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this sort of drive to perfect their nutrition,
to make sure they’re always balanced, and I
use different tools to do that.”
Hannah’s goal now is to help other
families achieve what she knows can be
achieved and to get the message across
that raw vegan foods can heal and improve
the autoimmune system. “I’m cancer free.
I’ve had my blood done and there’s no
inflammation within my system - my
minerals are all good; my thyroid’s healed.”
Hannah says that some people are more
susceptible to toxins than others. She
explains that there’s mercury poisoning on
her mother’s side. “My father was a printer
and very toxic - there’s a history of heavy
metals there and I’ve had allergies all of
my life.”
“I'm finding, through my research, that
certain vaccines, toxins, and chemicals can
go into some children and their liver can
literally function it and send it back out
again. But they tend to hit a wall at some
point in their life where their body says,
‘no more of this’ and they tend to get
autoimmune conditions when they're
older. But there are some children like my
William who’s even more sensitive than I
was. That child has just probably caught a
virus in my womb that’s then caused a lot
of neural function problems. Obviously, I
thought I was feeding my children well, but
had no clue, really, about nutrition then.
I was just choosing the organic option or
the wholefood crackers.”
“It’s my life’s mission now to get
mothers the information that I didn’t have
so that nobody else feels like I felt - that
I’m a bad mum or that I couldn’t cope or
that I had to opt out of this because there
were no options for him or me.”
Hannah says she’s helped other kids
get off their diagnosis and that a nutritional
raw vegan diet is just the foundation. “It’s
the bare minimum of what to do to support
the body. And then there’s cleansing out
the system, there’s supporting with
different herbs, there’s homeopathy, there’s
removing mould, vaccine damage - there’s
loads of different layers.”
In addition, Hannah says that autistic
children often have MTHFR (a gene
mutation affecting folate), Pyrrole’s
(biochemical imbalance), thyroid problems
and Epstein-Barre (human herpes virus), as
well as other viruses. “They do have a lot
of these things that have to be addressed
as well.”
One of the most important things,Hannah says, is that the whole family gets
on board. “You have to work within the
whole family to make sure that everybody
is on par and working for the same thing.
Because you can’t have grandma coming
in with a doughnut when the mum’s spent
the entire week cleansing out the child.”
“I did have a lot of problems with my
parents because they were carers as well
and they lived next door to us. They didn’t
see the importance at first, so they were
still bringing in biscuits and I was second
guessing myself. I was like” ‘is this detox
or is he reacting?’ and ‘Oh my god, he’s
reacting to carrots!’, when really, he was
reacting to a wheat-diary biscuit that he’d
just had.”
“There was a lot of fighting at first
because [my parents] weren’t getting it,
but then they clicked, and they understood
what I was doing and they saw the results
themselves. And interestingly, my dad
came to me and said, ‘I gave him a biscuit
today and then I spend two hours trying to
calm him down from a meltdown, I won’t
be doing it again’. And I was like, ‘Okay,
you needed to come to that conclusion
yourself. You needed to actually go “Ah, I
see the connection between that meltdown
and what he had for breakfast”’.
And even at school, they were saying:
‘I think he may have had something today’.
William’s thing was aggression; Edward was
spaced out and he would lose his speech. I
later I realised that he’d got into the biscuit
tin or whatever it was. Eventually, the
people around us got savvy and understood
why I was such a fierce mother.”
“And I had to really be okay with that.
Be okay with rocking up to a party with my
own food. The boys know that if they go to
a kid’s party they don’t just help them-
selves to anything. But I always make them
something special that they don’t normally
get at home so they [don’t feel left out].
I’m not prepared to alienate them, but this
has given me my children back, so yeah,
I would do it again. I would be the weird
mum at the party who brings their plate of
food and says, ‘No we’re not having any of
those treats’.”
Apart from support from family and
friends, Hannah says that state of mind
is also integral to healing. “Mindset to
me was a big one. Understanding that I
had the power to change things and that
I could become happy if I chose to. The
biggest thing was understanding that my
energy affected William. So if he washaving a meltdown, then I went into a
meltdown, and it would just make it worse.
I had to learn skills to stay strong and to
literally let it all bounce off me, which is
the hardest thing to do when your child is
literally ramming his head into a brick wall
and I have to sit there and be calm. But it
works. Suddenly, he started to slow down
and react differently. Every morning, he
used to come in and hit me with a brick or
a bat. That was his way of waking me up
in the morning. And that stopped as soon
as I changed the way I was thinking and
changed my energy - that was the first
thing to stop.”These days, the boys predominantly
eat fruit during the day and then the
evening meals consist of protein and
fat-based meals. “So, they might have a
dehydrated spouted bread with avocado,
sprouts and then a nice rainbow salad on
the side. Or I'll make them carrot falafel
balls with a nice salad. Or I might make
them some raw tacos. I keep it very simple.
For the best digestion, and for them to
get the best nutrients, everything is quite
simple. The food is a little, un-fancy.”
“Sometimes, here and there, if I feel
they need it, I might steam them some
pumpkin or sweet potato. But I’ve found
that every time I introduce too many
cooked foods back into the diet, mucus
forms again and they tend to get colds or
different things. So to boost their immune
systems to the max, I tend to keep them
as highly raw as possible.”
“I tend to do smoothies or big bowls of
melons or they’ll chop up whatever fruit
they want. They’re at that stage now where
they’re really empowered to do their own
foods. They’re like: “Can I make my own?”.
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choose to see things differently. I need to break those beliefs
down, that this is a life sentence, that this is not achievable.”