By Gabi Giacomin When I was a teenager I begged my mum let me take Roacutane. I cried so much after the Dermatologist said I didn’t need it, that he gave it to me. He said it was so safe
FOLATE & VITAMIN B12 REDUCING DRUGS
LONG TERM THYROID MEDICATION USE ASSOCIATED WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
By Gabi Giacomin Being the parent of a child with Down Syndrome you have probably been told by other parents and Drs of the need for regular thyroid tests and medication if necessary. You may have been led to believe
TSH IMPROVED FOLLOWING GUT TREATMENT
By Gabi Giacomin I often see children with Down Syndrome presenting with a slightly elevated TSH despite being on thyroid medication. Parents are often puzzled by this and physician efforts to increase the dose don’t always improve results. I
HOW DOES NUTRIGENETIC INTERVENTION WORK TO PREVENT ALZHEIMER’S IN DOWN SYNDROME?
By Gabi Giacomin Research from Canada in 2006 gave us an insight into the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in Down Syndrome (DS). Beta secretase activity, generated by the BACE1 gene, is elevated in DS causing an increase
GUT MICROBES PREDICT TYPE 1 DIABETES
By Gabi Giacomin You can’t believe how fascinating it is when you get your child’s stool results back and there is a bacteria you’ve never heard of showing high levels – Bacteroides Dorei. According to research from Mexico (2015) a
CASE STUDY OF CHILD WITH DOWN SYNDROME WITH DEVELOPMENT AND SPEECH DELAY
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SAMPLE ORGANIC ACIDS TEST REVIEW – AUTISM
17th January 2018 Dear Client, Here is a brief overview of the your OAT test results. In summary, The most outstanding results on the OAT test were the Clostridia markers. They indicate the presence of C. Difficile which can
ELEVATED CORTISOL RAISES TSH LEVELS
ELEVATED CORTISOL RAISES TSH LEVELS By Gabi Giacomin Is your practitioner checking your child’s cortisol levels? Thyroid Research Journal published an article in 2012 which concluded that among a sample of men and women increases in TSH with normal
BUTTER IMPROVES BRAIN HEALTH
by Gabi Giacomin A significant number of children with Down Syndrome (DS) are on grain free diets. This is due to the fact that grains such as rye, barley and oats and even rice are well known triggers of celiac
GUT MICROBES LINKED TO SEIZURES
Overview Decades of research has been devoted to finding the cause of seizures. Associations have been made between reduced levels of nutrients, poor mitochondrial activity, GABA imbalances, glutamate receptor 5 antagonism, calcium disorders, celiac disease, soy-based diets, DYRK1A , and