Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms

Mood symptoms are often the result of inadequate sleep, blood-sugar dysregulation, food sensitivities, chronic inflammation and/or gut dysbiosis.

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Top Five Supplements for Anxiety

Top Five Supplements for Anxiety

Learn more about our recommendations for our top five supplements for anxiety: Magnesium, GABA, cannabidiol (CBD), vitamin D and probiotics; all of this is backed up by peer-reviewed medical literature that you'll find below under "Sources & References". Plus, you'll ... Read More
How Phenols and Salicylates May Be Contributing to Your Child's Mood, Behavior and Hyperactivity

How Phenols and Salicylates May Be Contributing to Your Child’s Mood, Behavior and Hyperactivity

Phenols are the chemical compounds that give color to foods such as the red in a raspberry and the blue in a blueberry; phenolic compounds created by plants are called salicylates. Phenols are also found in artificial colors, artificial flavors ... Read More
Neurotransmitter Imbalances

Neurotransmitter Imbalances Main Info Page

What Are Neurotransmitter Imbalances? Neurotransmitter imbalances are common in mood and behavior disorders such as: Bipolar disorder Depression Anxiety Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Pyrrole disorder Eating disorders Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) ADHD/ADD Schizophrenia Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) Addictive behaviors Many ... Read More
Vision Affects Behavior

Vision Affects Behavior

Difficult behaviors can potentially be changed by improving vision, but most people don’t know that vision affects behavior, attention, learning and processing. They should, however, because the brains of children with autism spectrum disorders prevent them from correctly focusing on ... Read More
Food Affects Mood

Food Affects Mood

How Does Food Affect Mood? No one likes to hear the old adage "you are what you eat", but food affects mood, especially for children. Children in general can be very sensitive to foods, resulting in mood changes very quickly ... Read More
Schizophrenia and Nutrition

Schizophrenia and Nutrition

In this blog post, Patricia S. Lemer discusses how symptoms of schizophrenia are affected by nutrition: foods that are eaten as well as those avoided. How Are Schizophrenia and Nutrition Related? A friend in Pittsburgh was astonished when I suggested ... Read More
Does Mitochondrial Dysfunction Finally Connect the Diverse Medical Symptoms We Now See in Children With Various Health Problems?

Does Mitochondrial Dysfunction Finally Connect the Diverse Medical Symptoms We Now See in Children With Various Health Problems?

by Alyssa Davi, Parent Advocate What Is Mitochondrial Dysfunction? What is mitochondrial dysfunction and why may it be important to a child with: Developmental delays Low muscle tone Gastrointestinal problems Seizures Feeding problems Failure to gain weight Autism Diabetes Neuropsychiatric ... Read More

Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms Webinars

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Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms Stories

Jessa - Sleep and Pain Improvements After Tongue-Tie Release

Jessa: Sleep and Pain Improvements After Tongue-Tie Release

When I saw my myofunctional therapist in March of 2021 for a functional assessment, she told me, very kindly, that I did not swallow or breathe correctly. I was thinking, “How do you get to 40 and not know how ... Read More
Patrick and Charlie: Recovery from Autism with a Low Free-Glutamate Diet

Patrick and Charlie: Healing from Autism with a Low Free-Glutamate Diet

I am a mom of two boys with developmental delays. In 2009, at age three and a half, Patrick was diagnosed by a developmental pediatrician with Autism Spectrum Disorder. At that time, he had below-average language skills, struggled to play ... Read More
George Healed from Dysgraphia, OCD and PANS/PANDAS

George Healed from Dysgraphia, OCD and PANS/PANDAS

Doctors shrugged their shoulders. They simply couldn’t help alleviate George’s many symptoms. Thankfully, his parents took his healing into their own hands with diet and lifestyle changes. And that has made all the difference. No Help for a Sick Boy Until ... Read More

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