I know this is probably the last thing you want to hear but the first change you need to make is what your child is eating. Gut health directly impacts brain health and if their diet is filled with items that cause inflammation (very likely due not just to the American diet but also to how food products are made), then it will negatively impact the brain.

If you don’t change your child’s diet, you can use all the supplements and detoxes, but you aren’t really healing the body. Diet is a root issue in 99.99% of diagnosis. While many have heard from doctors that “diet doesn’t matter”, the health of our country claims differently. Diet does matter. Anything we consume directly impacts our health. If we are eating cheap, chemical-laden food items that have been depleted of all nourishment—we aren’t feeding our body. We are making it more sick, more prone to illness and disease. Diet is our defense and our offense when it comes to our health. What we eat keeps our systems operating fully and gives us all the nutritional benefits that allow us to thrive.

I know that this can be a very hard change—it may have even been the hardest change we had to make, but it is one of the most impactful.

I highly recommend a carnivore-like diet with eliminating gluten and dairy.

At some point you can introduce back in a fermented sourdough, but for now, it needs to be completely removed. Focus on eating clean animal meat and fats with low glycemic fruits.

Some foods I suggest are:

If you have a child that is extremely aversive to foods:

1)       Book a one-on-one with me.

2)       Watch this video with Miss Jess: Therapy and Food Aversions 

While diet can be a hard change, it truly is a simple one. It doesn’t require a lot of hoops to jump through, it just requires you to put different things in your grocery cart. It’s doable and manageable because you are the one in control and you can change it now.

Also remember this–you cannot make these changes for just a few weeks and expect a noticeable change. You must commit to doing this for months, possibly over a year, until you start seeing a truly impactful difference. Healing the body isn’t a “quick process”. When damage has been done, healing takes commitment and time. 

Here’s an easy grocery list of some simple swaps that may help as you learn what to put in your cart: