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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!