Subject 1: Mr. B is six. Everyday after school for the past four months he has come home from school tired, sad and tells me about his headaches and stomachaches. He is worn down from trying coping with the stress of school and all his physical maladies. We get home and the boy I've been missing all day starts falling apart before my eyes. I tried all the usual ideas of more quality time, more play time, more rest time, on and on. The naturalist in me immediately thought of foods that could help him feel better. I made sure he was eating a real, whole foods, well rounded diet. We already made most reasonable things from scratch and didn't eat much processed foods. I then considered having some ADHD testing done, considered even medicating which for me is huge since I'm an essential oil and natural food girl. With winter now here, his eczema has flared up and the back of his hands are blistered. He cries and fights having any ointments put on, even though they help. He's so unhappy and it breaks my heart to see him so miserable.
Subject 2: Miss V is 4 years old. She has struggled with a speech delay for the past few years and is still catching up on self expression. I've read in so many places that children with speech delays, impediments can often improve when certain nutritional needs are met.
Subject 3: Mr. Scott is 18 months old. He is the happiest baby I've ever met. He gets diaper rashes that hurt to just look at, and I change his diaper ALL the time. I've switched him back and forth between cow milk, goat milk, and almond milk with out much of a difference. His skin has also started reacting a little around his mouth and the skin on his legs is bumpy like eczema.
Subject 4: Me...the Mom. Since having baby #3 my hormones have been all over the place. As a result I've been so so tired. I look at a bottle of coke like a bottle of poison but the last little while, that bottle has been so tempting. I hate the way it tastes but I'm just so...tired. I have been breaking out, the teenage type of acne. Cystic zits along the cheeks and jaw line (text book hormonal acne). I also just can't lose the last five pound of weight (ok maybe 10) no matter what I eat or how much I exercise. Lastly, crazy hormones and being tired all the time has caused a little postpartum and feeling down doesn't help anything or anyone.
A few years ago, a good friend and neighbor had told me about this test called an IgG food allergy test that she had done for her whole family. It had particularly helped one of her daughters with her mood, and she saw a rapid improvement in her daughter's speech. I had wanted to have it done back when I first learned about it but it was expensive, and I didn't feel like we really needed it then.
