The Magic Pill Page #2

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-Abigail.

[Barry]

Abigail seems like

she's doing really well,

and then she'll get tired,

and she'll have a whole

bunch of seizures.

And it's like

she's forgotten everything.

It's like her brain

resets itself.

-Playing music?

-Yeah.

[Barry]

It's really the seizures

that compounds her autism.

We're counting,

on average, about 50 a day,

so she's getting

a great big cocktail of garbage.

This stuff's pretty mild

compared to this stuff.

This is called Onfi.

This stuff here is--

it's over $1,000 a bottle.

My insurance covers 70%, so...

I get the joy of only paying

over $300 a month

-just for this stuff.

-[girl squeals]

[Robert Tate]

Have you noticed

any improvement with it?

We have. Otherwise, believe me--

[laughs]

For over $300 a month?

She would've been off of it

a long time ago.

The whole situation

makes me mad,

but mostly just because

how many six-year-old kids

are these neurologists putting

on these heavy narcotics?

I mean, this is as bad

as if you were to go buy

heroin off of the street,

and that's the first thing

that these doctors are trained

to offer the kids.

That's it. Good job.

[Barry]

I hate it.

The lump in my throat

as I was reading

the side effects, man.

I mean, "May cause harm

to yourself or others.

"May have rashy,

irritated skin.

May cause sleeplessness."

And, like, I've seen

my daughter

have some

of these side effects.

[moans]

[Barry]

We're gonna need a lot

of help for sure. I just...

I have no idea.

-I have no idea

how we're gonna do it.

-[Robert] Do what?

Switch her diet.

She refuses

just about everything

except for, like...

the Goldfish and Doritos.

So...

[jazz music playing]

I just don't know.

I don't know what

it's gonna be like.

I may get overwhelmed with it.

-[hisses]

-[inhales]

But I'm truly

at a point in my life

where I'm afraid.

I'm afraid that my chips

have run out.

You breathe it in,

and then you hold it,

and then you breathe out.

That's how that works.

I'm scared.

I'm genuinely scared.

[Robert] Debbie, you're about

to change your diet.

-What are you most afraid of?

-Failure.

-B-b-b!

-[chuckles]

B-b-b!

Wishing for luck...

Yes.

[shudders, laughs]

[Nora Gedgaudas]

We are all physiologically

and genetically

hunter-gatherers.

We've only been consuming

an agriculturally-based diet now

for maybe 500 generations or so

versus more

than 100,000 generations--

not 100,000 years,

but 100,000 generations--

on a largely meat-

and fat-based diet.

We have the brains that we do

because of the enormous amount

of fat that we consumed

as a species throughout

our evolutionary history.

Suddenly now, we're eating

a carbohydrate-based diet,

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