by | Jan 7, 2020 | Detoxification, Digestive System, Seizures
Improving constipation is a task that I’m confronted with every day in practice. Clients will explain that their child or themselves is struggling with constipation. Even though I have plenty of “tools” to help improve constipation, many of them...
by | Oct 16, 2019 | Antioxidants, Digestive System, Neurotransmitters, Nutritional Deficiencies, Seizures
Research titled “Butyrate, a metabolite of intestinal bacteria, enhances sleep” discusses the influence the gut microbiota has in signaling sleep. Depletion of intestinal microbiota induces significant reduction in sleep suggesting that the gut flora is a...
by | Sep 3, 2019 | Digestive System, Environment, Seizures
Poop transplants (medically referred to as fecal microbiota transplants (FMT)) have been popping up in the medical literature for unique cases, that in the U.S. are not currently approved as standard practice. I’ve published on a FMT successfully stopping 17...
by | Jul 25, 2019 | Digestive System, Seizures
The medical literature on the effectiveness of certain probiotic strains has remained limited. But in this paper titled “Probiotics in Children: what is the evidence?”two particular strains of probiotics are shown to be effective at preventing and...
by | Apr 29, 2019 | Digestive System, Nutritional Deficiencies, Seizures
I’ve blogged on B12 deficiency in the past, but it’s important to emphasize that under diagnosing B12 deficiency can lead to chronic symptoms that include autistic behaviors and or seizure disorders. I’ve spoken with hundreds of parents that state...
by | Dec 17, 2018 | Digestive System, Nutritional Deficiencies, Seizures
One of my favorite and most effective therapeutic diet for seizure disorders is the Specific Carbohydrate diet (SCD diet). I cautiously write this because many of you may equate this with ‘if a seizure disorder is present, then the SCD is right for it’. ...
