How To Find Resilience In the Face of Challenges
Parenting a child with autism has many challenges. Lack of sleep, pressure from school and their staff, tantrums, anger outbursts, and a myriad of health issues create a life of pressure and uncertainty for them. Parents find themselves in need of support and tools to...
Five Tips To Get Nutrition Into Your Picky Eater
I often hear, "I’ve had my boy on a diet of no gluten for a long time but he’s still not better. Why?" The reason is that his gut has not healed and he is not absorbing all nutrients so he's deficient. There's much more work to do than diet alone. Supplements and...
Maternal and Paternal Dietary Interventions PreConception
Dietary intervention preconception for both mother and father can have a potentially large impact on a child's development in utero and after birth. The state of the mother's health and toxic exposure, as well as an overgrowth of candida in the gut can all be...
Special Detoxification Scenarios
Often when children are mysteriously not detoxing, in-spite of a ton of effort from the parent, here is whats helpful or what might be brewing underneath. Where to Begin You could start out with basic bloodwork and understanding labs keeping the broad picture in...
The Benefits of Homeopathy for Autism
Although used commonly in Europe and India, homeopathy is not quite as accepted in America mostly because it is not well understood. Although many studies have been done, those in who do not understand how it works disclaim it. This is just like anything else, so you...
Colonics and Enemas to Assist Detoxification in Autism
Children with autism have congested liver and detoxification pathways. We must support these areas during the detoxification process.The Health of the Colon and Constipation The health of the colon, or the large intestine, is critical to overall health and proper...
The Role of Iron, Zinc and Copper in Autism
Children with autism often have low levels of iron due to leaky gut or poor absorption of nutrition which leads to anemia, but is supplementing with iron really the best choice? Zinc is commonly deficient too and it is necessary for multiple functions in the body,...
The Benefits of Ozone Therapy For Autism
Ozone therapy can be very beneficial for children with autism. It is anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial. Ozone stimulates your own body to activate its antioxidant power to fight infection. It decreases free radicals so that they are no...
The Benefits of Chiropractic For Autism
A Doctor of Chiropractic works to benefit the person as a whole. Issues can easily arise in neurodevelopment, physiology, and emotionally when there are skeletal misalignments, especially within the spinal cord and cranial bones. When there is nerve disruption it can...
Genetic Testing In Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Genes are the blueprint, present at conception, that provide the instructions on how to build and operate our minds and bodies. We all have tens of thousands of genetic changes, called variants. Many have no effect, while others determine us to be unique individuals....
