Child Nutrition & Neurotransmitter Questionnaire

Common brain development disorders today include:

• Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
• Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Asperger’s syndrome
• Autism
• Developmental coordination disorder (DCD)
• Nonverbal learning disability (NLD)
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
• Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD)
• Tourette’s syndrome
• Chronic allergies, asthma, eczema, digestive disorders

When your child is sick and suffering with a metabolic problem such as Chronic Constipation, Autism, ADD, ADHD, vaccine injury, Asthma, Eczema, or an autoimmune disease, it becomes imperative to understand how to best support that child metabolically. Functional medicine is about ROOT cause. It is about asking the most important question, “WHY”

For every child, the “Why” may be different.

Once we know the “Why” we can then chart a course to figure out what to do to restore balance and heal your child from the inside out. Optimizing your child’s health involves a combination of dietary changes, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and lifestyle changes. It’s about rebuilding, repairing, and nurturing the body back to health. Not about suppressing, forcing, and manipulating physiology as medicine does.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease, Then what sort of a disease a patient has!

Let’s take an example. If your child has eczema, your kids’ regular doctor will likely recommend steroid creams, which can thin and discolor the skin, and in the worst-case scenario, get absorbed into your child’s body and stunt their growth or weaken their bones- And if his eczema gets worse, then you’ll be asked to move onto a stronger immunosuppressant creams that could potentially cause cancer. On top of the skin problems, you child also suffered with temper tantrums, frustrations, outbursts, loss of attention and anxiety- Think they are not connected? Think again!! These topical creams do nothing to cure the problem nor would most medications that your typical doctor might recommend.

They are only bandaids. It’s like trying to put out a fire with a water pistol- These Drugs are the wrong tool for the job.

What If we could identify what the core imbalances are in your child’s body, that is continuing to feed the fire, wouldn’t it make sense that we could then put the fire out from the ground up and prevent it from coming back!

What if we found that your Child “fire” was being caused by one or more of the following;

• A sensitivity to eggs and gluten
• Breakdown in the mucosal barriers
• An overgrowth of yeast in his/her gut
• too much of an omega 6 fatty acid
• bacterial overgrowth in the small intestines
• Poor absorption of Nutrients
• High levels of Mercury, Cadmium or Lead
• Low vitamin A,D,E, Mg, etc
• Oxidative stress
• Low levels of an Amino acid called Tyrosine

And all we needed to do to cure his/her Temper Tantrums, disorganized attention, Anger, Anxiety and unhealthy skin was to remove eggs and gluten from his/her diet for 6 months and give him/her nutritional supplements specific to his/her unique metabolic needs- based on testing.