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No Bake Chocolate Cookies

This kid friendly recipe for no bake chocolate cookies is great for little hands and quick enough that you will…

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Stop Sniffling: 10 Alternative Allergy Medicines for Kids

If you’ve ever suffered from allergies, you know how frustrating they can be. But if your child suffers from allergies,…

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How Your Mind Sabotages Your Diet

I have dedicated a significant portion of my life to changing the way children eat. I am convinced (with lots…

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The Number One Food for Gut Health

I am not a huge fan of reality television. In the rare times I do turn on the TV, I…

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Covid Vaccine Boosters in Kids – Government Gone Wrong

At least 5 times during the pandemic I have sworn that I wouldn’t write any more blog posts about COVID-19….

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A Very Covid Christmas and Quarantined New Year

Despite multiple letters to Santa this year requesting new exercise equipment for our expanding garage home gym, all he managed…

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Is Covid Quarantine Killing Our Kids?

After 18 months of social isolation and school closures our kids are back in the classroom and attempting to return…

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Omicron, Boosters, and Confusion – Our Latest Health Crisis

Once again just as the world seems to be getting the upper hand the Covid-19 pandemic, the greek alphabet gifts us with Omicron, the latest mutation in the Coronavirus that initially began this whole fiasco. For the last few months, Delta was the lead headliner of the Covid brigade until Omicron hit – forcing most of us to brush up on our greek alphabet. Of note, the World Health Organization, skipped Nu and Xi which should have been the next in the list of variants because Nu sounds like “new” and “Xi” is a common surname in China. So Omicron it is.

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Holistic Approaches To Ear Infections

Most people assume that ear infections need antibiotics.

Not true, read on.

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“Boo” to Artificial Dyes and Colors (Guest Post)

Guest Post – The first time I knew artificial dyes and preservatives could affect children’s behavior and health was in 2010 when 11-year-old Adam, who had ADHD, came to see me. His mother told me that when Adam ate food or candy with blue dye, he would flap his hands repeatedly, and when he ingested caramel coloring, he would sniff his fingers.

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Top 5 Tips to Create an Emissions-Safe Nursery for Your Baby (Guest Post)

Parents are deeply concerned about the safety of their babies. Why wouldn’t you? Your baby is your bundle of joy and the most precious. With the abundance of wireless devices these days, EMF radiation is a hot topic amongst parents. In this blog post, we will walk you through what is EMF and 5 tips to create an emissions-safe nursery for your loved ones.

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7 Covid-19 Misconceptions

The amount of misinformation surrounding the pandemic is mind-boggling. I feel like I need to research every fact thrown out by the media experts, and even then they seem hard to decipher and verify. It is easy to see why Americans are so distrustful of the information they receive from the government as the message has never been consistent. Below are 7 misconceptions that seem to be thrown around as facts.

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Why You Should Add Omega-3s To Your Diet

Omega-3s are unsaturated fatty acids that are an essential part of our diet – the body cannot produce them and they are vital to a number of processes in our body. There are 3 main types, one of which is derived from plants and the other 2 from fish.

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Gut Healing with SBI Protect Powder

Gut health has become an integral part of my treatment philosophy for everything ranging from asthma to eczema to ADHD….

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Pregnancy Perspective from a First Time Mom

Hi, my name is Brittney Fullenwider. I am a part of the Integrative Health Carolinas Team and am one of the creators of the new course by Dr. Temple “The Holistic Healthy Baby: Prenatal Course.”

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Evy’s Story: A mom’s struggle with recurrent ear infections

A mom’s struggle with her daughter’s recurrent ear infections, antibiotics, and the medication side effects.

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Dads Are Major Obstacles to Eczema Treatment – Why Men Are So Resistant To Changing Their Eating Habits

In our online Eczema Treatment Program, dads typically present one of the biggest obstacles to kids navigating the dietary changes. And since diet is the number one factor associated with eczema in children, I feel digging deeper into dad’s food psyche is warranted.

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Eat Less Sugar Challenge

Sugar Sugar everywhere. There is a strong correlation between sugar and eczema and other chronic diseases. Our kids and families are bombarded with sugar every day at every meal and the problem is only getting worse. Join us for this month’s challenge to reduce your child’s sugar intake and help you raise healthy children.

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Can constipation cause eczema?

Yes. Bowel troubles are a risk factor for developing eczema, especially constipation. I review several articles that demonstrate the gut-skin connection.

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What are the best holistic eczema creams?

12 holistic eczema creams and the medical science demonstrating their benefit.

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Bacteria, Babies and Eczema – Why a bug called B. Infantis May Be the Key to Your Child’s Health

B. Infantis is a bacteria strongly associated with protecting children from eczema, allergies, asthma, and more. Unfortunately, this gut bacteria has virtually disappeared in babies born in industrialized nations as rates of chronic disease in children have skyrocketed.

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Dairy! Who should avoid it? What alternatives?

An issue I have with dairy is that we eat wayyyyyyyyy too much of it. It’s easy, delicious, kids love it, and it’s in everything. Another issue is that a lot of people can’t tolerate dairy.

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Antibiotics: When to take and How to heal?

eight reasons why your child might need antibiotics. These conditions scare parents and are over treated with oral antibiotics. Sometimes we need antibiotics. But not as much as you might think.

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Discrepancies in Nutritional Advice

It is no secret that we have a health crisis in America. Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity plague our country and make you more susceptible to diseases. One would think it would make logical sense to invest in the quality of the food we as a country consume but instead we invest billions of dollars into prescription medication in attempts to undo the effects of what we put in our body.

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My Latest Posts

The Plant Challenge

The best thing to do for your immune system and to protect yourself from COVID is to eat more plants. Discover…

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Handle Anxiety that comes with Change

In the hustle and bustle of daily life, anxiety can often creep in, affecting our mental well-being and overall quality…

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6 Holistic Fever Remedies

It’s that time of the year when kids get sick. A lot of viral illnesses come with fever. Fever causes…

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