Category: New Leaf Holistic

Posted in Allergies, Hay Fever, Homeopathy, New Leaf Holistic

Hay Fever

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

I recently had a client so distressed with her hay fever symptoms. She contacted me early in the morning, in tears and in pain. Pain from hay fever you ask? Yes. She had pain in her head from sinus swelling which she could also feel in her teeth. She had pain around her eyes from rubbing them so much that she could no longer touch the skin. She was sobbing as she told me about her problems and her flowing tears were burning her eyes. Her nose was running like mad but last night it was so stuffed up that she couldn’t even breathe.

Despite feeling very far away from her normal self, she was perfectly describing a very nice Hay Fever case. Her remedy? We used Nat Mur 200c and in minutes she was back to her old self. Her nose was clear, no itching eyes with burning tears. Her head and teeth pain were completely gone. She was no longer weeping and sobbing as she thought about her symptoms. Instead, she was mind blown at how wonderful she felt now. Recounting her symptoms did not make her sad, it made her elated that she was now free from them!

I love such beautiful cases like this.

Are you suffering from Hay Fever? Give homeopathy a try! Every case is different and Nat Mur will only work when it is homeopathically correct to the case. If you need a homeopath to help sort your symptoms contact me at New Leaf Holistic.

Posted in New Leaf Holistic

I’m Baack!

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

Hello to my readers, aka fellow parents in the trenches. I know I have been gone a very long time, but I have not abandoned you! I have been back in school obtaining my credentials as a Homeopath and a Certified Biofeedback Specialist. I am continuing to pursue a doctorate in Natural Medicine in the background. My goal has always been to help ourselves and then reach out to help an amazing community that I have been a part of for twenty years.

Thank you to all who sent me requests via social media and personal emails asking me to puulease put The Detox Depot back up or at least allow private viewings. I was so touched by that! I knew the blog had a lot of traffic, but I didn’t realize how important it was to many of you. Unfortunately, I felt so pressed to privatize my content during what seemed like a very thick cloud of censorship so I hope you will understand.

While I have been away, I have continued to work very hard to heal our issues and after four years of school and several hundreds of hours of clinicals as well as meeting with my own clients, what I have concluded is that these very difficult autoimmune issues will not be cured. (I can already hear a collective GASP!)

Will there be some cases where an immune system is still in-tact enough that cure is possible? Absolutely! And I have seen this happen. In addition, God can and does work where He wants, so there are miracles as well.

But, overall, I have come to accept that for us, autoimmune dis-eases are going to be managed, not cured. I know many who will refuse that take. That’s okay! It may not be for you. Follow your gut intuition!

But I have to say that mentally and emotionally, being able to come to terms with this helped me stop fighting a war that I cannot win and instead, tackle small battles where I could achieve joyful victory. Winning feels good. Lots of winning feels even better.

What does victory look like? For us, it means pain free happiness and laughter. It means a day out shopping or an activity that we can manage for a few hours without screaming, or melting down. Victory looks like being able to walk, push a cart, climb a jungle gym, ride a bike, learn something new in a stress-free, enjoyable way. It looks like organs that are regenerated and can function – kidneys that are not failing, gallbladders without stones, and livers that can detox. It looks like minimal food allergies, clear skin, a fresh willingness to learn through play, increased communication – even if it is on an iPad or nonverbal. It looks like my oldest, now a junior at a local University, doing very well in a social environment despite being severely autistic as a child.

If you remember where we came from – severe autism, global developmental delay, pandas/pans, lyme, horrid food allergies, very severe and bloody eczema that covered the body – well, we have come miles! Are we cured? Nope. We’re not going to be unless we are on God’s list of miracles; but issues are well managed and I can stay on top of things before they become a full-blown problem. Perhaps this is God’s miracle right there. We have had countless victories working things in this way and now I hope to share them with you.

My blog is full of information. I plan sift back through, do a ton of editing, and pare down what helped us the most. Biofeedback, Homeopathy, Herbals, Diet, and Massage has taken us the distance. This is why I focused on them when I went back to school.

So, from here on forward, I will be sharing what we are most recently doing for detox, organ regeneration, and management of dis-ease on every plane of our lives – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. I will be promoting my new business, New Leaf Holistic, where I use the same non-invasive, affordable, and effective modalities for wellness for that I employed to get us where we are today. I hope you will be here for the blog, I hope you will visit my website. I do plan to have some holiday specials put up soon. It’s so good to be back!

Posted in Homeopathics, Kidneys, New Leaf Holistic

Kidneys Beyond Oxalates

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

I’m writing from my experience with kidney problems even though I certainly am not an expert. I want to share our struggles and solutions as a spring board for those seeking ideas. We have addressed all of our issues with a doctor but I have found that I’ve been able to greatly contribute to our healing simply by researching, implementing diet changes, and adding supplements that were okayed by him as well.

Our first red flag for kidney problems became obvious years ago from an Organic Acids Test, commonly referred to as an OATs test or an OAT. Information gleaned from the test includes: intestinal microbial overgrowth (yeast, fungal, bacterial); metabolic markers such as: oxalate, glycoltyic cycle, Krebs cycle, neurotransmitter, detox, and folate. The test rates ketones and fatty acid oxidation, important nutritional markers, amino acid and bone metabolites, and measures creatinine. Results come back with a complimentary interpretation by Great Plains Laboratory; however, you will definitely want a functional doctor to interpret the results. Functional doctors operate in reference ranges that detect problems long before a conventional doctor which means easy fixes are still within reach. Several OATs might need to be performed to get a good picture of the processes happening inside. None-the-less, even one OAT is still a comprehensive diagnostic tool that a doctor can use alongside other tests and observations to piece together an otherwise complicated health puzzle to make good judgement calls.

We always learned many things from our OAT tests, but the issue I want to focus on is the kidneys. A marker for kidney problems is the Oxalic acid (oxalate) marker from the test. Ours was typically high unless a low/no oxalate diet was implemented. And with regular OAT testing, we could see the positive results of using a low/no ox diet – that marker would reduce in number. I wrote about Oxalates in a post here if interested.

Despite a low ox diet we recently have another kidney issue which is inflammation. It is not in both kidneys, just the right one. It seems to not be viral or bacterial but irritated. I am assuming minerals may be irritating it but I do not know why the right one is irritated while the left one is fine. Either way, I have applied some suggestions from our doctor as well as from my own research and the relief is obvious and remarkable so far.

Zero Water Filter – Filtering out TDS (total dissolved solids) using a water filter removes a big source of potential kidney problems. The Zero Water system is the only counter/pitcher filter that also filters out glyphosate. This filter is affordable (unless your TDS value is incredibly high, then you might want to look into a whole house system.) Since the kidneys filter out minerals (TDS) in their filters (called glomeruli) they can get coated in material and not filter very well (kind of like all filters – they get dirty.) It is important that our water sources be free of Total Dissolved Solids (and glyphosate.)

Reducing Potassium – This means cutting out or reducing portions of salt, bananas, nuts, seeds, white rice, red meat and other foods that are high in potassium. I completely cut them out because the whole kidney thing is making me nervous and I wanted pain relief. Now.

Cranberry Juice – I added cranberry juice as a medicine, so we are taking 1/4 cup several times/day. Cranberry juice can kill viral and bacterial infections that may be present and reduce inflammation. It is also one of the few berries that are low oxalate. Some urinary problems are worsened by cranberry, so you want to play close attention to any adverse side effects.

Watermelon – A large watermelon per day is helping us flush the system and it also has healing qualities specific for the kidneys.

Huang Bai Tea – This kind of tea is phellodendron (not to be confused with the plant with a close but different spelling) which contains berberine, known to be good for the kidneys.

Recovery – A supplement obtained through our doctor.

Narayani Kidney 4C – This is a homeopathic you would need to obtain from a homeopath when it is clear you have a need for it. If you need a homeopathic intake you can contact me at New Leaf Holistic.

Berberine Vulgaris 200C – Also another homeopathic that is very specific in it’s symptoms but useful for kidney pain and healing.

Chamomilla 200C – This is a homeopathic for pain relief which is often for right sided ailments. But you want to have a homeopath do a actual intake for your chronic case. If you are looking for one, you can contact me at New Leaf Holistic.

Calcium – for absorption of oxalates so they can be removed from the body in other ways besides the urinary tract, which is painful given the pointy, burr-like formation of oxalates. I have actually found that Oat Milk provides a good deal of calcium with little/no oxalates. You could also take a Calcium chew, for example, however, the body prefers food for it’s vitamins and minerals.

I was only thinking about oxalates for kidney problems, but in our case, I see potassium may be an issue too. I wanted to write about that in case there were others who may have missed this important part of the puzzle, like I did. Healthy kidneys will help us detox better so we can manage auto-immune disease and kidney pain will flat out bring a person to their knees; no one can function like that. We are doing really well so far and the pain is noticeably reduced already.

Posted in My MAPS doctor experience, New Leaf Holistic

Getting Lost With a MAPS

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

After years of unhelpful doctors giving referrals to unhelpful specialists, I was, back then, positively stoked to land in the office of a ‘holistic’ MAPS (Medical Academy of Pediatrics Special Needs) doctor.

Ours was an MD/PhD who ran endless tests culminating into several hours worth of appointments each year for analysis. After four years, it felt like I was just another practice run for the interpretation of blood, urine, stool, and hair tests at the expense my dollars and emotions. Leaving upteenth vials of blood at a lab a few times a year became traumatic, and in my opinion, negatively affected healing, if there was any to be had in the first place.

Initially, we learned a lot from those tests: inflammation, food and environmental allergies, oxalate issues, yeast problems, metal toxicity, gut dysbiosis, thyroid problems, vitamin deficiencies, etc., and we got some diagnosis such as: PANS, Auto-immune encephalitis, IBS, Crohns, celiac, leaky gut, MTHFR gene deletion, and of course, we already knew about ‘autism’. We even had some improvement after removing food allergens and adding desperately needed supplementation. I think most people show signs of improvement with obvious measures like these.

But we NEVER had cure.

None of the symptoms were reversed. Those that were alleviated, returned.

Our prognosis was a lifetime of taking $700 worth of supplements each month, routine blood testing, endless allergy shots, and constant expensive office visits; all with no cure.

Years of this left me burned out and frustrated as symptoms spiraled and the health decline became unbearable. We were home bound, then bed bound with no vapor of normalcy whatsoever. We lived from fire alarm to fire alarm trying to keep everyone comfortable until I reached the bottom which is actually a huge success story detailed in other posts.

But what was the MAPS missing?

First, ‘holistic MD/PhD’ is an oxymoron. Sure, he did prescribe(minimal) herbs; but he was not schooled in them nor did he have a quality line on hand. We made massive diet changes, which we still adhere to today, and he did prescribe supps instead of synthetic drugs; but only in a palliative way, not with the vision of healing the immune system thereby freeing it of the inflammation underlying the issues and diagnosis. Second, MD/PhD equals allopathic no matter how you slice it. There was no point in discussing other modalities of healing, such as homeopathy, with him; he wouldn’t have it. Third, he was not Lyme literate or knowledgeable about parasites or proper testing of them, if that is even possible in a lab; and finally, and most detrimentally, there was no detox of pathogens or toxins in his protocol, which is what we needed the most.

Faithfully, we were breaking the bank taking scores of supplements each day, but they were piling into clogged, sluggish at best, methylation systems with no plan designed to open them up! The supps were just stacking up, adding to the toxins already there. By the time I switched doctors, we could barely walk or get out of bed, eczema was raging from head to toe like a bloody fire, and the inflamed misery was over the top for our entire family.

Bottom line, after receiving our initial testing results and diagnosis, MAPS was nothing more than another money flushing, time sucking spot on the road for us; a tourist trap I visited far too long. The worst part was truly believing that during our four year relationship, he cared about us. But, after we finally achieved such dramatic, life altering improvement with another doctor, I called our MAPS to see if he was interested in learning how we had made such a 180? Wouldn’t he want an update? Or to know for his other critically ill patients? The response was, “Nope.” He couldn’t have cared less! I was stunned and stabbed square in the heart. Four years of our lives, our savings, our mental and emotional investment, our hope, our health even – truly meant nothing to him, a doctor. Is allopathic healing an oxymoron too or is it just allopathic compassion that doesn’t exist?

I certainly hope your experience with a MAPS is much better. No two MAPS are alike, right? Maybe. But from medical social groups I see the same medical minutiae ad nauseum of blood, organs, systems, reactions, various testing, micro-organisms, etc. and I, too, could define, describe, experiment, promote, tin-can, and echo with the best of them, but now, post healing via detox, it all seems like not seeing the forest through the trees.

What really turned everything around for us was Biofeedback, Herbal, Homeopathics, Diet, and Massage. I went back to school to focus on becoming a clinical homeopath and a Certified Biofeedback Specialist. This streamlined all of our care. We used a ton less supplements as well. Let me know if I can help you get on track for wellness at New Leaf Holistic.


Posted in detox, New Leaf Holistic

A Helping Hand Through Detox

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

Detox is not something to do without guidance. If you’re having minor issues then perhaps the websites, social media groups, and you tube videos will get you by. But if you have slipped into auto-immune problems like allergies, eczema, thyroid, leaky gut, PANDAS, PANS, even ASD, then the expertise of a practitioner skilled in detox, will save you time, money, and a whole lot of stress.

Detox is more complex than just the knowing the vocab. Smoothies, footbaths, and even protocols casually lobbed about have weakened the foundational and serious need for detox. On the other end, some groups are so cultish that daring to put a toe outside the orthodox pool lands one square into some bizarre shame-abyss.

But detox is not a one size fits all event.

For any protocol.

Each individual is going to have their own detox journey because each body expels toxins in its own order requiring different protocols with differing supplements because of different types of infections, injuries, and its own healing needs. What parasites are over-populated? Which pathogens are present? Are there retro-viruses? What methylation cycles are switched on? Switched off? Is the gut damaged? Are the kidneys and liver functional? What’s diet like? Is there metal toxicity? These are questions from my simple layman’s perspective. Imagine those of a skilled, holistic doctor?! Disease is a tricky picture to unravel and reconstruct properly; not impossible with detox, but deeper than what is commonly understood.

At our house, we had different protocols for similar issues. Why?

Because detox is individual specific.

Even in my blog, when I say parasites, I’m referring to the ones that were identified for us. I have no idea which ones might be lurking in your system, however, in general, all parasites do the same thing: steal nutrients from their host offering nothing beneficial in return, striving to overcome the host causing the symptoms that, I believe, are often labeled as ‘disease’.

Having a detox professional sort out your parasites, pathogens, toxins, and your body’s natural path of releasing them is key to a successful detox.

And your sanity.

They can determine which organs and systems are damaged and in need of proper healing and support. You can’t just full on detox with a damaged gut, kidneys, or liver. Some modicum of healing and support must be balanced with detox.

Also, true detox causes herx and I can promise you, in a severe state, life gets a bit unworkable. You will want someone experienced to answer kooky questions and keep you focused as you drive to the finish line. They will also have the necessary tools, like systemic, bio available binders to keep you more comfortable.


Tell me, what option is there via MAPS or conventional doctor to know which organs need support, which supplements are needed and in what dosages, which parasites we have and what is the best treatment for them? All they can offer is innumerable blood tests, urine tests, stool tests, hair tests, many of which are dependent upon having accurate tests in the first place. Even if you don’t have false negatives or positives you still must rely on interpretation, and frankly, I’m not that trusting anymore. And honestly, why keep feeding the beast of the system that got us to the point of debilitating illness in the first place?

No thanks.

Biofeedback paved the way for us to break the chains of dis-ease. We’re still a work in progress but our lives have improved dramatically. We are now free of PANDAS while PANS, Lyme/co’s and ASD all make their grand exit as well.

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

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 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.