What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

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Israel launched one of its deadliest operations in years in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, sending soldiers on an unusually fierce raid to kill militants stationed in the Jenin refugee camp. Ten Palestinians, mostly gunmen, but also two civilians, including a 61-year-old woman, were killed.It is our mission to help coaches, clinicians, and health care practitioners across the globe to transform healthcare with Functional Nutrition.

Mothers’ behavior during pregnancy can have lifelong consequences for their children. Regular consumption of alcohol can cause mental retardation in newborns, while over-the-counter drugs such as Aspirin can have devastating effects on unborn children, with the potential to cause internal bleeding, for example. Empathy and leadership are such powerful concepts in the therapeutic partnership that they are part of the first 2 frameworks in my 8-pillared signature system—the Practitioner Mastery Paradigm. This paradigm has been the foundation upon which I have created both Functional Nutrition Lab and the Functional Nutrition Alliance (which includes our clinic where we see clients from all over the globe who’ve been everywhere and tried everything.) There are many diverse influences on the way that English is used across the world today. We look at some of the ways in which the language is changing. Read our series of blogs to find out more. Wright FL et al (2020) Fibrinolysis shutdown correlates to thromboembolic events in severe COVID-19 infection. J Am Coll Surg [cited 14 Jun 2020]. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32422349/

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Over the years, I’ve built Functional Nutrition Lab and the Functional Nutrition Alliance with a lot of love and passion, and with one core principle — a principle I like to call… There is another culture gap, less easy to bridge, between those for whom illness is a rare and indisputable fact – they have, for example, broken a leg – and those for whom the signs of ill-health are just the beginning of a series of complex negotiations with the body and the outside world. For some of us, the question ‘Am I ill or well?’ is not at all straightforward, but contentious and guilt-ridden. I feel ill, but have I any right to the feeling? I feel ill, but has my feeling any organic basis? I feel ill, but who am I to say so? Someone else must decide (my doctor, my mother) whether the illness is real by other people’s standards, or only by mine. Is it a respectable illness? Does it stand up to scientific scrutiny? Or is it just one of my body’s weasel stratagems, to get attention, to get a rest, to avoid doing something it doesn’t want to do? Some of us perceive our body as fundamentally dishonest, and illness as a scam it has thought up. When a hypochondriac asks ‘How are you?’ he really wants to know, and he wants to know what you think about how you are; his problem is that, before the conversation is over, he may well have developed your symptoms himself. Hypochondria is not – or not only – a form of self-indulgence. It is also a form of pathological empathy. Charles Darwin wanted to be a doctor, but was too sensitive to human suffering. It is a worrying thought – worrying enough to raise the pulse rate – that nurses and doctors are an elite, self-selected as sufficiently insensitive to get on with the job. I compared it with companies in other countries I talked to and especially given net salary you can make literally more than in the UK with lower cost of living. So it's not just salary / col, it's net salary that is higher. I once knew a man, a Jamaican, who when he first came to England always answered truthfully when asked ‘How are you?’ A bit sniffly, he might reply; or he would describe his indigestion, or the twinge in his left knee. One day a woman lost patience: ‘Look,’ she snapped, ‘there’s something you must understand; in England, the answer to “How are you?” is “I’m fine, how are you?”’ So he’d been told, and he didn’t need telling twice: for all the English care, you can die and stiffen on the street. In COVID-19 patients, the ROTEM pattern was characterized by a hypercoagulable state with decreased fibrinolytic capacity despite a paradoxical increase in D-dimer levels. We suggest that, in COVID-19 patients, the lungs could be the main source of D-dimer, while a systemic hypofibrinolytic state coexists. This hypothesis should be confirmed by future studies.I remember when I first started practicing as a functional nutritionist. I’d get caught up in the flurry of my clients’ symptoms, trying to “fix them” or make them go away. As I discuss in my ebook, Functional Nutrition 101, the key to uncovering the truths of what’s going on in there lies in your abilities, session after session, to ask the right questions—questions that will lead to more questions as well as to the answers that will reveal your evolving protocol. What’s Going on in There Principle #2