Your child eats the same eight foods. Start there.
Glutathione is the body's main antioxidant, and it is built from protein. A two page guide to lifting it using the foods your child already accepts.
Where should we send it?
Two pages, free.
- Egg free and dairy free options on every row
- Built around food already in your house
- No supplement list
What is in the guide
Two pages. Three daily wins at the top, then the detail behind each one.
The protein table
- Glutathione is built from three amino acids, and the one the body most often runs short of comes from protein foods
- Five protein groups with easy ideas for each, from eggs baked into pancakes to red lentils blended through pasta sauce
- An egg free or dairy free alternative written beside every single row
- A palm sized serve at each meal, their palm rather than yours, and where to start if your child eats only a handful of foods
Broccoli, and the vitamin C helper
- Sulforaphane, the compound in broccoli, switches on the body's own glutathione production
- The thirty minute trick: chop it, then leave it on the board before cooking, which gives the sulforaphane time to form
- Six ways to serve it across hidden, mixed in and on the plate, so there is a version for whatever stage you are at
- Four vitamin C foods most children accept, because vitamin C recycles glutathione so it can keep working
He eats about eight foods. I have stopped fighting about it.
Glutathione is the body's main antioxidant. Every cell makes waste as it produces energy, and glutathione is what mops it up. The body builds its own from protein, and a few everyday foods help it build more.
A 2021 review in Translational Psychiatry pooled 87 studies and found that children with autism tend to have lower glutathione and more markers of the strain that goes with it. Separately, sulforaphane from broccoli has been shown in human studies to raise glutathione. Neither of those makes broccoli a treatment for anything. They make it a sensible food to get into a narrow diet, which is what this guide is for.
The aim is to get more out of the foods your child already accepts, so progress does not depend on them agreeing to try something new this week.
Why we made it
Parents of children with narrow diets are usually handed advice that assumes the child will eat whatever is put in front of them. It is not useful, and after a while it stops being read.
So this one works the other way around. Pick the one protein from the table your child already eats, serve it at every meal, and build from there. One extra food a week is real progress.
If the eating is getting narrower rather than wider, or there is tiredness that will not settle, that is worth looking at properly. Low iron and low zinc both affect appetite, and zinc changes how food tastes, which can quietly shrink the list of foods a child is willing to eat. Gut discomfort does the same. Those are findable things.
Send me the guide
Free, two pages.
General education for parents and carers. It does not replace individual assessment, diagnosis or treatment. Check allergies and choking risks for your child's age before introducing anything new. © The Family Naturopath, The KAN Clinic.