Autoimmune Disorders

One mom in California, biochemist Katherine Reid PhD, used her science-based knowledge to create a low-glutamate diet that stabilizes protein and eliminates all inflammatory foods that were excitatory for her daughter with autism. The diet is called the Reduced Excitatory ... Read More

What Are Autoimmune Disorders? Autoimmune disorders are inflammatory conditions in which antibodies, protein molecules produced by the body's immune system, attack and destroy healthy body tissue. Doctors recognize more than 100 types of autoimmune disorders, including: Chronic bronchitis Rheumatoid arthritis ... Read More

Does Your Child Have Anxiety or Nervous-System Dysregulation? If your child has any of the following symptoms, they likely have a dysregulated nervous system: Emotional outbursts Rigid thinking Irritability or aggression Trouble learning or retaininginformation Anxiety or panic Constipation and ... Read More

Home health testing and simple daily measurements offer solid opportunities to track health patterns and progress as well as ways to identify potential imbalances in your child’s health. Below are simple, accessible tools that can provide powerful windows into physiology ... Read More

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

What’s in a Diagnosis (Mindset)? A diagnosis can be helpful, but it often arrives wrapped in cultural or medical expectations that may unintentionally narrow how we approach a child’s future. Labels tend to focus on what is “wrong,” rather than ... Read More

What Is MTHFR? MTHFR is a common genetic “mutation” with two primary variants: C677T and A1298C. If you get two copies of one variant, you are called homozygous; just one copy makes you heterozygous. People with a mutation have at ... 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

If you’re raising a child with ADHD, anxiety, autism, autoimmune conditions, PANS/PANDAS, Sensory Processing Disorder, learning disorders, or something else... We see how hard this can be.And we want you to know - there is hope. In this video, moms ... Read More

This story is used with permission from Marilee Nelson, the founder of Branch Basics. Perspective and Awareness: What I Wish I Had Known Years Ago Perspective on any topic is based on an understanding of the available information that pertains ... Read More

Regression Into Autism Syler was born with autoimmune neutropenia and a urinary tract infection (UTI). He was under observation for a couple weeks to see if his white blood cells went up on their own, but first they put a ... Read More