Brain Inflammation… sounds awful doesn’t it? Did you know that it’s impossible to have any of ADD, ADHD, Autism, Aspergers, Memory Loss without brain inflammation? It’s an increasing problems these days:
- 1 in 12 kids have ADD/ADHD
- 1 in 91 kids have autism/aspergers (this was 1/1000 10 years ago…)
- 1 in 3-6 kids have allergies (very much linked with ADD/ADHD/Aspergers/Autism)
- 1 in 2 people over 50 years old will have dementia by 2030
Scary statistics!
But does it feel like there’s nothing that can be done? Medically it’s a matter of give this drug (a calming down drug) in the morning and this drug (another calming down drug) at night… not to mention the side-effects and family stress associated with the problems of these conditions.
There are some things we can do immediately to start the process of reducing the inflammation in the brain! Kinesiology helps us target the correct things for you and your family – not everyone needs every intervention, and that would be exhausting!
- Stop wheat, gluten and dairy: many kids have a DPP4 enzyme deficiency which creates an ‘opioid’ effect in the bloodstream which can literally make them act like they’re on drugs! Hyperactivity, tantrums, exhaustion, brain-dead…
- Colourings, preservatives and flavourings: these overload metallothioneine pathways in the liver, the ‘particles’ create the inflammation in the brain, and cause hyperactivity and extreme anger symptoms in susceptible bodies…
- Salicylate Sensitivity: often in kids with nasal allergies, red rashes. Salicylates are an aspirin-like substance that thin the blood (the liver, the skin, the gut – in susceptible people) and can cause huge problems where there’s an issue.
- Sugars, fructose, glucose issues: many kids don’t have an ability to break down sugars properly. Kids foods are soooooo linked with sugars these days, all the pre-packaged spreads and biscuis, tiny teddies, fruit juices, cereals, muffins… If there is ‘insulin resistance’ the body is not getting the sugar into the cells, insulin is floating around outside the cells – yep, creating more inflammation!
- Auto-Immune Components: Through live blood screenings and kinesiology we can find out if there’s the possibility of an auto-immune condition affecting the brain. Current thinking with Autism (particularly) is that an old staph/strep infection is affecting the basal ganglia in the brain, directly affecting moods, behaviour and how we interact with our world around us.
- Heavy Metal toxicity: Lead, mercury, cadmium and aluminium (regularly in medications we give our children such as vaccines) are very well documented to be a link in ADD, ADHD (lead particularly), Autism (aluminium and mercury particularly), Aspergers and Allergies
- LEAP Kinesiology: is a specific process done at New Leaf Natural Therapies that re-integrates the pathways of the brain. The more toxic the brain is (the more inflammation, insulin, opioid-like-substances, sugars, flavourings, colourings, preservatives) the more likely our brain pathways won’t be functioning properly. See if any of these problems sound familar for someone you love!
Amygdala stress: the amygdala is a part of the brain that is activated when we’re under stress. IF we’re stressing, and we don’t get our logical and creative thought processes finding a solution quickly enough, we whip into an old ‘amygdala’ pattern. (This is the same pattern that people with PTSD and Vietnam Vets know all about) The amygdala holds patterns of:
- fight and flight (these can be fully activated or have exhaustion)
- pain and punishment circuits (kids who are constantly in trouble are easily ‘labelled’ and therefore their brains and always expecting the worst. This doesn’t help behaviour in any circumstance where there’s always a pattern in place
- escape, submission, freeze: some kids brains just ’switch off’, they look like they’re ‘not paying attention’ but their brains are just overloaded and they can’t take anymore
- rage, anger, frustration (need I say more?!?)
- pleasure and reward centres - switched off! this creates depression, anxiety, panic attacks, lack of enjoyment with day to day activities
Our Learning Enhancement Programme has been put together to get the best results and to save you $$$. Ask about our 9 month programme (standard length of time for ‘normal’ learning and behavioural issues). More complicated health problems take longer to resolve – but we’ll see how we’re going as we go through the sessions.
Madonna Guy ND
Chief Clinician
New Leaf Natural Therapies
3348 6098 / 0417 643 849