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Parenting Healthy Brains And Bodies On A Budget!
Do not underestimate the power of creating a routine of small but impactful habits for your child to support their health! In this interview, Madiha Saeed, MD, shares with us parenting healthy brains and bodies - how we can put a child back into balance and reduce...
Essential Oils for Resilience
Join me in a conversation with Jodi Cohen, as she explains the use of essential oils for resilience. [fusebox_track_player url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2104681/11936422-essential-oils-for-resilience-with-jodi-cohen.mp3" social_linkedin="true"...
How Mindset Can Be Your Child's Superpower with Todd Herman
Magnesium is another mineral that is more frequently found to be deficient in children with symptoms of ADHD than in healthy children.1 In particular, studies have found magnesium deficiencies in children with hyperactivity, distractibility, and disruptive behaviour.2 Supplementing with magnesium has been shown to decrease hyperactivity, in particular, in children with ADHD.3
A deficiency in magnesium has also been shown to induce anxiety, which often accompanies the symptoms of ADHD.4Supplementing with magnesium reduces the symptoms of anxiety and stress.5
Understanding the role of magnesium in the body, what causes its deficiency, and how to correct the deficiency is essential to helping our children with ADHD thrive.
Calming the Chaos – How to Address Challenging Behaviors with Dayna Abraham
Dayna Abraham, author of best-selling book The Superkids Activity...
DIET AND NUTRITION
The Parent Perspective: Amy Taft
Today is our second episode of The Parent Perspective, a segment of the My Child Will Thrive Podcast where I’ll be interviewing parents just like you to find out more about their stories with their children. In this interview, I talked with Amy Taft, a mom of three...
Toolkit Tuesday: Food, Mood, Sleep & Poop Journal
We’ve got a short episode today on the My Child Will Thrive Podcast, but it’s a good one! I’m taking you through the importance of the Food, Mood, Sleep & Poop Journal and why I think it’s one of the most powerful and important tools that you can use for your...
Zinc—Nutrient Deficiencies found in Children with Symptoms of ADHD (Part 5)
Zinc is a mineral that is often found to be deficient in children with symptoms of ADHD. Zinc deficiency may affect cognitive development by alterations in attention, activity, neuropsychological behaviour and motor development. Zinc and copper levels must be in balance and have shown to correlate to ADHD symptoms when the ratio is low. Studies have shown that when children are supplemented with zinc, it decreases hyperactive, impulsivity and poor socialization behaviours.
Magnesium—Nutrient Deficiencies found in Children with Symptoms of ADHD (Part 4)
Magnesium is another mineral that is more frequently found to be deficient in children with symptoms of ADHD than in healthy children. In particular, studies have found magnesium deficiencies in children with hyperactivity, distractibility, and disruptive behaviour. Supplementing with magnesium has been shown to decrease hyperactivity, in particular, in children with ADHD.
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Neuroplasticity – Finding Hope With Setbacks
We’ve all experienced setbacks while trying to recover our children. Neuroplasticity – Finding Hope With Setbacks is something we all need to...
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How Retained Primitive Reflexes May Affect Your Child
Two weeks ago I introduced the concept of neuroplasticity and why it is the beacon of hope for recovery for our children. The brain’s ability to re...
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How Functional Neurology Can Help Your Child
Children with neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, ADHD, sensory processing disorder, learning disabilities, and other related conditions ofte...
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How Neurofeedback Can Help Your Child
Last week we talked about functional neurology and how it’s important to address brain function directly in conjunction with our efforts to address...
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How Susan Levin Recovered Her Autistic Son With The Son-Rise Program
I recently interviewed Susan Levin, mother of 14-year old Ben, who received an autism diagnosis at the age of five. Ben’s story is inspiring and re...
NEUROLOGY
Energizing the brain and body connections for your child
If you’ve been around My Child Will Thrive for awhile now, you know that I’m passionate about finding ways to help our children heal and introducing you to methods and products that you may not have heard of before. One product that I love and have used with my family...
What you need to know about the CDC changes to developmental milestones
The CDC came out with changes to the developmental milestones for children in early February 2022 and I know a lot of parents and practitioners (including myself) have been surprised by some of these changes. That’s why I wanted to bring on my go-to expert, Dr. Peter...
Using Music to Optimize Your Child’s Brain
As parents, we’re all looking for the best therapies for our kids. Whether it’s finding the best doctor to work with, finding ways to improve development of their brain or digging into what small changes might help with regulating emotions and the autonomic nervous...
Photobiomodulation: The Secret Weapon to Speed Healing and Recovery at a Cellular Level
As a parent of a child with a neurodevelopmental disorder, I was often overwhelmed by the options for therapies, tests and protocols that we should consider. It can be unnerving and have us question which path we should take for our child. Part of the process of...
METABOLIC FUNCTION
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What you need to know about the CDC changes to developmental milestones
The CDC came out with changes to the developmental milestones for children in early February 2022 and I know a lot of parents and practitioners (including myself) have been surprised by some of these changes. That’s why I wanted to bring on my go-to expert, Dr. Peter...
Using Music to Optimize Your Child’s Brain
As parents, we’re all looking for the best therapies for our kids. Whether it’s finding the best doctor to work with, finding ways to improve development of their brain or digging into what small changes might help with regulating emotions and the autonomic nervous...
Photobiomodulation: The Secret Weapon to Speed Healing and Recovery at a Cellular Level
As a parent of a child with a neurodevelopmental disorder, I was often overwhelmed by the options for therapies, tests and protocols that we should consider. It can be unnerving and have us question which path we should take for our child. Part of the process of...
GUT HEALTH
The Impact EMFs Have on the Gut Lining, Blood Brain Barrier and Sleep
In today’s podcast episode, I wanted to give you a sneak peek from my interview with Brian Hoyer, NTP, about EMFs. EMFs are a topic that can be incredibly overwhelming, which is why I wanted to bring Brian on to share some realistic tips on what you can do if you’d...
New Year, Fresh Start: How to Plan for Your Child’s Best Year Ever!
As we all start to get settled into the new year and what our plans are for 2022, it might seem a bit overwhelming on where to start when it comes to our child’s health. There’s a lot of information out there with new ideas and tactics coming out (what seems like)...
Bottom Line: Good Digestion is Fundamental to Help Your Child
On today’s podcast, I decided to...
What's the Difference Between the GAPS and SCD Diets?
I get asked a lot by parents of children with...