Category: PANDAS

Posted in ASD, detox, Lyme, PANDAS, PANS, Tips

Choose Detox Success

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

Detox of ‘dis-ease’ is a necessary yet irksome process where healing makes us feel much worse before we feel better. This unfair turn-around taxes the body and emotions so deeply that waves of doubt and fear can easily overcome us. Choppy waters take our eyes off the prize; calling it quits look attractive, and our longed-for rescue boat sorrowfully drifts away in search of another sailor who might stay the stormy course.

We have navigated this crazy trail for two years with wild success and I want to help you overcome fear and doubt to achieve the same results. Yes, we had scary days, weeks, and months where the notorious towel nearly got tossed. We had tears, anxiety, and flares with over the top mental and physical distress.

But like a lighthouse in a dark and stormy sea, I chose to let every gain be a beacon to signal the way towards a dry land called Healing. Each tiny, one-at-a-time improvement in sleep or poop or pain reduction, tolerating previous food allergens, cognitive growth, a trigger that no longer caused flare, or a word from a non-verbal child was like a beacon of hope. I chose to hang onto each little light sliver for dear life, and vowed to press on for the next one.

My suggestions below may come across as ‘in your face’ and be a turn off, but they were necessary for us to recover. We had lost our ability to function as a family spiraling from home bound to bed bound. We were broke from multiple specialists and protocols, sleep deprived, exhausted with no support or respite system, and we were so battle weary and afraid as one of ours seemed to not have much time left. So, my face-the-music ideas are based on our very dramatic turn around. While sounding too transformational to some, they may be key to others who wanting to heal, no matter the cost.

Focus

Face book detox. It sounds paradoxical, but leaving my face book medical ‘support’ groups boosted our healing. I know, I know, it’s so supportive, right? Well, maybe not as supportive as you might think. I listed some behaviors that may sound familiar:

  • Cross checking doctor on FB after every appointment.
  • Changing doctor’s protocol based on the advice of strangers.
  • Always searching for the latest, greatest, magic supplement.
  • Buying supplements not knowing correct dosage or if genuine need exists.
  • Dealing with FB Admins who argue your success despite improvement.

Here are some other critical thoughts:

  • If any of the above behaviors proved successful, we’d be healed by now.
  • The behaviors I listed above feed fear and doubt, not healing.
  • The groups do not communicate the lowermost level of illness that asd, pans, pandas really is, but I’m here to tell you, it’s the bottom of the health barrel. This is not DIY. We need help.
  • Face book is addictive, invasive, and all that internet usage creates chaos internally, making infections worse.
  • Face book feeds the nature of now, but ASD, PANS, PANDAS, Lyme, and auto-immune problems do not heal that way. These require patience, dedication, persistence, life-style change, sacrifice, determination, and education.
  • We did not need IVIG, stem cell, fecal implant, any invasive procedure, testing, or conventional medicine despite having severe cases. FB feeds into the frenzy of parents demanding these types of expensive procedures.
  • The groups are information overload, not specific to anyone.
  • Biofeedback streamlined everything we needed and we tossed what we didn’t. We needed a whole lot less, not more.
  • After success under us, and getting our lives back, my message of healing is often argued (oddly in my (ex) favorite groups) so healing really isn’t the true goal of some some of these groups.

Take your Life Back

  • Grab a bestie in the trenches to call and text instead of using face book. Communicate in the real world by phone calls or meeting up. Ditching the keyboard has been a true support. Don’t have anyone like that? Sure you do! Pick a bestie from face book and change how you communicate.
  • Use your practitioner as your source of information, not face book. His/her fee includes communication with you. Your treatment is individualized to you. No group holds a candle to that!
  • Focus on the gains. Embrace each one and don’t let go until you see the next. Let the small gains be huge. They’ll get bigger but we have to crawl before we can walk. You’ll be running before you know it.
  • Focus on family. With your time freed from face book, interaction and engagement with family fosters healing on the emotional, developmental, and behavioral planes which feed into healing physiological health too.
  • Spend some time researching resources related to the issues you are facing. Books that really went the distance for us were from Dr. Andreas Moritz, Stephen Buhner, Dr. Joe Rozencwaig, and so many others. And of course, just going back to school put so many books and doctors before me to study.
  • Surround yourself with others who are kind, winning, and supportive. Ditch those who want to fight or argue with you, especially if it’s on face book.

Understand

  • Dealing with infections like parasites, pathogens, retro-virus, metals, biotoxins, or having a leaky gut, food allergens, inflammation, and reactions to everything means we are literally swirling the toilet drain of health.
  • Drs Judy Mikovitz and Klinghardt call this AIDS minor. Grasp the level of illness with which we are dealing.
  • Know that you will not be healed in a few days, a couple of weeks, or maybe several months. It may even take a couple of years. Re-read the first two bullet points.
  • Healing naturally does not imply healing alone, cheaply, or quickly.
  • There is Good News! you will see gains all along which keep you motivated to fight and they will get bigger and better with invested time.
  • Focus on the gains you see each day. I said this above, but I’m saying it differently here. You are going to continue to have flares. Repeat, you are going to continue to have flares, but ( a really big but), they are going to gradually reduce in strength and frequency, and the triggers will begin to become easier to identify, manage, and then gradually disappear.
  • Focus on the time you spend not in flares. Maybe you experienced a flare today, but it lasted 10 minutes instead of 4 hours. Woah! That’s awesome! Maybe you experienced a flare today, but because you have peeled back so many layers, you know the exact cause and can squash it in minutes. Wow! That’s amazing! Focus on the positive.
  • Peeling back those ‘layers’ reveals underlying causes of issues so that they, too, can be solved, permanently.
  • The annoying cliche ‘it’s a marathon, not a sprint’ is an irritating truth you’ll have to decide to consciously live each day, maybe on a minute by minute basis for awhile.
  • Know that each layer may reveal new problems sending us backwards for a short time. It’s a healing pattern you’ll identify better down the road. But each uncovering, at the root, brings new solutions and new level of gains!

Changes in Diet

  • Buy Organic. It’s not a personal attack on your cooking, shopping, or on how much you love your family; It’s just a fact Jack: Detox is expensive, hard work. You are removing toxins and infections underlying dis-ease. You are wasting every cent and second if you are eating toxins at the same time you’re trying to eliminate them.
  • Eat Raw and Organic. This doesn’t mean you can’t ever cook or bake, but 80% of your diet should be raw, organic vegetables and fruits. Processed food contains almost zero of the nutrition our cells need to heal. You like the right tools? Give your cells the right tools, they’ll get the job done!
  • Remove gluten, dairy, soy, sugar, GMO corn, plus any allergens or foods that may cause reaction such as high oxalates, thiols, phenols or salicylates. These foods are inflaming to the body, soy is estrogenic, all corn is GMO unless specified organic, gluten molecules are so similar to thyroid hormone that some doctors believe it may be tricking the thyroid straight into hypothyroidism, and sugar, plainly put, is the devil.
  • Gluten free means buy raw veggies, fruits, and meats. It does not mean buy packages of processed foodstuffs labeled ‘gluten free.’ Those are commonly devoid of nutrition and full of sugar. Avoid the aisles at the g store and stay on the perimeter instead.
  • Drink filtered water. I use two different filters. One is a Zero Water filter which gets out all Total Dissolved Solids and glyphosate. This is a great filter if you have kidney issues. I also have an alkaline filter from EHM. This filter takes out the bad stuff and puts back in the good minerals to keep water alkaline. If you have kidney problems, this is not a filter you should use. If you can afford a whole house system, this is the way to go. The heat from showers and baths open the pores and a fairly large percentage of toxins in water can get into our bodies while bathing.
  • Stop using your microwave and especially don’t microwave using plastic! Don’t eat with plastic utensils. I asked Dr. Moore for a detox tip he would give the general public, and this was it.
  • Research the organs and foods that support them. For example, through detox, we had liver, kidney, bladder, gut, gall bladder issues and so as we seemed to systematically move through each organ, it occurred to me to add foods good for each particular organ and conversely, keep away from foods that would irritate. It’s very easy to research this topic.
  • Research eating for your blood type. You might be shocked to learn that blood type can be an indicator of foods your body can and can’t handle.
  • Research proper food combining. I have a link to a free book by Dr. Shelton in the post directly below this one.

Miscellaneous Paradigm Changing Ideas

  • Don’t worry about all the things you may be missing. They’ll be there when you’re healthy. I know how much it hurts and how few understand. It’s a hardness born out of love and survival in PANS/PANDAS/ASD/Lyme parents. Try to let go, focus on healing, and life will be easier when there is health.
  • Consider homeschooling until kids are well. Most of us have PTSD from what we are going through, but we are passing that to teachers and other students when we send our flaring kids to school. I guess you can demand IEPs or special school plans, but bottom line, these kids are sick. I can’t imagine recovering my kids if they were gone all day. Their diets and toxin exposure must be kept in order and there is NO way I’d put that responsibility on anyone other than myself.
  • Learn about herbs.
  • Learn about homeopathy.
  • Get rid of internet. I use the hot spot on my cell when internet is needed, otherwise, it’s off. It’s definitely contributed to healing.

Stay the course, get in the know, ditch the bad, keep the good, find a good friend and stay in contact, focus on the gains, read our Bibles, depend on the Lord. Healing is just over the next wave. If we can do it at our house, anyone can do it. If you ever need support, I’ll throw you a life preserver.

If this sounds like an overwhelming list, contact me at New Leaf Holistic. I’ll help you keep it all together.

Posted in detox, PANDAS, Parasites

Perspective on Pandas and Parasites

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

Based on pieces of our own puzzle plus reading the experiences of others, I have a theory that PANDAS has a strong chance of cure simply by getting rid of parasites because parasites are at the root of PANDAS more than strep. In fact, I think PANDAS may just be a symptom of chronic, systemic parasite infection.

What we experienced with PANDAS was recurrent strep infections via sore throats and peri-anal strep. We had ‘flares’ seemingly coming from nowhere but over time ‘triggers’ were identified and heaven and hell were routinely moved to avoid them. We experienced debilitating OCD that could burn a full 8 hours and included aggression and rage. We also had auditory hallucinations.

Because our health is already damnably compromised by ‘modern’ medicine, I had zero interest in their ‘help’ with PANDAS. Seeking natural alternatives led us to parasites, Lyme and co-infections, retro-viruses, and a whole bag of biotoxins, biofilm, and metals clogging up neurotransmitters and preventing methylation. The parasites had established a firm root as evidenced by this hot mess and worse, PANDAS symptoms.

We did treat, all naturally, and as we got those parasites under control, guess what else dissipated?

PANDAS. In fact, we are now symptom free.

Even though treatment has so far lasted 18 months, the symptoms of PANDAS began to disappear after the first 4 months and gradually faded until completely eradicated by 18 months out. No IVIG or Stem Cell Therapy necessary, just detox.

Researching Dr. Klinghardt, Stephen Buhner, going through our experience and education with Dr. Moore in addition to reading the cases of others has led me to conclude that PANDAS is actually caused by underlying parasites. Why? Why would I believe in this versus the strep theory? Because, undeniably, strep infection is present as determined by blood tests.

My first clue is what I’ve witnessed in my own home. I was shocked that treating parasites also got rid of PANDAS. I had no expectation of that. Many people believe their ASD issues are actually PANDAS and Dr. Klinghardt has found that 99% of his patients with ASD also have Lyme. There seems to be a connection there.

In addition, so many of the stories I read are about patients who seek out conventional doctors who typically do not hunt down parasites and even when they do, they are unaware that lab tests for parasites are mostly false negatives. But what conventional doctors do test for frequently is strep. And what they find is very high numbers of DNase B antibodies, thereby believing that strep is causing the PANDAS.

If you study parasites, you will learn that parasites are incredibly clever, manipulative, and focused. They can control their host, making the body act out in ways it normally wouldn’t: tics, meltdowns, flares, rage, aggression, OCD, hallucinations, etc. They are busy building their infrastructure called biofilm that clogs neurotransmitters so the brain doesn’t receive commands, hormones don’t fire correctly, and methylation genes get switched off so that toxins like metals, ammonia, and mold can’t get out of the body causing sensory problems, speech delays, and non-verbal issues. Oddly sounds like ASD, doesn’t it?

Parasites are so efficient that they will even employ other parasites and pathogens to do their dirty work. They easily destroy the gut biome (ASD), and a pathogen like strep could be coerced by a parasite to continue its attack of the basal ganglia of the brain on behalf of the parasites, and, in return, it will be allowed to live and proliferate. Strep numbers then grow out of control, being easily identified by blood tests from which conventional docs determine strep as the cause of PANDAS.

But really, it’s the parasites that are in control. Put another way, it’s the parasite infection that is causing the PANDAS. In other words, PANDAS is a symptom of parasite infection.

Another clue that parasites are the culprit comes from case studies about patients who are treating strep and experience exacerbated symptoms. Those over the top reactions are eerily similar to die off or herx. Patients herx because they are killing too fast and not just killing strep, but rather parasites. Mistakenly, they are taking no systemic binders nor have any concern for the gut or detoxing organs. They’ve fallen for the ‘infection means an antibiotic blowtorch’ approach and now they’re seeing the blow-back (behaviors) of killing pathogens (unbeknownst, parasites) too fast, without binders, without organ support, without healing the gut.

Because we see a natural doctor skilled in healing the whole body, we were able to keep our die off at a minimum by re-adjusting (herbal) antibiotic dosages, reducing detox and titrating back up, using systemic binders for toxins, always supporting the detox organs, and healing the gut. But I don’t see this vocabulary from patients using conventional medicine. They believe the antibiotics are killing strep only while parasites aren’t even on their radar. They don’t understand the worsening of symptoms as it is related to herxing and are unaware of the need to bind those toxins given off by dying parasites to cool the exacerbated symptoms. They don’t have the vocabulary or the tools because their doctors don’t think outside of the synthetic drug box.

In addition, the conventional meds are long term. Why? It’s not that it takes so long to kill a strep infection. I have two ideas: one is that the parasites protect their investment – that is the strep, and two, while the antibiotics do get some of the strep and parasites, initially, it’s not a specific enough antibiotic to target parasites and they easily build up a resistance to synthetics anyway. This doesn’t happen with herbal antibiotics which are much more potent, efficient, and safe.

Another clue is both the success and failure of IVIG and Stem Cell Therapy. For some it works, for others it works after several attempts, or it works for awhile then symptoms all return, or it is all together unsuccessful. My theory here is that the successes happen in bodies who have already detoxed, or detoxed enough that the new, healthy, or oxygenated cells are strong enough to beat the rest of the infections. Or, it works in bodies that aren’t too far down yet. The failures happen because the bodily environment is still toxic. New cells have been introduced into an environment filled with parasites, biofilm, metals, biotoxins, glyphosate, leaky gut, and an over-all immune system that doesn’t yet work. The new cells cannot survive here and they die, just like the cells before them. You have to detox before getting IVIG or Stem Cell Therapy or else it’s a waste. In my further opinion, if you detox enough, IVIG or Stem Cell Therapy will not be necessary.

Having a mathematical, analytical mind, I naturally try to find patterns from research, experience, and case studies which could be generally applied in the face of medicine which isn’t an exact science. Most cases are specific and individual, at least on the surface. But my theory holds a thread of commonality at its core which could provide cure. Disease is caused by toxins that enable the parasites (everybody has them) to overrun the body by destroying the gut, immunity, the organs, and the blood causing extreme symptoms such as ASD, PANS, PANDAS, cancer, every auto-immune disease, and pre-mature death.

Before you decide that’s a little broad, remember, at our house, we did get rid of PANDAS by thoroughly cleaning the body of parasites. Going farther. I believe we are healing the immune system so that it can control parasite numbers all by itself. It’s not just working for PANDAS, but also for PANS and ASD, in more than just one patient.

And, we’ve done it all naturally.

Our doctor is very credentialed in kinesiology, exceptionally skilled with detox, and Lyme Literate. A link to his website is here.

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 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 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.