What You Feed Your Baby Picking healthy foods for our babies in a grocery store can be a lot like finding something decent in a dumpster: full of ultra-processed foods. Our little ones depend on us to bring home foods with nutrients and without harmful substances. They can’t go out and shop for themselves. We,…
Mold v Kid’s Brains Many skeptics challenge functional MD’s like myself when we diagnose mold toxicity as the explanation for a chronic illness whether in adults or in children. The refrain goes like this: “Mold is everywhere! How could that explain the symptoms?” We understand that patients or their parents desire proof and certainty before…
Despite the extensive research on how expecting mother’s nutritional choices affect their babies, current research barely scratches the surface on how mold harms pregnancies. The effects of tobacco use, inflammatory foods, and alcohol on a developing baby have received countless studies and articles. By contrast, few studies have adequately evaluated whether mold toxin exposure during…
Mold Toxins Hurt Children For some reason, so many, especially in our supposedly advanced nation, can ignore what much of the world already realizes. The world’s most advanced medical system focuses so much attention on heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and others but cannot grasp the mold toxins’ impact on our health. In this study, a…
Plastics in Mom Gives Baby Anxiety We live in a plastic world that is increasingly swallowed by anxiety. Could there be link between plastic chemical exposures in pregnancy with anxious behaviors in children years later? This study suggests that possibility. Keep reading to see if you want to limit plastic exposure during childbearing years to…
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…
We all want answers, especially when it comes to our children’s health, but we need to be clear about whether something is the chicken or the egg. Just because we find a correlation between a medicine and a disease, does not mean that we have a cause. It just means that we are on to…
We need more research like today’s focus article, which considers the effects of parental occupational chemical exposure on autistic children’s future co-occurring “behaviors or cognitive and adaptive skills.” While much money and effort keeps pouring into genetics and pharmaceuticals, finding preventative opportunities, such as with prenatal chemical exposures, could have an even greater individual and…
We need more research like today’s focus article, which considers the effects of parental occupational chemical exposure on autistic children’s future co-occurring “behaviors or cognitive and adaptive skills.” While much money and effort keeps pouring into genetics and pharmaceuticals, finding preventative opportunities, such as with prenatal chemical exposures, could have an even greater individual and…
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…