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Maria Rickert Hong June 25, 2013

Epidemic Answers Announces Collaboration with Developmental Delay Resources to Raise Awareness about Recovery of Children from Autism, ADHD, Developmental Delays, Allergies, Asthma and More

EA_logo WEST SIMSBURY, Conn., June 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Epidemic Answers, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization at www.epidemicanswers.org dedicated to educating the public about the epidemics of chronic illness and helping parents find healing solutions, is joining forces with Developmental Delay Resources (www.devdelay.org), the only educational resource for families dealing with developmental delays that integrates the full spectrum of treatments and therapeutic modalities from diet interventions to biomedical protocols, physical therapies and everything in between.

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Epidemic Answers (EA) and Developmental Delay Resources (DDR) are combining efforts to raise awareness about the record number of children being diagnosed with chronic health conditions and developmental delays. The rates of autism are now 1 in 50 children and 1 in 31 boys. The rate of asthma is 1 in 8 children, and the rate of ADHD is 1 in 10 children.

Both EA and DDR are dedicated to educating parents about the environmental factors that contribute to these conditions. Beyond that, both organizations subscribe to the belief children can recover from these conditions.

“The fundamental belief that ties our two organizations together is the belief that children can get better,” said Beth Lambert, Executive Director of Epidemic Answers. “Both EA and DDR want the public to know that there are answers for their children and that personalized application of therapeutic, healing and recovery solutions can bring children closer to reaching their full potential.”

DDR’s Executive Director, Patricia Lemer, will be joining the EA Board of Directors, bringing forty years of experience to advise and help guide the future of Epidemic Answers.

DDR will be supporting Epidemic Answers’ latest project aimed at raising awareness: The Canary Kids Film Project. For this project, Epidemic Answers will be supporting seven children with a diagnosis (such as autism, ADHD, allergies, or asthma) and providing them with free healing and recovery services for eighteen months. These children’s recovery journeys will then be documented and made into a feature length film to be directed and produced by award-winning film maker Mary Mazzio.

The children in the program will be involved in a clinical study being run by Dr. Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, pediatric neurologist and professor of neurology from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Herbert will be tracking the children’s progress over the course of the program by collecting biomedical data. The program and film are being entirely funded through donations and grants. To learn more about and view the trailer of The Canary Kids Film Project, or to make a donation, please visit: www.epidemicanswers.org/canary-kids.

Epidemic Answers will manage the collaboration between DDR and EA. DDR members are welcomed to join the EA community by visiting www.EpidemicAnswers.org and signing up for the newsletter.

Epidemic Answers was founded in 2009 by two moms, Beth Lambert (author of “A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children”) and Michelle Tortora. Through a variety of healing modalities (including diet, supplements, energy medicine, homeopathy, and others), both Beth and Michelle have recovered their children from chronic illnesses including autism, sensory processing disorder, Lyme disease, allergies and more. Epidemic Answers is dedicated to educating the public about the epidemic of chronic illness affecting the current generation of children and providing prevention and healing solutions for parents, caregivers and future parents.

To view this video on YouTube, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjXFDDELLRI

Media Contact: Maria Rickert Hong, Media Director, Epidemic Answers, (860) 217-0111, [email protected]

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Filed Under: ADHD, ALLERGIES, ASTHMA, AUTISM / PDD-NOS, AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, HEALTH TOPICS, MEDIA, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS Tagged: ADHD, allergies, asthma, autism, Beth Lambert, Canary Kids, developmental delay, Developmental Delay Resources, Epidemic Answers, Patty Lemer, press release

Maria Rickert Hong May 31, 2013

THE “R” WORD

road to recovery sign You may or may not know my personal recovery story. I have recovered my 2 sons, now ages 5 and 7, from sensory processing disorder (SPD), asthma, allergies, acid reflux and eczema with a biomedical approach, which means correcting nutritional and hormonal deficiencies, removing toxicities and correcting gut dysbiosis.

I’m still working on failure to thrive, mitochondrial dysfunction, hypothyroidism and persistent eczema in my older son. In addition, they both had developmental delays, and my older son had severe hypotonia as a baby.

I have recovered from immune dysregulation, in which I had shingles twice, the worst case of poison-ivy ever, bronchitis (which I’d never had before), constant sinus infections and constant colds that would last 3-4 weeks at a time.

My older son had immune dysregulation, too, when he was younger: he would go to preschool, get sick and be out for at least a week at a time, then go to school the next week, get sick, and the cycle repeated ad nauseum (pun intended).

I also had severe adrenal fatigue, which was caused by dealing with my older son’s severe SPD.

Adrenal fatigue caused middle-of-the-night insomnia, in which I would be awake for hours at a time in the middle of the night and be so dead tired the next day that 3 hour naps wouldn’t help.

I later learned that adrenal fatigue was the cause of the onslaught of my “female problems”, which I’d never had before: a suddenly irregular menstrual cycle, a uterine fibroid and ovarian cysts.

I also found out I have two types of anemia: iron-deficiency (the more commonly known about kind) and folate-deficiency. I learned how these and most of out other problems can be tied back to gut dysbiosis and its chronic infections, especially Candidiasis.

I also discovered that I am hypothyroid and that this may have played a large part in my sons’ problems when I was pregnant with them.

I found out that I was loaded with heavy metals, especially mercury and lead, which are the most neurologically damaging. I immediately had my sons tested and found out they were full of them, too.

It’s been very hard going through this, as most people, even most doctors, don’t know about the causes of all these problems. They don’t understand that all of these problems are related, and they certainly don’t know that recovery is possible.

We got a lot of help from changing our diets and seeing a naturopath, a functional-medicine doctor and a holistic nutritionist, as well as from me doing never-ending research about how all of these problems are connected.

We’ve recovered from so much, although there is still more work to be done. In any case, we are so much better off now than we were 4 years ago, when all of these problems hit a crescendo.

I want people to know that recovery is possible, which is why I joined the non-profit Epidemic Answers. We seek to educate parents about the causes of these problems as well as let them know that recovery is possible.

In fact, we’re making a documentary film to show the world that recovery is possible because most people just don’t know that.

Most people don’t know that a child can recover from autism or asthma or that an adult can recover from an autoimmune disease, even multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis.

If you want to learn more about our film, you can find out more by watching this video or by visiting our website. Please help us get this film made!

Filed Under: ACID REFLUX (GERD), ADHD, ADRENAL FATIGUE, ALLERGIES, ANEMIA, ASTHMA, AUTISM / PDD-NOS, AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, CANDIDA, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, DIGESTIVE ISSUES, ECZEMA, ENDOCRINE ISSUES, GENERAL, GUT DYSBIOSIS, HEALTH TOPICS, HEAVY METALS, HYPOTONIA, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, OVARIAN CYSTS, RECOVERY STORIES, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SINUS INFECTIONS, STRESS, TOXINS, UTERINE FIBROIDS Tagged: acid reflux, adrenal fatigue, allergies, anemia, asthma, autoimmune disease, biomedical, bronchitis, Candidiasis, chronic sinus infection, developmental delay, eczema, Epidemic Answers, failure to thrive, gut dysbiosis, heavy metal toxicity, hormonal deficiencies, hypothyroid, hypothyroidism, hypotonia, immune dysregulation, insomnia, irregular menstrual cycle, lead toxicity, mercury toxicity, mitochondrial dysfunction, multiple sclerosis, naturopath, nutritional deficiencies, ovarian cyst, rheumatoid arthritis, sensory processing disorder (SPD), Shingles, toxicity, uterine fibroid

Maria Rickert Hong May 6, 2013

HOW MY SON’S SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER CAUSED MY SEVERE HEALTH DECLINE

tired woman Having a son with a developmental delay was very hard on me. He didn’t walk until he was 20 months old.

This was extremely hard for me because he didn’t walk until 3 weeks before his little brother was born, and I was having to carry him everywhere.

I suppose the bright side is that he didn’t weigh a whole lot, given that he was also a failure-to-thrive baby. [Read more…]

Filed Under: ADRENAL FATIGUE, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, ENDOCRINE ISSUES, GENERAL, HEALTH TOPICS, HORMONAL ISSUES, IMMUNE DYSREGULATION, INFERTILITY, INSOMNIA, IRREGULAR CYCLES, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, OVARIAN CYSTS, RASHES, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SINUS INFECTIONS, STRESS, UTERINE FIBROIDS, YEAST INFECTIONS Tagged: "A Compromised Generation", Beth Lambert, Candida infections, developmental delay, failure to thrive, insomnia, menstrual cycles, middle of the night insomnia, ovarian cyst, perimenopause, sensory processing disorder, Shingles, sinus infections, steroids, uterine fibroid, yeast infection

Maria Rickert Hong March 22, 2013

Acid Reflux Medication Dangers

Believe it or not, acid reflux medication dangers are real, and these medications do major harm to your body. Shocking, right?

It’s true. All of those medications (Prevacid, Nexium, Zantac, Prilosec, omeprazole, even Tums) reduce stomach acid, which is what they are designed to do.

The problem is that acid reflux is actually caused by TOO LITTLE stomach acid, not too much. Counter-intuitive, right? So what happens when you have too little stomach acid? For starters, you can’t properly digest food, leading to nutritional deficiencies, particularly magnesium, calcium and vitamin B12.

A magnesium deficiency is linked to:

Anxiety and panic attacks
Asthma
Blood clots
Bowel disease
Cystitis
Depression
Diabetes
Dysmenorrhea
Fatigue
Heart disease
Hypertension
Hypoglycemia
Inability to detoxify
Insomnia
Kidney disease
Liver disease
Migraines
Musculoskeletal conditions
Nerve problems
Premenstrual syndrome
Osteoporosis
Raynaud’s Syndrome
Tooth decay

A calcium deficiency is linked to:

Delayed development
Dermatitis
Lethargy
Mental confusion
Muscle cramps
Numbness or tingling of the fingers
Osteoporosis
Poor appetite
Rickets
Skeletal malformations

A vitamin B12 deficiency is linked to multiple neurological disorders, including

Abnormal reflexes
Anemia
Anorexia
Apathy
Ataxia
Balance problems
Dementia
Depression
Developmental delay or regression
Difficulty walking
Dizziness
Failure to thrive
Fatigue
Forgetfulness, memory loss
Generalized weakness
Hallucinations
Hypotonia
Impotence
Involuntary movements
Irritability
Language delay
Lower IQ
Macrocytosis (enlarged red-blood cells)
Mania
Mental retardation
Numbness or tingling
Pallor
Paranoia
Personality changes
Poor head growth
Poor motor skills
Poor socialization
Poor weight gain
Psychosis
Restless legs
Seizures
Shortness of breath
Speech problems
Tremor
Unsteady or abnormal gait
Urinary or fecal incontinence
Violent behavior
Visual disturbances
Weakness

Not only do acid reducers cause nutritional deficiencies, but they also take away an important component of our immune system. Stomach acid is used to kill nasty bugs, viruses, parasites and bacteria. Without enough stomach acid, guess what happens? That’s right – infection.

By prescribing proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs), doctors are putting their patients at a higher risk for infections like pneumonia and gastroenteritis, as well as getting more colds and stomach bugs.

In addition, by taking acid-reflux drugs, you’re more likely to get sick more often because your immune system can’t fight off these offenders. It also makes the rest of the gastrointestinal tract susceptible to bacterial overgrowth.

Is it worth taking acid-reflux medication? I don’t think so, and I can tell you that, as a mom, I was furious at the doctors who prescribed them to my boys for their acid reflux after I found out how truly dangerous these drugs are.

Filed Under: ACID REFLUX (GERD), ADRENAL FATIGUE, ALZHEIMER'S, ANEMIA, ANXIETY, ASTHMA, AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, BIPOLAR DISORDER, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, DEPRESSION, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, DIGESTIVE ISSUES, ENDOCRINE ISSUES, FIBROMYALGIA, FOOD AND NUTRITION, GENERAL, GUT DYSBIOSIS, HEALTH TOPICS, HYPOTONIA, IBS, INSOMNIA, IRREGULAR CYCLES, LIVER FUNCTION, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES, NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES, OSTEOPOROSIS, OTHER DISEASES, PHARMACEUTICALS, TOXINS Tagged: abnormal gait, abnormal reflexes, acid reflux, anemia, anorexia, anxiety, apathy, asthma, ataxia, balance problems, blood clots, bowel disease, calcium deficiency, cystitis, dementia, depression, dermatitis, developmental delay, developmental regression, diabetes, difficulty walking, dizziness, dysmenorrhea, enlarged red-blood cells, failure to thrive, fatigue, fecal incontinence, forgetfulness, generalized weakness, GERD, hallucinations, heart disease, heartburn, hypertension, hypoglycemia, hypotonia, impotence, inability to detoxify, insomnia, involuntary movements, irritability, kidney disease, language delay, lethargy, liver disease, lower IQ, macrocytosis, magnesium deficiency, mania, memory loss, mental confusion, mental retardation, migraines, muscle cramps, musculoskeletal condition, nerve problems, Nexium, numbness, omeprazole, osteoporosis, pallor, panic attacks, paranoia, personality changes, poor appetite, poor head growth, poor motor skills, poor socialization, poor weight gain, premenstrual syndrome, Prevacid, Prilosec, psychosis, Raynaud’s Syndrome, restless legs, rickets, seizures, shortness of breath, skeletal malformations, speech problems, tingling of the fingers, tooth decaydelayed development, tremor, Tums, unsteady gait, urinary incontinence, violent behavior, visual disturbances, vitamin B12 deficiency, weakness, Zantac

Maria Rickert Hong March 11, 2013

FAILURE TO THRIVE

“Failure to thrive” is when your child’s weight percentile falls to the 3^rd percentile or below or when it crosses 2 or more major percentile curves. When either of these (or both, as in the case of my older son) happens, it’s an indication that the child is not growing as he or she should be.

I could scream every time someone tells me that I’m not that big or my husband’s not that big, so my sons’ failure to thrive is something I shouldn’t worry about. Or how about when I’m told to stop comparing my kids to fat American kids? [Read more…]

Filed Under: ACID REFLUX (GERD), ALLERGIES, ASTHMA, AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, DIGESTIVE ISSUES, ECZEMA, FOOD AND NUTRITION, FOOD CHOICES, HEALTH TOPICS, PHARMACEUTICALS, TOXINS Tagged: "A Compromised Generation", acid reflux, allergies, asthma, baking soda test, developmental delay, Dr. Nancy O'Hara, eczema, Epidemic Answers, failure to thrive, food insensitivities, food intolerances, gag reflex, GAPS, GERD, gut dysbiosis, hypotonia, nutritional deficiencies, oral motor therapy, Pediasure, Periactin, pharmaceuticals, Prevacid, projectile vomiting, sensory processing disorder, stomach acid, transit time test, Vicki Kobliner, Wendell Berry

Maria Rickert Hong March 4, 2013

IS IT FATIGUE OR MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION?

mitochondrion Because of my son’s failure to thrive, our pediatrician sent us to see Vicki Kobliner, a holistic nutritionist, who’s also on the board of Epidemic Answers with me.

Given that Crane Man has constant fatigue and stomach pain, poor growth, mild sensory issues and developmental delays, Vicki suggested having preliminary tests for mitochondrial dysfunction done. [Read more…]

Filed Under: ADHD, ALLERGIES, ASTHMA, AUTISM / PDD-NOS, AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, FOOD AND NUTRITION, GENERAL, HEALTH TOPICS, HYPOTONIA, METHYLATION, MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES, NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES, OTHER DISEASES, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER Tagged: acid reflux, alinine, allergies, Andrew Cutler, asthma, autism, autoimmune disease, body burden, brain dysfunction, carnitine, Carnitor, carnosine, Center of Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, chronic stomach pain, concentration problem, constant fatigue, constipation, creatine, Cristy Balcells, Detoxify or Die, developmental delay, developmental delays, difficulty recovering from anesthesia, difficulty recovering from fever, difficulty recovering from illness, dizziness, Dr. Doug Wallace, Dr. Sherry Rogers, Dr. Terry Wahls, eczema, environmental toxins, Environmental Working Group, Epidemic Answers, failure to thrive, gastroparesis, headaches, heat intolerance, heavy metals, hormonal fluctuation, hypoglycemia, hypotonia, immunodeficiency, lack of coordination, lack of insomnia, lactic acid, levocarnitine, LHON, liver dysfunction, lysine, malabsorption, MELAS, memory problem, mercury, methylation defect, migraines, mito cocktail, mito crash, mitoaction.org, Mitochondria as Chi, mitochondrial dysfunction, muscle cramp, muscle pain, muscle weakness, muscular dysfunction, nausea, neurodegenerative, newborn pollution, pancreatic insufficiency, PDD-NOS, phosphatidyl choline, POLG, poor growth, pre-polluted, pyruvic acid, seizures, sensory issues, sensory processing disorder, sensory processing dysfunction, sleep dysfunction, sleep issue, slow motility, spasms, stomach pain, stress, supplementation, system dysfunction, toxicity, unexplained vomiting, United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, Vicki Kobliner

Epidemic Answers Announces Collaboration with Developmental Delay Resources to Raise Awareness about Recovery of Children from Autism, ADHD, Developmental Delays, Allergies, Asthma and More

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HOW MY SON’S SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER CAUSED MY SEVERE HEALTH DECLINE

Acid Reflux Medication Dangers

FAILURE TO THRIVE

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