gotten inaccurate results from the blood test (some people say they are very helpful though). A lot of us can't afford the food sensitivity testing so we have to look for patterns and eliminate based on that which has worked very well for me.
I have that book too it also says vaccines could be a huge cause .. Also children’s health defense says attributable to vaccines…. But I don’t want to trigger any vaccine lovers but this is just what natural cures book says. Anyways green juices I notice drastically improve my tics
@ticcers unite What are some natural supplements that you have found to be helpful in treating your tics?
I personally haven't found supplements helpful but elimination of food sensitivities have been helpful for me. Magnesium is reported to be helpful for some people though. Some people have found using both magnesium and Vitamin B6 to be helpful. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19087826/
The book "Natural Treatment For Tics And Tourette’s" By Sheila Rogers Demare has more information on supplements which is helpful. The group "Natural Care For Tics and Tourette’s" on Facebook has some good information too.
@@ChronicAdvocate I took Sheila Demare's book from the library but haven't started reading it yet. Magnesium hasn't done much despite the fact he's been taking it for almost 2 months so I'm going to start working on cleaning up his diet and I know you talked about eliminating dairy which I'll try as well although my son does love his cheese.
@@ChronicAdvocate By the way I haven't watched that many of your videos yet but have you address the social stigma that comes with having tics? (ie. being made fun of, people not understanding what tics are, etc...)
I have made one about the importance of societal inclusion, that may be of interest: th-cam.com/video/j0Clv8k_cAw/w-d-xo.html
@@ChronicAdvocate Thanks. Even though it seems like you have your tics under control I hope you keep up with your great work helping and educating people like me trying to help their kid. What about doing a video interviewing others who were able to get their tics under control?
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100%
Many people are allergic to many meat items and it causes tics.
Plus there is no scientific study behind what you said.
So it's a conspiracy theory.
Has it worked for you? I'm going on it now after strict medical keto did nothing. Then I found out I was allergic to kale/broccoli/avocado/almonds etc.
@@illavitar everyone is basically allergic to plent tuxins... 😅
@@illavitar I didn't have tourette's but sometimes OCD symptoms, even while oxalate detox they come up sometimes.
I had depression, anxiety, diabetes3 symptoms and felt horrible...
But I saw vids from others claiming they got rid of T...
Hello: could u tell me does nerve pain happen with this? Or muscle. Pain. Thank u
Tourette Syndrome itself doesn't cause those things but injuries from tics can case nerve and muscle pain.
Though, I’m not an expert, I believe the connection with allergies and Tourette’s is because allergies raise anxiety levels.
Carnivour diet!!! Carbohydrates are the culprit
Many people are allergic to many meat items and it causes tics.
Plus there is no scientific study behind what you said.
So it's a conspiracy theory.
Yes.with carnivore diet My tics just disappered/alcohol and sugar seem to Be The worst triggers.
@@janigrohn4516 How severe were your tics? Mine are unbearable both motor/vocal. I did strict keto had no luck with it so I'm trying carnivore/lion diet next
@@illavitar not severe but had them 40 years and they are gone now.must stay pretty strict.
@@janigrohn4516 Thanks! I never had a single tic until I turned 19. One day I just started thrusting/tensing my body, then at age 25 the vocal tics started. Nowadays it's shouting/verbal outbursts/yelling swear words/bruising my body/biting myself and seems to happen around 30 times a minute. So weird after never having them and yet I've had them half my life now. Can't drive the last 3 years or leave the house. My gut is awful and im ige allergic to everything, I've also had chronic Bartonella since I was 18 and lived in a water damaged building the last 6 years. I've read carnivore is a brilliant tool for mitochondria/leaky gut/immune regulation so I'm hoping the lion diet brings me some instant relief while I tackle the underlying cause (leaky gut/mold/bartonella). Great to hear you got rid of them after that long! I'm personally terrified mine are permanent as they're severe, and there's some literature on pandas/autoimmunity attacking intercholinergic neurons in the basal ganglia. But perhaps the body can heal that. Only one way to find out though!
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Get a dna test, it will tell you what you have mutations for and what to avoid and/or supplement for.
I am getting genetic testing soon as you are right - a lot of SNPs impact how you process certain nutrients, it's so expensive to get the testing done though.