Blood-Sugar Dysregulation
Blood-sugar dysregulation is a large contributor to most chronic health conditions, including mood disorders, cancer, autoimmune conditions and neurodevelopmental disorders. Learn how this may be the case, even if your child doesn’t have diabetes.
Blood-Sugar Dysregulation Articles
Which Diet Is Best for a Child with Autism?
Parents have been implementing special diets for years to help improve the health of and reduce symptoms in their children with autism. Given the number of cookbooks and blogs dedicated to this subject, it appears the gluten-free/casein-free (GFCF) diet was ... Read More
Ketogenic Diet
What Is the Ketogenic Diet? The ketogenic (keto) diet was originally developed in 1923 by a doctor at the Mayo Clinic to help control seizures in children with epilepsy. These days, it is used for controlling or reversing symptoms of ... Read More
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
Our Children With Type 1 Diabetes: Causes, Solutions, and a New Prognosis
In this post, Carla Atherton, Director of the Healthy Family Formula, relates how she discovered that functional medicine has better answers for why her daughter developed type 1 diabetes. What Are We Missing in Conventional Care for Type 1 Diabetes? ... Read More
What’s for Breakfast?
In this blog post, nutritionist Kelly Dorfman tells us why breakfast is important and how to choose what's for breakfast. Manage Glucose Levels Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! We’ve all heard that maxim. What is a ... Read More
Low Blood Sugar
What Is Low Blood Sugar? The body typically uses glucose - a simple carbohydrate - for its immediate energy needs; the amount circulating in the body is known as blood sugar. Blood sugar levels below 70 milligrams per deciliter are ... Read More
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
Sugar Addiction
In this blog post, Kelly Dorfman, MS, LND, offers a plan for breaking your child's sugar addiction. What Is Sugar Addiction? Sam will eat as many cookies as I give him but won't touch regular meals.” “Erin is such a ... Read More
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