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Find Your Path to Wellness at Serenity’s Open House

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Serenity Health Care is celebrating its 6th anniversary by hosting an open house on Saturday, February 27, 2016. Our doctors are sharing information about vital wellness topics at different times during the open house. Join us and learn more about how you can find your path to wellness.

Serenity Health Care Open House

Saturday, February 27, 2016

12:00 PM to 3:00 PM 

Space is Limited! Call 262.522.8640 to Register.

Adrenal Function

The adrenal glands, stress and fatigue are linked. Adrenal fatigue, left untreated, can also lead to other health problems. Today’s busy lifestyles are filled with stress and poor nutrition. You owe it to yourself to learn about keeping your adrenals healthy on your path to wellness.

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm “You and Your Adrenals” – Amy Hoffman, NP 

Personalized Genetics

A new era brings more options for healing. The knowledge of an individuals’ unique genetics when developing a treatment plan boosts successful results. Personalized genetics can help predict your susceptibility to certain diseases so that you can take preventative actions. Learn and ask questions about how personalized genetics work.

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm “Personalized Genetics and Your Path to Healing” – Sonja Hintz RN

Bio-Terrain

Bio-Terrain is a whole body program to help individuals with chronic issues such as Lyme or PANDAS. Treatment consists of 6 visits over a 14 day period. It includes several components on the path to wellness. The goal of the program is to open pathways in the body by balancing the body’s energy, metabolism and polarity. This allows  the body a chance to heal itself.

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm “Bio-Terrain, Opening the Pathways to Wellness” – Heather King, DC and Wendy Dunbar, LMT 

Bio-Medicine and Autism

Autism is a developmental disorder that creates social and communication problems. Common symptoms include disruptive behavior, aggression and hyperactivity. Bio-medicine can treat your child by assessing and treating underlying causes. This treatment method for autism has shown many benefits in language development, improved social awareness and stabilizing behavior. Learn more about the role of bio-medicine and how it’s possible for your child to thrive.

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm “Bio-Medicine and Autism” – Greg Brown, MD

Find Your Path to Wellness

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Does diet affect neurological disorders: Autism, Attention Deficit, Tourette’s and anger disorders?

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Does diet affect neurological disorders such as Autism, Attention Deficit, Tourette’s and anger disorders?

There has been a great deal of talk around diet and how it affects neurological disorders. The question is does it work- does diet affect neurological disorders?

The truth is that there is a great deal of research that indicates diets high in sugar, high processed foods and foods that contain dyes increase the symptoms of neurological disorders. People who have taken on the challenge of changing their diets and eliminating these foods from their families diet have seen significant changes.

There are instances that these changes are made but do not see the results they were hoping for and become frustrated, so they give up. It may be that the only thing that is missing is proper balance in the types of foods that are being consumed.

There is a genotype called Apo E that has been linked to heart disease, neurological and metabolically disorders. If you or your child has a variant of this genotype following a gene specific diet may provide you with the results you have been looking for.

Dramatic results have been seen in children that have followed this gene specific diet. We have seen children who could not speak begin talking, anger outbursts have declined and/or completely resolved sometimes in as little as 3 weeks. Does diet affect neurological disorders? This shows that the answer is yes.

Why do some children respond so well to cleaning up the diet? Certain genotypes prevent the body from clearing toxins. Now most people think they do not have toxic exposure but we all do everyday. Nutritionally the traditional American diet is highly toxic. If one is eating an American diet then you are getting toxins from; highly processed, inflammatory diet such as large amounts of chips, candy bars laden with inflammatory trans fats, antibiotics, high-fructose corn syrup, exogenous sex hormones from dairy products and synthetic hormones, pesticides, and herbicides.

If we do not know that the body has an inability to clear toxins coming from processed foods, fast foods, food dyes and high amounts of animal protein this could be contributing to the neurological symptoms that the child is experiencing. It appears that when the genotype is being filled with toxins the neurological system cannot develop well enough to express normal speech, behavior, and sleep patterns; and interact appropriately with parents, sibling’s, or playmates.

I feel it is important for patients facing these medical issues chose an integrative medical approach to reverse the neurological symptoms that they and their children are facing.

Can diet affect neurological disorders? Yes, it can. Call Serenity Health Care Center today to discuss having your genotype testing 262-522-8640.

Autism Awareness is in the Month of April!

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Autism Awareness is in the Month of April! I believe that one month set aside is not enough attention to a growing epidemic. Look at the statistics: 1 in 88 from 2008 data, compared to 1 in 150 in 2002. This is the number from 2008, which already showed an increase of 78% from 2002 to 20081, mind you these stats are already 5 years old, and it is now 2013. After working with patients and their families for 14 years I find myself very upset that the numbers are growing. Back in the early days of my career, I thought the statistic of 1 in 250 was shocking.  All parties involved in research now need to focus spending money on finding solutions: educational, behaviorally and medical treatment. The thought of another study on “is there more Autism?” needs to no longer be done. The numbers are increasing, and more autism awareness is needed.

Autism is a complicated disorder that medically has many overlapping features. In our patient’s we see a wide range of systems affected. The diagnosis that Autism brings however focuses on the developmental and behavioral aspects due to the nature of this being a behavioral focused diagnosis. I however believe that the underling pathophysiology easily affects the outcome one sees behavioral.

The main treatment outcomes need to encompass a wide range of providers. That’s another reason why autism awareness is needed. At Serenity Health Care, our team will be looking for the medical and comorbid condition’s that do affect the well-being of the person with Autism.  When a person is evaluated head to toe, many physical findings are clues into the well-being of that patient. For example, is there easy fatigability? A practitioner would start to evaluate that person’s sleep, muscle tone, and diet. Simple changes in any of these areas will allow for improved outcomes in well-being. Functional medicine takes each area of that person that is affected and further evaluates it. For example, sleep maybe disrupted due to a neurotransmitter imbalance. Muscle tone is a reflection of the mitochondrial function, and/or if there is chronic immune deregulation. Diet can be affected by the patient’s sensory choice of foods and/or allergens that may be affecting their behavior due to the allergen being irritating to their immune system.

My hope for this month and beyond: All practitioners involved in Autism will stop with the rhetoric. Instead, take a stand for treatment and look to solutions in the care of the person diagnosed with Autism. Help raise autism awareness.

1) Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 14 Sites, United States, 2008:
The overall estimated prevalence of ASDs among the 14 ADDM sites was 11.3 per 1,000 (one in 88) children aged 8 years who were living in these communities during 2008. Overall ASD prevalence estimates varied widely across all sites (range: 4.8–21.2 per 1,000 children aged 8 years). ASD prevalence estimates also varied widely by sex and by racial/ethnic group. Approximately one in 54 boys and one in 252 girls living in the ADDM Network communities were identified as having ASDs. Comparison of 2008 findings with those for earlier surveillance years indicated an increase in estimated ASD prevalence of 23% when the 2008 data were compared with the data for 2006 (from 9.0 per 1,000 children aged 8 years in 2006 to 11.0 in 2008 for the 11 sites that provided data for both surveillance years) and an estimated increase of 78% when the 2008 data were compared with the data for 2002 (from 6.4 per 1,000 children aged 8 years in 2002 to 11.4 in 2008 for the 13 sites that provided data for both surveillance years). Because the ADDM Network sites do not make up a nationally representative sample, these combined prevalence estimates should not be generalized to the United States as a whole.