It has become virtually impossible these days to find anyone who is not personally if not indirectly touched by autism in one way or the other. The dramatically rising rates of autism rates constitute nothing short of a public health crisis. In the 1970’s and 1980’s the diagnosis rate was one out of every 2,000 children in the US. […]
Could the Active Ingredient in Roundup be Causing a Health Epidemic?
Fact 1: Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the world’s most common agricultural herbicides. Fact 2: The mechanism that glyphosate uses to kill plants is the same mechanism by which it kills the beneficial bacteria and yeasts found in the human microbiome that are necessary for good health. Fact 3: Glyphosate consumption has been shown […]
Digestive Disorders & Autism: Can a Healthy Microbiome Offer Relief?
Digestive disorders are simply awful. Chronic constipation and diarrhea are painful, anxiety-provoking and harm the quality of life for anyone who suffers from them. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which is characterized by impairment in social interaction and communication, makes life challenging for the children who have it and for their family members who love them. […]
What is a Baby’s Microbiome and Why Should Expectant Mothers Care?
My mother’s generation, who gave birth during the 1950’s and 1960’s, had a less-stressful, less-worrisome time of it than those of us giving birth in the 21st century. A parenting book in the 1950’s actually advises expectant mothers to limit themselves to only two highball cocktails a night! Whereas we are given strict prohibitions on […]
Surprising Ways Mouth Bacteria Impacts Our Health
When I was a child, my mother had to have gum surgery because she had periodontitis, a serious condition of the gums surrounding the teeth. The way she described it horrified me. She had to healthy gum tissue removed from one part of her mouth and the tissue was then grafted onto the diseased area. […]