Helping Children Thrive

On today’s show we talk about Sensory Processing Disorder in children.

Children with sensory processing disorder issues have great difficulty processing and acting upon information received through their senses.

Sensory Processing Disorder isn’t a true diagnosis, yet, because it is not a standalone diagnosis in the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). However, most children with autism have it, and many children with ADD/ADHD,  PANS/PANDAS and Lyme disease also have it. It can also be a standalone disorder, meaning that a child is over- or under-sensitive to lights, sounds, motions, tastes, smells and more.
 
 The good news is that children CAN recover from it and Maria is a great example of someone that made that possible for her sons. 
 

Maria Rickert Hong is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor who specializes in helping parents making dietary and lifestyle changes for children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), autism, ADHD, allergies, asthma, autoimmune and more. 

She is the author of Almost Autism: Recovering Children from Sensory Processing Disorder, A Reference for Parents and Practitioners.
She has also co-authored Epidemic Answers’ Brain Under Attack: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers of Children with PANS, PANDAS, and Autoimmune Encephalitis

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Episode Highlights
Almost Autism

Soft Signs

The connection between Nutrition and SPD

The underlying root causes of SPD and almost autism

Structural factors to consider for sensory children

Various healing modalities to look into to help children showing soft signs or have a diagnosis.

Toxicity and detoxification

Role gut health plays for sensory children

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Nourishing our children well plays a vital role in the way they grow and develop, the way they behave, how they learn and how they interact with their external environment. In today's world, our diets have increasingly become loaded with sugar, exceeding daily recommendations, affecting our children's health.

We will learn more about that today on the show with our guest Michael Goran, the author of "Sugarproof: The hidden Dangers of Sugar that are Putting Your Child's Health at Risk and What You Can Do."

This book illuminates the link between dietary sugars and the physical, metabolic, behavioral, and learning problems that are plaguing our children—and that shows parents how to successfully “sugarproof” their children for a healthier start in life.

Dr. Michael I. Goran is the Program Director for Diabetes and Obesity Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and The Saban Research Institute Professor of Pediatrics & Atkins Endowed Chair in Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.

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Episode Highlights
Why are our children so vulnerable?

Sugar and alternative sweetners, what are they doing to our children

Natural sweeteners that can be used instead of processed white sugar

Ways to start limiting our children/family’s sugar intake

Sugar consumption during pregnancy and its affect on babies 

Sugar in baby and infant formulas and solutions

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My guest today is Jennifer Caryn Brand who is an integrative and clinical nutritionist and the founder of Jennifer Caryn Brand Nutrition. Jennifer is a relentless detective putting her strong knowledge of nutritional biochemistry to work for you, to identify what’s driving symptoms and health problems in order to address the root cause of them.

On today's show, we will be talking about children's skin health and skin conditions such as eczema, rashes, hives and their underlying root causes.


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Episode Highlights

Why an increasing number of children are developing skin problems

The link between skin problems, the gut and gut microbiome

What are some of the underlying root causes for conditions such as eczema, psoriasis etc

Testing for identifying root causes and imbalances

Guidelines to introduce allergenic foods to babies

Nutritional focus to help children’s skin problems

What can pregnant and nursing moms do if their children have skin rashes?

The link between stress and skin problems 

Conventional and alternative therapies for skin problems and health 

Things listeners can do right now to start rebuilding healthy skin

Show Notes

Food allergen introduction guidelines:

https://www.allergy.org.au/patients/allergy-prevention/ascia-how-to-introduce-solid-foods-to-babies

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My guest this week is Kelly Dorfman who is a licensed clinical nutritionist that specializes in targeted nutrition therapy to address complex medical problems.  Kelly calls her self a nutritional detective, and looks to bridge the gap between a presenting signs and symptoms and medical diagnosis with what might be happening with the diet. 

Cure Your Child With Food, her awarding winning book about the surprising ways nutrition impacts common childhood ailments, is published in 8 languages. An updated version was released in early 2021.

On our show today, we talk about the important role nutrition therapy plays in helping support our children’s condition.

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Episode Highlights

• How can parents become nutritional detectives to understand connections between certain foods and the signs and symptoms their children are presenting with. 
• The role of nutrition to solve our children’s health conditions by looking at the fact that something is either missing from the system, or irritating the system.
• How can parents detect food sensitivities in children
• How To Get A Picky Eater To Eat: The EAT program: Eliminate, Add and Try
• Problem foods and addictive behaviors 
• The ever increasing problem of glyphosate
• Points to consider when buying and consuming foods. 

Show Notes

Kelly Dorfman Website: https://kellydorfman.com/

Book: Cure Your Child with Food: The Hidden Connection Between Nutrition and Childhood Ailments by Kelly Dorfman and Richard E. Layton M.D

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Welcome to the Helping Children Thrive.

Need help with improving your child’s health using integrative approaches?

• Check out my Instagram page -full of information, latest research, tips and tools for parents who want to be more effective with improving their children’s health and behavior.
• Want to work with me? Contact us here.

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First Light - Atch https://soundcloud.com/atch-music
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