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Pharmaceuticals typically mask symptoms of chronic health conditions and can often have adverse effects. They often do not address root causes. Learn more about these harms as well as alternatives to using them here.

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Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms Main Info Page

Children are increasingly being prescribed pharmaceutical medication to help them deal with emotional and behavioral problems as well as mood symptoms. What Types of Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms Are Commonly Seen in Our Kids? Depression: May be exhibited as ... Read More
Why Case Reports Matter

Why Case Reports Matter

Safety and Efficacy of Medical Interventions When it comes to adopting new clinical treatment strategies or therapies in modern medicine, we tend to think that any new therapy or approach to healing comes through a tidy, peer-reviewed, and rigorous scientific ... Read More
GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs and Children: What Families Deserve to Know

GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs and Children: What Families Deserve to Know

Parents today are being told to trust a medical fix for their child’s weight. In exam rooms across the country, doctors are prescribing injectable GLP-1 drugs to children within minutes of raising weight concerns. Families are reassured these medications are ... Read More
What Is Causing the Autism Epidemic?

What Is Causing the Autism Epidemic?

During an April 10, 2025 Presidential Cabinet meeting, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. indicated that “By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic.” “And we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures,” Kennedy asserted ... Read More
Acetaminophen and The Autism Connection

Acetaminophen and The Autism Connection

Acetaminophen is the generic name for Tylenol, and it is also known as paracetemol in countries outside of the United States. Parents, doctors and researchers have been questioning its potential link to autism and ADHD for decades. In this blog ... Read More
How to Reduce Inflammation Without NSAIDs

How to Reduce Inflammation Without NSAIDs

The current treatment protocol for inflammation in PANS/PANDAS and autism is an anti-inflammatory such as Motrin, Aleve, Tylenol or Ibuprofen. These NSAIDs effectively reduce inflammation, brain-swelling and pain in a relatively short period of time. However, PANS/PANDAS is not like ... Read More
What Is Low Dose Naltrexone?

What Is Low-Dose Naltrexone?

While naltrexone is a decades-old pharmaceutical that is used to manage alcohol and opiate addiction at doses of 50-100mg, low-dose naltrexone (LDN) is commonly given at dosages of 0.5-6.0 mg. At this lower dosage, LDN is typically prescribed off-label to ... Read More
Antidepressant Alternatives

Antidepressant Alternatives

Depression and anxiety are commonly misunderstood to be mental-health disorders when in fact they could be symptoms of imbalances within the body. Recent medical research (see Sources & References below) is showing time and time again that they are whole-body ... Read More

Pharmaceuticals Expert Interviews

How Functional Psychiatry Can Lower Symptoms of Depression with James Greenblatt MD
Total Load Theory: Transforming Lives in Autism, ADHD, LD, SPD, and Mental Health with Patricia Lemer LPC MEd
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Pharmaceuticals Stories

Jake Reversed Food Allergies and Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Jake Reversed Food Allergies and Childhood Apraxia of Speech

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
Eli Overcame Asthma and Eczema and Significantly Improved His Food Allergies

Eli Overcame Asthma and Eczema and Significantly Improved His Food Allergies

I have helped my son heal his asthma and his eczema and significantly improve his food allergies as well as also heal his environmental allergies. There is hope. There's always hope for healing. Eli Had Very Severe Allergies We were ... Read More
Shepherd: Healing from Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Shepherd: Healing from Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Shepherd’s remarkable story first appeared in The New York Times several years ago. Shepherd was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis at age three. He had trouble walking and difficulty getting out of bed. Doctors told him he would always be ... Read More
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Pharmaceuticals Books

Finally Hopeful: The Personalized, Whole-Body Plan to Find and Fix the Root Causes of Your Depression
Healthy Kids, Happy Kids: An Integrative Pediatrician's Guide to Whole Child Resilience
Almost Autism: Recovering Children from Sensory Processing Disorder, A Reference for Parents and Practitioners

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