A Longterm Look at Childhood Inflammation The triggers for inflammation in America are at epidemic levels, including metabolic conditions, infections, and toxins. Do you ever wonder if you or your child has inflammation and what the long-term consequences are? The University of Alabama conducted a recent research study that discovered children with inflammation at a…
New research offers an interesting answer: the common cold As we continue to answer countless questions forced upon us by COVID 19, this study offers an answer why children seemed more resistant to this troublesome new SARS CoV2 virus: the common cold. While medicine is rarely simple enough for a single mechanism to explain everything,…
Everyone wants to know how to optimize a baby’s brain health, but who would have thought that giving mom a probiotic was the answer? Researchers have searched through countless avenues of optimizing baby’s brains, having realized that the critical window of pregnancy and the first year or two of life could determine much of the…
In the world of functional medicine, we try to listen to all the evidence regardless of where it comes from, including the mainstream groups like the Endocrine Society- and now they assert that some artificial sweeteners contribute to early puberty. While we sometimes have to take such groups with a grain of sea salt, remembering…
Who wants to hear that their sweet little toddler is peeing out toxins and a lot of them? Likely no one is excited about that news unless the parent thinks “at least it is coming out”. Even with that mindset, if the toxin is coming out, it had to go through their bodies, potentially causing…
The connection between our health and the future generations’ health was long assumed to be one of simple nurture in which children simply copied their parents’ health habits. The science of epigenetics, however, has opened up a much deeper understanding of these multi-generational patterns. In this very well done study, researchers elucidate the mechanism by…
Natural Focus: How Saffron Improves Concentration for ADHD Who would have thought that saffron, a culinary spice prominent in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, could be an effective therapy for ADHD? showed the benefits of a therapeutic dose of saffron in children and adolescents with ADHD compared to a pharmaceutical stimulant. In fact, the…
Food Dye Sleuths Nutrition, Pediatrics, Neurological Health Did you know that over 40% of foods marketed toward children in the U.S. contain artificial food dyes? Alarmingly, 94% of people over 2 years old consume Red 40 (De Oliveira, ZB, et. al, 2024). Multiple research studies have shown the harmful effects of artificial food dyes…
Mother’s Gut Bacteria Influence Baby’s Brain Development Everyone wants to know how to optimize a baby’s brain health, but who would have thought that giving mom a probiotic was the answer? Researchers have searched through countless avenues of optimizing baby’s brains, having realized that the critical window of pregnancy and the first year or two…
As research into the etiology (origin & cause) of mental illness continues and the rate of such illness continues to rise, studies like this one are linking various factors together to explain the growing epidemic. As with many health conditions, more than one trigger is needed to get the symptom train moving. Prior research had…