[tri-med] Re: EFA's

I missed something, what are EFA's?
Thanks

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Subject: [tri-med] EFA's


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From: "Karen Schuler" <trisomy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Simply go to a pharmacy or health food store and buy them :-) Michelle
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> uses an all plant version,

Yep, our EFA's are plant based. Jim's been the searcher of supplements
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the researcher of said supplements.

The EFA we use is made from Organic flax seed oil and borage seed oil.
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has Omega-3, Omega-6, Omega-9, Gamma-Linolenic Acid.
Jim didn't like the possible problems from mercury or other pollutants
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fish based oils (not enough information on where the fish came from that

companies used etc).
 He also liked the organic possibility of the plant based EFA and
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to that when it came available.

Alex has been on EFA's for 15 or so years.

Like Aussie Alex, our Alex also showed signs of advancements in speech,=20
understanding, better memory, after some months on the EFA.
Keeping in mind, from his first year we started (ok, mostly Jim!)=20
occasionally adding a new supplement.
How it generally went was Jim would get some he and/or he and I would
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take it for 3 months or so.

Then we'd introduce it to Alex at a very below suggested dosage for a
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Then we'd slowly up the dosage.
If after 4-6 months we didn't see any advantage to what we were doing
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quit and go maybe another route if Jim had found something/we had
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suggested.

And we never overlapped new supplements over each other during a testing

phase.

Anally conservative but that's what we did. (how we approached
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as well, refused to have the bulk/bolus approach done on an atypical=20
infant/toddler because they DO respond differently quite often).

Interestingly, Jim put Molly on the EFA's when she was approx. 6-7 years
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and we saw some jumps with her as well.

Michelle mom to Alex (20, partial trisomy 14 mosaic) and Molly (17)
MichiganUSA=20

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