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?
Nutritional genomics is a vital component of personalized nutrition, and valuable to understand for the greatest success in your nutrition practice. Nutritional genomics is a term that encompasses the interaction of genes and nutrients, and how this...
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...
One Principle That Changed My Practice
Most thriving nutrition practitioners have a few "secret tools" and strategies that get them results, even for some of the most "difficult cases."Throughout my 18+ years as a nutrition professional working with complex neurological and physiological conditions, this...
Life-Changing Genius
How would you like it if your clients described you as a “life-changing genius?” I believe that most of us become nutrition professionals to help change lives. So today, I’d like to share how BioIndividual Nutrition is helping practitioners like you do just that. The...
Anxiety: How Toxins Reduce Neurotransmitters and Supplements That Can Help
Ruminating thoughts, worry, fears, OCD or obsessive tendencies or thoughts, PMS, sleep issues, anger, rage… Do you or a loved one experience these symptoms? How about, butterflies in your stomach, physical tension in your muscles, pain... or self-medicating with wine...
What You Need to Know About a Low Histamine Diet
Do you have clients who are experiencing regressions right now? Inflammatory response going haywire, despite their usual dietary patterns? Maybe you work with autism families and they are reporting that their children seem to be going through a yeast flare despite...
Personalized Nutrition is the Future
For our clients and patients, changing diet requires time, energy, and money. When they’re not well, there’s no time to waste on approaches that are not helpful. So if your recommendations are “wrong,” they may lose confidence in you as a professional. I believe that...
Oxalate and Sulfation Genes: AGXT, DAO, SUOX, SULT, SAT1 and BioIndividual Nutrition
Oxalates are finally getting their due! When I started working with the low oxalate diet 15 years ago, no one was talking about oxalates at all (outside of kidney stones). But I’m noticing a big awareness of oxalate in recent months which I am very excited about. If...
Avoid these 5 errors that prevent clinical success
What makes one nutrition professional more clinically successful than another? Specifically, why do some practitioner’s clients get radically better (despite years of struggle) when others cannot figure out how to resolve their troublesome symptoms? I have learned...
FODMAPS – BioIndividual Nutrition Research
The right personalized nutrition plan for your client can bring about profound improvement and benefit. In this article, I want to focus on a diet that can be helpful for your clients, especially those with gastrointestinal issues: The low FODMAPs diet. For those not...