Environmental Sensitivity / Toxicity Testing

Environmental Sensitivity / Toxicity Testing: Biomedical Protocols, Lead, Mercury, Nitrites, Nitrates
 

The Brainchild Program utilizes biomedical protocols to test for causal factors of neurological disorders in children, such as sensitivities to environmental toxins such as chemicals heavy metals, in conjunction with Special Education, Interactive Metronome, and Sensory Motor Stimulation programs such as Samonas and The Listening Program.

Test results are then used to design treatment programs to correct the child's physiology through the use of dietary modification and diet supplementation.

This combination of these biomedical protocols and neuro-rehabilitation (hemisphere integration) therapies is what makes the Brainchild Program so efficient, effective, and unique. Once we remove these environmental causes to fix the problem in the brain, a child's symptoms will naturally improve.

Children React Differently to Environmental Toxins than Adults

A child's body handles foreign substances differently than adults, and the resulting response may vary substantially from the average adult. Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion rates change as we age and are major determining factors for the actual dose received by the targeted organ in the body.

Additionally, the responses to chemical exposure can vary greatly between different age groups. This is due to variation among the stages of development within the body. In some cases the actual response may be opposite the expected response.

Children can become exposed to a number of elements, compounds, and other pollutants, no matter how much effort is put into providing a clean environment. Through sensitivity and toxicity testing, we determine how much exposure a child has had to these toxin that can affect neurological function, including:

• Lead - even though lead-based paint and leaded gas have been taken off of the market there is still a concern about lead poisoning among children according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 80% of homes built before 1973 still contain lead based paint, the primary source of exposure.

• Nitrites and nitrates - found in fertilizers, they appear primarily from crop runoff, and are the most common contaminants found in drinking water.

• PCBs - found in electrical equipment, such as transformers. Although banned in 1976 they are still present in the environment and can accumulate in animal tissues.

• Mercury - this toxic pollutant exists in the air around us, caused by fuel combustion, incineration and industrial processes, and natural sources. While atmospheric concentrations are generally very low, rains can transfer mercury to forest and agricultural ecosystems, where it can leach, in highly toxic forms, into streams, rivers and lakes that support the food chain, and ultimately affect human health. Mercury exposure via food most often occurs in seafood containing mercury, or when mercury-containing plants, such as rice, are consumed.