London Daily Mail: ‘How fish oil unlocked my son’
A casual conversation between mothers became a saving grace for one autistic boy. The London Daily Mail published an article today featuring one family’s successful experience with high-EPA fish oil supplementation. Explains mother, Maria Hutchings:
“The fish oil tablets seemed to wake him up and unlock something,” she said. His speech went from a two-word level to seven-word sentences and he’s now even reading the Oxford school series.
“From scribbling in black he painted a rainbow with bright colours. I don’t have wallpaper in my hall any more, just all of his pictures.
“I started to see a person coming out. He now wants to know what’s going on and is making his own decisions.
“I’d waited four years for him to say ‘mummy I love you’ and put his arms around me.”
He used to be very inert at school, taking out his frustrations at home. But his behaviour changed dramatically: “The first thing people say to me now, is ‘isn’t he a happy boy’? He never had empathy, but now if he hits out he will turn around and say ‘I didn’t want to do that mummy, I’m sorry’.
“It’s as if he was at last at peace with himself.”
The following picture shows the boy’s drawings before and months after high-EPA fish oil supplementation:
Hutchings now supplements her entire family’s diet with high-EPA fish oil, explains the article:
Now Maria’s whole family is on fish oil. While Maria and Stuart, John Paul, now 11, and her eldest daughter Victoria, 17, take capsules, her youngest two, five-year-old William and Harriet, 3, have bubblegum flavoured sachets.
Victoria saw her GCSE grades rise from predicted Ds to Bs. William, now has the reading age of an eight-year-old, and Harriet can concentrate for 20 minutes while her friends struggle to stay still for even short periods.
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