Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Diet VariableNearly one in eight children (12%) are reported to have had three or more negative life experiences associated with levels of stress that can harm their health and development. In 2011, nearly 60% of children age 17 and younger were exposed to violence within the year, either directly as […]
Although this has been mentioned many times in posts and in the comments of readers on this website, there still seems to be a lack of understanding. The commonest complaints have been that “thiamine caused side effects” or “I was allergic to thiamine”, inevitably causing the complainant to discontinue it. I want to emphasize the […]
Neuropathy From Unknown CausesI was diagnosed with “Neuropathy from unknown causes” back in 2005. It started in my feet (coldness, loss of feeling, cramps, stiffness). Then, over the years the numbness worked its way up to my calves, with severe cramps, then thighs and even my biceps got involved (squeeze the bicep, get a cramp). […]
Mitochondrial Disease with Opthalmoplegia and Hearing LossFour years ago, I was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, the form known as chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO). Mostly, it affects muscles from the neck up but can also affect my heart as well as my overall energy levels. It was a diagnosis I fell into. I had been […]
For as long as I have been studying endometriosis, I have suspected that endometriosis represented a protective cascade, one that has either gone awry or was incapable of fully eliminating or adapting to an internal stressor. To me, endometriosis behaves like cancer; not the cancer of aberrant oncogenes and tumor suppressors, though they are factors, […]
One of the more common questions I get asked is which nutrients do the mitochondria need to function well? This is really two questions. The first involves which nutrients are involved in the enzymatic processes that allow the mitochondria to convert food to ATP and to manage all of the other tasks that they are […]
Case example 6.13 on page 248 of our book, Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia and High Calorie Malnutrition, is the story of a child with the conventional diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The case is so important that I want to discuss it in detail, pointing out the reasons and the rationale for the treatment that […]
Harsh Revelations“It’s time for you to get past this and move on with your life.”As I sat on a cobalt blue exam table, my primary care physician’s words ping-ponged throughout my mind. Even then, I knew it was a pivotal moment, one that would steer my life into a new and terrifying direction no patient […]