Saturday, December 8, 2012

Is OCD an Autoimmune Disease








More about the pathology of OCD in the next article.


  1. my husband was diagnosed with tourettes syndrome and was on halidol for a while. my daughter was diagnosed with PANDAS at 10. she started to blink and roll her eyes. she also started throat clearing. now she is 15 and the eye stuff and throat clearing are gone, but her most worrisome symptoms are distractability and being defiant (more so than the average teen). she also seems to have a histamine system problem that my husband also shares. she has a dust allergy and gets a lot of phlegm in the morning. she can get hives from eating certain junk food. and she gets really bad poison ivy when that season first begins and the temp goes up.

    excuse me if this is TMI, but she has really big poops. she needs to always drink water- bottles of it- and she likes to take natural calm magnesium to help with her bowel movements. she eats mostly paleo, although with the occasional junk. she is active in sports and does fairly well in school even though she tunes out in class. she says she basically teaches herself a lot of stuff (looking at examples in the text?)since she can't learn it from the teacher.

    she has mild OCD. she likes to pick at the cat's skin looking for rough spots.

    i am investigating supplementing vitamin b6 for her as this has been coming up in my research. my husband's tourette's is worse than hers. he also seems to have some ocd and gets manic too. he periodically cleans everything until his body hurts.

    my husband was raised mostly on a traditional chinese diet, with junk food not entering the picture until he was 14 (but he already had all the symptoms of tourettes before that).

  2. I was reading about microbes functioning as organ systems in humans such as hypothesized here -

    Then seen this article today -

    Then remembered that a lot of new research being done as late in the GABA/Glutamte area's for anxiety/OCD -

    I know it's not exactly what you're talking about but....

  3. Hi!

    I've been eating according to the paleo diet for several years, but I still have OCD that is as bad as ever. What kind of treatment would you recommend, or do you have any suggestions?

    Thank you:)

    1. B Vitamin Complex
      Fish Oil
      Paleo Diet

      I've had OCD since I can remember, and was on an SSRI for awhile with good results. I was not liking the side effects though so decided to try some a more natural approach. I went to a doctor who recommended these things to me and I am doing great! Been on it about a month and OCD is barely even noticeable and getting better everyday. Try it out and see how you do.

    2. I'd take out the sodium and make sure the food you eat on the paleo diet is low in omega 6 and high in omega 3. lastly, to make sure you're in a state of ketosis, eat high in fat, low protein and veggies.

  4. Hi, I posted before.

    So I been reading up OCD and autoimmune diseases because your post inspired me too ;).

    I found unpublished paper(well, rejected) about PANDAS in adults over at Dr.Goodman's blog. I found it after reading his own case studies he had at psychology today's website with adults with PANDAS.

    The paper can be found at -

    What do you think?

  5. My son was diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome at age 10 and just recently has developed OCD with accompanying anxiety and depression. He is on clonidine, Klonipin (for anxiety), and Zoloft. None of these medications work and only seem to make him drowsy with ameliorating his anxiety which has become disabling. I agree that the most likely cause of TD and OCD is a combination of genetic susceptibility and an autoimmune disorder but am not certain that a change in diet will help. I am most interested in the use of IVIG as a treatment and would like to know the name of the investigator for the study published in Scientific American. TD runs in my family beginning with my grandfather.

  6. Hi,
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