Full Transcript Introduction to childhood development complexity 0:00 Hi everybody, it's Dr. 0:02 Laura and welcome to the podcast Connect My Brain. 0:06 Okay, today I'm going to talk to you about an idea of why I see childhood development so complex. 0:16 And today, there are so many things that are impacting child development. 0:23 Now, if you've been paying attention to Robert Kennedy Jr. 0:28 and Maha movement and things of that nature, you know that there's a new conversation. 0:34 And we are talking more openly about things like acetaminophen. 0:40 We are talking openly about vaccines and we are taking more openly how we're figuring out for the first time. 0:49 It's not really the 1st time for some of us, but yes, it just seems like medicine is. 0:55 20 years behind the schedule, but we're having the conversation. 1:02 And I want, I for one, am very grateful that we are having a conversation I always stand on the principle that you should make the decision for yourself 1:14 and for your children what you want to do with any type of intervention, and that's even coming here. 1:23 You know, as a chiropractor, I have a program. 1:26 It's very well-rounded. 1:28 We have the three-tier approach, mechanical, chemical, brain. 1:32 And part of that program is a chiropractic adjustment. 1:36 Unfortunately, I don't feel like my profession has done a great job of really educating people on what it is that we do. 1:45 And when you have some operations that are posting a $25 adjustment, it really tears down the reputation and the professionalism of chiropractic. 2:00 And I, for one, love being a chiropractor. 2:03 I literally feel like it saved my life. 2:07 After my first child, I had a situation where my back completely locked up and my baby was only six months old at the time. 2:20 And I didn't know a lot about chiropractic back then. 2:24 I had had a very aggressive and traumatic labor and delivery with my child. 2:32 And it ended up being a C-section. 2:36 which unfortunately, I don't feel like I got the best medical care in the way that they did the incision on my abdomen. 2:46 They literally just pulled all the tissue together and stapled it. 2:51 And now it's like, And oftentimes, I can almost feel the way I describe it.
Chiropractic care and personal healing story 2:59 It feels like a plate of glass goes from my lower abdomen all the back to my sacrum, and that's part of the bony pelvic structure that you sit on. 3:11 And I've had to even work continuously on that because of the amount of scar tissue that I actually have. 3:20 But back when my child was six months old, my back completely locked up. 3:25 I could not walk. 3:27 The idea of having anybody ever cut me open again, it just was not going to happen. 3:33 And I went to a chiropractor, she was wonderful. 3:36 She saw me every single day. 3:39 I had a herniated disc, She worked on me, and it really helped me understand the value behind this particular intervention, 3:52 a Chiropractic adjustment, because it impacts quality of life. 3:59 Anything does, especially when it is physical. 4:02 But I again, I had another trauma in 95 where I got hit. 4:11 Now I'm in chiropractic school, but I get hit a woman unfortunately was having a heart attack. 4:18 As she was driving down the road and she hit me, my Jeep crashed into an embankment. 4:24 My seatbelt failed and I literally went through the windshield. 4:30 And I looked like a raccoon afterwards and then I had a dent in my leg. 4:36 But that was another trauma to my physical body, which I tore a muscle in my shoulder. 4:44 Even to this day, I do not have full range of motion of my right arm. 4:49 And that is sending a message up to my neck, which is interfering with the input even to the muscles around my eyes. 5:00 So I can actually see better out of my left eye than my right eye. 5:05 And Dr. 5:05 Zielinski, who I've had on my podcast before, you can go and check out that recording. 5:10 She's helping me understand how those neck muscles even impact how you see. 5:19 So when we talk about vision, there's visual acuity, looking through glasses or not needing glasses, and then there is how-you-see. 5:28 If there an asymmetrical load on my eyes, it's going to change the perception of how, in quotes, I see, So I've had very good experiences with understanding 5:46 that physical part of maintaining the mobility in my body. 5:53 And it was because of chiropractic that as I started as a traditional chiropractor and it just seemed like kids flooded to me, 6:03 I got very interested in children and I had very interesting cases and i have very Interesting cases today and God decided he was going to really use me 6:19 for was a clinician and to be able to handle really tough cases. 6:24 I feel like I'm a little mini Sherlock Holmes and I can pull things apart. 6:29 So that's what I mean by solving childhood complexities because every child is different. 6:38 there's so many people talking about pediatrics today. 6:42 There's a lot of chiropractors that talk about paediatrics today, there are a lots of people that do have extended credentialing, 6:50 and it's just really important that you find the right fit for yourself or for your child. 6:58 So for me, Chiropractic really helped me break down what I learned in school about how the human body works. 7:10 And then how was I going to use those resources to be able to break down what was going on for a child. 7:21 And so in chiropractic, we talk about that there's going to be this interruption in communication between the brain the spinal cord and the rest of the body. 7:38 And it might show up like I was talking about the neck muscles, because all of those muscles are attached. 7:46 The neck muscle are attach to my shoulder muscles. 7:49 Are attached to the rib cage. 7:51 There's fascia, which is going to create like this safety net around all your muscles and they all play a part. 8:01 And then what happens to the movement? 8:04 So I have really good range of motion with my left arm and I don't have good arrange of emotion with right. 8:10 So there's a different movement pattern on one side of my body as compared to other.
Mechanical, chemical, and neurological influences 8:17 That's going to create A feedback, a feedback to the rest of the body, but also to The Brain. 8:25 I've talked before on other podcasts about this concept called a homunculus. 8:31 And you can look this up. 8:32 We'll put a link. 8:33 Almost in every podcast for the homonculus, I just absolutely love it because it gives you a visual picture that we already know and have known for a very 8:45 long time. 8:45 We don't have to wait 25 years for somebody to figure this out. 8:48 we've already been past 25, years that the whole body is mapped out on the brain. 8:58 So if I move my right arm, my left side of my brain is helping me do that and vice versa. 9:05 so movement movement is absolutely imperative. 9:10 And that's what leads you to this idea of the neurology. 9:14 You can't move without neurologie, you can send signals from your body to your brain without neurology, so we know neurologies as well, 9:24 but we never limit it to just one part of body because we now it's an orchestra. 9:30 And then there's this chemical piece. 9:32 Just like I said, my three-tier approach is mechanical chemical brain. 9:37 So the chemistry, the body's chemistry. 9:41 If I have this really bad scar tissue, it's actually gotten much better as far as what I'm going to say next. 9:49 But I used to get unrelenting piriformis pain two to three times a year. 9:56 and what piriformis is a muscle and it's on the glutes or the bottom and the scar tissue over time what it was actually doing was wrapping itself around 10:12 incredibly small nerve roots the neurology and when you reach a threshold of whatever maybe I was sitting too much maybe my asymmetrical load but you reach 10:29 thresholds with different things in your body and then it's like this is all it takes for the bucket to tip over and so then I would get unrelenting piriformis 10:40 pain and I have to say I don't even think I had it this year. 10:44 So I work my scar tissue. 10:47 What I'm trying to do is to minimize an inflammatory reaction. 10:52 That's a lot of what we talk about with chemistry is the inflammatory process. 10:59 if our bodies carry too much inflammation for a variety of reasons, like, you know, now lots of people talk about the methylation pathway, 11:10 MTHFR, there's some of those genetic patterns that yield a high predisposition to inflammation problems. 11:20 It could be your diet, it could things that you're doing that really are not benefiting your health like too much alcohol, 11:29 nicotine, pouches, chewing it, vaping, whatever the case may be. 11:34 There's so many things out there I wouldn't even know how to list them all. 11:38 Maybe it's your So there's a lot of things that absolutely influence that chemistry. 11:46 And then there is also not just what you're going through, but you really do carry a long history of influence on your system. 12:04 And I really want to highlight this point today in our conversation because it is something that is well researched. 12:14 In fact, I'll put a couple of research articles in the show notes that help you know that we know you are influenced generationally. 12:28 as well as epigenetically. 12:31 So what passes down from long-term exposures? 12:37 And I think we just really need to start with that word stress, because stress is mechanical, chemical, emotional. 12:49 Mechanical stress. 12:51 That could be any kind of alteration in movement, in muscle fibers, chemistry. 13:02 My grandfather, my mother's father, he worked on the DuPont plant in Charleston, West Virginia, which unfortunately I have been there many times because 13:14 that's where my parents were from. 13:17 And I don't feel like that's a high quality of health. 13:22 And that was one of the reasons why I moved my mom to Georgia about three years ago. 13:27 So the environment that you live in is going to influence how those cells are going to work. 13:38 And that's why, you know, looking at things like family history are so valuable to people like myself, because even if it's not in the immediate, 13:52 wonder if is somewhere down the line. 13:57 And now you can actually test for these genes. 14:01 They're called de novo genes, D-E-N-O-V-0. 14:05 And these are being influenced from the ancestry of the family line, as well as epigenetics.
Generational stress, epigenetics, and de novo genes 14:16 What do we mean by epigeonetics? 14:18 The word epi, E-P-I, means it plays on the genes So genes are not just like an on-off switch, they have switches, but they're also influenced. 14:30 And some of these influences will turn things on and turn thing off. 14:37 So it's not enough to just look at the immediate relationship. 14:43 If we're talking about a child, it's not just the immediately relationship of that child's mom and dad, but it is the relationship from the whole family line. 14:57 I believe that this level of science has really come about really because of autism. 15:05 We had this explosion in the 80s, and it's just gotten higher and more since that time. 15:14 And so unfortunately, a lot of traditional medical care, especially big pharma, they want to believe that everything is influenced by a bad gene, 15:28 and that's just not the case. 15:30 And so what we have to do is we to say, okay, well, what else is going on? 15:37 And I may have mentioned this in another podcast, but I was watching a presentation that was even talking on jumping genes. 15:47 It's a scientist that actually looked at corn and noticed some ears of corn came out with all yellow except a few browns a, 16:00 few purples and I'm sure you've seen that. 16:03 So what made that happen? 16:05 And from her research, that became known as the jumping gene that sometimes based on the environment, internal or external, 16:16 it was changing the message and the messages jumped into another part of the cell. 16:23 And so it had a different outcome. 16:27 So these de novo genes to me, they're like that ear of corn with brown spots and purple spots. 16:35 And kind of think of the situation that maybe leads you to listening to my podcast, is I like to talk about very complex issues and just offer another perspective. 16:49 Okay, so let's think about these De Novo genes for a minute. 16:56 One of the ways that I can express this is by sharing a case. 17:02 Do you have any idea how they actually found the MTHFR gene? 17:08 Now, gene and de novo genes were going to be like two different categories right now, okay? 17:15 So Mthfr, is a gene chromosome-influenced, but the way that they found that was women having chronic miscarriages. 17:27 So I know a case where a woman had multiple pregnancies and not one survived, while siblings of this woman, had babies. 17:42 So I'm gonna kind of put a little capsule on that like an outlier. 17:48 Why could some of the immediate family members have babies, but one could not? 17:57 This is where looking at what's called genomics gives you a different representation of this individual. 18:08 And that is incredibly powerful. 18:12 So I believe that since the wave of autism, there has been more research done as trying to explain the why behind why do some children get exposed to acetaminophen vaccines, 18:37 poor diet, lots of social issues, whatever the case may be, but they don't get a diagnosis of autism. 18:46 And why others do, huh, very interesting. 18:52 Maybe there is something in that individual blueprint that's very different than anybody else in the family. 19:03 or even maybe a couple of them are similar, but they're still not these exact things that are just given directly from mom and dad. 19:14 This testing is to me light years ahead of what we can possibly do and understand on individuals. 19:24 Why does a program that I put together here at Connect My Brain, Mechanical Chemical Brain Why on so many? 19:34 It just moves right through it and they do so well and we can get to this conclusion of therapies and care, etc. 19:45 And then there's others that do not. 19:49 And so we are now offering this testing here at Connect My Brain. 19:53 And I'm very excited about it because it's a personal blueprint of the individual that says about this individual, these are your unique factors. 20:09 Going one step further, actually two steps further It will actually tell us what supplements will work for this individual and if medications are needed, 20:25 what medications. 20:27 And this to me is a huge area. 20:30 I can't tell you how many times I've heard from families with very dramatic things going on.
Blueprint testing and personalized care 20:41 when their child was put on some type of medication, it either seemed to not work or it made it worse. 20:51 Wonder if it just doesn't match their blueprint. 20:56 So this concept is so powerful. 21:02 I really love the concept of blueprint. 21:05 I do a lot of speaking professionally. 21:09 And that is the concepts I try to bring to other providers is about understanding the unique blueprint of anybody that you see and how it influences so 21:23 many different parts. 21:25 So let me give you an example. 21:28 Well, first, I want to highlight a couple of things. 21:32 Since I've been in practice for 30 years, okay? 21:38 Since this time, and I really am trying to impress upon a point that I think things just take too long for the authoritative figures like government and 21:53 big pharma and medicine in general to believe something But I think it just takes too long. 22:01 And I you've got to have resources for yourself that you trust and you need to take a look at it and don't wait because the things that I thing about are, 22:16 for example, Red Die 40 was banned this year, right? 22:21 And it might have been Red Dye 6. I can't remember if it was 6 or 40. Make sure I figure that out and I'll put it in the show notes. 22:36 There was research coming out 35 years ago saying, we think this may cause cancer. 22:44 How many people has this impacted their life, taken their lives, and we've waited 35 for it? 22:53 Fluoride has been banned in some areas. 22:57 It should be banned everywhere. 22:59 Its a neurotoxin. 23:02 and it has three places it can go. 23:06 Water, your teeth, and the toxic waste dump. 23:12 You don't need to use fluoride. 23:16 This is a neurotoxin and impacts the IQ of anybody, like aluminum deodorant, but it's not banned yet. 23:26 We've already touched on Tylenol. 23:29 Vaccines have not been studied properly. 23:32 That came out this year. 23:34 Okay. 23:35 Now, what we have is autism is increased by 300%. One in 36. California actually reports one in 18. Four out of 10 kids are depressed. 23:48 One out five kids obese. 23:50 1 out 5 kids have suicidal thoughts. 23:54 One in six kids have developmental delay, one in 10 kids are anxious. 23:59 One and 10 are diagnosed ADHD or ADD. 24:00 1 in 12 kids has asthma, 1 and 13 kids allergies, and 1in 285 kids diagnosed with cancer by age 29. Something's wrong. 24:21 So when I talk about complex issues, I'm going to leave in your mind a thought, mechanically, chemically and brain, because that's the way I resolve my blueprint, 24:38 as I put it into those three categories. 24:41 A young man comes in, 13 years old, ask him to do a jumping jack. 24:48 The arms move and the legs stay together and he just jumps straight up and down while the arms are moving in that typical jumping-jack position. 25:01 Would you say that that is a mechanical problem? 25:07 I ask the child to put their foot out front and all they do is repeat what I said. 25:15 Can I process that information? 25:18 A jumping jack helps us understand what's going on with the integration of neurology, movement, muscles. 25:27 the ability to move the upper body one way and the lower body another way. 25:33 When you come into the world, you are lifting your head. 25:39 You will then over time get into your upper trunk, then your middle trunk than your lower trunk and then you're legs. 25:47 Your legs actually have to sync up with your upper body, meaning your brain's gotta create an orchestration and pull it together. 25:57 If I'm 13 years old and I can't do that, I am not getting the right message to my brain. 26:05 I've getting faulty information to brain, faulty information wires the brain up in a faulty pattern. 26:16 Let me ask you this, is a strep antibody test result coming back at 2000 units per milliliter and streptolysin O coming at 970 units-per-millileter. 26:31 Is that a complex issue? 26:46 when the normal ranges, at least for me, are under 130. People really still believe that it's perfectly okay to have strep.
Why early intervention matters 26:57 And then, of course, my kid has strept. 27:00 He's had it multiple times. 27:02 That means that streps is circulating in there. 27:06 Strep is pretty intelligent. 27:09 It will literally mutate change its form, and it can end up in the brain. 27:18 This is now well known and associated with the acronym of PANDOS, Pediatric Autoimmune Neurodevelopmental Acquired Syndrome. 27:29 And then there is now the shortened one, PANS, still an autoimmune storm, but generated by other chemistry issues, like what have you had in the past? 27:44 Have you have pneumonia, hand foot mouth, cytomedical virus, Epstein-Barr, just to name a few. 27:57 We can't trigger the immune system without impacting the neurological system and the function of the brain. 28:08 And then it is the bring. 28:13 If mom and dad go into pregnancy without really planning this event, and what does that mean to plan? 28:22 Planning means that I took a moment and I did labs on myself so that could see my state of health. 28:34 So I would know if I needed to work on something before I started manufacturing a life. 28:41 And granted, again, there's no judgment. 28:44 Who really talks about this stuff? 28:46 I know I do, I have been for years. 28:50 I believe as a young couple, you should take at least a year if not two to prepare your body to have a baby. 29:00 You need to know what's going on in there so that you can bring about the best level of health possible. 29:08 I think today what I've heard more and more with young people is that they're actually scared to have babies because of those other statistics I was reading 29:18 to you. 29:18 Everybody's talking about how kids are just not growing up in the way that we would expect them to grow up and you might get scared. 29:28 But you can, you CAN work through this. 29:32 You can look at your chemistry and you can figure it out and clean things up. 29:40 That's what we do here at Connect My Brain. 29:42 We work with that whole person. 29:45 I personally love labs because it's my little Sherlock Holmes moment. 29:51 It tells me what's going on inside. 29:54 You can't always see that on the outside. 29:57 And even if you've already had your child, okay, so we start the same thing with them. 30:04 Let's take a look so that we understand What are the patterns that they were born with? 30:12 What the possible generational patterns were given? 30:16 And what are epigenetic changes that are going to make the health of that individual susceptible? 30:25 Please don't wait. 30:27 It is so important that if you've been asking yourself, I wonder if something is going on. 30:35 Don't. 30:36 Wait. 30:38 we have been so inundated by toddlers. 30:41 And I kind of knew this would happen after COVID, because the toddler's, the kids that are toddlars now, they were either conceived in COVID born in, 30:52 COVID affected during COVID. 30:56 and their development was already being identified as delayed. 31:02 So let's not wait. 31:05 And regardless of the age of your child, there is always something that you can do. 31:11 But the longer you wait, the pattern becomes more chronic. 31:16 Then yes, it becomes harder to correct. 31:20 If we dive in, we can work together. 31:25 in order to make the changes necessary so that you can start to restore health. 31:33 That's the beauty of the human body. 31:37 that is probably the greatest impact of The education that I received to become a chiropractor is I was educated on how the human body worked. 31:52 And I was then intrigued to learn more. 31:58 From that platform, it went into, now I teach in those arenas. 32:05 so that I can bring a new perspective, a thought pattern to what we can do in order to make the necessary changes to restore health, 32:20 neurological function, development, longevity into each and every individual that we serve. 32:29 Now, maybe this is the first time you've ever heard my podcast. 32:33 I encourage you to go over to the website, Connect My Brain. 32:38 You can contact me, I return every call. 32:42 you can look at a few options that we have. 32:46 We have the podcast, we the app, and we also have what's called the CMB membership. 32:55 And in that membership, it's a very modest price, and you can dip your toe in and begin to learn more about Connect My Brain. 33:06 It's over on the tab that says how to work with me. 33:09 And then maybe from there, as you get to know me, you might bring your personal situation or your child's personal to Connect my Brain and allow us to 33:22 help you on this journey of restoring health. 33:26 Thank you so much for tuning in today. 33:29 We love reaching out to our community, the world. 33:33 Be blessed.
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