The ORIGINS Project
What Is the ORIGINS Project? The ORIGINS Project is a research project of the KIDS Research Institute Australia that...
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How Coregulation Can Help Your Child Heal
In this blog post, Heather Tallman Ruhm MD, the Medical Director of the Documenting Hope Project, discusses how...
Resilient Children
The one job that remains steadfast, consistent and still in existence is being a parent. Every generation feels the...
Resilience from a Biomedical Perspective
What Is Resilience from a Biomedical Perspective? In understanding how to cultivate resilience, it is helpful to...
Improving Vagal Tone
The most widespread emotion experienced in today’s world just might be anxiety. This is of no surprise given how...
Lithium Orotate vs. Lithium Carbonate
Safer Choices for Mood Stability Possibly the greatest silver lining from the COVID pandemic has been the heightened...
A Disrupted Circadian Rhythm Can Negatively Affect Health
What Is Circadian Rhythm? Any bodily process that occurs regularly on a 24-hour cycle is known as a circadian rhythm....
Acetaminophen and The Autism Connection
Acetaminophen is the generic name for Tylenol, and it is also known as paracetemol in countries outside of the United...
Spelling to Communicate (S2C)
This blog post about Spelling to Communicate (S2C) is excerpted and amended by Patricia Lemer from the Vietnamese...
Which Diet Is Best for a Child with Autism?
Parents have been implementing special diets for years to help improve the health of and reduce symptoms in their...
What Is Autism, Really?
Autism is a term that is reasonably new in the modern lexicon. While the term autism was first coined in 1912, a...
How to Reduce Inflammation Without NSAIDs
The current treatment protocol for inflammation in PANS/PANDAS and autism is an anti-inflammatory such as Motrin,...
Get a 20% Discount off of the Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health Training Programs
The Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health was co-founded by Nasha Winters ND FABNO LAc. The institute seeks to restore...
We Are Mike Kafka’s My Cause My Cleats Charity!
We are honored to be chosen by the NFL's New York Giants Offensive Coordinator, Mike Kafka, for his My Cause My Cleats...
The History of Total Load
Total Load Theory “Total Load Theory” is a widely used engineering term that, for decades, has been applied to explain...
What Happens When Your Child with Autism Ages out of the School System?
Teresa Badillo discusses what happens when your child with autism ages out of the school system and...
Does the CDC Memory Hole the Real Autism Rates (or Is There Something Worse Going on?)
My friend Maria Rickert Hong and I just discovered something interesting about the CDC’s data on autism rates and...
Autism Rate Increased Again?
Did you hear the news?The autism rate is now believed to be 1 in 36 children.That’s 2.8% of children.That’s 4% of...
What Is Low-Dose Naltrexone?
While naltrexone is a decades-old pharmaceutical that is used to manage alcohol and opiate addiction at doses of...
Top Five Supplements for Anxiety
Learn more about our recommendations for our top five supplements for anxiety: Magnesium, GABA, cannabidiol (CBD),...
How Phenols and Salicylates May Be Contributing to Your Child’s Mood, Behavior and Hyperactivity
Phenols are the chemical compounds that give color to foods such as the red in a raspberry and the blue in a...
Optimizing the Health of Children with Down Syndrome
Guest blogger Erica Peirson ND writes about ways to optimize the health of a child or adult with Down syndrome. Ever...
It’s Time to Undo Down Syndrome Bias
Jane Winans discusses that it's time to undo Down syndrome bias seen in medicine, education and the community. Bias...
It IS Possible to Thrive Through Cancer
In this blog post, Season Johnson of the KICKcancER Movement talks about her family's experience of thriving through...
Symptoms in Babies
In this blog post, Maria Rickert Hong explains why symptoms in babies such as colic, acid reflux, chronic ear...
The Five Levels of Healing According to Dietrich Klinghardt MD PhD
Patricia Lemer MEd NCC describes the five levels of healing from autism and other chronic health conditions according...
Developing a Biomedical Plan for Your Child with Autism
If your child has autism or another neurodevelopmental disorder such as ADHD or Sensory Processing Disorder, it can be...
Nutrition Fundamentals for Autism
In this post, Registered Dietitian Vicki Kobliner explains nutritional fundamentals for autism and why there's so much...
Anesthesia and Autism
Parent advocate Alyssa Davi explains the risks of anesthesia and autism in this article. The purpose of this article...
This Is Urgent
A letter from our Executive Director -- December 2017 Dear Friends, Seven years ago when I published A Compromised...
Mindfulness in Autism
In this post, Andrea Libutti MD tells us why is mindfulness in autism the most important thing you can do for your...
Creative Consciousness: Working with Meditation and Hypnosis
In this blog post, Renee Rotkopf explains how meditation and hypnosis are tools to boost our creative consciousness....
Our Children With Type 1 Diabetes: Causes, Solutions, and a New Prognosis
In this post, Carla Atherton, Director of the Healthy Family Formula, relates how she discovered that functional...
Patricia Lemer Retires from Epidemic Answers Board
Patricia Lemer, better known as Patty, has served the families and communities of children with educational and...
School Lunch Programs: Feeding Mind, Body and Soul
Alyce Ortuzar fills us in on what's in a school lunch, how it relates to your child's health, how to improve it and...
Sensory Integration Dysfunction and Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
In this blog post, Patricia S. Lemer explains the history of Sensory Integration Dysfunction and Sensory Processing...
Sensory Diet
In this blog post, Bonnie Hanschu OTR and Myania Moses OT explain what a sensory diet is and how to incorporate it...
Preventing Sensory Processing Disorder in High-Risk Infants
Kelly Dorfman, MS, LDN discusses how a good neurological diet and healing the gut may stave off Sensory Processing...
Phthalates in Personal-Care Products
Patricia S. Lemer, MEd, NCC fills us in about the dangers of phthalates, another family of toxic chemicals, in this...
Parasites Can Cause Seemingly Unrelated Symptoms
In this blog post, Patricia Lemer MEd relates her personal experiences in dealing with parasites. It took me years to...
Undiagnosed Lyme Disease
Nika Hamblin relates her personal story of dealing with undiagnosed Lyme disease in this post. Many years ago, my...
Magnesium: The Super-Mineral
In this blog post, Kelly Dorfman teaches us about the importance of magnesium, symptoms of deficiency and how to...
Lymphatic System: Key to Improving Immune Function
What Is the Lymphatic System? The lymphatic system is the body’s uni-directional transport network that moves dead...