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August 8, 2011 |
Volume 3, Number 5 |
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Dear patients, dear friends, Today approximately 1 out of 8 children in the United States has a
brain development disorder. Some estimate 1 out of 6. In 2010, 1.5 million children entered school, and 1
out of every 6 five or six year olds will be diagnosed with some type of
neurological disorder that affects their ability to learn and socially
interact. Brain developmental disorders affect more than just the brain. They
often go unnoticed until children enter school or kindergarten. Often
symptoms such as tics, fidgeting, poor digestion, poor bladder tone, bed wetting,
poor stool control, poor coordination and balance, clumsiness or sensitivity
to environmental stimulants can be signs of a developmental delay with your
child. “Why so many?” you ask. In order to understand the root causes, we need
to understand how a child’s brain develops and what it needs to do so in a
healthy way. Many people think that the brain of a child is fully developed at birth.
Nothing can be further from the truth. As a matter of fact, until the age of
21 the brain is in a constant state of development and change. A child’s
brain doesn’t stop myelinating until the age of 21. For the brain to develop in a healthy way, it needs proper nourishment
and stimulation. Nourishment for the brain includes glucose, oxygen and
healthy fats transported into the brain by your blood. Parents are
responsible to give their kids a healthy diet and the necessary nutrition. The brain also needs stimulation. In the first several months, it gets
its main stimulation from movement and play. Gross motor milestones need to
be met in order for the brain to develop in a healthy way. The frontal cortex of the brain develops first. Proper myelination
of the frontal cortex plays a significant role in your child’s ability to
stand up, walk and the development of their personality. The frontal cortex
enables focused concentration, alertness, planning, learning and remembering.
It also dampens the limbic system of the brain, which causes impulses, rage,
anger and arousal. Things go wrong when the frontal cortex fails to develop normally. You
will notice hindered autonomic activity such as poor bladder and bowel
control, poor digestion, and intestinal permeability leading to a leaky gut, and
also sleeping problems and craving sweets. There is a critical timeframe to help your child. Don’t wait to nourish
and stimulate the brain of your child. Do it now. The older he or she becomes, the harder it is to make changes to the
brain. Proper nourishment comes from a healthy diet. Proper stimulation comes
from sports and movement. Eliminate TV and computer games. Learning a foreign
language and playing a musical instrument are great ways to stimulate the
brain. When things have gone wrong, you need additional expert help. We have
helped many children with developmental disorders. Here is what we suggest: v As a first step, changing
the diet is a must: Eat a high protein/high vegetable diet, eliminate foods
that cause brain inflammation and support with supplements like essential
fatty acids. This can bring about dramatic changes. v Secondly, your child needs
specific integrative treatments to dampen the inflammation in the brain and
the gut and balance the neurotransmitters in the brain. v Thirdly, with Advanced Neurofeedback therapy we can stimulate the areas of the
brain that are under-aroused and train down the over-stimulated parts of the
brain until balance is restored and new plasticity is created. Every child is different. Although your child may be labeled with ADHD or autism, every child is
different. They
may struggle with hyperactivity, behavioral control and sustained attention,
but also show comorbidities, i.e. symptoms of other
disorders, such as anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, epilepsy, specific learning disabilities, Tourette’s syndrome, and even bipolar disorder. Therefore, we need to take a qEEG brain map
of your child’s brain to measure their brainwaves in the different lobes of
their brain. Hyper or hypo-activity in the different parts of their brain
directly correlates with their cognitive, emotional and social behavior. It is important to use the data from the brain map to guide the neurofeedback therapy. When data from the qEEG map is used to normalize the brain, the comorbidities are usually effectively remediated. The qEEG brain map also reveals whether any
metabolic issues (such as gluten sensitivity) and/or emotional traumas are
contributing to their condition. In this case, you need a holistic approach
with integrative treatments to resolve those issues and maximize the
effectiveness of your child’s neurofeedback
training. It’s so rewarding to see the good changes that take place! I hope you don’t wait but
give us a call today. There is hope. We can help. Yours in good health, Dr. Samuel Jamieson, D.C. |
Do You Know a Child with a Developmental Disorder? We helped Charlotte and many others. We can help them
too. Charlotte’s story By Lena K., mother of Charlotte, age 6. “It is somewhat
difficult to comprehend how my daughter transformed from a clumsy distracted
and developmentally behind child into an eager learner who actually enjoys
dance classes very much! Three months of treatment changed our lives
completely. I discovered that Charlotte has a personality, and a beautiful
one. Now she has interests, and preferences, and most importantly skills.
Charlotte is not a slow, anxious child like her kindergarten teachers
claimed. She loves puzzles, math, ice-skating and even reading that used to
be a torturous experience for both of us. There is a whole new world within
our daughter that we’ve just recently discovered. I can’t describe how
rewarding it is to have an actual conversation with your child, to hear her
express herself in meaningful and coherent sentences. This is something we
were never able to do before the treatment. Thank you Dr. Jamieson and Hilde. This was a life
changing experience for our family. You gave Charlotte a gift she might only
come to appreciate years later. My
daughter is a happy bright little girl, and much of it we owe to Jamieson
Health Center.” You have a
critical time frame to make changes. Stimulate and nourish your child’s brain
now. From conception until the age of 21, the brain is
in a constant state of development and change. Unfortunately, the older your
child becomes, the harder it is to make changes in the brain and the more
permanent their disabilities become. There is a critical time frame to make changes,
so don’t wait. Act now! Just as in Charlotte’s case, give your child’s
brain the nourishment it needs and secondly, activate their brain with as
much stimulation as possible to help it develop. Here is what you need to do:
Step 1 - Nourish
the brain for peak outcomes: v
Your child’s brain needs
fats (fatty acids), glucose and oxygen for proper brain development. Ø
It is important to address this with a high protein/high vegetable
diet rich in healthy fats. For more information about healthy fats, see our July 2010 newsletter. In
addition, proper omega-3 supplementation is very important. Your typical omega-3
contains the fatty acids EPA and DHA. The aspect of omega-3 supplementation
that ties directly into your child’s brain function is DHA. The ratio of DHA
to EPA is very important. We offer supplements with either a 5:1, 14:1 or a
24:1 ratio of DHA to EPA for proper brain development and for children with
brain developmental disorders. Ø
Glucose is also an important nutritional factor with proper brain
development. No, this does not mean that the consumption of processed sugars
or processed carbohydrates is the food of choice for brain development. On
the contrary, I am talking about feeding your children a high protein/high
vegetable diet on a consistent basis. This will stabilize the release of
glucose so insulin levels do not spike. This will provide the long sustained
energy without the spike and crash that we often see with children. v
Eliminate the nutritional choices that are hindering your child’s development.
The following list of
foods are known to cause inflammation in the brain and need to be eliminated:
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Gluten containing foods – to learn how gluten affects the brain, read
our February 2011 newsletter. §
Sugars, starches, simple carbohydrates, sodas, fruit juices – see our June 2010 newsletter. §
Pasteurized dairy products §
All processed foods – they are high in sugar, contain trans-fats and
often gluten, and have little real nutritional value §
All foods containing trans-fats – the only fats that are bad for you,
read our August 2010 newsletter. I have had many parents in
my practice share that if they eliminate these foods, they are eliminating
most of what their kids eat. If this is your case, it’s understandable that
it’s not easy to change, but your child needs real, whole food, and you know
where the responsibility lies. It lies with you as the parents. I know that
this is tough to hear, but do you really want to hinder your child’s brain
development? Are you willing to take responsibility for multiple challenges
for your child’s health for the rest of their life? Remember that the brain
is developing well into the late teenage years, so this is extremely
important. Often parents tell me that
they are only feeding their kids what every other parent is giving to their
children. Remember that 1 out of 8 children in the United States has a brain
development disorder and some even suggest 1 out of 6. So is it really OK to
feed your child what everyone else is feeding theirs? v
Support the brain to
develop healthy neurotransmitter pathways and dampen brain inflammation. If your child’s brain is
currently inflamed, for example due to an unhealthy diet and/or gluten
sensitivity, your child urgently needs the necessary integrative treatments
and supplements to dampen this inflammation. To better understand the
connection between an inflamed gut and inflamed brain, read our April 2011 newsletter. In addition, dependant on
the specific symptoms of your child and the type of deficit disorder (for
different types of ADHD, see our February 2010 newsletter), we
need to support their brain with supplements for healthy development of
neurotransmitter pathways. The pathways of serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine
and GABA are often underdeveloped and therefore affect their behavior and the
ability to learn. For more information on neurotransmitters for specific
deficit disorders, please read our October 2009 newsletter. Step 2: Activate
the brain with AS much stimulation AS POSSiBle to help it develop. v
Dramatically decrease
passive activity such as computer games and television. Computer games are far too
stimulating to the limbic system. And TV numbs the brain. Instead focus on
activities that stimulate the frontal cortex such as play and movement. Toys
should be everywhere. Children are the most creative beings in the universe,
so let them use that gift! v
Children need to move to
develop their brains. Do you remember what we
used to do as kids? Run around, be active, play made-up games. Sports
is
an absolute must for older children. Focus on activities that require balance and
coordination.
Whatever your child is NOT good at, that’s the type of exercise or sport you
want your child to be actively involved in. For example, if your child is
clumsy, has poor coordination and poor balance, dance classes will provide
excellent exercises for the brain. v
Play a musical
instrument and learn a second language. As soon as your child is
old enough, I suggest getting them interested in playing a musical instrument
and enrolling them in learning a second language. These are very stimulating
to the brain and assist with brain development. v
Advanced Neurofeedback is the most precise and effective brain
training available today. Numerous clinical studies have shown
the effectiveness of qEEG neurofeedback
for brain developmental disorders. We have had a lot of success with children
who have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, autism,
Asperger’s and others. It’s so rewarding to see the
good changes that take place! Ø
The reason why Advanced Neurofeedback
therapy is so effective is because it is guided by the data of a qEEG brain map. The qEEG brain
map of your child’s brainwaves pinpoints specific areas of overstimulation
and/or under-arousal in your child’s brain. These areas directly correlate to emotional,
social and cognitive behavior. Therefore
the map provides the most accurate assessment of how your child’s brain
affects their behavior known today. Ø
Using the data
from the qEEG map, the neurofeedback
training will then train up the under-aroused and train down the over-stimulated
brain areas. As a result, new physical
pathways are created in your child’s brain and your child starts feeling and
behaving better. You’ll observe better attention, focus, concentration,
comprehension, behavior, communication, language, socialization, sequencing
and motor planning. Ø
Once those new
pathways are mature enough, the brain normalizes and becomes more balanced.
New plasticity is created and the changes become permanent. For
more information about brain developmental disorders and Advanced Neurofeedback, call our office at 408-517-0706 or visit our website
at http://www.jamiesonhealthcenter.com/neurofeedback.htm. |
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Advanced Neurofeedback
helped Charlotte – we can help your child too. Ø The qEEG brain map also
shows the state of the limbic system and the frontal cortex, which we explain
in the adjacent paragraph. In many children with brain development disorders,
it often shows that there is not enough beta wave activity in the frontal
cortex to dampen the high theta activity of their limbic system, which causes
them to react impulsively. A standard ADHD neurofeedback
protocol will therefore focus on training theta waves down and beta waves up. Ø
On the other
hand, many children don’t always show the typical brain map of an ADD/ADHD or
autistic child. For example, their brain map may show diffuse elevated delta slow
wave activity. This can be caused by metabolic issues such as gut
inflammation, toxicity, gluten sensitivity, a neurotransmitter deficiency or
sometimes emotional stressors or traumas. Increased delta slow wave activity
affects the integration and continuity of information between the different
lobes of the brain. This causes brain fog. Your child is not able to focus,
concentrate and respond to questions and their condition may mistakenly be
labeled as ADD. Ø
There also exist
different
ADD subtypes and comorbidities of ADD and autism.
Every child is different. Your child may not only struggle with
hyperactivity, behavioral control and sustained attention, but in many cases
children also show symptoms of other disorders such as anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant
disorder,
epilepsy, specific learning
disabilities, Tourette’s syndrome, and even bipolar
disorder. Ø
I cannot express enough the importance of using qEEG guided neurofeedback
rather than standard symptomatic neurofeedback.
When data from the qEEG map is used to normalize
the brain, the comorbidities are usually
effectively remediated. A standard ADHD
protocol cannot remediate those additional symptoms. Ø
And as mentioned before, when metabolic or emotional issues are contributing
to the disorder, you need a holistic approach to remediate those issues to maximize
the effectiveness of your child’s neurofeedback
training. So
again, don’t wait. Call us for help now. For more information about
Advanced Neurofeedback, visit our website
or read our September
2010 newsletter. A few words for prospective parents. The best time to start thinking about the healthy development of your
child’s brain is when your child is simply a glimmer in the eyes of you and
your spouse. Focusing on your own optimal health as a parent prior to conception and
during pregnancy is extremely important. Healthy parents typically conceive healthy babies. It is recognized by many in the field that often children with
developmental delays are born from a pregnant mother with hypothyroidism, adrenal
fatigue, weak immune system, and/or autoimmune challenges, among others.
Therefore it is important to address your own health issues and optimize your
health PRIOR to becoming a parent. During
pregnancy, it is obviously very important to eat a healthy whole food diet to
support the processes that develop a healthy brain. It will also be much easier for you to teach your newborn healthy
habits if you are already following these habits yourself. If you ask your
child to eat healthy, play, move and stimulate their brain, you should be
too. |
Brain developmental
disorders – affect more than just the brain. When we talk about a child’s developmental delay, we think of challenges such as
autism and ADD. But this delay often
goes unnoticed for so many children. Often symptoms such as tics,
fidgeting, poor digestion, poor bladder tone, bed wetting, poor stool control,
poor coordination and balance, clumsiness or sensitivity to environmental
stimulants can be signs of a developmental delay with your child. Current
conventional treatments for neurodevelopment disorders are to medicate your
children with amphetamines, sedatives, antipsychotics, beta blockers and/or
to use behavioral therapies. Unfortunately, medication is very addictive and
the severity of the long term side effects, especially of sedatives and
antipsychotics, is totally unknown today. Many parents who have tried
different types of behavioral therapy tell me that they see only very limited
success. Unfortunately,
none of these treatments address the root cause of the disorders. In order to
understand the root causes, we need to understand how a child’s brain
develops and what it needs to do so in a healthy way. How does
the brain develop? From conception until the age of 21, the brain is
in a constant state of development and change. The processes involved during brain
development are called neurulation, neuronal
proliferation and neural migration (after conception until birth), synaptogenesis, apoptosis and myelination
(from before birth until adolescence). You may not know that a child’s brain
doesn’t stop meylinating until the age of 21.
During the late teens, a big burst of myelination
happens, which is why teens think they know it all. For those processes to work optimally, the brain
needs nourishment and proper stimulation. Without them, things go wrong and
developmental disorders happen. Nourishment for the brain includes glucose, oxygen and healthy fats. The
blood transports these nutrients to the brain. These are not optional, they
are essential for proper development. For example, during myelination,
myelin, the protective sheath that’s created around the axons between the
neurons, is made from fats. Anyone claiming that fats are bad for you is
absolutely in the dark about how the body and especially the brain functions. You child’s brain can only develop with proper
stimulation. During the first 5 months, their brain gets its main stimulation
from movement (for example play and interaction with their parents). Your
child needs to go through different gross motor stages and reach specific
milestones in their development. Each stage and milestone that is reached is
important for proper brain development. Skipping or not reaching a milestone
is a reason for concern. Here are the important milestones during the first
few months of a child’s life:
The following language and personal/social
milestones will typically be reached next:
The role of
the frontal cortex. One of the early keys to proper brain development
is tied to the frontal cortex. The frontal cortex is the part of the brain
that myelinates first. Proper myelination
of the frontal cortex plays a significant role in your child’s ability to
stand up, walk and the development of their personality. The frontal cortex
enables focused concentration, alertness, planning, learning and remembering.
It also dampens the limbic system of the brain, which causes impulses, rage,
anger and arousal. Often children with a developmental delay have a
suppressed frontal cortex which leads to an overactive limbic system. Those
children will show: ·
impulsive behavior ·
quick temper ·
poor decision making ·
saying socially inappropriate things ·
saying things out of turn ·
inability to wait for their turn We are all, in the first place, emotional beings
and 70% of our brain is there to
inhibit the other 30%. The development of the frontal cortex also
directly correlates with autonomic activity. When the frontal cortex fails to
develop normally, your child will show increased sympathetic activity and decreased
parasympathetic activity such as:
Here is an excerpt from a recent neuroimaging study about the role of the frontal cortex: “Brain development at a macroscopic level
typically proceeds first in sensorimotor areas,
spreading subsequently and progressively into dorsal and parietal, superior
temporal, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices
throughout later childhood and adolescence. These patterns of anatomical
development parallel increasing activity in frontal cortices that subserves the development of higher-order cognitive functions
during late childhood and adolescence. Disturbances in these
developmental patterns seem to be involved centrally in the pathogenesis of
various childhood psychiatric disorders including childhood-onset
schizophrenia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, developmental
dyslexia, Tourette's syndrome, and bipolar
disorder.” (J Am Acad
Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 Nov;47(11):1233-51.) For
more information about brain developmental disorders and Advanced Neurofeedback, call our office at 408-517-0706 or visit our website
at http://www.jamiesonhealthcenter.com/neurofeedback.htm. |
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HEALTH CENTER
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Seminars we’ve taken. Since I want to make a difference in
your lives and that of your children, I’m constantly trying to keep up with
the latest developments in healing practices, clinical research and new
discoveries in the area of integrative holistic medicine. To that end, I have
attended the following seminars and conferences over the last several months: ·
Understanding
the complexity of gluten sensitivity ·
Breaking the
complex web of leaky gut ·
Neurochemistry
of childhood brain developmental disorders ·
The aging brain ·
The brain-gut
axis ·
Nutrition
Response Testing ·
NeuroIntegration therapy– Level
1 and Level 2 training ·
Autoimmune
regulation ·
Functional Endocrinology ·
NeuroEndocrine-Immune Axis
of Andropause ·
Metabolic
Biotransformation: an overview of detoxification and weight management ·
Restoring
Gastrointestinal Health ·
Practical Blood
Chemistry ·
Functional
Neurology for the Primary Care Provider ·
Neurotransmitters
and Brain ·
The
Thyroid-Brain–Immuno Connection ·
Restorative
Endocrinology: Balancing Female Hormones in Menopausal Women ·
Restorative
Endocrinology: Balancing Hormones in Cycling Women ·
The Impacts of
Estrogen on the NeuroEndocrine-Immune Axis ·
Restorative
Endocrinology: Balancing Male Hormones ·
Advanced
Nutrition Therapeutics for Addictions and OCD Some
patients have asked about previous newsletters and they can be found on our
website at http://www.jamiesonhealthcenter.com/archive.htm |
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