Reading and Academic Abilities For Those With Speech Impairments

“Students Will Rise To the Level of Expectations” ~ Quote from the movie Stand and Deliver In addition to the strategies on this page, please also explore nutrition’s effect on academic performance.  Visit “Is Good Nutrition Improving Reading and Academic Abilities For Those With Speech Impairments?” to answer that question yourself.  Here are just a few highlights: Colton is diagnosed wtih apraxia which is a motor planning impairment of speech. ... Read More

Is Good Nutrition Improving Reading and Academic Abilities For Those With Speech Impairments?

Colton holding his NV original which he loves  There are numerous reasons to raise academic expectations high for speech impaired students! Colton will be 4 years old November, 2011 and is diagnosed with apraxia which is a motor planning impairment of speech.  He had no speech therapy for 2 months over the summer.  But for the past 4 months he’s been taking an all natural 100% food product called NV original with a parental and professional success rate at or just about... Read More

Is Nutrition Solving The Autism Puzzle?

The neurologist from Kaiser indicated that he had two other patients who had also “gone rogue” and done what we’d done with NV with similar results. “Evidence is emerging that there may be a link between diet, ASD, gut epithelial changes and altered immune responses, however the studies so far have had small sample sizes and clearly further well constructed and adequately-powered randomised control trials are urgently needed in this field.” Dietary Management... Read More

Why Consume Nutriiveda When There Are So Many French Fries Around?

Kid favored birthday goodies The following comment was made by a parent from one of our private support groups of about ten thousand.  “I’m the sort that needs to see the science. I need to see a double-blind, randomized study, or something like that, before I give NV to my child” My response: We are on the way to double blind clinical research with the preclinical research We all choose what makes us nervous. The other day was my son Tanner’s 15th birthday... Read More

Nutriiveda (NV) Original vs. New Achieve & Planned Research For Therapeutic Use

We’ve now used the original Nutriiveda in our group for over two years and in thousands.  Parental as well as professional anecdotal including from medical doctors and therapists in the US and around the globe, claim improvements in 100% of the patients they advise to take Nutriiveda original. No-one has yet been able to explain why the original formula for Nutriiveda has had such a significant positive effect, however, some theories are based around the amino acid profile... Read More

Links Between Gluten, The Immune Molecule, And Increased Brain Connections?

Kimberley McAllister, associate professor at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, was named a Young Investigator of the Year last fall by the Society for Neuroscience. Sometimes it’s interesting to look at a new study to see if it can fit together like a piece of a puzzle to other research.  A recent UC Davis study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, pointed to how a tiny immune molecule with a not so tiny name, Major Histocompatibility Complex or MHC, regulates... Read More

Should We Blame Soda or Energy Drinks For the Sudden Rise Of Strokes In Children?

Note: February 14th, 2011, 3 days after I wrote this blog, there was a study published in the AAP Journal Pediatrics ‘Health Effects of Energy Drinks on Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’ which stated: “energy drinks are consumed by 30% to 50% of adolescents and young adults…and “known and unknown pharmacology of agents included in such drinks, combined with reports of toxicity, raises concern for potentially serious adverse effects in association... Read More

Pregnant Women Cry Over New Studies “Toxins and Drugs and Poor Diets….Oh My!”

Hold the cigarettes and alcohol while pregnant.  We all know that, but what about exposing a fetus to a virtual cocktail of toxins including PCBs, together with pharmaceuticals including nitroglycerin, together with limiting what essential nutrients that growing fetus needs to develop?  Have researchers today become like the blind men with the elephant as they search for genetic reasons for dramatic rises in various conditions such as autism without considering if genetic mutations... Read More

Therapeutic Use Of Fish Oil for Apraxia, Autism and Other Communication Impairments

The following is basic information about fish oil supplementation for children with speech delays, impairments or multifaceted communication impairments: What is the best fish oil for my baby or child? My son Tanner didn't like fish oils but they helped him greatly The confusion is more the brand names than the formulas. In actuality there really is no such thing as a “children’s fish oil” as fish oil is fish oil. However fish oils can be marketed to appear... Read More

Autism, Antivirals, Drugs or Food?

There are quite a few members of the nonprofit Cherab Foundation who have children with autism, apraxia or similar multifaceted communication impairments who believe as one parent recently wrote to me “virus assault to the immune system has caused many problems for many children. Possibly an auto-immune response occurs which then changes the mitochondrial” And it’s not just antiviral medications that are being used. As one parent put it “Many put their children on... Read More