Birth control.. a group 1 carcinogen.. is said to have LIBERATED women, but in reality it puts CHAINS of chronic illness and nutrient depletion on them. They have known since the 1960s that synthetic hormones increase risk of heart attack and thickens blood. As well, we have seen a rise in autoimmune disease (much more common in women)....

Is reproductive "freedom" (that we already have in the innate wisdom of our body) worth chronic illness? Hormonal contraceptives may play a role in the development of autoimmune diseases, which affect women 2:1 compared to men. Some studies have found that hormonal contraceptives are associated with an increased risk of developing diseases such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Hormones modulate the immune system. For example, cortisol controls the immune response via the circadian rhythm, regulating T cell-mediated inflammation. As well, a 2021 study found that when people took birth control pills for a long time, especially beyond 10 years, there were higher rates of hypothyroidism.

Blame women instead of LISTENING to them. Sure, I'll take the blame for this one. As a 15 year old I was MISINFORMED by my PEDIATRIC gynecologist that there were no side effects. Then I gained 20 lbs. in my 20s I was MISINFORMED by my OBGYN that the birth control I was taking couldn't possibly be causing my breakthrough bleeding. Instead of investigating this, they just ADDED more estrogen on top of my birth control pills.

I wasn't misinformed by any woman who has taken birth control, I was misinformed by the healthcare providers who are supposed to be practicing EVIDENCE based medicine. Let's look at the actual evidence.... From my posts over the years...

In this one we see that birth control is classified by IARC as a group 1 carcinogen. Women, were you told it was a group 1 carcinogen when you were prescribed birth control?

I wish more men knew that microwaving their food in plastic lowers their testosterone level and directly impacts their fertility.

I wish more men knew that wearing their cell phone in their front pocket lowers their testosterone and decreases their sperm quality and sperm count.

I wish more men understood just how important physical activity is for them. For men, testosterone isn't just about sex. It's about HEALTH and VITALITY. Eating food heated in plastic is directly linked to decreasing testosterone levels and decreased fertility.

“Even if a plastic container is labeled microwave safe, it simply means that it won’t melt." -Dr. Kelly Johnson-Arbor, toxicologist and medical director at the National Capital Poison Center.

No plastic is safe being heated. In the microwave or in the dishwasher.

Floating stool is quite common for children and adults today. Conventional medicine will tell you it's fine and you don't need to do anything... but if your stool is floating, you aren't digesting fats well. Another reason for stool to float in the toilet is there is too much gas in the stool. Air is lighter than water. This might happen if a person is eating a food they are sensitive to or from not properly preparing beans, sometimes this is due to chronic gut dysbiosis and infection. If your stool is floating regularly, I would be proactive! This is one of the signs there is something amiss with your gallbladder or gut function.

First... what did you eat the day before? Any beans? Consider soaking for 8-12 hours before cooking. Drain the water and rinse and then cook in new water. This has been shown to decrease the quantity of raffinose sugars in the beans which the body cannot digest easily. Properly preparing beans (by soaking, sprouting, or fermenting them) then cooking them can also greatly decrease lectins in beans, also helping with your ability to digest them. Pressure cooking (I love using my Instant Pot) has been shown to be the best way to cook them, but any cooking will help with this.

I wish more moms knew that when they are overstimulated and sensitive to noise, they may be nutrient deficient. I wish more moms knew that "mom rage" is really nutrient deficiencies and low progesterone. I wish more moms knew that the more they nourish their body, balance their blood sugar and prioritize nervous system balance, the less they will yell, the less they will feel overstimulate.

I wish more moms knew that being overstimulated is so COMMON that it SEEMS NORMAL.... but it's not. You need zinc for FSH to rise thus promoting ovulation. When you ovulate, you produce progesterone (your calming hormone). This isn't to suggest every woman supplement zinc, but to consider eating quality sourced meat. Women don't eat enough meat, which balances their blood sugar and is a BUILDING BLOCK to producing enough stomach acid which is NEEDED for nutrient absorption. Zinc is crucial for blood sugar regulation, helps with menstrual cramps, improves acne, and so much more.

There is no one nutrient depletion that exists in isolation though.... supplementing with an isolated nutrient can sometimes be warranted but can create other imbalances.

Folic acid is in every prenatal, multivitamin, and generic B complex. It is also mandated by the FDA to be added to enriched grain products that have been stripped of nutrients to make more shelf stable.. but folic acid is the synthetic form of B9 and is not well utilized in the body. This is because 40-60% of people today cannot convert folic acid to methylfolate (what your body can use)... what is worse is that you cannot convert more than 200 mcg of folic acid at one time so this creates excess folic acid which has been shown in the literature to have numerous physiologic effects. You don't need folic acid, but you do NEED folate. No matter what gene or epigenetic changes, you NEED fate. Especially before and during pregnancy as this prevents neural tube defects, as well is a big factor in other midline defects such as sacral simple, sugar bug vein, has tethered oral tissues (tongue/lip/cheek ties), etc? These things are very common, right? Right. But why? And why is it more common today and 100 years ago?

Because in the 1940s when bread manufacturers made bread more shelf stable by changing the milling process, it stripped the nutrients. So they started fortifying wheat based products and then in 1998 began adding folic acid. This addition along with the widespread use of pesticides and monocropping further depleted the soil and the food supply of nutrients. Adding in the folic acid helps in theory but it isn't the same and your body cannot use it like it uses folate (or folinic acid).

As if you needed another reason to not read the New York Times, yesterday they published an attack article aimed at tongue tie releases and the dentists and lactation consultants that profit off of them. While there are several issues with the way conventional dentists or even pediatricians who snip the tie at birth or soon after, to attack tongue tie releases in general without presenting both sides is just inflammatory and woefully inadequate journalism being done at the New York Times. The article states... "But the procedure's popularity has exploded over the past decade as women face intensifying pressure to nurse." WOW. Even the WHO recommends nursing until age 2...... many would argue you see more promotion of formula feeding rather than nursing. Either way, the article completely misses the fact that nursing is harder today than it was 100 years ago because of the epidemic of underdeveloped jaws and tethered oral tissues.

If the tongue is tethered the tongue cannot touch the roof of the mouth as it should, which impacts jaw development, nitric oxide production, glymphatic drainage, and more. It's why we now see children mouth breathing as well as poorly developed jaw needing palate expansion, enlarged tonsils and adenoids, hyperactive and less able to focus, with digestion issues.

Artificial food dye consumption per person has increased FIVEFOLD in the United States since 1955. Researchers at Purdue University have found that American children consume 100mg per DAY of artificial food dyes, an amount that has NEVER been studied.

These dyes used to be made from coal tar but are now made from petroleum or crude oil. Many have been found to be contaminated with benzidine (a carcinogen). At least four dyes (Blue 1, Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6) cause hypersensitivity reactions. As well, when you mix artificial food dyes with sodium benzoate (a common preservative) it has been shown to increase hyperactivity in children (McCann et al, 2007). It is hard to avoid food dyes as a parent. They are everywhere. But if you start observing your child after food dyes you might notice increase hyperactivity, restlessness, irritability, sometimes anger, less ability to focus. Even if we don't see behavior changes, do we want our children eating something daily that is made from petroleum, has known carcinogen contamination and known links to neuroinflammation, hyperactivity, and more?

In a small study with 26 children with ADHD, 73% of the children experienced “a decrease in symptoms when artificial food dyes and preservatives were eliminated”

More studies are great, but does it matter if there is a study proving risks if you see a change in your child when you remove food dyes? You don't need a study to prove what you see.

Tylenol is one of the most commonly use pharmaceuticals during pregnancy. ACOG refuses to change their position on the safety of this drug but there is mounting evidence that it isn't safe. Links to ADHD, autism, allergies, and asthma have been known. But researchers are also finding the endocrine disruptive effect of Tylenol and linking it to undescended testes in boys and a decrease in testosterone production by 45% after just 1 week of Tylenol intake, increased risk of early puberty and decreased fertility for males and females.

As well, two new studies from 2023 linked Tylenol use during pregnancy to ADHD and asthma. One study.. a systematic review and meta-analysis showed a 34% increase in asthma with prenatal paracetamol (acetaminophen = Paracetamol = Tylenol) intake. "..maternal paracetamol use in pregnancy is associated with an enhanced risk of asthma and wheezing in their children."

Another meta-analysis showed a 32% increased risk for ADHD with Tylenol intake during pregnancy. The risk has been shown in other studies to be dose dependent. (More Tylenol more often = more risk)

"If you give your child acetaminophen (Tylenol) between the age of 12 and 18 months, you're 20 times more likely to have ... a child with autism than if you don't give them any acetaminophen from 12 to 18 months." - William Parker, PhD, based on the work of Dr. Stephen Schulz.

Tylenol is responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths per year in the United States. It is the #1 recommended pain reliever by OBGYNs and used by more than 60 million Americans every year.... but it is NOT a good drug. "A Johns Hopkins study analyzing umbilical cord blood samples found that newborns with the highest exposure to acetaminophen were about three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD or autism spectrum disorder in childhood."

Another analysis from 2022 said that "Paracetamol (acetaminophen) use in infants and children was never shown to be safe for neurodevelopment." (This same study showed it was safer for the liver than previously thought but still concludes NOT proven safe for neurodevelopment)

Why? What is the mechanism?
"Acetaminophen rapidly enters the cerebrospinal fluid to exert its effects. In addition to reducing fever and physical pain, acetaminophen has a profound effect on adult brain function, blunting the response to both negative and positive stimuli, including threatening stimuli and reducing behavioral responses to social rejection." -PMID 28415925

Tylenol depletes glutathione (our body's master ANTIoxidant) and decreases the ability to detox. Tylenol is a PRO-oxidant which causes bio molecular damage, oxidative stress, damages DNA, etc.

PMS is not normal.
Heavy, painful periods are not normal.
Menstrual headaches or migraines are not normal.
Ovarian cysts are not normal.
PCOS is not normal.
Uterine fibroids are not normal.

Do not accept symptoms of hormonal imbalance as normal. It's not. Estrogen is our youthful hormone.
When it is too high, cancer rates increase. Women experience heavy, painful periods, headaches/
migraines, mood swings, weight gain, PMS, etc.

When it is too low, women experience vaginal dryness, depression, night sweats, insomnia, hair loss.

Strep throat has become a bigger issue than it used to be before the pandemic.... one study found a 30% increase as of February 2023. But strep is a bacteria that is normally found in the body... why is it a problem now? Why can't our bodies handle it and it cause complications such as scarlet fever, impetigo, rheumatic heart disease, glomerular nephritis, or PANDAS in some children?

Does the risk of these complications always mean antibiotics are necessary? What about if a child or adult has strep 4-5x per year? That is A LOT of antibiotic exposure, it takes the gut a long time to recover from them. Is there something we could do that might help more? Or even alongside conventional treatment? YES! First, the diagnosis. Strep doesn't always mean a sore throat! Here are the most common symptoms: fever, sore throat, headache, bellyache, sandpaper rash, red spots on throat/tonsils, swollen tonsils with or without exudate (pus), swollen lymph nodes, body aches and chills, nausea/vomiting, red circle around anus.

Most sore throats are NOT strep so it is always possible it's just a virus or post nasal drip causing throat pain. But if you have a feeling it's strep, get tested! Trust your gut!

A rapid strep test (throat swab) is somewhat reliable but isn't perfect and strep isn't something you want to miss. Ask for a throat culture every time. Not JUST a strep culture (some only culture for strep A) but a full throat culture. Then after natural or conventional treatment you need to go back and retest (rapid AND culture, which takes 2-3 days to come back).

Parents, stop giving your power to parent away...

Don't give your power to parent away to the media and entertainment industry. Their goal is to entertain and entice your child to come back... not to raise a child.

Don't give your power to parent away to the food industry that intentionally puts ingredients in food that makes the consumer wanting more and more. Their goal is not to raise a healthy child but to make your child want more of their food. Don't give your power to parent away to your pediatrician. They were not taught how to raise children. They were taught diseases and pharmaceutical and surgical solutions. They were barely taught nutrition. It's not that they don't want to help and care for your child, but they are not meant to parent your child, you are! They don't have time or a knowledge base for searching for the causes of symptoms, they have pharmaceutical solutions that are much faster and gets them home on time. Your pediatrician I have no doubt is well meaning, but again... but only you have the ability to make the best decisions for your child... don't give that power away!

One of the biggest lies the wellness and supplement industry continues to promote is that probiotics help most people with gut issues.

In reality, probiotics worsen gut issues in most people. Especially when that is all that is done and nothing is done to address the cause for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Most probiotics sold on the market contain histamine producing bacteria. Yes, you do need some histamine in your body... but too much is a bad thing and can produce symptoms like gas and bloating but also flushing, itchy watery eyes, nasal congestion.... AND headaches (including… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Our upside down medical system tells pregnant women they SHOULD NOT eat deli meat, runny egg yolks, and raw milk... but they SHOULD have medical procedures that have ingredients such as formaldehyde, aluminum phosphate or hydroxide, and polysorbate 80.

Polysorbate 80 is well… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… They tell pregnant women not to consume too much tuna because of mercury concerns... but what about thimerosal? Commonly in the multi dose vial of the flu medical procedure.

It's true mercury is a concern, but why is oral ingestion more of a concern than medical procedures… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"If you give your child acetaminophen (Tylenol) between the age of 12 and 18 months, you're 20 times more likely to have ... a child with autism than if you don't give them any acetaminophen from 12 to 18 months." -William Parker, PhD, based on the work of Dr. Stephen Schulz.

But... it's not JUST this link that makes Tylenol a bad drug to give to children or adults.

"Acetaminophen rapidly enters the cerebrospinal fluid to exert its effects. In addition to reducing fever and physical pain, acetaminophen has a profound effect on adult brain function, blunting the response to both negative and positive stimuli, including threatening stimuli and reducing behavioral responses to social rejection." -PMID 28415925 "A multinational study with more than 200,000 children found a dose-dependent association between use of acetaminophen in the first year of life and the occurrence of inflammatory diseases such as asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema later in life."

"In the multivariate analyses, use of paracetamol for fever in the first year of life was associated with an increased risk of asthma symptoms when aged 6-7 years".... this study also linked current paracetamol (same as Tylenol and acetaminophen) exposure to an INCREASE in asthma symptoms.

Tongue ties and other oral restrictions are OUTWARD signs of systemic issues such as poor methylation and tight fascia due to trauma/pathogens/etc. Tongue ties have become so common that conventional docs say they aren't an issue, but ignoring them can cause long term issues. In babies, poor methylation & tight fascia might look like tongue/lip ties, torticollis, sacral dimple, poor latch while nursing, mouth breathing, tongue in bottom of mouth, colic, milk dribbling out of mouth, lots of hiccups, struggle to gain weight, painful nursing, clicking...

WHY is it completely "normal" to have a classroom full of kids with health problems? One has food allergies, another has asthma, another has anxiety, another has ADHD... everyone has seasonal allergies, headaches, constipation/diarrhea, and more.

It's NOT normal. It's COMMON. Where the heck are the pediatricians from the 80s and 90s? Why aren't they speaking up? The kids then weren't as sick. Yes chronic health issues existed but not in the majority of children.

This pediatricians have been silenced. Pushed out of their practices by large hospitals.

One in five Americans suffer from long haulers related to COVID. There are long haul clinics where they are repurposing HIV drugs, biologics, recommending some supplementation/therapy, and monitoring the patient. But are they helping? Is it worth the risk of those medications? Many long haulers are passed between providers who separate the body into compartments & don't look at the body as a whole. Being dismissed furthers the anguish of long haulers.

COVID is the great revealer of underlying issues in the body. It brings them to the surface.

Most drugs prescribed to children have NEVER been tested on children.

The FDA tried to fix this in 2003 by requiring pharmaceutical companies to perform post-market analysis on drugs for children but only about 33% have followed through.

So, as of yet... not much has changed. Let's look at a few examples of how medications affect children differently...

Tamiflu. MANY reports of pediatric neuropsychiatric events, including hallucinations, seizures and behavioral changes. Self injury and behavioral disturbances are listed as side effects.

Holistic community.... if you are attacking and shaming others for not doing their research or asking questions or looking at ingredients then you are just as bad as the docs who only want to give you a pill for every ill. Stop attacking. Start caring, loving, and praying for that person.... at the very least hold your tongue. When one parent shames another parent for a decision they made for their child, it makes you just as bad as the judgmental healthcare provider who questions your choices.

Poor methylation (MTHFR, etc) is not addressed at all in conventional medicine. But methylation status is directly related to several major epidemics...heart disease, mental illness, and addiction. The science is there, the clinical changes are there..they just refuse to see it. Signs of poor methylation might look like a tongue tie and sacral dimple in a baby, but it also might look like pre-eclampsia, recurrent miscarriages, estrogen dominance, history of heart disease, addiction, OCD, depression/anxiety, multiple chemical sensitivities, etc.