Functional Nutrition and Learning for Kids

Are you exhausted at the end of the day? Do you feel like you can never do anything fun with your students (or your child if you are homeschooling)? Do you want to empower your student/child? A flipped classroom may be what you are looking for. ...

Are you dipping through the thousands of posts asking you to support the immune system, and unsure what that means? I dive into the challenge of explaining why the immune system needs nutritional and lifestyle support without doing any immunology! ...

The founder of the remarkable Hirsch Academy, Shelley Carnes, talks about the radical shifts that were acheived in her school, when they simply started listening to Autistics.  Disclaimer: The information in this Podcast is for educational...

Sonia Story, master movement therapist, talks about how patterned therapeutic rhythmic movement actively matures the cerebellum, and how integrating retained reflexes can mature the brain stem. If movement can actually cause physical changes in...

Did you know many visual disturbances in autistic children (or perhaps even with other disabilities) cannot be described just by visual acuity? Or even by visual processing?  Dana Johnson talks about Ocular Motor difficulties in many autistic...

Dr. Angela Knapp is a naturopathic physician who works extensively with children.  She talks about increasing rates of autoimmunity in children, and causative factors - factors we can and cannot control.  Listen for ideas on: -infections...

Have you been at the receiving end of the advice (mostly related to food): "Everything is OK in moderation." Join me and my colleague Shelley Hurguy as we discuss where this works and where this doesn't!

In new and exciting research, scientists have found that autistic individuals exhibited a significant reduction in myelination and myelin producing glial cells. Let us review what we know about myelination and how we can RE-myelinate. 

What would the world be like if we knew exactly how every child learns? If we didn't feel compelled to put children in well-defined boxes that were easy for US to understand. If we instead centered their education around them. Dr. Joqueta Handy tells...

Mindy is an expert in eating disorders and a Functional Nutrition practitioner. She has herself suffered from eating disorders and navigated the difficult terrain of recovery.  "I was being told what to weigh, think and eat. Nobody was...