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10 SIGNS OF ‘PANDAS’ IN CHILDREN

PANDAS is an acronym for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Strep infections. It can affect children between the ages of 4 and 7 years. The conditions is believed to be triggered by an infection. Parents often describe the onset of symptoms as the day they “lost” their child. Typically the change is dramatic. Common symptoms include: Vocal tics, Obsessions, Motor tics, Behavioural regression, Compulsions, Anxiety, Irritability, Sleep disturbances, Depression and emotional swings, Changes in handwriting. New testing is now available to determine the presence of this condition. You can speak to Kim for more information, or to book an appointment with her on 0412 496 125. Watch the Video.  Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders - PANS/PANDAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIQEMcHoXlM  ...

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NATURAL PROGESTERONE

Treating the whole patient is the pillar of functional and integrative medicine. For women, there is a complex interplay of hormones and their receptors, dietary, lifestyle and environmental factors that converge on every organ system in a woman’s body. Progesterone is one of many hormones produced by both men and women and for women is produced around midcycle after the release of an egg from the ovaries. Without ovulation, there will be minimal progesterone produced for that cycle. One of its main functions is to balance the effects of estrogen otherwise known as ‘estrogen dominance’ which is especially pronounced during the second half of the cycle and leading into the period. Symptoms include bloating, headaches, hot flushes, mood swings, PMT, weight gain, fibroids, foggy thinking, breast tenderness...

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THE GUT

Natural Medicine revolves around what Hippocrates once said: “All disease begins in the gut”. This wisdom is still shared over 2000 years later with scientific validation. The gut is everything to everyone. As our primary environmental interface, the gut houses more nerves than the rest of our peripheral nervous system put together and makes more immunological decisions in one day than the rest of the immune system makes in a lifetime. It is home to a 70% share of the human microbiome. It is said we are 10% human and 90% bug. Gut function is linked to almost every known disorder including digestive conditions, autoimmune disease, allergies and intolerances, metabolic dysfunction and mental health imbalances including depression and schizophrenia. The gut (gastrointestinal tract) is the long tube that...

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