Two Gut Healing Additions to Start Today!
As we discuss quite often, gut health is crucial to brain health.
The connection between the gut and the brain is a sensitive balance of interdependence. Healthy brain function is dependent on the neurotransmitters and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) produced in the GI tract.
If there is inflammation and imbalance in the gut, it will contribute to digestion problems, anxiety, aggression, mood swings, lack of focus and attention and interrupted sleep.
However, there are some easy additions you can do daily to start healing the gut now!
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Improve Your Child's Sleep
Sleep is vital to health. Sleep deprivation has been linked to inability to focus, irritability, increased anxiety, lowered immune function, and even depression and anger. Sleep is a time for restoration, growth and healing.
Unfortunately, many kids are not getting enough adequate sleep. This is especially true for children with autism and ADHD. Kids 5 to 12 years old need 9 to 12 hours each night. Lack of sleep can lead to impaired motor coordination, loss of good judgment, slower reaction time and poor memory.
Below are some tips to optimize the best sleep for your child.
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Proven Tips to Holistic Approach to Seasonal Allergies
Trees are starting to bloom! As beautiful as it is, this can lead to seasonal allergies for many. Seasonal allergies can be downright dreadful and when your child is suffering from them it can be heartbreaking. Many children with autism and ADHD suffer from multiple allergies including all things seasonal. Some of the over-the-counter medications can have side effects that are equally as bad, especially for sensitive kiddos. Below are some tips that are very beneficial in helping reduce seasonal allergies.
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Shaping A Healthy Eating Lifestyle For Your Children
When it comes to establishing healthy eating habits for kids, the key is to start early. Children are learning about healthy eating habits at a very young age. The earlier a child learns, the more likely they are to make healthy food choices later in life. This makes it crucial that you take time to teach them the importance of eating healthy as well as teach them how to make healthy food choices. The earlier you do, the better off they'll be.
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5 Tips To Help Your Picky Eater
Picky eating is an umbrella term used for a spectrum of food refusal behaviors and is something that many families struggle with at some point in their child’s life, even with our non-fussy eaters. Helping picky eaters find confidence and comfort with trying new foods is challenging, and sometimes frustrating. Read further for 5 tips to help your picky eater be more comfortable at mealtime.
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Traumatic Brain Injury Protocol
Whether your child is playing high impact contact sports or not, knowing how to effectively offset the downstream cascade of effects from a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) should be an essential part of your at home treatment. Secondary to the initial event of TBI is potential secondary damage that results from inflammation, oxidative stress due to fee radicals, chemical imbalances due to cytotoxicity and high calcium influx to neurons, loss of circulation, and insufficient oxygenation. All of these lead to permanent tissue and neuron damage if left unchecked.
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Kale Yeah! Tips for added Veggies!
The age old question for every parent, throughout time….
HOW DO I GET MY KID TO EAT MORE VEGGIES?!
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Vitamin D and the Link Between Inflammation and Behavioral Changes
Vitamin D levels are very often significantly lower in children with autism and ADHD.
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Probiotics- A Full Body Benefit
Front and center, gut health plays an important role in overall health and immune function. And now researchers are realizing that gut health is very important for brain health and function as well.
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Food Sensitivities and How They Affect Behavior
If someone has a sensitivity to a specific food, an IgG (Immunoglobulin G) response occurs in the body. This is different from the IgE response which occurs in an “allergy”. The IgE response activates an immediate release of histamine. However, with the IgG immune response there is still a reaction happening which activates cytokines (immune response chemicals) in the body, though this is very commonly a delayed response and does not have the antigen-antibody response that the IgE reaction does.
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5 Ways to Reduce Your Child's Sugar Intake
Many times, children are getting even more sugar than adults. In fact, it is estimated that children between ages of 9-18 may be getting 34 teaspoons of sugar daily!
Added sugar is one of the worst additives to foods today. We all know about “sugar highs” and the short term effects sugar can have on a child’s behavior, but there are many problems associated with excessive sugar intake over time as well.
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GABA for Anxiety Associated With Autism and ADHD
GABA (gamma-Aminobutyric acid) is an amino acid that acts as the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in our brain. It is also responsible for keeping all the other neurotransmitters in check. Our brains need a balance of both excitement and inhibition. An unstable balance, or too much excitation will lead to restlessness, insomnia and irritability. GABA helps to balance this out, naturally.
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6 Surprising Signs Your Child May Have Digestive Issues
Parents are surprised to learn that many of their child’s symptoms can actually be contributed to inflammation within their digestive system.
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How Food Additives Could Be Disrupting Your Child’s Behavior
Several countries require any foods containing food dyes to have warning labels and many are actually banned from use, however, they are still used in the US regularly.
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Holistic Approach to Ear Infections
Addressing the underlying allergen/cause is most critical in preventing recurring infections.
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