Transcript of Episode 218: Xander’s Journey with Autism
With Dr. Daniel Pompa and Alison Byrd
Dr. Pompa:
This was a long time coming show. With the rising numbers of kids on the autism spectrum, this show is more important today than ever. On this show, you're going to hear from a super hero mom, Alison Byrd, who does have a degree in clinical pharmacy, but this is a super hero mom with the greatest degree of all, healing an autistic child, bringing a child through autism from pain to purpose.
As a matter of fact, you're going to hear how she did it. You're going to hear even the key supplements that were really important in this journey. You're going to hear about how she even—what she discovered in how she did the brain detox. You're also going to hear how she even talked to our group of doctors at my seminar just two weeks ago.
Wait till you hear this interview. This is one—I keep saying this, but it's true. You're going to want to share this with many people because by 2032 it's estimated that one out of two kids are going to be on the autism spectrum. This is one we need to get out. I'll see you on the episode.
Dr. Pompa:
For a long time, I've been wanting to bring this episode to you because I believe that it brings hope in a modern-day epidemic of autism and the autism spectrum. With me is Alison Byrd, mom of Xander. You are, in fact, a clinical pharmacist and have had some experience working somewhat in the area, at least, of health care, but who has experience with autistic children. Now you do. The most important role that you do have right now is you are the mom of Xander, and the mom that got Xander well. That's really the topic today. Alison, welcome.
Alison Byrd:
Thank you.
Dr. Pompa:
I am pleased to bring this show because I have been inundated with the autism spectrum. Let me talk about the statistic, just to give people an idea of how important this topic is and the fact that there is a solution, but who's hearing about it. By 2032 it's estimated that one of two children are going to be on the autism spectrum. That seems hard to believe.
When you look at what's happening—and by the way, that's if things stay the same. It seems that they are. When you look at what's happening right now, with the perfect storm of neurotoxicity in our children, then that statistic doesn't seem as absolutely incredible. Alison, I want to start just with the story here. Xander, when you all came to me, you had actually done a lot of work up to that. Start off just by telling the story so people can understand where you were. Where you are now, ultimately, is where we're going to get to.
Alison Byrd:
Right, so I thought I'd start right at the very beginning and say that he was a C-section baby. It was an unfortunate thing, but I was told that was the only way he was going to come out. He missed out on all that good microflora in the birth canal. When I started to think about that, I thought, well, that's not really the first start of his toxicity issues. You really have to then look at me because what's in the mother's in the child. Unfortunately, he inherited a lot of my toxicity issues.
Just to briefly cover it, I grew up in the 70's. I was child then. There was lead in the gasoline, and lead in my toys, and lead in the paint. On top of that, I had a lot of amalgam fillings. They were actually placed in me when I was a teenager. I had 12 amalgam fillings put in. Some of them were proper fillings, and some of them were supposed to be preventative to stop me getting bigger cavities, which is horrific when you think about it. That was about 12, 13 when I had that done. By the time I was 19, I was completely hypothyroid, but couldn't get anybody to take me seriously. It wasn't until I was in my 30s I was actually diagnosed. I had years struggling with hypothyroidism, with just nobody taking me seriously.
Anyway, getting back to Xander, unfortunately, he had inherited a lot of my mercury from my amalgam fillings. I still had 12 amalgam fillings when I was pregnant. Also, he had a lot of the lead, and we'll come to that later in the story. Anyway, despite those toxicities already in him, he was born a normal, healthy, wonderful baby.
I can remember, we went to England when he was about eight, nine months. He was sitting around the dinner table. He was laughing. He was starting to engage in a clapping game with everybody around the table. You would clap, and then he would clap. He would mimic you. It was hilarious to him. Then out of the blue, my father said, oh, look at this kid. He's so engaged. He's got so much eye contact. He will never be autistic. Look at him.
Then, unfortunately, those words haunt me. -inaudible- four years old, we were dealing with a kid with sensory processing disorder and high functioning autism. Just to give your viewers an idea of what that's like, the sensory stuff is very difficult. He was very sound sensitive, so everything made him do this. He couldn't even be around sharp objects. I had to hide scissors. I had to hide anything that's pointy and sharp.
He was just so afraid of everything. Clothing was a problem. He was afraid of food because of the textures. He really couldn't deal with different textures, which makes their diet so narrow. It's very difficult to get healthy foods into them. Then from just a how he was behavioral-wise, he threw huge temper tantrums. He wouldn't transition from one thing to another. He had difficulty sleeping. He just lived in a state of high anxiety. He was just miserable.
You never could predict what was going to set him off. Just leaving the house was a big ordeal for him, and for us. He was in a bad place. That was at four. I decided that I needed to try and do something to heal him. I did start, very gently, with some chiropractic care. I did some homeopathy. I really wasn't gaining a lot of traction. Eventually, I decided that I'd do some functional medicine testing. I found that he had just huge, huge levels of lead. I've got one of the examples of the test here.
Dr. Pompa:
I was actually looking for your file. I wanted to actually show the before and after.
Alison Byrd:
That -inaudible- line, that was his lead, right in the red there.
Dr. Pompa:
By the way, I want to point out that that's a urine challenge. We challenge out of the body. You typically won't, especially on these cases, you won't see the mercury because the mercury's in the brain. Without biopsy, we're not going to see it. We do see other metals like the lead. The lead is you're able to consistently test the lead, whereas even if we see mercury in the first test we can make that go away in a couple months.
The problem is it's still in the brain. If his lead was bad—and along with, we knew he had brain mercury just of the history of your amalgam fillings. By the way, that's a big deal. You had said that. The -inaudible- study shows the number of fillings, ladies, in your mouth, is proportionate on how much is in a baby's brain. Then of course, vaccination, et cetera, the perfect storm occurs.
Alison Byrd:
Finding that huge lead level, I thought, well, I think this is going to be key to getting him well. I had done enough research to know that having high lead levels was definitely associated with all sorts of behavioral problems. I embarked on a standard collation program, which is commonly used, which is a DMSA, twice a day, for three days on, 11 days off. It's a common protocol, but it's not a good one.
He got worse, and worse, and worse on this program. We know now the reason is that you're not dosing within the half-life of the DMSA. You cause a lot of redistribution of those metals. That was just making his symptoms a lot worse. I thought, well, I have to find another solution. I came across the Andy Cutler protocol., which is a lot safer way to detox because you're dosing in the half life.
That means that you have to dose DMSA and ALA, alpha lipoic acid, every three hours. That's through the day. Then four hours through the night. That requires you to wake. You wake up, your child wakes up, and give them repeated doses through the night to continue the cycle and stop the redistribution. I will say on this protocol he did get a little bit better.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah because you're using -inaudible- correctly. It does make a difference.
Alison Byrd:
I did for 11 months, every weekend, three days on, four days off, every weekend for 11 months. He had made progress, but at the end of it I was just completely exhausted. He was completely exhausted. I thought, there's got to be another way of doing this. I knew that I had to still get his lead down. I had done another test and it was still high. I will say that—should we talk about doing the test wrong because what's standardly done is you get a big dose of DMSA, and then you collect the urine, and that's it. That's the it for most people. That causes a massive amount of redistribution.
I had tried this with him, and he had got hugely worse after a big DMSA challenge. What we recommend is to continue dosing with the DMSA for at least three days after you do that challenge to stop that happening. We've since done heavy metal challenges, and it works perfectly if you keep doing that dosing. Anyhow, back to the story, so I searched the internet. I came across Dr. Pompa. I just felt a connection with your story because I knew that you'd dealt with lead in your family. You'd dealt with mercury for yourself, and you'd dealt with autism as well. I just felt such a resonance with your story and what was going on in my story.
Then I started researching your science behind what you do and how holistic it was. There was things I had never heard, things about the inflammation in the membrane. This was new to me and made so much sense. I just knew in my heart that this was the path I really wanted to go down with him. We started to work together. There's a lot to it. We didn't just do elation. Within a month, we saw some difference in him. Within two months we were getting eye contact back. Within three months we would get much better behavior. At four months we had a teacher's conference.
She was saying that from where we'd started earlier in the year where he couldn't sit still, he couldn't bear to be on the floor, he couldn't work with anybody. He would have temper tantrums all the time. He would have to go and sit in the Principal's office to calm down. He would cry under the table. He was just so difficult to manage. To this latest conference at four months where she said she had nothing negative to say about his behavior. He was sitting at his desk quietly. He was helping others. He was interacting with the class. He wasn't throwing fits and having temper tantrums. Just an amazing turnaround very quickly.
From then, he's done just continues to do well. Yes, we're still continuing to claim because we know that there's still just so much in him. He continues to grow, blossom. Occasionally we hit a bad detox cycle, but generally we get through things. We manage it. It's been an amazing journey to see where he is to where he is now.
He's just starting to live as a normal, happy boy. I mean, he went on a sleepover. Things I couldn’t dream for him two years ago, he's starting to do normal stuff. It's an amazing story, and I really just want to give people hope and tell them that this is something they can do. This is achievable.
Dr. Pompa:
I got to see him for the first time, actually—I hear my echo. I'm not sure why. Anyways, you all came on a little vacation here in Park City. I was helping you all via the phone, or Skype, phone, whatever was available. When I saw him in person, he came up to me, he hugged me and cried. In fact, I told this story at my seminar because you were gracious enough to tell the story at my last seminar. He just didn't want to let go of me. He was crying as I was going out the door. By that time, I'm crying. I get home, and Merily's like, what happened to you? I'm like, you have no idea what happened to me. I met Xander.
She knew I was going to meet Xander, but she didn't know just how amazing he was. She didn't know how amazingly emotional he was going to get because he saw me, and he thanked me. He looked me in the eyes and thanked me just for giving him his life back. I was like, oh my God. I just didn't expect that. I just wasn't ready for that. Needless to say, he's the sweetest kid in the world. As a matter of fact, you have some pictures. I like to say, if you met him you would never know. You would never know where he came from or what he's been through. Go through and show some of the pictures.
Alison Byrd:
I wanted to show the first picture of him. This is actually in Scotland. He's looking out at a lake. I just like the symbolism here because we had just started on our journey. I had just started collation with him. He was seven-years-old at the time. I just think it's kind of—I felt like the journey is like you heading out off onto a lake or an ocean. You're just on your little sail boat, and it doesn't seem that you're getting very far.
You've just got to keep going. There's things that will knock you off your course. You've got to keep staring, staring, and staring. Maybe at six months you'll look back and you'll see how far you've come. You've just got to keep going. Maybe you'll hit some rocky waters. Maybe you'll have a bad cycle. You just keep steering yourself, and eventually you'll see landfall. You'll see the other side. You just keep going. That's how I see it in my head, the journey and how it happened. Yeah, it looks like—
Dr. Pompa:
There's a couple other pictures there.
Alison Byrd:
Yeah. I will say that I do want to thank my family. Obviously, they put a lot of faith in me that I just felt this was right. This is him with his sister Sophie. I will say that Sophie is one of the sweetest most loving souls, very nurturing. She was always somebody that would help talk him down, calm him, try and soothe him. She was there by his side always, just trying to rescue him from bad situations. I mean, she was just a wonderful sister. He couldn't have really had a better sister at all. They love each other so much. They play, and they tease, but they just love each other completely. He was so lucky to have her as a sister.
Dr. Pompa:
Was that picture there in Park City?
Alison Byrd:
Yeah, that's at Park City, yeah. I do want to say that my husband, although at first when I told him I wanted to do this pulling out the lead. He saw him got a lot worse. He was a little skeptical. Was I on the right path? I think I learned to convince him. The science is good. I just feel that this is something I have to do. When I came across your work, I said look, the science is so good, the science is so good. He then felt that he had to support me.
It's not easy dealing with a challenging child. It takes patience, and it takes all of us to deal with it and to make things happen. We still made Xander try and do things that he wasn't comfortable with to try and give him exposure even when he would have been happier at home, in his bed, hiding form the world, so making him do other things. Go to the park. Ride his bike. That sort of thing.
Dr. Pompa:
The pictures remind me of this. It's funny because Dillon's home right now, but this is Dillon when—shortly after we got him. You can just see in the picture he's not right. Gosh, if he was out there, I should really just drag him in here. Just like Xander, if you met Dillon, he has his own business now. He lives in San Diego. He just happens to be home now visiting, but you would never know it. You would never know he was on the autism spectrum. There’s two cases. There is hope.
Let’s talk a little bit about Xander. With Dylan, a lot of the membrane work, I really dug deep in that work with Dylan. I saw the progress when I was really digging into it. I saw things start to click, his brain start to function when we started into the membrane work.
One of the topics at the last seminar, Alison, that you were just at, you spent a whole day talking about the cell membrane and why fixing the cell membrane is a critical part of turning certain genes off. It’s also a critical part of how you detox the cell. The brain phase is just huge. How long has Xander been in a brain phase now?
Alison:
It depends because I did the Andy Cutler protocol before, so at least two years. I was doing ALA and DMSA then as well, but at least two years. I’m still going to continue with it. I feel like there’s still work to be done.
I do see symptoms in him a little bit. He gets more anxious and angry when he’s going through a growth spurt. We’ve discussed this before. It’s likely the lead is coming out. I still feel like there’s some work still to be done there.
I think that some of our success because I’d already done some chelation, I think that our success very early on was to do with the fats and the membrane work. I think that’s the key to just making things happen very quickly with him. I think you need both.
Dr. Pompa:
You need both. That’s the point. Andy Cutler uses the chelator correctly, but you have to go upstream to the cell. You have to fix the cell, upregulate cell function. That is where real detox is combined with using binders correctly.
We’ll talk about CytoDetox for him too because that became a game changer for him even to the point where we didn’t have to give ALA as frequently. Let’s give them some of these pointers. Adding the cellular work to Xander with the chelation became a big deal. One of my things I always say is my goal is to teach the person the process.
You were just at my seminar. You spent some time with my doctors talking about dosing and things of that nature because you learned a lot through this process. With your background, it was a blessing to the doctors there. With kids it can be really difficult at times.
My goal is always to teach the person the process so they’re able to do it. You learned it very well. Talk about some of those things because we would learn with Xander that he would have trouble when he came off a cycle. Weaning down the dosing ended up to be a little magic. Talk a little bit about that.
Alison:
One of the biggest differences from the Andy Cutler protocol was the addition of the CytoDetox. That allowed us to get away without dosing in the middle of the night. I still dose every three hours during the day on Saturday and Sunday because I want to get as large a dose as I can of the alpha-lipoic acid in him.
Dr. Pompa:
Talk about that schedule, how you do it with his school.
Alison:
The schedule is that I always start with the high-dose alpha-lipoic acid for two days starting on Saturday at the weekend. I start early Saturday morning, and then we start doing it every three hours. Sometimes I squish it to every two-and-a-half hours if I’m trying to get extra doses in through the day. Then I stop and wait usually an hour before I’ll give the BIND.
During that schedule, I’ll be giving three lots of doses of the CytoDetox to carry him through the night so I don’t have to wake him up and give that night-time dose. That was most changing for me. Those two days are his high-dose days. After that I can then get away with just giving the alpha-lipoic acid three times a day, so maybe six hours apart, when he’s back at school. I give it to him before he goes, the minute he comes home, and then in the evening.
Dr. Pompa:
Monday that works because he’s back in school. Saturday and Sunday you’re able to give it to him more often, which minimizes the symptoms, one of the rules that we teach and follow. Then Monday spreading it out, it worked.
Alison:
As I said, I then can get away with just three lots of dosing for the alpha-lipoic acid during the week. I continue with that for a couple of days. Then stop the alpha-lipoic acid and give him another couple of days of CytoDetox on its own without the alpha-lipoic acid, and then slowly wean that dose down and stop. He handles that dosing schedule very well without symptoms. I think that was key. You dose high at the beginning when you can frequently dose, but the Cyto helps to mop everything up. That’s been a wonderful solution to this problem.
Dr. Pompa:
The CytoDetox, just for those listening, is a really solid binder. It works in the cell membranes, and it makes sure that things go all the way out of the body. It lasts a little longer in the body, so it cleans up. The ALA, on the other hand, it’s fat soluble. We use that to go into the brain to get that inorganic mercury that’s so hard to get that we have to get to get function back.
By itself, ALA doesn’t do a great job making sure it goes all the way out of the body, and it has to be dosed frequently. When we put it with the Cyto, you definitely get less redistribution, and that gives us the opportunity to dose it a little less frequently, which makes it a lot easier. Your point is you can see we started with much lower doses than he’s able to do now.
We start micro dosing, if you will, and then as time goes on you’re able to dose things higher. As time goes on, you’re able to adjust the schedules. In the beginning, it was just a few drops of CytoDetox was getting him through, a few milligrams of ALA. That’s all we could do.
Allison:
You build it up, and you’ve got to be aware that you’re pulling out metals. You’re going to get symptoms. You want them to be tolerable. You have to gradually increase the dose to a point where you are effectively pulling out the metals, but it’s a tolerable cycle to be on. He does better on cycles sometimes than he would do off. If I see that he’s a bit symptomatic, I will put him straight on a cycle. He gets better. It’s metals coming out of him.
Dr. Pompa:
I remember that from my own experience. I’ve said this in other shows. My wife would tell me when it was time to start chelating again; irritability, lack of sleep, those things, time to start. You start noticing. You’re the one going it’s time to start a schedule.
The mercury, lead, etc. will start to move out of those deeper tissues. Starting a cycle just clears it out. The goal is to teach people the process. It is different for everyone. The dosing is different. The cycle lengths are different for everyone. How you wean down is different for everybody.
You discover this, and we don’t start in the brain phase. The brain phase is where it’s needed to get cases like this well, but we have to start in a prep phase. We have to start in a body phase and work to the brain phase. The brain phase is years, not months. Like you said, two years already, and you’re not going to stop any time soon.
I did it consistently for two years, more on and off a little bit after that for another two years, and I still do them to this day. I just finished one not that long ago. This is a process that works when you put it around the cellular healing components that we discussed a little bit. It makes all the huge difference.
I have to say, the diet plays a role. I always say you or your child aren’t going to get well from the diet, but you won’t get well without paying attention to the diet. We have to get the toxins out of the brain, and the diet itself won’t do that. However, you won’t get well without the diet. Talk a little bit about that because that can be some of the greatest challenges for people listening.
Alison:
It is, particularly when you’re dealing with a sensory kid. They narrowed what they’re willing to eat down to just a few things. Some of it was bargaining. What his diet looks like is he is gluten-free. He is strictly non GMO. I incorporate a lot of fats into his diet, as much as I can get.
I did do the gluten-free, casein-free diet with him before we met. I did it for six months. He actually got a little worse on it. Partly that was because when I was doing it way back when, there was a lot of soy in things that you would substitute.
Dr. Pompa:
The gluten-free stuff is crap, and so many parents go gluten-free and go to these gluten-free substitutes, and they’re crap.
Alison:
I think I probably fell into that before I realized I really had to be gluten-free, non GMO, clean gluten-free. He does have some dairy now, but I try to make sure it’s organic, grass-fed, and high fat. He doesn’t drink milk, but I will give him ghee and butter and maybe some kefir. Part of it was to try and persuade him to have the healthy fats, which is a struggle. He didn’t like the texture. I do have an aid. This was my savior. It’s a container that you can’t see through. It’s stainless steel, and you can get a top for it with a silicon straw.
He can’t see it. He can’t smell it. He can only taste it. If you keep it cold enough, you can keep the taste down. This was my key to getting the fats into him, to getting fiber into him, everything, smoothies with this container where he couldn’t see it. It was amazing. This worked so well.
Dr. Pompa:
Let’s talk a little bit about the fats. One of the first things that I do when I get people, I don’t even know if this was the case it was so long ago for you all, but I take people off their fish oil. Was he on fish oil when he came to me?
Alison:
He was.
Dr. Pompa:
In the beginning you don’t think it’s working, but when we take them off, they get a lot less stemming. You see a big difference. At the seminar we had Professor Peskin speaking about the dangers of fish oil and why it’s oxidized and why it kicks out important fats out of the membrane and the problems there. We used a lot of un-denatured omega-6. Fats, you mentioned the butter, the ghee; these are saturated fats and cholesterol, which you noticed a difference. By moving to these fats that most people think are bad, these fats are actually the ones that stabilize the cell membrane.
Alison:
I do think that the fats was a key, a big change in him. He does fight me here and there on it because it’s a bit unusual to be forced to eat a lot of fat, but I do incorporate a lot of fats into what I do. If I’m cooking, I use the Simple Mills. They’re a grain-free cake mix that you can make cupcakes with. I add extra fats, so an extra avocado or I’ll add extra ghee to it. Everything has to have a lot more fat in it, so just really pushing that as well.
Dr. Pompa:
Then getting rid of the bad fats. Vegetable oils, canola oils, you go to Whole Foods, it’s in everything. Those are the fats that really disrupt the membranes. They’re polyunsaturated fats like fish oil that disrupt the cell membrane.
When you use some of these fats like safflower oil, sunflower oil, which are in a lot of these products, make sure they’re oleic, which basically makes them more on the mono side and makes them tolerate heat better, so they’re a safer fat; just a little tidbit there. You mentioned avocado oil, very stable with heat. Takes heat well. Almond oil is another one that takes heat well, so does the ghee, coconut oil. What are some other good fats that we use? Grass-fed butter.
Alison:
I’ll do olive oil with a little -inaudible- in it.
Dr. Pompa:
Using some of the nuts for things is great. The omega-6 fats that a lot of people don’t talk about are really important to stabilize the cell membrane. Getting those omega-6 not in vegetable oil but in a really stable form is really important because all the omega-6 is adulterated. We want that stable omega-6 to help with the membrane as well as the saturated fats and cholesterol. Egg yolks have a lot of the saturated fats, cholesterol, -inaudible-, very important fats in that as well. The fats are critical to add in getting rid of the bad fats for sure.
The diet became a critical role. Do you have any other tips? I think the shake tip was really huge because that’s a good way to get fats. What about getting your kids used to other foods?
Alison:
He’s frightened of foods. Getting him well has opened up his world for food, willing to try it. I can remember a time if we’d gone to restaurant and ordered the pizza and they’d put any greenery anywhere, it would have been the end of the world. Recently we went to a Keto Café where we live, and they had the fathead pizzas. They sprinkled it with basil, and he just sat there and picked it off, no big deal. Just like anybody else, I’ll just take this off. I’m not going to eat it.
I think slowly introducing it, trying it, not to be threatening. I put his vegetables on a separate plate and ask him to try it. Slowly I’ve been able to transition that to actually putting that on his plate. I will say I’m lucky.
My kids are open to bribery. You try this for me, and I’ll do this for you. There’s actually chore apps that we used on the iPad. You do this thing, and then you get a star, and they love this reward system. It’s a motivator for my kids.
Dr. Pompa:
I think it’s a motivator for any kid. I think that’s really brilliant. I want people to see that this is a process. This is why we’re training doctors. We have now many more doctors doing this process around the United States.
You spoke to that group, and very few are doing it correctly. Look for cellular healing doctors for sure because they’re trained in this. I want people to see the whole process. It’s a process. It’s not about one product, by any means. Talk about maybe some products that were game changers for him that maybe people don’t know.
Alison:
I think the Vista systemic products—
Dr. Pompa:
That’s for the cell membrane, the mitochondrial membrane and the outer membrane, huge product for sure.
Alison:
The PC product was another fat that was a big influence on how he was. General Sedate he responded to.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s a Systemic Formula product. It’s one of their Chinese element products. Xander and others, they all seem to do really well with that product. It’s just generally for the brain, for sure. For whatever reason, I would say 90% of the kids really do well with it.
Alison:
I think that your MORS product is excellent because of the methylated Bs. He does have -inaudible- mutation. It’s the 1298 SNP. It’s key to him getting well and to support the methylation with the MORS products.
Dr. Pompa:
One of the five Rs is reestablishing methylation; methyl tetrahydrofolate, folate, B12, 21 steps around that methyl cycle. The unique thing about MORS is it has the active ingredients, but it addresses all 21. That’s why that product is important. It’s huge. Glutathione, what your cell naturally gets rid of toxins, it parallels methylation.
When Methylation goes down, glutathione goes down. If we can bring methylation up, we can bring glutathione up. It’s a major importance to detoxing the cell. You’re right, toxic people, they lack methylation, whether they have a SNP or not. That’s why it’s hugely important.
Alison:
We have to mention the GCEL. It’s a glutathione product. That obviously fought his detoxification.
Dr. Pompa:
GCEL raises intracellular glutathione. A lot of docs are out there just trying to give glutathione. You can give glutathione. It works kind of in the beginning, but ultimately you have to fix the glutathione cycle in the cell, and that’s what GCEL does. Of course, BIND, we’re binding the stuff in the gut so you don’t auto intoxicate. It’s another huge, important step in this and then surrounding that with all the binders that we talked about, the CytoDetox, alpha-lipoic acid.
Alison:
You couldn’t just say it’s this one product. That’s why we do a package where it’s a whole process, holistic approach that we take. I do just want to say other things, that I had already come to you doing a lot of the R1 work that you talk about, removing the source.
We have an -inaudible- system. We have a shower filter. We buy organic. I make my own product because I don’t think I’d have won this battle against toxicity if I was still putting a load of environmental toxins into him. I think that was key as well to really cleaning up your environment and taking that stress off of your body. You can at least control that.
I live by R1. When we don’t, for example, when we travel and we’re affected by other things, I see a deterioration in him. Maybe we don’t eat as well and there’s other bad choices being made because of the situation we’re in. I can see him go down, not that I can’t bring him back.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s like the bucket theory that I’ve talked about. That bucket starts filling in utero. Your toxins, your lead, your mercury went into him and other chemicals. Then we start the process of toxic life, vaccinations, etc. The bucket fills up. You have to stop dumping toxins into the bucket because we’re going to empty the bucket. That’s what this whole thing is about.
Cellular detox is emptying 72 trillion cells, 72 trillion buckets. The most important buckets are right here. You’ve got to clear the brain. I wouldn’t have got my life back if I didn’t get it out of my brain. Xander wouldn’t have got his life back if he didn’t get it out of the brain. By the way, you’re doing it too.
Alison:
I do a lot of the fasting that you taught me, and that was a lot of change for me was the fasting. What I didn’t mention is my lead and my mercury were causing me to be very chemically sensitive. I had a very hard time being around new smells, and perfume would drive me crazy if somebody came into the house with perfume on. I still don’t like it, but I can tolerate it too.
Dr. Pompa:
I don’t like it either, but I can tolerate it.
Alison:
I think the fasting for me was a big game changer. I’m a big fan of the fasting. I’d already done a lot of the R1 work. I was definitely on that path anyway because I couldn’t even tolerate being around harsh chemicals anyway.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s a system, folks. I have to take my hat off to you. Number one, I know you inspired a lot of moms and dads that need inspired. Xander is well, and you’re not quitting by any means, nor am I. You were willing to do it.
You were willing to do the extraordinary. I believe that’s what it takes. I believe it’s willing to step outside of the normal, think differently. People hearing fish oils can be bad and these fats are actually better, step outside of the box. Think different. What we have and teach works. It’s why my passion is teaching more doctors this.
Very few are putting this all together right. From pain to purpose, I had my story. Dylan had his, Xander his, and hundreds of others now. Thanks for being here. I know you inspired many.
Alison:
Thank you very much.
Dr. Pompa:
Thanks.
