How Diet Affects the Microbiome in Autism
The microbiome in autism is an avenue of important research. Studying the differences in microbiome composition for individuals with an autism diagnosis is yielding valuable insight. Here’s some recent research on the microbiome and children’s health, including kids...
Improving Anxiety Through Personalized Nutrition and Therapeutic Diets
An astounding 46% of adults and 31% of children experience anxiety in their lifetime. To say this is a problem would be an understatement in my opinion. Symptoms of anxiety can be debilitating and can negatively impact your client’s home life, work productivity,...
Therapeutic Diets for Gut Healing
Gastrointestinal Disorders Prevalence If you’re a nutrition or health practitioner, you’ve certainly had your fair share of clients with a gastrointestinal disorder or symptoms. I’m certain of that. That’s because digestive disorders are incredibly common. They...
Personalized Nutrition and Health
How Our Genes vs. Microbiome Affect Blood Sugar and Foods We TolerateThe primary goal of personalized nutrition is to create a diet that best meets the needs of an individual. Each person has a different response to specific types of food, as a great diet for one...
Ten Nutritional & Healing Benefits of Camel Milk
When to Add Camel Milk toa Personalized Nutrition PlanCamel milk is a wonderful healing food. As a Certified Nutrition Consultant, I have been recommending it to my clients with autism (and practitioners in my BioIndividual Nutrition Training) for many years. But...
When the GFCF Diet is Not Working: 10 Personalized Nutrition Strategies That Get Results
Starting on a gluten-free and casein-free (GFCF) diet for your clients can result in profound improvements. Many times, that starts with defining for my clients what these things are and in a way that is digestible (see what I did there? ;-)) Gluten refers to the...
Oxalates and Their Link to Cancer, Autism, and Age-Related Disorders
In the past, oxalate research was relegated to kidney-related disorders. Now much more is known. Whether your interest is autism, cancer, chronic pain, autoimmunity, or generalized inflammation, understanding the role dietary oxalates can play is critical for your...
Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting: Bioindividual Nutrition Research
The right bioindividual nutrition plan for your client can bring about profound improvement and benefit. In this article, I want to focus on some diets that have received a lot of attention in the news and nutrition community: the ketogenic diet and intermittent...
The Science of How a Gluten-Free Casein-Free Diet Improves Autism
In my years of helping children with autism, I have heard many times (erroneously) that there is no science behind diet for autism, or the gluten-free casein-free diet (GFCF diet) for autism. This is simply not true. There is a great deal of research illustrating why...
Microbiome & Diet: The Two-Way Relationship
And How to Select the Right Therapeutic Diet for Your Client’s Personalized Nutrition Needs If you’re a nutrition or healthcare professional, you’ve definitely run into clients with at least one of the following conditions: Gastrointestinal disorders Neurologic...
What Is Personalized Nutrition and Nutrigenomics?
Nutrigenomics studies how the genes of individuals interact with their diet and how it impacts their physiology and health. This was made possible by the Human Genome Project. Research continues to uncover why some individuals respond differently to the same...
Could Food Be Causing Your Client’s Aggression?
Aggression is a difficult and sometimes devastating symptom that occurs in children for varied reasons—some known and some unknown. The correlation between food and behavior intrigued me 20 years ago, and sparked my career as a nutrition researcher and clinician. And...