Helping Children Thrive

This week on the podcast, I welcome Dr James Greenblatt.

Dr Greenblatt is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and has treated patients since 1988. He is dedicated to the Personalized, Evidence-Based Treatment of Mental Illness. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine. Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific evidence for nutritional interventions in psychiatry and mental illness. 

He is the author of seven books, including Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD. He is the founder of Psychiatry Redefined, an educational platform dedicated to the transformation of psychiatry, which offers online CME-approved courses, webinars, and fellowships for professionals about functional and integrative medicine for mental illness


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Episode Highlights

• The nutritional approaches to psychiatric conditions in children
• Medications for children with ADHD
• Nutritional deficiencies in children with ADHD
• Underlying root causes for ADHD
• OPCs and Omega 3s

Show Notes
https://www.psychiatryredefined.org/finally-focused-book/

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This week, our guest is Luminara Serdar who works with children with Autism.

Luminara Serdar is an autism recovery expert, helping parents discover and address the root causes of their child’s challenging autism behaviors so that a child can be calm, happy, develop to peer level and gain independence. And so parents can feel competent, empowered and happy.

She’s trained as a scientist in genetics, cell biology and biochemistry, as a functional nutritionist and holistic healer. She spent nearly 20 years in the biotech industry as a molecular biologist and product manager, and was involved with the human genome sequencing project.

Her allergies were eliminated in two sessions using NeuroModulation Technique (NMT). She was so impressed that she now uses it, along with nutrition, drainage and detoxification to help the body release toxins and thus shift behaviors. She’s been eliminating allergies and correcting mind-body dysfunction since 2006.

She works with clients throughout the world helping client restore their inner world so they can more effectively interact with their outer world.

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Episode Highlights

• What is Neuro Modulation and How it helps children with Autism
• Body-bio Map: Looking at a whole body approach
• The importance of Detoxification and Drainage
• Autism Recovery Program

Show Notes

• Autism Transformed Website:  https://autismtransformed.com/
• Link to sign up for the 12 month Autism Recovery Program:  https://autismtransformed.simplero.com/page/217547

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On the episode this week, I have welcomed, Piper Gibson from Regenerating Health. 

Piper Gibson is a Doctor of Advanced Holistic Nutrition, Board Certified Doctor of Natural Medicine, and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner®. Piper helps scared, frustrated, and overwhelmed parents get access to the tools and testing they need so they can get to the bottom of their child's neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD, Tics/Tourette's, Anxiety, SPD, and ASD.

She is the founder of Regenerating Health and the creator of Foundations to Flourish. This sixteen-week program teaches parents holistic methods that will restore their child's health in the face of a potentially confusing and worrying diagnosis.

After going from stay-at-home mom to children's holistic health expert, Piper has been able to help many families just like hers to gain control of their child's neurodevelopmental issues using food, functional lab testing, and natural approaches.

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Episode Highlights

•  Piper's son's journey of recovering his Tic symptoms
• What is nutrigenomics
• What are some diet, nutrition, and lifestyle approach to help support children with Tics.
• Timelines for healing
• What does testing look like and how does it help identify areas to focus on
•  Nutrigenomics testing and how it helps with ADHD and Autism

Show Notes

Regenerating Health Website: https://www.regenerating.health/

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This week on the podcast, I will be interviewing Lorraine Driscoll about ways to support our children's brains by addressing the brain-body connection. 

Lorraine is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and  specializes in pediatric nutrition, gut-brain healing and educational therapies that help to retrain the brain.

 Her unique approach is both holistic and scientific. She focuses on healing the brain-gut connection through bio-individual nutrition therapy (SCD, GAPS, Body Ecology etc.) and then utilizes internationally recognized neuroplastic learning therapies—Integrated Listening Systems, Cellfield and LS Works. These interventions stimulate the brain to re-organize and repattern so that it can function in a more interconnected and efficient way.

Previously, Lorraine Driscoll taught in the public school system for fifteen years.

After her daughter’s recovery from PANS/PANDAS, Lorraine was inspired to seek training in neuroplastic learning therapies to address many of the learning challenges that she witnessed in the education system, but was unable to implement in the day-to-day classroom environment.

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Episode Highlights

• Recovering her daughter from PANS/PANDAS 
• Root causes of neurodevelopmental conditions 
• How does nutrition impact brain development especially for children with neurodevelopmental conditions
• The brain-body approach
• Brain-Balance, Brain Integration Therapy and Primitive Reflex Integration 
• Role of retained primitive reflexes and problems if they remain retained, especially in children with ADHD, Austim, SPD and/or dyslexia 

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On today's episode my goal is to empower all parents listening in. I think when people listen to words like Genes and DNA, it can get complicated and overwhelming. So let us pair it back and get to the basics to explain why all this is so vital in our and our children’s health journey!

 Our guest today is Dr Erika Gray, the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of ToolBox Genomics and MyToolBox Genomics. She is a UCSF trained pharmacist, educator, national speaker. ToolBox Genomics and MyToolBox Genomics is a digital platform that takes an individual’s genetic test results and offers a virtual toolbox of informative, user-friendly, lifestyle choices and action plans to live the healthiest possible life. With almost 2 decades of experience in the world of functional medicine and a decade of experience in genomics and pharmacy, Dr. Gray is dedicated to helping practitioners and individuals understand the intersection of their unique genetics with the environment, and how they can positively change their health trajectory.

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Episode Highlights

• What are genes and why are they so important for us
• What are gene snyps
• What are epigenetics and how can we test for them and interpret the results into our daily lives
• Significance of these tests to help us parent better
• Autism, ADHD and other health conditions and how children and parents can benefit from running DNA and epigenetic tests
• How to improve our health using the test results we receive by focusing on  five
  essential domains for optimal health and wellness: diet, lifestyle, exercise, supplements and further testing

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How many of you breathe through your mouth, especially at night? 

Have you noted whether your child breathes through their mouth or nose while they sleep? Do either you or your child snore at night?

Do you wake up tired after a full night's sleep? Is your child super grumpy upon waking up in the morning?

Have you or your child had a diagnosis of sleep apnea?

Our guest this week is Dr Elizabeth Walker with whom we will discover how the disruption of silent, nasal breathing can affect such a wide range of functions in our bodies including digestion, brain function, mood, behavior, attention, growth, clenching, grinding, crowded teeth, heart health, circulation, posture, mouth pain, head pain, body pain, mobility, numbness, tinnitus, balance, metabolism, table manners, and more.

Committed to her patients and continuing education, Dr. Walker has extensive experience diagnosing and treating TMJ disorders and craniofacial pain. She integrates the evaluation of awake and sleep disordered breathing into her patient care. Dr. Walker’s mission is to provide her patients with the latest diagnostic technologies to identify the ORIGIN of symptoms to resolve pain, skeletal, dental and breathing challenges.  Dr. Walker has developed a network of practitioners surrounding her practice in Williston, VT to encourage total body wellness.  She works directly with a community of practitioners including but not limited to: Otolaryngologists, Sleep Physicians, Osteopaths, Pediatricians, Lactation Specialists, Primary Care Physicians, Physical Therapists, Myofuctional Therapists, General Dentists, Chiropractors, and Fascial Release specialists.

Dr. Elizabeth Walker graduated from the Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston University in 2006 and received her certificate in the Specialty of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics from Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston University in 2010. She has completed an extensive Mini-Residency from TMJ and Sleep Therapy Research earning a graduate certificate in Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders & Craniofacial Pain in 2013. In 2015, she completed her Masters of Science in Dentistry at Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston University.

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My guest this week is Patricia Lemer.

Patricia is a licensed professional counselor, holding a Masters of Education in counseling and learning disabilities from Boston College and a Masters in Business from Johns Hopkins University. She practiced as an educational diagnostician for over 40 years.

She was a co-founder and served as Executive Director of the international non-profit organization Developmental Delay Resources (DDR). After DDR merged with Epidemic Answers, she became Chairman of the Board.

She is the author of Outsmarting Autism, Updated and Expanded: Build Healthy Foundations for Communication, Socialization, and Behavior at All Ages.

Lemer writes continually for her blog “After the Diagnosis, Then What?” about combining a biomedical approach to autism with sensory and movement-based therapies.

She is the editor of EnVISIONing a Bright Future: Interventions that Work for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. You can find out more about her work at her website www.patricialemer.com

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Episode Highlights

1. Total load theory
2. Epigenetics and Autism
3. Reducing load factors through lifestyle
3. Role of Gut in Autism
4. Soft Signs
5. Role of Foundational Issues, retained reflexes in Autism, Vision therapy, 
6.  Patricia's five-step plan to prioritize healing modalities:

Show Notes:

Patricia Lemer's  Website: https://www.patricialemer.com/
Book Link: Outsmarting Autism, Updated and Expanded: Build Healthy Foundations for Communication, Socialization, and Behavior at All Ages.

She is the editor of EnVISIONing a Bright Future: Interventions that Work for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. 

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On this episode we focus on the importance of prenatal health and what parents should do to prepare themselves before they conceive their child.

This week our guest is Dr Ari Calhoun. She is a perinatal and pediatric Naturopathic Doctor and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner who is passionate about helping her clients achieve an optimal state of health. With a background in clinical research, she blends the wisdom of ancient medicine with the cutting-edge knowledge gained from modern science.

Through her own battle with  autoimmunity, infertility, and other chronic illness, she has come to understand the importance of solid health foundations from as early as the preconception time period.  As a parent, Ari realized just how difficult it can be to raise a child in an environment filled with toxins, electronics, and commercialized junk food.


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Episode Highlights
Why is preconception care important
How long before wanting to conceive should parents start preparing themselves
What factors: environmental, nutritional, toxins etc to factor into preconception health
What type of nutrients should mum focus on before conception and during pregnancy
Role of fathers in preconception care

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My guest this week is Peter Sullivan. Peter is the founder and CEO of Clear
Light Ventures, Inc., as well as an environmental health funder who focuses on toxins and wireless safety. He has spent the last 17 years focusing on environmental health. Peter’s work
on detoxification and EMF (electromagnetic fields) have been featured in the book Toxin Toxout, Mother Jones magazine, Paleo Magazine, and CNN’s Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man. He is an executive producer of the documentary “Generation Zapped”, about the health
effects of wireless, and co-executive producer of the film “The Devil We Know” about Teflon pollution. Peter serves as a board advisor to Pure Earth (pollution.org), and the International Institute for Building-Biology Ecology. Previously, he worked as a software designer, making software easier to use at Netflix, Inc., Interwoven, Inc., Excite@Home, and Silicon Graphics. He also served as an Executive Officer and pilot in the United States Navy. He has a B.A. in psychology from the University of Detroit and an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University.

On our show today, we talk about the dangers of Electromagnetic Frequencies and Dirty Electricity and the impact that is having on our children's health. 

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Episode Highlights

• Why are EMF and Dirty Electricity harmful
• How can we know whether adults and/or our children are sensitive to EMFs     
• What is the connection between Autism and EMF 
• Calcium channels blockers
• Basic mitigation strategies- How do we reduce the electrical noise/EMF of our house
• Dangers of using baby monitors, and other wearable devices
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On today’s show we talk about Nourishing Diets for the optimal growth and development of our children.

Sally Fallon Morell  is best known as the author of Nourishing Traditions and the Founding President of the The Weston A. Price Foundation.  Sally advocates for the consumption of nutrient dense foods and not falling prey to fads and marketing around various food groups. She claims that animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels.

Sally is also the founder of A Campaign for Real Milk (realmilk.com), which has as its goal universal access to clean raw milk from pasture-fed animals.

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Episode Highlights
What is a traditional diet and how is it important to us

Nourishing foods to add in our diet

Importance of fats and raw milk in our diet

Recommendation on preparing and eating grains

Preparing the body before pregnancy

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