I have the same autoimmune illness as my son. In adults, it's called CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome). Although, if you've been going through the classroom content you know that PANDAS and PANS is CIRS. Jayden and I have been on the Shoemaker protocol and we've both been doing great! Of course, when you live in the same homes full of biotoxins, and the HLA genes are hereditary, multiple members of the same family can often get sick from biotoxins. That's kind of what happens and I've seen it happen with multiple families. Recovery is never a straight line. Especially when recovering from a complex autoimmune illness. And recently, Jayden was re-exposed to mold at his grandparents house which set his treatment back weeks. But, overall and over time, we're both getting better. Here's what that looks like for both of us: - Flaring still happens but it doesn't last as long and recovery is much faster - Energy capacity slowly expands and we're both getting stronger (for me personally, I couldn't pull my body weight up with my arms to climb a fence and now I can, easily! That's my metabolic health returning 🙏) - Moods and motivation are much better and more consistent - dopamine and hormone levels are starting to stabilize - Stress isn't such a big trigger any more - if Jayden was ever under any pressure to get something done, he would flare. Now he doesn't. - The peptides and supplements we could never take before, are now being taken at full doses. It took over a year to titrate VIP (the last step of the Shoemaker protocol) to a full dose. Because these setbacks are part of recovery, I give myself permission to go only as fast as I can go and honour my body and it's recovery process. Jayden has also learned this. Health is #1 and everything he does revolves around his capacity and well being. He knows this so well at this point, that it's just the way he does everything - by listening to his body and knowing what it means when he has setbacks.

This course is coming soon! Testing your home for biotoxins with regard to health is much different than testing done by contractors or standard home inspectors. Testing, cleaning and remediating your environment is critical for recovery. If you need this information immediately, comment here to let me know and I'll direct you to the proper resources.

If you've been in the PANDAS and PANS Facebook groups, you see this all the time. Every one of these is being recommended right now in these groups (which is one of the best sources of information rn). Some parents swear by them. Others tried the exact same thing and it made their child worse. Methylene blue, hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, homeopathy, juicing, zeolite, charcoal, IVIG, essential oils, low dose naltrexone, carnivore diet, hyperbaric oxygen, bee venom, helminth therapy, ozone, IVIG, curcumin, CBD oil, colloidal silver, borax, chlorine dioxide, castor oil packs, frequency machines, infrared saunas, stem cells, fecal transplants, peptides, high dose vitamin C, chelation, antifungals, plasma exchange, LDA immunotherapy, transfer factor, camel milk... 😵‍💫 It starts to feel like playing Russian roulette with your child's condition and your own sanity. So which one do you pick? And when it doesn't work, what then?? And why does this happen? The reason is because your child is at a different stage of illness. ➡️ Why the same treatment gets different results. Dr. Neil Nathan spent 50 years treating the most complex patients in this space. And he noticed something important. ✨The longer somebody stays in a chronic inflammatory state, the more their systems break down. ✨ The nervous system becomes hyper reactive, the immune system stops regulating itself, mast cells start firing at everything. And at a certain point, the child can't even tolerate the supplements that would help them. (Source: Dr. Neil Nathan, Non Toxic Environments interview, 2022. Full transcript available in project files. His book Toxic covers the treatment sensitivity concept in depth.) Nathan also noticed the same inflammatory process looks different depending on when it hits. In young children, it shows up as autism or developmental delays. In kids aged 3 to 13, it looks like PANDAS or PANS. In adults in their 20s to 40s, it becomes chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia. And later in life, it presents as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. It's the same process with a different label based on timing.