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Healthy-Family.org on Doug Kaufmann’s Know the Cause Television Show

Know the Cause with Doug Kaufmann: interview with Caryn Talty (Healthy-Family.org)

In this interview I talked candidly with Doug Kaufmann about the recovery process we went through with my son after he was diagnosed with a chronic multifocal tic disorder in January of 2007. At the beginning of the interview Doug Kaufmann referred to my previous article The Corn We Eat is Infested with Mycotoxic Fungi.

My son eventually made a full recovery but the process was long and slow. We didn’t know the cause initially and spent quite a bit of money testing and trying various alternative treatments. They improved his condition but did not cure it.  An allergy test we did that spring gave us something to go on and after nine months on the specific diet and supplement regime he really started to improve. After about 1 1/2 years he became symptom free. …continue reading »


The Corn We Eat is Infested with Mycotoxic Fungi

Gluten-free Corn-free

Are you Chronically Sick?  Many folks who find themselves practicing a gluten free diet wind up on that road for a variety of reasons. You may have tested positive for gluten intolerance, may have found out you suffer from Celiac disease, and may have even been diagnosed with candida overgrowth. If you are struggling and finding that the gluten free diet is not helping you regain your health it is quite possible you need to eliminate additional grains from your diet.

I recently attended the Conference on Natural Treatments for Tics, OCD, Tourette Syndrome, and Depression last weekend in Dallas. I heard Doug Kaufmann speak at length about mycotoxins and their negative effect on the body. The author of eight books on fungi and host of the syndicated television show, “Know the Cause”, he claims that these toxins are capable of causing various health problems and need to be addressed before folks with chronic illness can become well again. …continue reading »


Want Delayed Vaccines? Vaccinomics also Reduces Vaccine Injuries

Mayo Clinic has Developed the new Research Field: Vaccinomics

vaccineInterested in doing a delayed vaccine schedule with your doctor? You are not alone. According to a Fox News report, many parents are now asking for a delayed vaccine schedule. Worried about adverse reactions from vaccines? You may have interest in a new kind of vaccination schedule. Also known as personalized vaccines, vaccinomics uses patient genetics to personalize vaccines based on genetic risk factors. Since 2008 Vaccine research by doctors at the Mayo Clinic has been including this new field of research: vaccinomics. Experts hope to utilize genetic testing to find out which patients are most at risk of getting a particular disease and who will benefit from a personalized vaccine. This topic is one of several that was discussed at the Ninth Annual World Vaccine Congress held April 20-23 in Washington D.C. …continue reading »


Conference on Natural Treatments for Tics, OCD, and Depression in Dallas/ Fort Worth, Texas

tourette conference

Professionals, physicians, and families are all welcome to attend the conference on Natural Treatments for Tourette Syndrome, Tics, OCD, and Depression sponsored by the Association for Comprehensive NeuroTherapy (ACN). It will be held May 23-24 and folks who register by March 1 will receive a discount for early registry.

ACN is a nonprofit organization that explores advanced and alternative treatments for anxiety, autism, ADHD, depression, OCD, tics, Tourette syndrome, and learning disabilities. Participants can expect to learn about successful treatment programs and approaches. Speakers will discuss biochemistry, environmental factors,  homeopathic therapies, the possible need to treat treating gastro-intestinal systems,  treating bacterial and viral infections, the use of special diets to alleviate symptoms, and nutritional supplement therapies. …continue reading »


Dangerous Levels of Mercury found in Products Made with High Fructose Corn Syrup

Sugars GraphThe Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy released two new studies to the public yesterday that have found mercury in common foods sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.

The report summarizes how this happens: “In making HFCS, caustic soda is used, among other things, to separate corn starch from the corn kernel. For decades, HFCS has been made using mercury-grade caustic soda produced in industrial chlorine (chlor-alkali) plants. The use of mercury cells to produce caustic soda can contaminate caustic soda, and ultimately HFCS, with mercury.”

According to Environmental Health:

Mercury was found in nearly 50% of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup.” Ben Lilliston of The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) reports that in a followup study they detected mercury in “nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first or second highest labeled ingredient– including products by Quaker, Hershey’s, Kraft, and Smucker.

In his report Lilliston claims that the average American consumes about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS and some kids and teens can be consuming up to nearly 80% more than that. …continue reading »


Jonathan Friesen’s “Jerk California” – a novel about a teen with Tourette Syndrome

Jonathan Friesen

Jonathan Friesen

It has been a while since I have read a novel that has just stuck with me. Jonathan Friesen’s Jerk California with Penguin Group Publishers is such a novel. He masterfully created dynamic characters that I really cared about.

The story’s main character is a rural Minnesota boy named Sam Carrier, whom we meet in his senior year of high school. His tics have made him a social outcast by his peers and a source of pity by many adults. Surprisingly, his disability is not the focus of the story. Sam lives with an abusive step father and a mother that doesn’t know how to help him. Sam meets Naomi, a popular and very beautiful girl from a nearby school. He falls hard but only admires her from a distance until after graduation, when his whole world begins to change for the better.

Sam and Naomi are just teenage kids, but they are conflicted, intelligent, drawn toward each other even though they come from opposite ends of the social spectrum.  Sam is poor, suffers from Tourette Syndrome, and unpopular at school. Naomi is wealthy, beautiful, and popular. Their paths keep crossing until one day fate takes them on a journey of self discovery together. …continue reading »


Brad Cohen’s Book about Tourette Syndrome Becomes a Hallmark Movie

Front of the Class cast with Brad and Nancy Cohen

Front of the Class cast with Brad and Nancy Cohen

On the eve of Brad Cohen’s December 7, 2008 debut CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie about his life with Tourette Syndrome, I decided to purchase his 2005 book, co-written with Lisa Wysocky, entitled: Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had to get a sneak peek into the wonderfully inspiring story. …continue reading »


Can Natural Treatments help Alleviate a Chronic Multifocal Tic Disorder?

Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourette  by Sheila RogersIf you have found yourself here after a Google search about “tics,” you may have already been to a doctor about a few chronic twitches or muscle spasms that won’t go away. After a consultation, you may have been given a diagnosis and possibly been disappointed too when you discovered that there is no known medical cure. If you are like us, and have a child diagnosed with a chronic multifocal tic disorder (tics in different locations on the body), you could have also been told by your doctor that medication, while available, does not come without side effects, and that the best treatment is to ignore the tics and carry on with your life, business as usual and hope that they fade over time.

This is basically what happened to us two years ago when we took our then almost 4-year-old son to a neurologist after he began to exhibit noticeable ticcing behaviors during the Christmas holidays. This is our story, and I attempt to tell it in hopes that other folks who find themselves reading this narrative may find a bit of usable knowledge and above all else, hope. …continue reading »