Author: Annie Eskeldson

I am a Classical Homeopath and a Certified Biofeedback Specialist. You can learn more about me at my website New Leaf Holistic. No information here is to be construed as medical advice. Information in posts is education only and I do not prescribe, cure, diagnose, mitigate, or treat any disease. Homeopathy and Biofeedback both have a scope of wellness, not disease. For any healing to take place, we must take back personal responsibility for our own health, educate ourselves, and work to unleash the energy the body already has inside of it to be well.
Posted in Herbs

Saving the Honor of Herbs

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

If you are still using synthetic antibiotics for PANDAS, PANS, or Lyme, this post should interest you. It’s excruciating to read about patients taking heaps of antibiotics, which for Lyme and PANDAS, can be very long term and are sometimes mixed with psychotropic drugs, which is flat out disturbing to me. Symptoms grow seemingly worse and when ‘modern’ medicine cannot provide a reason why or the tools to get through, the whole mess spirals out of control. The frustration highlights the train wreck of ‘modern’ medicine trying to cure disease.

Personally, my number one go to for healthcare is homeopathics. Once you have experienced the life changing, curing miracle of homeopathy you soon learn that synthetic drugs are dangerously suppressive causing further disease.

But homeopathic cure of the issues we had (Lyme, PANDAS, PANS, etc) worked too well. The body couldn’t keep up with the cure, so I needed to slow way down and have more control. Herbs gradually erected the stable bridge of a stronger immune system so eventually, I could cross back over to homeopathics for chronic disease healing. Herbs gave better control over pathogenic death, herxing and organ support. I used some homeopathics for organ support but the herbs definitely worked well, alongside.

With PANDAS, PANS, and Lyme it’s fairly safe to assume that leaky gut, mito, MTHFR, food allergies, endocrine imbalance plus a handful of other auto-immune diseases, even ASD, are already present so this is not the time for long-term, synthetic drug use. The pattern I observe is that dousing ourselves with phony drugs does harm while going all natural provides cure. The body is desperately hungry for authentic support to bring on healing. And frankly, it’s never the time for psychotropic drugs. Mental issues arise from the gut, not the brain. It’s hard to determine which medical field has scarred humanity the most, but psychiatry ranks right up there with greedy pharmaceutical over-use.

Herbs are the genuine, original drugs. Herbs are time tested, potent healers which can often be grown in our own yards. They are fantastic antibiotics, anti-virals, anti-inflammatories, adaptogens, organ supports, anti-parasitics, anti-fungals and so much more. So, why aren’t we using them?

To our demise, we have been outright indoctrinated that herbs are ineffectual, whimsical notions creating a platform for the tyrannical take-over of the pharma industry. The thread is sewn so deep that people will mindlessly pop a pill from a white coat, barely glossing warning labels, which often include death; but mention an herb, and suddenly they scrutinize the smallest jot and tittle.

Another leg of the deceitful agitprop unfairly slanders herbs as weeds, killing them with Round Up in an effort to own the perfectly manicured lawn, signaling affluence.

Well we can’t have our cake and eat it too.

In a predictable circle of death, Round Up is killing people by causing cancer as now determined by two US courts with over 11,000 cases spilling over to be tried. And here is a third case, just in, awarding over 2 billion to the victims who proved Round Up caused their cancer.

Monsanto, who developed DDT in the 60’s (banned) and Round Up in the 70’s, recently sold itself to Bayer before the billions in verdicts came down the pike. Don’t feel sorry for Bayer, both companies were manufacturers of Agent Orange and have peppered pasts of poisoning all life on earth. How about that aspirin a day regimen? No thanks!

If you think you’re safe, think again because Bayer also controls the GMO seed market. Ty Bollinger wrote a deeply sourced article about the history of Dow, Monsanto, and Bayer that every person should read before gardening, farming, grocery shopping, cooking, eating, raising kids or breathing.

The ingredient in Round Up that does so much damage is called glyphosate. If you are not eating organic food then you are helping yourself to some with every bite. The half life of glyphosate is 22 years, meaning that in roughly 45 years, the poison will still be in our food supply even if it is finally and rightly banned. Costco has pulled it from its shelves, but I notice that Home Depot is still selling it.

Herbs are pretty tough, sustaining attacks by both the pharma industry and the agricultural industry.

My favorite author from whom to learn about herbs is Stephen Harrod Buhner. He gives an in-depth education about herbs and the mysteries of our microscopic, pathogenic, and parasitic world which is sorely missing in our American experience. Most cultures do have deep ties to herbs, especially those that are local, and there is nothing ‘alternative’ about them. That’s an agenda-driven, pharma-political gang word meant to groom us that all methods of caring for ourselves are inferior to Western medicine and we should bully those who practice other modalities.

But in reality, herbal care is traditional and conventional, lasting thousands of years versus only a couple hundred years for Western medicine. It’s the same for homeopathy which is grounded, proven on law, not theory. Like herbal care, homeopathy has nearly been driven out by the AMA. Not to worry though, the cream always rises to the top.

Consider that dying in a hospital for a reason other than what you went in for is the 3rd leading cause of death behind number one and two which are cancer (probably partly caused by pharma, cough, cough) and heart disease, pharmaceutical drug use being the 4th leading cause of death, and that the US has the greatest infant mortality rate of developed nations, and is currently experiencing exponential increases in cancer and disease all across the board with 54% of children having an auto-immune disease. I honestly can’t think of a reason, beyond emergency surgery, to risk seeing a doctor.

Because the powers that be preferred to profit off and exploit us, we have new problems where the overuse of drugs cause leaky gut and auto-immune disease, overuse of OTC drugs causing toxicity, misuse and abuse of pharmaceuticals causing harm to the public, and just plain overuse of the medical system in general. I’m dumbfounded at the simple things for which people run to the emergency room. And now we have super-bugs which are resistant to grossly over-prescribed antibiotics.

Think about nature – there are pathogens and medicinal herbs living side by side. One doesn’t overtake the other. Pathogens are controlled by medicinal herbs and the pathogens never build up a resistance. Pharma drugs are synthetic (fake), made to imitate the real in nature (herbs), so why not just use the original in the first place?

The parallels of good and evil are so clear here. The immune system God gave us plus natural herbal medicines He supplied us with are far superior to the silver tongued snake twisting itself around all of life, just like the symbol of the AMA; how appropriate. The revolving door works like this: synthetic drugs are patented and profited from, those that patent drugs also invest into medical schools, and the graduates are new drug pushers. They haven’t been trained in nutrition or herbs. Advertising further cements the paradigm that they are superior and we become their echo chambers.

And their victims.

We have managed to recover, restore, and heal from PANDAS, PANS, ASD, Lyme and co-infections using herbs and homeopathics only. Yes, we had die off but we also had the tools we needed to cool, minimize, and manage it allowing us to see healing on the horizon despite major herxing. Because our doctor is not in business to sell drugs, he honorably understands nutrition, detox, and body systems in order to bring on legitamate healing. If you are still using counterfeit substances that the body will never recognize as healing, please consider going all natural instead. I really do believe, based on my experience and the testimony of others, that disease demands all natural remedies for true, absolute cure.

Posted in Mother's Day

The Best Mother’s Day Ever

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

I don’t know how most Moms celebrate Mother’s day but at our house, celebration is fairly non-existent. Same goes for Father’s day, birthdays, Christmas…

Imperceptibly, I guess we lost interest in holidays or getting too excited about anything, really. Sadly, it’s kind of the norm for families severely affected by autism, PANDAS, PANS, Lyme, and other auto-immune disease.

Illness doesn’t take a back-seat for special days, flares still cause pain, sleepless nights snowball into another weary day, whatever day that may be, extra monies for festivities are funneled into healing, and we’re pretty accustomed to not fitting in at otherwise normal gatherings. We’ve lived this way for so many years that despite receiving a heartening card in the mail foreboding it’s annual arrival, I never suspected I’d have the best Mother’s Day ever.

I woke up to a fairly typical morning. My son got up at 4 or 5am having the urge to poop. Sounds like a tough start, but nowadays, he can get up all by himself and do his business with minimal help. He was in a joyful, playful mood, entertaining himself for a couple of hours while I slept in. It was light sleep because I was listening for him to need me, but he didn’t, so it was rest all the same.

At my leisure, I got up, high fived myself that the kids left no wet bedding to launder, and made breakfast. Granted, I made breakfast for people who inhaled it and left nothing for me, but they also busied themselves, happily chatting and engaging each other leaving me to do the dishes in a warm, loving atmosphere. I cherish time to myself enough to choose it over a meal.

In the afternoon, we played outside, worked a bit in the garden, went for a bike ride and took the dog for a walk. My son confidently pedaled, trying to splash through puddles and, being ornery, decided he would ride his bike with no hands. My daughter found hot rocks camouflaged in some gravel. She didn’t know what they were, but I explained that when I was a kid, we used to rub them on concrete and then ‘burn’ our friends with them. It was an amusing memory to ponder and my daughter wickedly enjoyed testing hot rocks out on me.

If I rewind just eighteen short months ago, our lives had spiraled far out of control because of PANDAS, PANS, and Lyme. I was a 24/7 nurse to my family, exhausted in every capacity, keeping OCD triggers at bay in an attempt to prevent hours of rage and aggression from one child which would drain my emotional bucket while nursing another child with the physical ailments of auto-immune encephalitis and Lyme, usurping my mental and physical energy. I lived from fire drill to fire drill on precious little sleep just to keep my family satiated with palliative care. I had no respite, but I did have plenty of laundry, dishes, meals, homeschooling, and therapy to do. My husband, like most husbands in this situation, was always gone at yet another job because there isn’t enough money in the world to handle this God-forsaken mountain of man-made affliction.

I certainly never envisioned my son being potty trained, playing safely on his own, or riding a bike; he couldn’t even poop, or walk, or get out of bed and in duplicitous fashion, he could never sleep. I never imagined my daughter living free of rage, aggression, and OCD flares that would turn my sweet girl into a monster.

At the advice of a friend, we started seeing Dr. Jaban Moore who turned our lives around. Within 6 months, we were headed in the right direction healing leaky gut, eczema, food allergies, thyroid, detoxing parasites, pathogens, and metals and here I am, just 18 months later, having the best Mother’s Day in a decade or more.

I thank God every single night and day for the healing He has rained down on us. We aren’t done yet but we are in a content, pleasant place. I might even sense the smallest crack of light illuminating the notion that celebrating the special days might happen in our home once again.

Posted in ASD, detox, Herbs, Homeopathics, Lyme, New Leaf Holistic, PANDAS, PANS, Parasites

On Detox Road – The Protocol

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

NOTE: This post, originally written back in 2019, received a make-over in 2023. The original post was riddled with so many products that were purse bursting expensive and, I believe, ultimately caused kidney and gallbladder problems so I cannot recommend them. We had a huge crash and I felt my entire being just melt away after we had come so far. It was a huge let down. I was very disappointed in our doctor, the products, and mostly myself so I went back to the drawing board, found new modalities – namely Biofeedback. I went back to school to learn how to recover as it was clear we just could not receive any help. We were able to get back on track but it took a couple of years of education, research, money, trial, error, and a whole lot of patience.

The number one (and terribly loaded) question I’m asked is “which herbs did you use?” or “What protocol did you follow?” So, I’m listing everything in this post. A loaded question gets a loaded answer and this one IS loaded with information.

Detox (for us) has meant getting rid of symptom-causing pathogens. We also needed to detox biofilm, biotoxins like ammonia and mold, metals, retro-viruses, and other toxins whether they naturally came out with the parasites or pathogens or were individually targeted.

Many of the of the products we used in the beginning came from the professional line of Cell Core Biosciences products which can also be obtained at the Microbe Formulas website. A handful of these I might still recommend, case by case. However, if the organs are not properly working, namely liver and kidneys, you simply should not do this alone. You have to have good functional organs – the liver, gallbladder, kidneys, leaky gut healed, and the ability to evacuate feces beforehand. We used all of the below, and probably the only ones I would suggest to friends today are Paras 1 and 2, and Biotoxin Binder – and only IF the client is able to regularly drink large amounts of liquid to flush out the system. I have found other, less expensive items and protocols that work efficiently and safely, without all these costly products and pills.

  • Para 1
  • Para 2
  • Kidney and Liver Detox
  • Lymph Detox
  • Biotoxin Binder
  • HM-ET Binder
  • Viral and Toxins Binder
  • Biomolecular Oxygen
  • Bio-Active Carbon Minerals
  • Bowel Mover
  • MitoATP
  • ViRadChem Binder
  • Tudca
  • L-Glutathione

But there were others we needed for parasites and Lyme co-infections. As part of my 2023 update – we used all of these below in 2019; however, I deduced that part of PANS for us was chronic Lyme. I began following Buhner’s plans for Lyme. As a practitioner myself now, I still revert back to mostly Buhner’s protocols, classic homeopathy, and some products from Des Bio and Anova health for supports. These are minimal and affordable.

  • Morinda Supreme
  • Clarkia
  • Formula III from Nature’s Pharmacy
  • Prep Phase by Systemic Formulas
  • Body Phase by Systemic Formulas
  • Brain Phase by Systemic Formulas (up and coming)

Apex Energetics products helped leaky gut and provided support.

  • Repair Vite, Repair Vite – SE, Repair Vite – GT As a 2023 Update, I would not recommend this. We used Biofeedback and Intestinal Restore and Des Bio products for a more effective and lasting healing.
  • Clear Vite PCH
  • Neuro-Flam
  • Neuro – O2
  • Vitamin D3

Also used as a binder for extra ammonia from both die off and protein digestion:

  • N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) from Zymogen

I also used an array homeopathics on the side. I want to interject here that homeopathics are my number one go to for ailments because as long as the immune system is still fairly intact, homeopathy alone will cure most issues. I have witnessed it countless times using it solely in our home for about a dozen years. I also became a clinical, classical Homeopath myself. However, I have also witnessed that when the immune system is too far debilitated with systemic and chronic infection, classic homeopathy alone cannot make the body function properly the way it can with an intact immune system. Herbs and supplements better that main role while using binders to alleviate the die off symptoms. As we had more immune healing, homeopathics became more effective; but herbs allowed me better detox control and support until we got to that point. Homeopathics are very case specific and require a homeopathic intake to prescribe, especially so with chronic symptoms on board. If you are looking for a professional homeopath come over to New Leaf Holistic and book an appointment.

Other herbs I used came from Sage Woman Herbs and Woodland Essence.

  • Ashwagandha (adrenals in the pm)
  • Chinese Skullcap
  • Cryptolepis
  • Rhodiola (adrenals in the am)
  • Milk Thistle (liver)
  • Dandelion (liver)
  • Passion Flower (anxiety)
  • Cordyceps (lung support)
  • Chinese Cat’s Claw (for damaged physiological structures)
  • Stephania (Bell’s palsy)
  • Bidens Pilosa (excellent anti-inflammatory and calms digestion tract)
  • Red Sage (lymph drainage)
  • Dan Shen
  • Greater Celandine
  • Bacopa

Other detox aids we used to either soothe, support, or further detox:

  • Ionic Foot Bath (further detoxes, so be careful!)
  • Castor Oil Liver Packs
  • Infrared Heat
  • Massage
  • Reflexology
  • Chinese Body Clock

Miscellaneous Supplements:

  • ALA
  • Magnesium
  • Liposomal Glutathione
  • Zinc
  • B6 (as P5P)
  • Vibrant Blue Oils (essential oils) – I used spleen, kidney, bladder, gall bladder, nerve repair, liver, parasympathetic, thyroid, and anti-inflammatory.
  • Vitamin B-12
  • NAC
  • Vitamin C
  • Quercitin

Diet was also key.

  • AIP protocol
  • Organic food
  • Filtered water
  • Remove food allergens
  • Remove inflaming foods – gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, nightshades, sugar, GMO’s
  • Be aware of oxalates, salicylates, phenols, and histamines and adjust diet.

This has been a long haul since I had to take care of ailing members as well as go back to school. If you are coping with PANDAS – the flares, auditory hallucinations, severe OCD, rages and aggression – then I would seriously look into healing by detoxing. It really has helped us, although if your case is severe, plan on it taking a couple of years. If your immune system is still pretty good, you most likely will snap back very quickly! But the cases I have experience with are very extreme and severe with organ problems and a high level of debility, so this is the angle I am coming from. Over the last 10 years, Biofeedback has been, by far, the top aid for recovery. It was so good that I went back to school to become a Certified Biofeedback Specialist. Today, I can use this to glean useful information, deliver frequency to reduce the stress surrounding these ailments, and retrain muscles and brain waves of the body to help it to wellness again. Our life of sheer hot-mess-hell has been turned around. Bright futures are replacing abysmal uncertainty. I now have rest instead of sleepless nights followed by trauma filled days. I still read about parents treating PANDAS with astronomical amounts of antibiotics and psychotropic drugs which points to doctors who really don’t understand the massive amounts of damage alongside die off being caused. Parents don’t understand why cure isn’t happening and why symptoms get worse. PANDAS is not mental at it’s root anyway so why the psychotropic drugs? If you’re looking for a better way come over to New Leaf Holistic and lets work together.

Posted in detox

Disease needs Detox

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

As it becomes more evident to me just how disease arises from toxins, I can’t help but wonder if detox holds the key to curing most diseases not truly born of genetic origin, that is, a bizarre mix of chromosomes at the time of conception.

For example, the notorious MTHFR gene deletion can be from one parent, both parents, or neither as it can mutate on it’s own given enough environmental auto-immune assault.

I believe the assault and the healing are two sides of the same coin. Just as environmental assaults turn genes on and off, cooling down the immune system can switch them back.

An example of a true genetic disorder would be Down’s syndrome. This is not an auto-immune disorder that could be healed, however, autism in a child with Down’s can be healed or greatly relieved.

Autism, ADHD, Alzheimer’s, dementia are not genetic, they are environmental and the only difference between them that I can truly see is the age of diagnosis and severity.

Dr. Chris Exley, a worldwide expert of inorganic compounds, found incredibly high amounts of aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Then he found even higher amounts in the brains of autistic children. Also pointing to environmental cause is a study from Duke University where newborn, banked cord blood is being used to help heal children with autism. The cord blood re-introduces enough healthy, original cells to overcome damage done by environmental or pharmaceutical toxins. Seems smarter to avoid the damage in the first place, but I digress. Science (medical industry complex) is now so advanced (tyrannical) that they profit off both causing the damage and reversing it. You don’t mind offering up your family as guinea pigs, do you? Hope not, because unless you research, no one’s going to ask for your permission.

I would add MS and ALS to the group of environmental diseases because today, as more patients, parents, and adult children of aging parents are in hot pursuit of holistic healing, we are learning that some cases of MS and ALS are actually Lyme.

Crohn’s, Celiac, asthma, and IBS are some other diseases I do not believe to be genetic, but environmental and could be healed or, at least, greatly relieved by detox.

Metals in the brain alongside a clogged gut stopping neurotransmitters piled onto an auto-immune system that cannot methylate all act conjointly to cause the outward behaviors of a body that is screaming for help. It looks like autism, ADHD, PANDAS, PANS, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer, asthma, eczema, Lyme, Crohns, celiac, allergies, food allergies, thyroid problems, the list is endless. Help comes by de-escalating the immune system, healing the auto-immune organs and detoxing the body, naturally.

Most diseases caused by environmental assault don’t even deserve a name. Instead, the symptoms should be properly identified such as: leaky gut, metal poisoning, vaccine injury, aluminum toxicity, pesticide poisoning, parasite infection, retro-viral contamination, etc. Giving symptoms a ‘disease name’ removes responsibility from an industry of injury and places blame square on patients’ genes. What a snake-like, convenient way out of liability which actually turns patients into victims. To add insult to the injury, symptoms are packaged into a tidy disease box complete with required synthetic drug use…for life. Does anyone else see the revolving door here? What if I were to add government control of ‘healthcare’ into the mix?

Instead of symptoms being proof of ‘disease’ and lifelong dependence, it should instead prompt us to see that our bodies are communicating the nature of our problem. For example, eczema is a waving red flag that the liver is clogged, the gut is compromised, and the kidneys are not filtering blood very well, therefore, the body is forced to move toxins out of the body and through the skin. Amazing how our bodies communicate! Our answer then is not a tube of steroid to cover it all up and shove it back in but instead should be to heal the gut, the liver, the kidneys, the blood, and let the toxins like metals, Tylenol, glyphosate, pharma drugs, etc be naturally detoxed.

How about suddenly becoming forgetful or losing speech or a nose dive in executive functioning ability, at any age? This is the body telling us the neurotransmitters could be clogged and there are metals in the brain. Aluminum, mercury, other metals, leaky gut and toxins that destroyed the gut need to be detoxed.

How about an onslaught of food allergies? This is a sign of a leaky gut. Any indigestion, GERD, chronic constipation or diarrhea are first signs of leaky gut. Leaky gut is the result of a lining damaged so bad that undigested food particles now leak into the blood stream. Those larger particles are unrecognized by the body so the auto-immune system sends the body into attack mode causing an allergic response to otherwise harmless foods. Leaky gut is a colossal problem because it will snowball into brain, auto-immune, and organ problems. Glyphosate, GMO food, Ibuprofen overuse, antibiotic overuse, and pharmaceuticals need to be detoxed.

Same goes for asthma, thyroid, IBS, the list is endless, and I would include cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, and AIDS because in addition to all the toxins mentioned, another contaminant called retro-viruses are also complicit. Decades ago, Dr. Judy Mikovits found that retro-viruses were contaminating blood supplies causing HIV and cancer. They are also found in vaccines. Because what she found was covered up at the federal level, she became a whistleblower, was jailed, her career ruined, and a gag order placed on her. Here is another podcast for you to do your own research regarding retro-viruses.

If processed and GMO foods, glyphosate, pharmaceuticals, OTC’s, and retro-viruses are causing so much auto-immune disease, it seems obvious to avoid them in order to heal. Herbs, homeopathics, supplements, ionic foot baths, liver packs, essential oils, massage, reflexology, clean and organic food, and filtered water are the fundamentals we’ve used to repair and restore our health.

The symptoms we experienced were leaky gut, food allergies, asthma, severe eczema, ear infections, severe ASD, auto-immune encephalitis, hypothyroidism, IBS, and celiac and these were all spiraling downward into what looked like MS and mast cell disorder. We were bed bound and losing the ability to even walk. Just as I began researching MS, a total stranger suggested looking into Lyme instead and sure enough, when I did, all of the the bells and whistles sounded off. I’d found our answer. Soon, a friend shared her Lyme-literate chiropractor who works as a functional doctor and he has been bettering our lives ever since.

We are still a work in progress after about 18 months but we’ve had an incredible whirlwind of healing. Our bed bound patient went hiking and rock hopping in the Smokey mountains just six months after beginning treatment, swam all summer long, learned how to ride a bike, got out of diapers at age 9, and even lost 75 ATEC points. Another patient of ours no longer suffers from debilitating symptoms of PANDAS like auditory hallucinations, extreme OCD, or aggressive rages. We’ve done it all naturally via detox and organ support.

Posted in Biofeedback, detox, Herx, New Leaf Holistic

From Herx to Healing

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

Long ago, doctors Jarisch and Herxheimer discovered that when patients took antibiotics for syphilis and Lyme, a systemic inflammatory response would occur because dying pathogens’ ruptured cell walls would spew their endotoxic entrails into the patient’s bloodstream. This healing backlash is called a Jarish-Herxheimer reaction and is often shortened to ‘herx’.

My time spent detoxing proved beyond any doubt that ‘herx’ is solid science. In fact, for deep rooted problems, herxing is as bad as living with the disease itself. Herx does taper but the time it takes for the pendulum to swing into better health depends upon infections and how systemic they are. In my experience, herx lasts longer and is more intense than what a superficial online search will admit. And, like clockwork, herx returns every single time you detox to a deeper level.

Our first infections to detox were parasites and infections which took a couple years. This is in stark contrast to the common echo-chamber of killing critters over a moon phase. At first, everything got worse. A lot worse. The symptoms already ailing us intensified and new ones piled on. My former knee jerk reaction would have put on the brakes.

Internet searches will lead to articles that conservatively characterized herx symptoms as ‘mild’ or ‘flu-like’ or ‘resembling a cold’. These delicate descriptions make herxing sound like lounging on the couch nestled in a well-loved robe instead of the life stopping, hot mess of death-warmed-over-hell we experienced. I found one article that truly related to our experience from Dr. Jay Davidson. It’s rather lengthy but comforting.

We used Cell Core binders (the only one I can truly recommend is the Biotoxin Binder and is fabulous for mold. Edit 2023) to help absorb toxins and reduce the symptoms of herx. Some family members had more emotional/mental symptoms of herx which we controlled with binders, supplements, herbs, and homeopathics.

One of many advantages of herbs over synthetic drugs is that you can change doses without causing resistance thereby giving more control over herx symptoms by dropping dosage down to reduce aggravations, then titrating back up.

Most of the herbs we used can be found at Sage Woman Herbs and Woodland Essence. I tend to follow Stephen Buhner’s protocols for Lyme and co-infections, but I do like to use frequency via biofeedback as well.

I also use homeopathics for comfort and though I could list them, it is doubtful they would be the right ones for others. As a homeopath, I can tell you that each remedy is so individual specific, it really requires a professional homeopathic intake. You can contact me at New Leaf Holistic if you need help.

Using biofeedback to monitor while carefully noting patterns of symptoms and behaviors alongside thoughtful observation of improvements in relation to herbals, homeopathics and biofeedback, I have been able to design some very good protocols. Despite the ‘homeopathy only’ rock that many homeopaths will die on, my experience shows herbs and homeopathics do, in fact, work dynamically and necessarily together. It has nothing to do with homeopathy being wrong, it’s not. It’s spot on, and for in-tact immune systems, it’s my number one go to. For everything. For cure.

Unfortunately, today’s immune systems compromised by metals, resistant pathogens, biowarfare agents, chemicals, injured DNA/RNA, gmo foods, and bad water, are not going to be helped by classical homeopathy alone.

Other tools I use for comfort are essential oils, foot baths, liver packs, massage, reflexology, a clean, organic diet and filtered water. Liver packs are incredibly soothing. We needed them daily at first and then gradually reduced. Foot baths provided relief of both herx and PANDAS symptoms, even during flares, but understand that they are a detox tool, so they will cause additional detox for several days after the foot bath inadvertently causing even more herx. So, you want to start slow, once/week, 5 minutes, and work up.

If you are dealing with ASD, PANS, PANDAS, Lyme, and other auto-immune issues such as allergies and food allergies, leaky gut, thyroid, etc. don’t detox alone. I’ve tried and quit which means wasting money and worse, time. Count on infections coursing far deeper than you know making detox harder than you planned and lasting longer than you imagined. A well trained, knowledgeable professional can take you from zero to hero by providing fresh perspective and quality products to do an effective, efficient job while keeping you as comfortable as possible. Contact me at New Leaf Holistic if I can help you.








Posted in ASD, Biofeedback, detox, Herbal, Homeopathic, New Leaf Holistic, PANDAS, PANS, Parasites

Asd, Pans, Pandas, Lyme, and Parasites

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

I have spent countless hours reviewing medical journals and articles, as well as poring over experiences posted in medical/parental support groups in hopes of finding help for my family coping with severe ASD. The anguish I read and the agony we have lived has fully traumatized me. I have worked so hard on these issues in our home, and I know you have too. I have done everything minus stem cell and now I wish I had started here, with parasites, first. I hope I can save you years of distress. (Edit 2023 – I just went back to college. It was clear that no one could help us. I focused on Homeopathy, Biofeedback, and natural medicine. It is clear to me still, that detox needs to happen, but Biofeedback, Homeopathy, and Herbal were the clear winning protocols for us and what I focused on in school. I opened my own practice and there is a link below the article if you would like help.)

We had been through the whole ASD debacle which, for us, is vaccine injury and vitamin K poisoning as per pediatrician MD and immunologist MD/PhD.

I have been recovering our family for about 15 years, half of which I didn’t even realize I was using biomed. Diet and gut were obvious issues that I somewhat addressed during the early years. But intentionally, I have used biomed for over seven years implementing diet changes, supplementation, safe chelation which was incredibly helpful for one of mine; scores of blood, urine, stool, and hair samples, allergy shots, camel milk, homeopathy, MAPS doc, tons of therapy, the whole nine yards.

But nothing kicked recovery square into high gear like connecting the dots of ASD, PANS, PANDAS, Lyme and parasites. Once this connection was made we got full relief from PANDAS, became able to control PANS while ASD and Lyme continue to die a slow death.

We did not use a single (pharma) antibiotic, we definitely did not use a single psychotropic drug. And, from my research, all of the above makes things worse.

Why?

Because the body is already boiling over with infection, the gut is often so wholly ruined, and the immune system can no longer methylate (process) the destructive properties of synthetic drugs out of the body. Let’s get real here. The toxic, chemical ingredients of pharma drugs aren’t recognized by the body as healing. There is nothing in the body composed of those chemicals. How could the body be healed by anything that un-natural, indeed toxic?

The strain causes the body to completely snowball as it tries to rid itself of manufactured medicine. What’s worse, the drugs are suppressive, pushing illness further into the body, exponentially risking further auto immune disease. We need infections to come out, not cram them back in. We see this all the time with eczema and steroid use: eczema >asthma>food allergies>leaky gut>Crohns> ASD or other mental illness. We are brainwashed to not see the association, but critically connecting the dots reveals that steroid use, especially, causes mental and behavioral problems. Nowadays, so many of us are eyewitnesses to the destructive nature of Western medicine that it is difficult to defend it anymore.

We manage the complications of PANDAS and PANS, ASD, Lyme and co-infections by detoxing parasites and infections using biofeedback, herbals, homeopathics. As a side note, we have also regenerated the organs as well. Namely the digestive organs, thyroid, kidneys, and liver. Lyme can do a lot of damage to the organs so restoring them is important. Signs that these are healed are regular and proper bowel movements without pain, better emotions and mental ability, reduced food allergens, eczema clearing up, regular urination without pain, gallstones and kidney stones reduced or eliminated, and the colic of the same organs reduced and eliminated as well.

The surprising benefit of parasite and infection detox was witnessing the symptoms of ASD, PANDAS and PANS melt away. It was gradual, yet obvious, and despite the length of time it takes to properly detox, it did not take long for the benefits to appear. Flares lost intensity and frequency, triggers disappeared, trivial incidents causing psycho-drama lasting for hours no longer tormented us, auditory hallucinations ceased, OCD and repetitive questions stopped, and symptoms of ‘ASD’ improved. One of my family members dropped a whopping 75 points from ATEC score and finally became potty trained at the age of nine. These are just a handful of many examples.

If you are wanting assistance with detox via Biofeedback, herbal, and homeopathy get in touch with me at New Leaf Holistic!




Posted in Food, New Leaf Holistic, Nutrition

Diet

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

Healing from auto-immune disease could be thought of as a three legged stool because organ support, detox, and diet all need to happen equally and simultaneously. The diet leg is often thought to be the most challenging.

It truly isn’t.

There is no leviathan list to which you must adhere or succumb to a dire fate. Yes, there are a few obvious no-no’s but sticking to what you can have automatically saves you from what you can’t. The rest of the food ‘sins’ are based on personal reactions so unless you enjoy giving yourself hives, kidney stones, or anaphylaxis, you already naturally steer clear. So instead of scaling an impossible cliff, embrace a simple menu of foods:

Meats, vegetables, fruits, and filtered water.

Keep it simple. Enjoy what you can have, protect yourself from what you can’t.

The imagined difficulty really stems from deep-rooted, criminal programming hard driven into our psyche. Overcoming the indoctrination is where the hard work lies. For most this means unlearning everything core to our beliefs and traditions and getting rid of food addictions that are killing us.

How were we bamboozled into believing boxed food contained nutrition? How could we be conned that processed food-kibbles were digestible? How could we be so profoundly duped into thinking that unpronounceable ingredients were food instead of poison? How could we be outfoxed to feed garbage to our families? Thinking critically on these matters should enrage us enough that overhauling our diet and health becomes a mission.

Here are some additional ideas to ponder:

Make this about health, not weight. Think of diet as a noun instead of a verb. Diet (n) is nutrition. Diet (v) means cumbersome, faddish, expensive, shaming programs focused on weight loss. The two words are not synonymous. Good nutrition sustains a healthy immune system for life and when immunity is top priority, weight loss is the natural, effortless side effect. The Auto-Immune Protocol is an easy place to start. Here is one of my favorite sites with printable lists.

Allergy testing is a must. Continuing to ingest inflaming foods wastes every second and penny spent on detox and organ support. Functional doctors routinely test IgE, IgA, and IgG responses to allergens while allopathic, conventional allergists commonly and oddly, do not. But all three tests are necessary to root out any inflaming foods. Auto-immune symptoms, and dark rings under the eyes are classic red flags for food allergens or intolerances that may not be picked up by IgE alone. Often the foods we crave are doing the worst damage, even if it is otherwise healthy. An organic cucumber is never good for us if we are allergic to it. Positive reactions will become your own personal list of things you cannot have.

Buy organic. Glypohosate, the main ingredient in Round Up, is used in nearly all crops for weed/pest control and/or the drying process after harvest. In our experience pesticides have been a major culprit in our auto-immune disorders. Pull up the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen lists to help you know when to squeeze by with inorganic produce. For example, potatoes and apples are always dirty unless labeled organic so always buy organic. All corn is GMO unless labeled organic. Asparagus and mangoes are not common glyphosate crops so I buy regular when money is tight. Produce for sale but not in season is a red flag for genetically modified crops. Hopefully use of glyphosate will be illegal soon as it has been proven to cause cancer. Monsanto lost a lost a major case here and an even bigger one here. There are more than 11,000 cases in the wings.

Keep to the perimeter of the store where the produce, meats, and non-dairy products are shelved. The aisles in between are filled with processed junk so try to stay out of them as much as possible. Once you have healed inflammation enough to add in some organic, gluten free grains and flours you should be able to resist the packaged snacks because the cravings for sugar or crunchy carbs should be gone by then.

Keep a Food Journal. Note any reactions which could result from histamines, oxalates, phenols, salicylates, glutamates or nightshades. I’ll write about those in another post.

The List of No-No’s.

  • No cane sugar.
  • No artificial colors or flavors
  • No MSG
  • No added chemicals or unnatural preservatives
  • Can’t pronounce it? Don’t eat it
  • No soy

Cane sugar is as addictive and destructive as any drug or alcohol and high fructose corn syrup is also the devil. No artificial colors or flavors; I’ve known parents who have completely cured their children of adhd by removing these alone.

No MSG. MSG contains glutamate which is an excitotoxin. No added chemicals or unnatural preservatives. If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it. All soy is GMO unless labeled organic, however, it is estrogenic and I wouldn’t feed it to children.

Read Labels. If you stick to what you can have (meats, veggies, fruits, and filtered water) you will naturally avoid the bad stuff and there are no labels to worry about. But, if you have to buy packaged goods, read labels. You should understand each ingredient, if not, leave it behind.

Natural sugar substitutes for cooking and baking are Xylitol (also good for teeth), coconut sugar, organic stevia, and even mashed bananas are excellent in recipes. Do not use NutraSweet or Sweet and Low, they are synthetic chemicals.

We are what we eat SO eat what we are. Our cells recognize meat, vegetables, and fruits as healing because we are composed of the same matter. Our cells are mystified by the indigestible, synthetic twaddle of packaged food. I extend this parallel to synthetic, suppressive pharmaceutical and OTC drugs as well.

The bottom line is frankenfood makes our cells weak, broken, and mal-nourished. How can we expect these same fragile cells to show up to the auto-immune front line and win for us everyday? That makes no sense. We will lose every time. Game over.

Fresh, organic, non-inflaming foods are the crucial tools our bodies need to fight the ongoing war at the cellular level. A strengthened and fortified immune system will battle pathogens all on its own. Healthy cells win the war and victory means life-long immunity to a horde of germs and a productive, enjoyable life.

If you are already down and out with auto-immune disease and symptoms, I feel for you. We were too. We had lost the ability to function in any sense of normal capacity. Organ support, detox, and diet dramatically turned everything around for us. We already had diets mastered years before detoxing which gave us an enormous edge to healing. If you haven’t started cleaning up your diet, don’t wait. Food is truly medicine and nourishment we need. Your cells will thank you by taking care of you the way they are supposed to. God gave us an incredible system to fight disease. The evil that wants to take us out is truly maddening.

If I can help you contact me at New Leaf Holistic!


Posted in Biofeedback, detox, New Leaf Holistic, PANDAS, PANS, Parasites

Getting Rid of Parasites

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

This post was originally written in April of 2018. It has been edited and updated.

Like so many other issues, I fell down the parasite rabbit hole long before it was cool, and intuitively knew this was a problem we were dealing with. I dug up articles, scouted websites, read books, unearthed videos, discovered ‘herx’. Our MD/PhD immunologist with thirty years of experience (allopathic doctor Trusty Dusty) humored me by ordering tests. They all came back negative, of course.

Going rogue, I tried some herbs during full moon phases, but symptoms just seemed to get worse, so, discouraged, I gave up. I mean, I could trust Trusty Dusty’s negative test results, right?

Wrong. So painfully wrong.

When we spiraled from ‘home bound’ to ‘bed bound’ a friend suggested a Chiropractor/Kinesiologist who practices functional medicine and is Lyme Literate. After enduring years of Doctor Trusty Dusty’s’ incredulous protocols which left us broke, sick, and sometimes fearing death, I had nothing to lose.

At our first appointment, sure enough, the new doctor confirmed what my gut intuition said years before.

Parasites. Cringe. I knew he was right. Not only were they there, but now they had had years to multiply and get worse.

For all my time probing and scrutinizing in the rabbit hole I still had no idea how insanely hard excommunicating creepy crawlies would be or how long it would take. I had no real-life scope of herxing or experience with a healing crisis. I had barely put the parasite piece into the detox puzzle. I knew the language but had zero experience. I certainly had no clue that killing parasites would be a key to most of our auto-immune disease.

What We Did

Using Kinesiology, our new doctor determined what kinds of parasites we were dealing with and what products were best to fight them. Burned out from Trusty Dusty’s barbaric blood draws, kinesiology seemed to be the perfect, less invasive, alternative for us. Surprisingly, we muscle tested best for differing protocols despite have similar issues.

HIndsight Edit 2023: At the end of the day, which was about 4 years, we had used a ton of products that I don’t recommend anymore, they have all been deleted from my site. Additionally, we spent a lot of money with a doctor whose fees went insanely through the roof as his social media footprint grew larger and larger. Granted, staff needed to be added. I get that. And despite having massive improvements of reduced symptoms and better ATEC scores; one of mine ended up having major organ problems that the doctor somehow just didn’t muscle test for. They were not new; they had been present all along yet never detected by kinesiology? That didn’t sit well with me. These were major organs and major issues. This really upset me, on a betrayal level, and sent me into an overwhelming and life-altering tailspin. Determined, I went back to school myself to learn how to heal them. Also, I do feel the products made the issue worse, hence I do not list any of them anymore. I was more than discouraged at this point. So discouraged, in fact, that as I mentioned, I went back to school myself.

How long to detox parasites?

What I have learned is that a parasite detox will be super short for some – like maybe an entire moon phase or 28-30 days. Or it will be many, many months, like eighteen for example. It could also be something that is ongoing for life. I can’t say which it will be for you.

When I observe symptoms that manifest first as behavior, then I know the parasites are gaining an upper hand and need to be swatted back down. I do not believe infections are ever ‘cured’ but rather managed.

We essentially do not ‘kill’ parasites and this mindset isn’t good for the detox. “They know.” Instead, work for an equilibrium where the parasites exist – because some have good functions for us – but our human immune system has them under control. I think the parasites are happier like this too.

What I was not expecting was that symptoms of PANS/ PANDAS were greatly reduced or gone. Auditory hallucinations, debilitating flares that used to happen out of the blue, at any given moment, ceased and the triggers that caused the flares melted away. Repetitive questions stopped. ATEC scores plummeted. One of my family members dropped 75 ATEC points over the course of a year. Auto-immune Encephalitis (AE) and (PANS) flares are now under control and preventable, thyroid is regenerated, severe food allergies are minimal now. I could go on and on, the health we have regained is phenomenal.

On My Own? Or With Guidance?

If the case is chronic and systemic, if there are multiple auto-immune problems then I suggest guidance with someone who can help with drainage and support of the main detox systems of the body – kidney, liver, spleen, the glands, the digestive system, skin, etc. For us, the most effective methods included biofeedback, homeopathic, herbal, diet, and other supports like liver packs, essential oils, massage, etc.

After trying many types of modalities, I can say that Biofeedback to moniter, guide, and provide frequencies to reduce the stress surrounding every issue of detox, along with homeopathic and herbal support in conjunction with good diet and nutrition won the day for us. If you are looking for affordable help using common sense and minimal products, come see me over at New Leaf Holistic and book an appointment. I have an email at the bottom that website if you have questions.

Posted in New Leaf Holistic, Parasites

Parasite 411

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

I know. Gasp. Parasites reside only in dirty, unsanitary, filthy kids and people of third- world countries, right? Dogs, cats, and farm animals have them, but not clean, normal, people, right again?

Wrong. So wrong.

Our non-education about parasites and their cataclysmic role is a colossal fail in American health.

You have them, I have them. The rich and famous have them as much as the poor, the educated have them as much as a third-world country has them. It isn’t even a question of having them, it’s how many do you have and what kind are they?

If our auto-immune system is good then we have a healthy count of parasites. A strong immune system keeps them in check, that is, naturally gets rid of them if counts get too high. They are never completely eradicated. There is a good homeostasis or balance within the body. All of nature is like that.

But, if we have auto-immune disease, which more than half of our population now has, then we have parasite overgrowth. Think about it. If our body is attacking itself through allergies, asthma, eczema, encephalitis, the gut, the thyroid, the bowels, etc. there is no way it is strong enough to keep those parasite in check. The natives proliferate, attempt to take over, systemically get into muscle, bone, tissue, and organs causing irritation, behavior, inflammation, pain, infection, and disease.

In our own experience we have significantly reduced or eliminated most symptoms of auto-immune disease by getting rid of parasites. Parasites are not only infectious in themselves, but they also store metals and pathogens. They even build their very own infrastructure called biofilm which clogs up our pathways including neurotransmitters that communicate with the brain from the gut.

Stephen Buhner, in his Lyme books, explains the incredible world of parasites to give them respect, not that they deserve it as parasites, but because we are disproportionately disadvantaged in our knowledge of them. We are so lax, doing nothing to help our bodies fight them on a regular basis and America’s poor diet of processed, boxed, synthetic, sugary, yeasty food feeds their voracious appetite.

Parasites are able to communicate with each other and even conspire across species. They are an enemy and have one goal: to control us for their own agenda. They can trick our body into doing things it doesn’t normally do, they drain us of our nutrients, cause pain and destruction to our organs, poison our blood, and even bore into bones.

They can cause erratic behavior….hmm….ASD, PANDAS, PANS, AE anyone?

Getting control of parasites certainly provided healing in areas of all of those diseases (and others) for us.

I don’t know everything about parasites. But we are eye-witnesses to their catastrophic destruction of our lives. What were the symptoms? How come we didn’t know before completely de-railing?

Simple. We had never been educated. Very strange considering generations before us were educated and regularly treated parasites through diet and herbs.

Is the medical system educated?

Based on our then regular doctor being an MD/PhD immunologist who ordered regular lab testing, I say a resounding No! Regular laboratory testing will give false negatives. He should’ve known that. Instead, we wasted time and money on false negatives.

Were we dirty? Didn’t we have itchy butts? No and no.

So, what were the symptoms? Simple. Auto-immune disease. Allergies, eczema, leaky gut, bowel disease, asd, pandas, pans, Lyme…they are all auto-immune diseases.

We spent a whole year getting rid of parasite infections and the difference is mind-blowing. It was a monumental turning point. I am no longer a sleep deprived, 24/7 nurse living a ‘life deprived life’ running from one fire alarm to the next between family members in a tireless effort to keep them comfortable. Instead, I am now experiencing my family recover and achieve goals that used to be impossible for them.

So, how did we do it? Biofeedback alongside homeopathic and herbal supports with a good, nutritional diet of real food were all keys in managing parasite stress.

If you are looking to reduce the stress surrounding parasites or other pathogen infections, come visit me over at New Leaf Holistic!


 

 

Posted in Intro, New Leaf Holistic

About The Detox Depot

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

I am detailing my journey of recovering my family from disease. The current climate isn’t exactly favorable for my story. Writing about alternative medicine has moved past raising eyebrows to outright censorship despite its quantum leaps of success.

But my words are not newfangled. I’m just one wave from an ocean of professionals and patients who appreciate that organic foods, herbs, vitamins, minerals, botanicals, homeopathics, biofeedback and clean water keep us healthy.  They create the immunized state that wards off disease.

Detoxifying was the major player in our healing and I suspect it would be for most. Sounds easy, but detoxing a body full of symptoms, infections, pathogens, and disease is complex; it’s definitely deeper than a smoothie. But despite severe, chronic, and systemic problems holistic, organic, herbal, and homeopathic approaches were our only successful avenues to recovery.

I am not a doctor and do not know your specific path for recovery. In our journey, protocols for similar issues were completely individualized and hands-down required me to return to school for an education and training.

What I will share is the good, the bad, and the ugly of detox; products, resources, information and tips that helped us. I’ll share practical recipes over on The Recipe Train.

When I recall countless sleepless nights plunging through articles, journals, books, blogs for support, I keep forever in my heart the steady comfort some of them brought. I hope The Detox Depot will be one of those resources for you.

If I can help you with your journey to wellness contact me at New Leaf Holistic!