Sanctuary helps you find not only the answers to why your child changed, but how to alter that trajectory towards the desired future. By identifying root causes like toxins, infections, food reactions, and metabolic dysfunctions, combined with proper therapy, your child can move towards a healthier more abundant life again.
Conventional medicine on the surface offers minimal hope to children suffering from autism spectrum disorders, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or other development issues. Various therapies with their sessions of retraining provide some benefits but not an answer for the root problem. Real benefits arise out of identifying the triggers which changed the course of the child’s neurologic function.
Once out in the world outside mom, the small body and brain encounters various toxins in air, on skin, and through ingestion. Sometimes, one trigger rises to a level that it alone can cause symptoms. At other times, the combination of multiple toxins is necessary to trigger the “change” noted by parents.
By identifying the root causes, more can be done than just therapy. By working to remove the triggers for brain inflammation and augmenting the body’s ability to heal, new changes emerge. The progress of development can move upward. The mood swings and unexplained fits level out. Your child can see a better future ahead than just countless hours of therapy. The therapy becomes a part of restoring function rather than just a means to control symptoms, thus aiming at a time when your child no longer needs the therapy.
More Insight into Autism Subtypes We all know that more than one type of autism is epidemic throughout our world, but connecting the patterns we see with objective measures in labs or radiology images has been challenging. This study claims to see two particular patterns of brain structure/function that account for about 25% of the…
The complexity and simplicity of influencing future generations’ autism and ADHD rates grow clearer with this study which demonstrates how genetics and gut bacteria interact to affect whether a child develops autism or ADHD. Chinese researchers identified links between the activity of different immune and neurologic genes with the presence of different bacteria in infant…
As anyone caring for children with autism would tell you, there are many forms and triggers for this distressingly common condition. Today’s focus article used computer modeling creatively in order to tease out four main subtypes of autism which might allow researchers to better identify both predisposing factors (like genetics) and external contributors to the…
Everyone wants big news from Autism research, but this was not the biggest news of the year that we might hope for. In fact, for those of us in functional and natural medicine, it was quite disappointing that some natural therapies got a negative report. So how do I, functional medicine doctor who has seen…
For many years now, both medical professionals and parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have assumed that the primary mechanism of action for most ADHD medications are its effects in the brain areas responsible for attention. Now a study suggests that the medications work in other parts of the brain, those involved with reward and…
A New Pathway for Autism Therapy In the ongoing story of autism, researchers may have discovered a brain area which plays a key role in the outworking of autism as well as its connection with higher rates of epilepsy. Learning of such novel mechanisms for autism pathology can be as exciting as reading a well-written…
In the ongoing story of autism, researchers may have discovered a brain area which plays a key role in the outworking of autism as well as its connection with higher rates of epilepsy. Learning of such novel mechanisms for autism pathology can be as exciting as reading a well-written mystery novel. Often it is the…
For a variety of ‘reasons’, ADHD has become a hot topic not just in pediatrics but also in adult medical care. While the earlier debate about the causes and true frequency of ADHD in children continues, this study highlights some major flaws in the research on adult ADHD which should make us pause before overmedicating…
