We parents love our children.  We want the best for them, and we try to deliver.  Of paramount interest for parents are the health needs of their kids.  A child who is unhealthy for any reason is a serious concern for dad and mom.

Our oldest son was born with some severe allergies.  When he cried in his bed holding his stomach as an infant, I would hold him in the rocker and bottle feed him.  He would drink from the bottle and cry, drink from the bottle and pull his knees up, drink from the bottle and indicate that he was in some kind of physical distress.

We thought he was hungry, and he was, but his crying was because he was allergic to the protein in the milk, and allergic to the soy in the formula.

He really suffered because he was hungry, and allergic to his food.  We didn’t learn this for about 10 months, so he had some rough times.  Mom and dad did, too.

His allergies (Peanut is likely fatal to him.  We carry Epi-pens [adrenalin injectors] everywhere) were rather severe across a broad spectrum of potential allergens, so keeping him healthy was a full-time job for us.

One day I googled some of his strongest symptoms (hurting ankles, highly emotional behavior, lots of crying for no significant reason (he was age three) and came across something called “celiac disease”.  More investigation led me to believe that our son was allergic to gluten protein, which is in everything.  I bought a book titled “The Gluten Free Girl” for my wife and we decided that we would eliminate gluten from our home.

As we did so, and with emphasis on our son’s diet, we observed a nice improvement in his behavior.  That encouraged us to consider several other possible changes, which we made.  Some of there are: Scent free detergents and dryer sheets; no food coloring like in kool-aide; no artificial sweeteners, including high-fructose corn syrup and no mammals for pets.  We put plastic covers over his mattress and pillows, bought hormone-free chickens and even tried several months of NAET treatments.

I’m still skeptical of the NAET, but the other changes made a great improvement in our son’s health.  One MAJOR discovery was his allergy to MSG.  MSG is poison, period.  And if your kids are having emotional problems, particularly about an hour after eating any meal not prepared from fresh, whole foods (lean meat, not sausage or anything that will have “added ingredients”) look for MSG in the ingredients.

I should have anticipated that allergy in him, because I am personally wildly allergic to MSG.  For decades I lost battles with my moods, and just made the MSG connection in 2005.  Since I eliminated ALL MSG at ALL times from my bloodstream, my terrible emotional episodes went away and I am generally as calm as a duck.  Its wonderful feeling the way I do. An MD would most likely prescribe Xanax or some other anti-anxiety pill to treat the symptom.

Food manufacturers like to hide MSG in the label, calling it “spice” or “natural flavor” or any of 100 or so names.  The manufacturers are in business for profit and will put absolutely anything in food that will increase profits and get around the FDA.  But please don’t get me started on the FDA.

Bottom line is this: What we eat and drink and put on our skin effects our entire body, including brain chemistry.  Mood, respiration, muscle contraction, cellular metabolism and more are ALL influenced for good or ill by what gets into our bloodstream.  If your child, or you, is unhealthy in any of those areas, look at your food/drink/environment for the cause.  Pharmaceutical drugs will never make you well because there is no money to be made in making you well.  The money is in supplying you with a monthly subscription (called a pre-scription) for a drug to counter a symptom.

If you want to be well, odds are that you can make yourself and your children perfectly healthy using basic nutrients that are available inexpensively from local sources, and getting the toxins out of your bloodstream and cells.

That’s how we live and it has given our family better health (physically, emotionally and mentally) than we have ever had.  We do use Mucinex sometimes and also Benedryl.  A food allergy from some restaurant food can give our son problems sometime, and Benedryl is great for quickly suppressing that reaction.

A last thought: Vaccinations.  We don’t do them.  We will not do them.  We never have done them.

We wish you well.