Children’s Health

Children’s Health

Note: New Patient Forms are required for Children as well as adults.

By utilizing a host of specialized testing, we create a personalized care plan, developed in conjunction with the parent. The aim is to boost your child’s health and thus their ability to achieve their academic potential. Dr. Bieley has many of the tools to help you get started and help get your child started in the right direction regarding: methylation issues, toxicity issues (toxic heavy metals or toxic black mold), gut issues (we use comprehensive diagnostic stool testing), fatty acids imbalances (through the use of RBC membrane fatty acid testing done at Kennedy Kreiger Lab at Johns Hopkins), and overall nutrition issues. We suggest avoiding genetically modified organism (GMO) foods.

Childhood Obesity

Many parents come to us with their child’s struggle with obesity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease can start early but let’s stop it now. Now is the time to act! Watch this video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCTV)” by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology. Dr. Lustig argues that too much fructose and not enough fiber are the cornerstones to the obesity epidemic.

Helpful Lifestyle Interventions:

• Get rid of all sugar flavored-liquids (drink water only)

• Eat carbohydrates with fiber

• Wait 20 minutes for second portions

• Avoid aspartame (Watch Sugar Misery)

• Buy your ‘screen time’, minute for minute, with physical activity

Persistent Bedwetting

Bed wetting in children is normal, to a degree. Have you been told your child just has delayed neurologic development? Your child may have methylation issues. Methylation (gene) testing and treatment can help. Delayed neurologic development is an important clue that your child has a methylation issue. After all, methylation plays a critical role in the creation of myelin, which acts as insulation for nerves. In fact, if you are a biologic parent of a persistent bed wetter, you should also have this testing for yourself (because if you have a methylation issue, treatment is important).

Nutritional Solutions for Asthma
and Autism Spectral Disorder

We offer nutritional solutions for asthma. Nutritional supplements can assist in lowering the need for medication in the treatment of asthma. Injections of Vitamin B-12 and providing adequate Magnesium can play a role in the relaxation of smooth muscle and help decrease wheezing. Children also need to be off all dairy products, and may need stomach acid supplementation such as betaine hydrochloride as well. Other nutritional supplements such as probiotics (beneficial gut organisms) can also be used to improve symptoms. Oxytocin, a hormone can help improve eye contact.

Autism Speaks says that 1 in 35 children aged 3-17 born in the US will have autism. Dr. Bieley agrees with the new definition of Autism: ‘a redox methylation disorder’. The oxidative stress is the initiating event that places a heavy burden on the snips that might be present. Oxidative stress magnifies these snips and moves them in the direction of pathology.

It has been stated by a mold-literate pediatrician that about half of Autism may be related to mold toxicity. We offer testing for mold mycotoxins in our office.

What we offer: For patients diagnosed with Autism Spectral Disorder we offer comprehensive evaluation for gut issues, toxic heavy metals, fatty acids evaluations, nutrition evaluations, and gene testing for methylation and other issues, IV therapies. This is a marathon, and not a sprit in the effort to help your autistic child function better.

Detoxification. Who needs it? Everyone! We test for toxic heavy metals and environmental toxins. Improving phase I and phase II detoxification, in addition to targeted treatments, helps your body function better. There are 3 phases of detoxification: Phase I (oxidative activation), Phase II (conjugation), Phase III (unidirectional excretion). Testing is done followed by targeted treatments.

NOTE: This list of genes may not be a complete list of genes to be tested prior to vaccinations to ensure parents that their child/children will not have an untoward reaction from the vaccine or any of its constituents. There may be additional genes or other illnesses that predispose a child to a untoward reaction from the vaccine. Parents should consult their pediatrician for any additional testing. The SHANK3 deletion genes are to be tested in the Parents.

Learn more:

• Treatment of Autism with Oxytocin by Jorge D. Flechas, M.D., M.P.H. of The Nevada Center.

• Autism and Oxytocin deficiency

Why does my child have ADD/ ADHD?

What drives a child to distraction?

It takes time and energy to discover the underlying cause or causes and then institute the appropriate remedies.

Dyslexia and ADD/ADHD doctor Harold Levinson’s videos for parents will help you give hope for your children:

• Inner - Ear Origins of Phobia

• True Insights Improve Self - Esteem in Dyslexia/ADHD

• ADHD and Inner - Ear Mechanism

• Improving Asperger’s/Autism – ASD

It's a puzzle to figure out what drives a child to distraction.

Common questions:

• Is it nutrient depletion of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and/or fatty acids?

• Are foods (or foods that contain gluten, wheat germ agglutinin, gliadin, or casein), molds, or environmental sensitivities the issue? Read this. For only the cost of food, consider trying a 90 day gluten-free diet (it must be 100% gluten-free). That means ALL grains must be eliminated. View video here to learn about leaky gut. Notice if your child's behavior, mood, and mental sharpness improve. If so, you are on the right track! Whether gluten-sensitive, intolerance, or celiac disease, gluten can affect your child's brain, liver, skin, intestines and more. Gluten problems are quite common and there are other causes as well that drive a child to distraction.

• Elimination of wheat can: cause weight loss, reduce appetite, reduce blood sugar, reduce joint pain, reduce inflammation, reduce blood pressure, reduce triglycerides, increase HDL, reduce small particle LDL, increase energy, improve sleep, decrease acid reflux and improve irritable bowel syndrome. Source: NY Times best seller, "Wheat Belly", by William Davis, MD. We offer food sensitivity testing or testing for Cyrex labs (related to gluten/gliadin/wheat germ agglutinin and more; as well as foods that cross react with gluten).

• Bottom line: get your child off the gluten and feed them more (pesticide-free) vegetables (see EWG.org for the dirty dozen fruits and vegetables that have high pesticide content).

• Are toxic heavy metals or environmental toxins the issue? See link to learn more about environmetal toxins and endocrine disruptors and how they can adversely affect your children such as bis-phenol A. View link here.

• Abnormal gut flora the issue? Analysis of prescription history can reveal secondary consequences to antibiotic therapies.

• Are there genetic influences? We review family history and offer genomic testing

• Are there electro-sensitive, electro-hypersensitivity or electro-allergic issues (such as ADHD, sleep disruption, cognitive impairment, tingling of the hands, headaches, spinning sensation) ? If so, children should be put in a low EMF environment. Limit cell phone use. Do not allow children to hold the cell phone up to their ear, and discard the wireless home phone. A safe distance from a turned on microwave oven is 30 feet. Purchase a Gauss meter to confirm this for yourself. No laptops computers on laps.

• Is it lack of stability in the home? If there is family turmoil or divorce, a child's lack of focus is understandable.

• Is it a combination of factors? Red Dye #40 (and other artificial colors) are bad for your brain: Read this.

We evaluate these parameters and make individualized recommendations for your child’s optimal health.

Learn more:

• Exercises for ADD / ADHD children

• New Font helpful for Dyslexics

• Delicious wheat/gluten-free recipes from the author of Wheat Belly

• Vitamin K2 for children

News

• Childhood obesity has tripled in the last 30 years from 6.5% of kids 6-12 years old in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008.

• From the Centers for Disease Control - 1 in 3 children will develop type II diabetes unless changes occur.

• Only ONE sugary drink a day is associated with type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome. August 2010, Diabetes Care

• Healthier Fruits and Vegetables: see the Environmental Working Groups 2010 list of the safest along with the 'dirty dozen'. Interesting video from Andrew Weil, MD.

• Celiac disease now affects 1 in 133 children. New testing for celiac and more information in the Helpful Links section.

• Gluten sensitive, or Celiac disease? To learn about our current state of understanding: View video.

• Gluten sensitivity has been linked to approximately 190 medical conditions. Celiac disease is at one end of the spectrum while gluten sensitivity affects tissues outside of the gastrointestinal tract. Gluten has been shown to contribute to or cause the following: skeletal muscular conditions (muscle pain and wasting, joint pain, myopathy, osteoporosis; neurologic conditions (anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADD, epilepsy, neuropathy); Autoimmune conditions (RA, Lupus, Addisons, Celiac, Diabetes type I); Dermatologic diseases (eczema, psoriasis, seborrheic dermatitis, dermatitis herpetiformis); Gastrointestinal disorders (IBS, GERD, intestinal migraines). Learn more. Add one more to the list: endocrine disruptor (increases prolactin). View here.

• Radiation information.

• LOWEST STAR level cell phones. Lowest is safest!

• Cannabis and the teenage brain.
  
  
  
  

Healthy Living and Longevity Medical Center is not a substitute for your primary care physician. We are a complement to your primary care doctor and specialist