Getting a Handle on all the Supplements

The biomedical approach to autism supplementation can seem overwhelming when you first look at it. The following is a piece I wrote years ago when my son was much younger, in response to this overwhelm and confusion, expressed by moms on the email lists I read. Don’t despair.  You can do this.   It just [...]

How I Decided Whether to Vaccinate

By Terri Mykland I just read an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, entitled “The Age-Old Struggle Against the Anti-Vaccinationists”, in which anti-vaccinationists are characterized,  as follows: “simply ignorant about science (or “innumerate”, unable to understand and incorporate concepts of risk and probability into science-grounded decision-making) … a radical fringe element who use [...]

Mom’s Apothecary – Liquids and Capsules

It occurred to me this morning that someone out there might benefit from hearing the kinds of things I’ve gathered and learned over the years, in my quest to make supplements palatable and manageable for my son with autism who is now 17 years old. I know a number of adults who have strong preferences [...]

The Gut-Garden Analogy

Hi all, I came up with this back in 2004, when I was fighting the worst of my son’s candida and gut bugs. It helps my understanding and problem-solving process a lot to think of the gut as a garden. In bodies with healthy instestines, our ‘good plants’ (good bacteria, yeast) i.e. vegetables, flowers and [...]