Put Your Child On a Healing Journey
If you’re an exhausted parent trying to understand why your child is struggling, you are not alone.
I frequently hear the following from the parents I work with:
My 16-year-old can’t concentrate or complete his homework. He’s always tired with a foggy brain.
My 14-year-old daughter is hyper-obsessed with food and her body
to the point of starving herself and will only eat 12 foods.
I’m afraid of my 9-year-old son. He’s hyper, full of anger and rage,
and flies off the handle at the smallest problem.
As a family, we’ve gone dairy and gluten-free, but my daughter and son still have high anxiety and OCD.
I’m so confused about what is and isn’t healthy, and I’m afraid I’m feeding them the wrong foods.
A Child Nutritionist can boost your child’s behavior and cognition by cutting processed foods, which can lead to cognitive intoxication and harm brain health.
As an example, if you fill a tube with water then add sugar, you begin the recipe for the production of alcohol.
Yeast, which line the GI tract, can be out of control in children with ADHD, OCD, autism, and more. Consult a child dietitian to address these imbalances effectively and improve behavior.
With sugar and water, yeast begins to ferment, which is how alcohol is made. When this happens, the yeast produce toxins that affect your child’s brain, which then leads to irregular behavior, specifically problems with hyperactivity, an inability to concentrate, emotional disruption, and defiant behavior. And with these sugar highs, come crashing lows that look like depression and fatigue.
I see this in infants, toddlers, and teenagers alike.
The typical American family diet, filled with processed foods like In-N-Out burgers, pizza, McDonald’s chicken nuggets, Oreo cookies, and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, is laden with chemicals and excitotoxins. These substances can cause the brain to misfire, impacting your child’s mood, behavior, and perceptions. If these foods make you feel terrible, imagine their effect on a growing child’s brain. Consulting a nutrition expert can help you make healthier choices to support your child’s development.
Gluten-free products aren’t much better and are mostly clever food marketing. Keep in mind that 40% of the time meals labeled gluten-free in restaurants still have gluten in them, and 20-80% of the products labeled gluten-free in grocery stores contain gluten. This is why I’m not a fan of them and why many of the people that come to me for guidance have not seen improvement on a gluten-free diet alone.
In fact, several years ago, General Mills came under fire for labeling their dry cereal Cheerios (among others) as gluten-free. When people starting having severe reactions to these products, testing confirmed they indeed contained high amounts of gluten. If you’ve tried a gluten-free diet with little success, this is probably the reason why.
Diet is vital for your child’s cognitive and emotional health, but it’s only one aspect of their overall well-being. Recognizing their unique biochemical blueprint is crucial, as not all whole foods may be appropriate for them. A skilled Child Nutritionist can create a tailored diet plan that addresses their specific needs, ensuring optimal health and well-being.
Children, particularly those with autism, hyperactivity, and behavior issues, often have excessive copper levels. Copper, a conductor of energy, reduces dopamine and increases norepinephrine in the brain. Dopamine is crucial for attention and learning, while norepinephrine regulates attention and impulsivity. A nutrition coach can help manage these imbalances for better behavioral outcomes.
A gluten, dairy, and sugar-free diet is an important starting point, but we must also correct the high copper by focusing on low-copper foods and nutrients for healing to occur. The same holds true for under and over methylation, zinc deficiency, and Pyrrole disorder, also called pyroluria. Gut inflammation is also an important factor to look at in children because microbial changes can impact their behavior and perceptions, as I shared previously about yeast.
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Throughout my childhood, I struggled terribly with depression, anxiety, and OCD, so I’m a strong advocate for children. Had I known I was copper toxic and undermethylated, my childhood would’ve been very different.
Results Lead to Better Health
Healing stories are powerful. Read how I’ve helped children over the years.
Since my daughter started her supplements and changed her diet, she is a new person. She is able to focus, multitask and is a totally different person, in a great way.
Anita J.
Now our son is looking into our eyes, calling us mom and dad, sleeping through the night and playing outside in the sunlight. We still have a way to go but Rex is healing and shedding his symptoms of autism.
Valerie L.
Sami’s advice and experience in nutrition therapy has been invaluable as well as very successful in our daughter’s ADHD, OCD, and eating disorder recovery process.
