Written Testimony
I would like to share my personal story of my journey so far with EMPowerplusQ96, Q Sciences, and the products that followed.
I knew from the start that my daughter was different than other children. She had many issues as a baby, and those only seemed to blossom after she started school, at 3. She was extremely advanced for her age, and eventually tested off the charts in many areas, but had many, many areas of her life that she struggled with. Despite soaking in everything at school like a sponge, she was very disruptive in school, and caused many painful meetings with school officials. After years of "fighting" with the school,numerous educational testing sessions, doctor's visits, specialist evaluations,and psychological testing, she was finally diagnosed as being on the AutismSpectrum.
Although this finally provided us with answers, we still didn't get much in the line of help with her "symptoms." There are no"pills" for autistic individuals; only medications for theaccompanying symptoms, such as depression, OCD, anxiety, and so forth. There isno drug, prescription or otherwise, that will ever "treat" herautism, but there are a ton of medications I could have put her on to help withthe secondary diagnosis that go along with autism, that I mentioned before. I wasn't interested in "medicating" my daughter. So she continued tosuffer with anxiety, tactile disturbances, depression stemming from bullying,obsessions, and the feeling that she is just different from other people.
Then I was told about an all natural supplement. I did my research, and became very intrigued. I read all of the available studies that I could find at the time, and browsed the website available to me at the time. And then my stepmother brought me home a sample. Because I am as over protective as a mothercan be, I did a little more research into the ingredients. I felt I owed it to my daughter to give it a try, as there was nothing in the ingredients thatcould hurt her, so I thought "why not". I'm glad I did.
It took about a week and a half, but I did see improvements in her overall calmness. Usually, when it comes to medical issues (that is anobsession of hers; diseases), she gets extremely anxious and fearful thatsomething dreadful is going to happen if one of her family members becomes ill.As it turned out, I had to have surgery around the same time. I was dreading telling my daughter, as usually this would cause a meltdown, and hours oftrying to convince her that I would be okay. It never happened. I was able totell her about the surgery, have the surgery, get an infection afterwards, all while my daughter stayed calm!!!! I was astounded. She was able to talk to me about everything going on, and there was zero anxiety!!!! Her obsessions calmed way down, and she spent days just hanging out with me, when previously, she would just stay in her room. And other people noticed the difference in her as well. Her grandfather was floored by her change. She always had difficulties being around him, and talking with him (part of her Autism traits is not being able to bond with people). She began to actually "play" with him, and he was able to hold her and tickle her, when previously, she would get anxious and sometimes physical about his attempts at playing with her.
I began to get reports back from her teachers at school that they were noticing the improvements in her behaviors at school as well. She remained on her dosage for a few months,then one day she came to me and asked me if she could increase her dosage. She said if she felt “this good” on taking2+2, then she wanted to see how she felt taking more. So we increased her dose, and she told me she felt more calm and relaxed, and she felt like she could focus better. She has been on 3+3, and doing wonderful. She reminds me when I forget to give her her “Q”(which is what we call it here).
We still have things to work on with her. She still is Autistic, and there are some thingsthat will always be an issue for her, but she feels better, and she is now amuch happier little girl.
Sometime during her journey, I decided to try taking it myself. I figured it was basically just amulti-vitamin, and who doesn’t need to take one these days. Within a week I noticed a difference. My mood was much better regulated, and Ifound myself not getting irritated nearly as much. I have a very high stress job, and I found my days at work much more pleasant. My stress level dropped significantly, and I have to admit that I did feel a bit “happier”.
So, I decided to try it on my baby. I attempted to give it to him the first time when he was around 16months old. Things didn’t go so well. He has a big issue with textures, and he could detect the grit in his yogurt/drink/etc., right away. (EMPowerplus Q96comes in a capsule form, and you can open it and pour the contents into aliquid or food of some sort.) I gave up for the time being, and decided to try again in a few months, which I did, and got the same result. So I figured I would just wait until the company began selling their kids formulation (powder form, coming in August!!!). But things with him didn’t seem to be improving. We don’t have a “diagnosis”yet, but his doctors are now thinking that there is a chance that he also has an Autism Spectrum Disorder. He was considerednon-verbal, had to have things done a certain way or he would get anxious, he also does not like loud sounds (vacuum, blender, etc.), and some other concerning behaviors.
Anyway, about 2 weeks ago (at the time of this writing), I read atestimonial about another Mother putting her non-verbal 2 year old on this supplement , and within a few weeks, she began to talk!!! I was re-invigorated about wanting to try itwith my son, so I went out and bought a thicker yogurt, hoping that it might dothe trick at masking the taste/grit from the capsules. I gave him one capsule that morning in thenew yogurt (which he ate) and then again at dinner time.
About an hour later, I heard him playing with his sister, and forwhatever reason, she asked him to say “spider”. He said “spider”!!!! I just about dell out of the chair I was sitting on!! Of course, I ran to him and got him to repeat it again! “Spider” “Spider” “Spider”!!! It wasn’t my imagination. He kept saying it. And then the next day, after another dose, I was able to get him to say more words. I think we got 4-5 new words out of him that day. And some more new words the next day! Up until that day, he would not even attempt saying any new words atall! (he had learned a few; mom, dad, yeah, okay, and go).
I can’t put into words how thrilled I am to now know that my boy will beable to talk. No, it’s not perfect, and hey are still one syllable words, but up until a few weeks ago, I thought in the back of my mind that maybe, he might not talk for years. It happens with these kids. I am now confident that with the continued use of the supplement, he will eventually be able to talk to me.
I have also noticed a slight improvement in some of his other concerning behaviors, but I don’t want to comment just yet on those. I think it’s still a bit early.
Heather C., RN
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