CHILDREN WITH CHALLENGES

The connection between the brain and gut is well established as the root cause of many of the epidemic diseases and syndromes facing us today.  The more we understand the Gut-Brain axis, Gut-Lung axis, and Gut-Liver axis, the more we can ask the right questions and uncover the cause of the foundational issues.

Whether you are at the beginning of your journey or have been on a merry-go-round of doctors, if the decisions that have been made for you and your child have left you unsatisfied, we encourage you to take your time going through the website and reaching out to us with any questions. 

 It is always a collaboration between practitioner and parent to understand how to move the child’s healing forward while listening to the child’s needs.  Functional medicine is often becoming much like allopathic medicine, dispensing supplements instead of pharmaceuticals.  However, truly meeting a patient where they are will sometimes require more time as their nervous systems have been compromised, and they do not respond “typically” to many of the suggestions.

As parents, we are taught to rely solely on our pediatricians for guidance. Our children will never be as important to anyone else as they are to us. Educating ourselves about their developmental stages and signs of health challenges gives us an opportunity to augment their future before more accommodations are made in the body and brain and larger problems become more ingrained. 

 As your child’s primary caregiver, you know them best. Pediatricians are a wonderful resource for what they do; however, they can miss things if they are not specifically trained in Retained reflexes, midline defects, and early signs of neurodevelopmental delays.