Gut Dysbiosis

The Gut – Teaming with Life The gastrointestinal system – or gut - refers to the long hollow tube that stretches from the tip of your tongue right down to your rectum. It is home to trillions of microorganisms, including ... Read More

Healthy pooping patterns are an important window into digestive health, hydration status, nervous-system balance, and even gut microbial function. One of the most widely used tools for describing stool form is the Bristol Stool Scale, which categorizes poop into seven ... Read More

We are trained to think that autism is a permanent condition where our only options are to improve function through repetitive behavioral management therapies and pharmaceutical symptom suppression. Is this the best we can do for our children? I have ... Read More

This article can also be found on Dr. Gator's Substack here. Documenting Hope has just published another peer-reviewed case report in the medical literature showing full reversal of autism in a child. The real question is no longer whether this ... Read More

For decades, autism has been framed through a variety of lenses including genetics, behavioral, neurological, microbiome, metabolic, and more. But what if these perspectives are all describing different pieces of a deeper, unifying biological process? Dr. Robert Naviaux, a physician-scientist ... Read More

What Are the New Childhood Epidemics? While you may not hear about it on the news or at your doctor’s office, we are currently witnessing one of the most devastating health epidemics of all time. This is a health epidemic ... Read More

How Does the Nervous System Affect Digestion? Digestion is not simply a mechanical or chemical process, and gut health is not simply a function of how well someone digests food or what type of food enters and exits the system ... Read More

Can Biomarkers Help Parents Make Sense of a Child’s Symptoms or Behaviors? When it comes to investigating the source of children’s symptoms and behaviors and finding clinical guidance for their healing journeys, lab tests that measure biomarkers can be very ... Read More

I'm helping my son heal from autism, and he's doing amazing, and there is hope. First Symptoms The first symptoms that we noticed was far before an actual diagnosis came along. He was just a really fussy baby. He just ... Read More

I helped my son heal from apraxia of speech and there is hope. From the time that he was born, he appeared to be very healthy. He was always very easygoing. He slept through the night at three days old, ... Read More

I helped my daughter to heal from eczema, and there is hope. Before Clara got better, life was really challenging, not just for her because she was the one suffering, but really for the whole family because she'd be up ... Read More