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Natural ways of dealing with dyslexia

 
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What are the best natural/permaculture approaches for dealing with dyslexia?
 
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I have dyslexia. This is how I deal with dyslexia. I avoid refined sugar things when I want to think or working on a problem. Yes I still enjoy sweet things but only if they have organic sugar, honey or maple sugar. Thinking in pictures (this is how I think) can lead to new ways to solve issues. It also can be hard to write and communicate with others. In 2012 I started being vegan and found myself feeling better. Speech to text is the best thing I have found that helps with writing. Saying the word and then copy and pasting it in a doc or in this case forum helps speed up writing. Text to speech also helps me find and fix issues in my writing. I read a lot and this just take time to develop skills. When I was in grade school I would read words that were not there. To solve this I would slow down and take my time to read. I sometime will mix up numbers, I know that if I repeat the number in my head a few times it helps prevent mixing.  

Ok now for the up side of having dyslexia. In many ways I have a 3D program running in my mind. I highly recommend the book "The Gift of Dyslexia" (here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Dyslexia-Smartest-Revised-Expanded/dp/0399535667 ).
 
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That is funny - mine got better when I started eating more meat and fat.. especially wild game and fish!  I was an absolute mess when I was vegetarian... sick, weak, depressed, confused and VERY dyslexic.  Meat, and especially animal fats made a huge difference for me.  I think fermented food may have also helped.  Inverting is so rare now, I actually notice it most times and can even do math.  I only get everything jumbled when I'm really tired or sick.  
 
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Judson Carroll wrote:That is funny - mine got better when I started eating more meat and fat.. especially wild game and fish!  I was an absolute mess when I was vegetarian... sick, weak, depressed, confused and VERY dyslexic.  Meat, and especially animal fats made a huge difference for me.  I think fermented food may have also helped.  Inverting is so rare now, I actually notice it most times and can even do math.  I only get everything jumbled when I'm really tired or sick.  



It could be vitamins. I eat yeast flakes with beans everyday for breakfast. Yeast flakes have a lot of B vitamins.  I think you may be on to something with fat intake. Just did a search keywords "nutrition and dyslexia" and found this bit about Omega-3 and dyslexia (here is the link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569108/ ) . I think ( please correct me if I am wrong) that wild animals have higher Omega-3 that non-wild animals.  

Judson Carroll what fermented foods do you eat? I eat miso almost weekly and I like sauerkraut.
 
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I agree, and you are correct about the fats.  Some are very lean, but what fat they do have is good, healthy fat.  You may be able to do the same with really fresh flax oil and such.  Either way, I think good fats are calming, anti-inflammatory and useful for hormones and such.  Any fat from any source, animal or plant does the opposite if it is rancid or altered.  Fresh, raw milk fat is probably the easiest to digest and utilize of all. Weston A Price has all that info in their books and articles.
 
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