I am a mom living in Connecticut - raising a sweet and loving little seven year old boy, named Evan. He was diagnosed as having ADHD, sensory issues, and higher functioning autism, and apraxia. My adorable and agreeable child also began displaying episodes of anger, frustration, rigid thinking and anxiety.
I often felt hopeless and frustrated with the progress of his recovery during our intense therapy sessions and I knew from experience as a psychotherapist, that medication would be introduced as the only viable treatment option, but also know that medication can come with numerous side effects, such as increased anger, depression, fogginess, anxiety, seizures and increased tic disorders. I witnessed the effects on these children on numerous occasions. However, I never really questioned the authority of the medical professionals. “Who was I to question a doctor that had many more years of experience and schooling to back their theories?”
As life would have it, all the training and education I received about the benefits of medication would be challenged when I had Evan. I have discovered that although well intentioned, many doctors are too quick to prescribe without digging deeper to find root causes and nutritional deficiencies.
Our kid’s guts become inflamed due to food intolerance's, processed foods, chemicals, pesticides, GMOs, etc. Leading to nutritional deficiencies, gastrointestinal distress, illness, ear infections, asthma and ultimately neurological dysfunction.
We started by healing his gut wall and eliminating all of his offending foods and reducing inflammation and gut permeability so that the nutrients he was eating and the supplements we were supplying would get absorbed properly. Over the course of treatment Evan started improving exponentially in all areas of development, including, emotionally, socially, physically and academically.
I recommend a complete metabolic workup so that a unique treatment plan can be designed.
Southbury, CT
