This study is a good example of the body-mind connection. It makes sense that people with chronic emotional and behavioral problems would also have certain physical symptoms. In the ideal world, we would address the physical, mental and emotional problems simultaneously. But in this age of defined specialties, we seem to lose perspective on wholeness. Physical symptoms are overlooked as unrelated to the emotional or behavioral, and vice versa.

In other words, headaches are treated with aspirin or Tylenol, and not linked to the child’s behavior or ADHD. Depression is treated with an anti-depressant, and not considered a result of low blood sugar or stress hormone imbalance.  

These physical symptoms are clues to both the cause and the treatment of many mental and emotional disorders. They are not isolated during a traditional medical diagnosis. But if they were discovered through other forms of testing, then they could be addressed. And we would begin to see a lessening of the mental, emotional and behavioral problems. In fact, a whole new world would be revealed.

In this world, the brain and the physical body talk to each other. We are a great bundle of energy with billions of communicating electrical transmissions – not a shell with disjointed organ systems. Most conventional doctors make diagnoses that are going to affect a child for years to come, with no tests and no correlations to physical body. They don’t seem to see the connection between the brain and the body of their patients – the people sitting right in front of them. What a slip-up; what an oversight.     

Parents see this connection more than the doctors do. They see and know their child as a whole person, who by the sheer definition of a human being has a body and brain that work in tandem. They dance, they flow, or they have two left feet.

By identifying the underlying physical connections to the mental, emotional or behavioral problems and addressing them with specific super foods, homeopathics and nutritionals, the whole child emerges – the one you know – deep down inside.    

Here are the eight major nutritional and biochemical imbalances related to mental, emotional, behavior and learning problems:  

Each of the above plays a specific role in mental and cognitive function, emotional and behavioral imbalances. We will address each category in successive articles.

Dr. Laura Thompson, Family Nutritionist and Naturopathic Endocrinologist has a nationwide practice by phone, and locally in Carlsbad, California. For further information about her services, call 800-608-5602.  

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