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I wanted to do a quick video to introduce you to what I think is the best diet structure

for autism.

Now I put a link down below of some really interesting research on this topic, and if my child had autism, this is where I would start.

Now, I'm not going to create all the details with meal plans. I want to give you the big idea,

the overview, the percentages of the macros in creating a meal plan for someone with autism. But if you follow this structure,

based on the research that I'm seeing, you'll see significant improvement in your child's communication

skills, their ability to socialize with other people, their cognitive function, their

demeanor, their ability to have self-control. So you might want to

try this. Now, the typical ketogenic diet is about 5% carbs, 20% protein, and 75% fat. I'm going to

recommend a tweaked ketogenic diet where you're increasing your fat to 90% fat. And so this is a very similar

diet to the diet for kids that have epilepsy. It's called a traditional ketogenic diet,

but I'm going to recommend the healthy version of that diet by adding more fat, but keeping the ingredients healthy. Because we want

to provide the nutrients and we don't want to put these other things in there. Now, I would

recommend 25% of these fats being MCT oil, not butter, not ghee, MCT oil. Why? Because MCT oil will give your child ketones immediately. And that's what we're

trying to do. We're trying to flood the brain with a massive amount of ketones with a very low

amount of glucose. Because we have to bypass certain mechanisms that are preventing glucose from feeding the cells.

And so this will feed the cells directly and you'll start to see improvement of the brain tissue pretty quickly.

As far as the carbs go, I would recommend bringing the carbs down around 10 to 20 grams.

Okay? So you're going to have to really pay attention to that.

Now I know that's kind of vague, but I don't want to get into in this video counting calories

and doing this for that. I just want to kind of give you the overview, and I will do other

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