How the "Heal The World" movement got started? Justin Benton and his family are working tirelessly to teach one billion people about the power of hemp by 2025 as a way to pay their miracle forward. Justin joins Janet Benton Gaillard and Dan Humiston on Clubhouse to tell the story of how cold-pressed CBD helped his son overcome autism. He explains that the joy they felt prompted them to make it their life's mission to help other families that are also struggling. Join the Miracle Plant live on Clubhouse every Saturday morning Produced by PodCONX #HealTheWorld Miracle Plant - https://podconx.com/podcasts/miracle-plant Miracle Plant - www.themiracleplant.org Ebook Offer - https://themiracleplant.org/the-miracle-plant-free-ebook-offer/ 101CBD - info@101CBD.org Ambassador Program - https://101cbd.org/101-cbd-brand-ambassador-2-0/ Ask Janet - https://askjanet.org Justin Benton - https://podconx.com/guests/justin-benton Janet Benton Gaillard - https://podconx.com/guests/janet-benton-gaillard Dan Humiston - https://podconx.com/guests/dan-humiston
How the "Heal The World" movement got started?
Justin Benton and his family are working tirelessly to teach one billion people about the power of hemp by 2025 as a way to pay their miracle forward. Justin joins Janet Benton Gaillard and Dan Humiston on Clubhouse to tell the story of how cold-pressed CBD helped his son overcome autism. He explains that the joy they felt prompted them to make it their life's mission to help other families that are also struggling. Join the Miracle Plant live on Clubhouse every Saturday morning
Produced by PodCONX #HealTheWorld
Miracle Plant - https://podconx.com/podcasts/miracle-plant
Miracle Plant - www.themiracleplant.org
Ebook Offer - https://themiracleplant.org/the-miracle-plant-free-ebook-offer/
101CBD - info@101CBD.org
Ambassador Program - https://101cbd.org/101-cbd-brand-ambassador-2-0/
Ask Janet - https://askjanet.org
Justin Benton - https://podconx.com/guests/justin-benton
Janet Benton Gaillard - https://podconx.com/guests/janet-benton-gaillard
Dan Humiston - https://podconx.com/guests/dan-humiston
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Welcome to the miracle plant PI. The show that inspires promotes and gives you a daily dose of inspiration from the people who have used cannabis to change their lives in extraordinary ways. Here's your host, Justin,
welcome everybody to the miracle plant podcast, where we discuss this miracle because extraordinary benefits today, we're going to be talking with my mom and cohost Dan, uh, about just an update on the original miracle plant story, which of course is my son. And, uh, we've had some really new, recent development.
And, uh, just, um, you know, w everything we could possibly ask for as far as how far he's come along. So I know my mom had been published in the American endocannabinoid medical journal and on the case study, and I kind of wanted to have her start off with giving a little background and a reference. And then we'll kind of give you the latest updates that, uh, that [00:01:00] this miracle plan.
So over to you, mom. Thanks. It's always great to be here. It's a tough podcast to follow up last. Week's AB 45 passage of California hemp bill. But, uh, personally I care more about my grandson's development than that. Uh, so getting back to the beginning too, and one thing it's really important that people realize is just like the beginning of his journey.
And so again, to a very bright two year old, that was reading and writing. And just outgoing playing catch with his dad, you know, just all those things you'd want in your first son. And then he had a very sudden regression and to really, uh, avoid, uh, where he had no language, uh, he did not interact with people at all.
He was constantly anxious, all the classic signs of, you know, screaming hand flapping, uh, or being totally not with anybody. And I remember Justin had called me and said, they think shake, excuse me. We call him Sam. We think Sam has [00:02:00] autism. And I said, well, that's crazy. As a psychologist, I just saw him three months ago.
He was going way above an old developmental scores. And, but I flew out here in California to see him and everything was gone. It was just tragic. And I think a lot of parents can relate to that because regression is actually built into the definition of autism because it happens. Uh, for different reasons.
Uh, but it's, it's a grieving process because you had all these hopes and dreams for a child who is now still with you in body, but not in mind and emotion or connection anymore. And I know too, as a dad, Justin was a great baseball player for a lot of when he was no going through school and all those things.
And one of his joys and goals for his son then would of course be to be able to play sports. And so too, as a mom, we all have expectations and a grandmother. So I think anyone who's worked with their own children with autism and had those regressions, there is a horrible grief. And then this also this desperate desire to try anything.
And I [00:03:00] know parents that would like fly away to Australia or do anything, trying to find something to help them. And so in the beginning as parents, it's again to try to learn the system of support. And so they had started some in-home programming with him, which went on for like a year, uh, after his diagnosis is being in the severe artistic range of having global developmental delays, which means an IQ basically too low to measure and having no language.
And the first year there really wasn't anything that I could tell that was really a common. Uh, and then I moved out here after that, and then we started some more structured programs with them. And you also had, what's called behavioral interventionists from a local agency that came and worked with him.
But I worked with him personally, uh, about four hours a day. And then pretty soon it turned into the two of us BI and I working with. Um, two hours a day. And then I was often in the home also to work with him during evening hours in terms of like eating and dressing and basic skills. So he was getting a lot [00:04:00] of assistance.
He was also getting big changes in diet, no dairy, no meat, uh, very, very leveled, refined sugars, uh, avoidance of all, anything environmental toxins or whatever to get him near, um, because he did have high levels of toxic metals. And different things and Roundup by the way in his system. And so th this was a really busy, structured program that we did with him.
But after, even after two years of this, of just constant working with him and, um, working on his diet and adding in probiotics and all kinds of different cleansing herbs and everything. Uh, we did not, we saw some progress, but again too, it was more basic things. Like I called him the robot guy. Cause he would do like sit here for this 10 minutes and then get this reward and do this schedule, uh, with two adults, he could do those sorts of things.
And then one thing it's important to mention too, is [00:05:00] that I'm also databased. And so there's an instrument that's very good with measuring autism treatment effects and it's called the autism treatment evaluation scale, um, in any way. So the ATEC we call it. So it showed in the beginning that he was again to sit in a very severe range.
Uh, autism this scale, it goes up to 179 and the higher, the worse, the more symptoms you have. And when I first did it with him, I got like a 1 48. And then when I, we did it again before I was getting more structured about collecting data, uh, he was like in the weapon twenties, and then anything over 104 main, severely autistic expecting constant support in school institutional with some kind of support as an.
And it's like the 90th percentile of autism. And so that's where we, again, kept doing this other intervention. I mentioned is constant teaching and rewards and training. And again, too, it just wasn't enough. And so that's [00:06:00] when Justin, uh, talking to some other students from other experts or whatever to had come up with the idea of, um, uh, CBD, cause it had helped with other neurological conditions and we started.
And the August when he was four and it was just amazing how quickly it made a difference. Um, Justin often talks about in October at the pumpkin patch when they were able to give him some CBD and again, to within a month and 10 or 15 minutes, it takes to work. He was calling them in and enjoyed an activity socially, which had never happened before.
Uh, we had several terrifying birthdays where we'd have bouncy houses and pretty cakes and friends over, and he would just run and hide and cry. And then we have a picture of him sobbing over his birthday cake as we sing happy birthday because it was too overwhelming. And so just all that long history of just all those issues and then to suddenly see those quick improvements, um, was just amazing.
And so by the time he was in kindergarten, He actually was [00:07:00] able to go to regular school. And, uh, there was like a transition for a bit where there was some advice to the teacher, or we could answer questions if she had help. But I know she sent a note in October of his kindergarten years, and she really didn't need any help.
He was doing fine. And so now he has moved forward. Now he just finished second. Uh, but anyway, so I did some followup data at the end of a year with the CBD. And by that time, his scores had dropped, uh, just incredibly substantially. Uh, they were an average about 20 on the ATEC and the 20 is the beginning of the neuro-typical range.
They call it or again to normal kid range. And so across his school and at home. His mom and myself I'll filled out forms. And he was very consistently about 20 to 21, which is huge from where he started. And then I also followed up a year later. I did a presentation at the whole plant expo for [00:08:00] autism, and I redid everything at that point.
He was at 10, which is. Virtually nothing was showing up as has being problematic for him. So just from the data side, you know, you can just see that huge, you know, from 1 48 to one 20 to 48 down to 20, down to 10, uh, this continued growth and nothing really dramatic really happened until we introduced the CBDA.
Um, so again to that's and now, like I say, he's still obviously still like in the 10 range or whatever, but I will let Justin talk about his latest successes that Justin's been involved in and very excited about. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so, you know, we were talking earlier on about baseball and, um, you know, you, uh, I, I played all the sports growing up and I'm an avid sports fan.
As we speak on peeking in, on the Nebraska, Oklahoma. And, uh, so, you know, certainly, um, sports has [00:09:00] taught me a lot. Um, it's, it's, um, it teaches about competitiveness and it teaches about teamwork and, um, you know, doing things that are good for you. And, um, I certainly, um, never wanted to live vicariously through my kids.
Like some parents you see these days, but I wanted to introduce. The sports that I love, like football and basketball and baseball. And, um, we were doing that, um, before, um, Shay had his regressive, uh, diagnosis. And so the, the great, incredible news was we had a, just a local YMCA and, um, we're getting them signed up in some camps and one of them was a baseball camp and.
We, uh, you know, it's, you never know how developed they're going to be or how much coaching or whatever it is. But by the end of the camp, the one of the instructors said, are you sure he's never played [00:10:00] before because he's like an incredible, um, talent and as they've got amazing skills. And so with that comment, um, we started looking around to see if there was any leagues that were around for this fall.
And I found one. Got, uh, was there able to get him signed up at the last second? And then I signed up to be an assistant coach. And so I, I kind of had to give him a crash course in baseball because he never had really played it before and never had really watched much of it before. And so learning all of the nuances of running the first and getting a lead and throwing to second base and doing all that stuff.
Um, it's, it's a pretty big undertaking. Last Sunday was his first baseball game. And, um, you know, we didn't really know what to expect. I mean, I had, we had, you know, taken to some practices. We had some good coaches, [00:11:00] but we didn't really know, uh, how it would go. And so, you know, lo and behold, and I was, you know, I was there being an assistant coach, so I could, um, help, you know, usher things and.
You know, in 15, nine to 10 year old boys is, is a challenge in and of itself helping with them. But yeah, Shay went up there and he, uh, got his, got his bat and went up there and he hit a couple of pitches and one of them was fouled off or whatever. And, and if you, if you get three strikes in this league, uh, the catchers never seemed to, to, uh, hold onto the ball, but they would like drop a ball.
Uh, you know, you could run the first and he knew all the nuances, those little things. And he would listen as we'd say, go run to first and all those kinds of things. You know, you've seen the videos where the kid runs to third base because they don't even know which way to go. And, uh, anyway, she just did great.
And then we had him in the outfield and, um, you know, we really worked on [00:12:00] hitting the cutoff man and hitting second base. And there was a ball that was hit them with. You know, he fielded it correctly and he actually threw it to first base cause everyone was yelling first base and the first basement had just got swapped out.
So he just wasn't quite with it. And so how to the regular first basement would have been there. He would've have caught him. So Shay would've thrown someone out, uh, and the first baseline, um, from right field. So, you know, just being able to see that and have the full circle. You know, you're seeing your like, and right now he's shooting hoops.
We have a little indoor hoop thing that you kind of do with a carnival or whatever, and he's just got 52 points score and he's like, I think I'm going to get 80. And so, you know, we, we just, uh, and he's, he just, he counts up all of his rounds and not, you just hit over 9,000 points that he shot inside the house.
And, and so I, I said something cause he's been watching that space jam too. And LeBron [00:13:00] James is on there and. Uh, I said, you want to, you want to beat LeBron James? Or do you want to have as many points as he did? And how many points did LeBron James get? And I said, you know, we just ask Siri or whatever.
And it was like 37,000 points. So now he's got his goals to shoot LeBron James. So, you know, and, and that's why we wanted to come on here and just give our story. That's how the miracle plant got started. It's how our organization got to. As the story of hope of real hope. Um, because there's there, there were some dark days for us and there's a lot of, there's been a lot of dark days out there for a lot of families.
Uh, you know, we're just even just talking about autism and that there is hope. Um, when I was doing the research and with my mom, there just wasn't a lot of hope there was, there was just kinda like get it to a manageable level. And then just deal with it. And again, [00:14:00] what we saw with this plant, um, how it helped children with epilepsy and seizures.
That was really a giveaway, like, okay, that's, that's, that sounds like something that can really, um, you know, do something here for this situation and, and, uh, yeah, that's why we wanted to have this, um, episode is to let you know that, you know, he's doing great. He's playing sports. He's excelling. Um, you know, and he's, he's, he's healthy and happy and that's, that's what anybody would ever want for their, for their child.
And so, yeah, just great news, super excited, uh, to, you know, give some hope out there to some other families that, that maybe are, you know, that need to hear a story of hope and with, you know, proper nutrition and diet and lots of knots, uh, of a raw. Um, you know, hopefully we get to hear some more stories as we get to hear all the time, um, about how this, this miracle [00:15:00] plant is helping so many families out there.
So, so let me jump in as usual. So a lot of times, if you have someone with autism, you can like through, don't just sit in one to one, you can do academic success. And so you see the kids who are doing okay academically, but still aren't socially there, or a language and social language and things haven't been.
And so those are some other fine tunings that I've seen with, with him. Um, like just the other night I was by and he was watching a movie and he goes, well, this movie starts out bad and then it ends good. So you probably will like it. They said this other one is going to start out bad and end bad. So I don't think you're going to like that.
And literally for a kid who just starting third grade, that's just very insightful. Even if you think about knowing me and what I like, and don't like, and then understanding the whole plot or the whole storyline and movies. I mean, those are very abstract concepts and especially the whole idea of him understanding emotionally, like what I like.
And don't like, and so it [00:16:00] might seem simple. And if you've had a child on the severe range, who does not even begin to pick up what other people are thinking or feeling or what their emotions. Um, and he's doing all sorts of other exciting things. Uh, the baseball by the way is another huge goal. Because again too, with like the ABA training and things, you can get kids do like complete their work and, you know, get through academics, but not complex skills like baseball.
And so it's just so important to show that he's a well-rounded child. He's not just somebody we've trained and, you know, still has all kinds of issues that we've just trained to do it. Well, that's. And so there's all kinds of simple things that grandparents day. And when I went, he was just with a group of his classmates and he started playing up some things.
And pretty soon the other kids joined him, which is another good sign in a classroom that he's perceived as a leader or somebody doing something interesting. And, um, he takes ninja class. It was like that ninja warrior show you see on TV and loves it. [00:17:00] And so, again, to any he's learning to play the piano and singing, uh, just a huge range of things that you just no one would ever have dreamed of or expected him to be able to do.
And then again, too, I'm just so impressed. His mother was telling a story. He has a big remote control truck and they were on vacation and he saw some men playing with their remote control tracks, which is funny to me, any joined in, you know, for like an hour. And so those are the kinds of things that you can't capture on any kind of an instrument.
But to me, those are the things that show that you really have movie. And no autism in terms of all the different social and emotional language and interaction skills that the kids don't have that this, that huge wide range of things that he's doing, he reads for pleasure now. And he likes to read every day, which is another huge, um, benefit that you just don't find.
So again, in the final thing, I can never emphasize enough just as abstract thinking. Cause that is kind of a hard thing. That's [00:18:00] hard to bring. And he just constantly like asking me these in-depth questions about things and that he's really thought through. And then a final thing is just his empathy. He has just so attached to his two younger sisters and picks up on immediately when they're upset or, or if the baby cries it's like, wow.
That he's just so tuned in to that. So truly in every measure that we have just as parents in general or any kind of testing we do, he literally has reached the point where I don't think the word autism has anything to do with him anymore. And we didn't. Even think about it anymore. So I know, I agree with Justin.
I think the baseball really was like a clenching thing. I know what my one friend, I can't remember at what 0.0, you start coaching him for a little bit and base a basketball when he was in kindergarten, but it kind of just summed up to me, like you're saying, like I've got my boy back. And so it's more than just teaching some skills or getting him into school, but actually back to doing the things that you dreamed that he was.[00:19:00]
As a parent, and that you had to go through grief when you realized he wouldn't be able to do much. And now seeing him meeting far beyond any expectation we ever had. And I really like your idea about hope because to me, that's what I think it is so many parents. Like you say, you just think you follow a program and then you support them or find some kind of help for them, which there's not much by the way after they leave high school.
And so I realized there is hope for substantial changes in your child, even as they get. Yeah, there's always hope for improvement. And so I just hope this message gets out because so many parents, like I say, just don't have that hope or don't have any idea that you can make drastic changes. And it does go back to the CBDA that we talked about all the time.
It literally. Besides being an anti-inflammatory, it literally can repair and regenerate, uh, neurologic nerves. I get his brain, his brain really regenerated under the point to where he even remember things that have happened before the regression. So you knew it was his [00:20:00] brain. So if anybody hears this and knows anybody else, anybody with autism, please let them know that there is hope.
And I think that's just the main purpose of what we do everyday in our healing. But it's just so exciting. And I must admit myself. I had goals for him to being in regular school and things, but he has so far surpassed any goals I think I had, or his parents had. Um, and so by the way, we all had tears of joy after his first baseball game.
And even like last Tuesday night, he had a baseball practice and he had a great line derive. I think he called them out to left field. Anyways. And he was fully happy with his performance. So it might be just baseball to some people that see us. It's the sign of the climate piece that she is there.
Absolutely. Well, and that's, you know why we do what we do. And we've been blessed to be a part of many, many [00:21:00] other families. Story. Um, you know, obviously Kristin, who's been on here a number of times and the Torah, um, and, uh, you know, cause we got here, you know, just trying to heal our, our child and for those that are in that, you know, place, um, you know, the education, the access to the products that really understand how the products were.
Um, you know, obviously we send products for free to try and have compassionate discounts for just about anything. Um, it really is to pay it forward. You know, when I, when I started seeing the stories of so many people with so many other autoimmune diseases and, and things like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and cancer, um, that's when, when I started to see the improvement in people's lives and, and it, it, Ms.
Was abundantly clear to me that this was something that I could definitely take the, pick up the torch and run. And keep singing from the mountaintops that, [00:22:00] uh, you know, what we've see and you know, how coming on here and doing the podcast and traveling around the country and the world and getting on stages and, and, uh, you know, we've come a long ways as an organization.
Um, and the, as an entire, um, consciousness about this plan, uh, I know Dan has mentioned that before in the past, and you know, this thinking, you know how far we've come with actual. To, you know, cannabis and hemp from, you know, in the last five to 10 years when it went from illegal to essential, uh, during the pandemic was really a big, um, eyeopening movement.
So just a and yeah, before we wrap up, Dan, did you have anything you wanted to add on? Well, I think. A lot has to do with your family and your family's commitment to this, which you just sometimes downplay. But every time I hear this story, I'm like I have three children of my own. I mean, I can't even imagine how difficult that must've been [00:23:00] to put your life on hold to.
Do whatever you could to get your son back between Janet coming in and working with you. And I mean, that was a gigantic commitment and it's, it's, it's really admirable that you're taking what you learned and sharing it with other people because not everybody has the wherewithal or the ability to do what you did.
And now paying it forward is a, your, your life's commitment. And that's, you know, that says a lot about, you're not just you, but your entire family, because, you know, in some day we, you know, there's going to be a day in the future. I'm not sure it would be quite a ways down the road. We're going to have your son as an advocate.
He, Hey, this was me and now look at me and that's so cool. So just thanks for everything that you guys have done. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. It's been a journey, but, um, you know, they say you, your message comes from your mess and we're, we're very happy that we're [00:24:00] able to, um, pay it forward and, and, and play baseball, uh, you know, that old father, son, uh, tradition.
So, yeah. And thanks for all your work, helping with us too. And, and thanks for everybody for tuning in, at the end of every one of our episodes, we always say, heal the world and send up that energy because people out there. For an answer, they're looking for hope. They're looking for a solution. And, um, we hope they find this podcast or find our products, um, or overhear a story and, um, give it another look and see what happens when you keep the plant raw and, and its whole form and what it can do to help our bodies find homeostasis and, and heal itself.
So on the count of three, we say heal the world. That's unmute to Mike's and, and send everybody off this fine weekend. Two three.
All right, everybody. Thanks for coming in and tuning in. We'll see you next week. Compounds 10:00 AM [00:25:00] Pacific on Saturdays, and we can't wait to bring more stories and hear your story of how this miracle plan helped you and your family. Thanks for coming by everybody.