Featuring Madiha Saeed MD, Director of Education, and Heather Tallman-Ruhm MD, Medical Director, both of the Documenting Hope Project.
We talked about:
- Mold and autism:
- Sugar and high-carb foods can play a role
- Organic Acid Test (OAT)
- How heavy metals and other toxins upstream can lead to mold susceptibility
- The BioNexus Approach to Biotoxin Illness
- Webinar replay: Mold and Mycotoxin Illness with Jodie Dashore
- Webinar replay: Mold and Autism with Christian Bogner MD
- Noah: Autism and Mold Toxicity
- Vitiligo and autism
- Think autoimmune processes
- Low-histamine diet
- Think fungus
- JIA (Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis)
- Think autoimmune process
- Dr. Madiha’s six fundamentals: digestion, toxicity, sleep, stress, social and spirituality
- Supplements are a piece, but lifestyle is key.
- BBQ smoke and char can upregulate cytokines and inflammation.
- Dr. Heather: Every cell in the body needs to hear “it’s OK”. Get out of a state of fear and let the body know that it’s OK.
- Dyspraxia and OCD
- Bartonella can play a role in hypotonia.
- Reflex integration can help.
- Food sensitivities can affect gross motor skills.
- Don’t get hung up on one thing; think foundational first.
- Healing Trail Map
- How long to wait to see if supplements are working?
- About a month
- Supplements are just a piece of the puzzle.
- Do blood testing to check for deficiencies.
- The Holistic Rx for Kids: Parenting Healthy Brains and Bodies in a Changing World
- Nutrient Power by William Walsh
- Zinc and picky eating
- Which probiotics are best?
- Fermented foods are best; better microbiome diversity.
- Webinar replay: Neurodevelopmental Genomics for Autism, ADHD and SPD with Heather Way PhD
- Sabine Hazan MD says a lot of probiotics don’t work.
- The Body Ecology Diet
- New allergic symptoms in a 14-year-old girl
- First step is observation; little exposures can create a big reaction.
- Come back to foundations. See Healing Trail Map.
- Hormones could be a trigger.
- Lowering Total Load healing handbook
- How many supplements are too many? Child is taking 30 supplements per day.
- Different for each child
- Get in most critical supplements first.
- Stress about taking all of them is counterproductive.
- Food-first approach.
- Dr. Madiha: Try putting some of them in smoothies. She puts in functional foods such as amla powder, broccoli sprouts, camu camu, mushrooms, etc.
- Try topical creams like those from Neurobiologix or Epsom salts baths.