Stella Chadwick | Functional Medicine

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The danger starts when it all feels easy Your child’s sleeping. Eating. Laughing. The rages have stopped. The flares are gone. The house is calm. So you skip the supplements. Loosen the food. Let the routine slide. Just for a day. Then two. Because it’s fine now. Right?…

I went to the house of a patient today to drop off some urgent medications. He was 60 and had been on my ward for several weeks and left without them - all this time, he had appeared frail and unkempt in his pyjamas. When I arrived, I was struck by the size of his home and the…

Can the gut microbiome influence the core features of autism? A Nature Neuroscience study conducted a multi-omic integration of 25 datasets to explore this link, combining microbiome, immune, transcriptomic, dietary, and metabolite data. Here’s a brief summary breakdown of the…

There is no expiry date on your child’s potential. The brain can rewire. The body can rebuild. Biology bends. Keep going. Inspired by @ntfabiano

She stopped wearing her ear defenders. Ella is 14. When we first met, she was anxious, withdrawn, overwhelmed by sound. Ear defenders were part of her every day. Her nervous system was on constant high alert. That was a few months ago. Today, her mum told me she’s no longer…

Something doesn't add up about mould toxins and this might be why. Dr Vanessa Ingraham ND noticed something: Caribbean kids live in mouldy homes but rarely get biotoxin illness. Fair-skinned visitors to New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest get hammered. The difference?…

Yes 90% of the serotonin (5HT) in your body is made in your gut but no, it does not travel from there to your brain to control mood etc. Gut 5HT (made possible by tryptophan, short chain fatty acids & microbes) activates your vagus which in turn increases brain serotonin levels.

Food refusal. Meltdowns. No speech. Joseph was 4. Exhausted. Shut down. 3 months later: talking, playing, eating, growing. No overload. Just the right foundations. 📖 Full case study 👉 brainstormhealth.co.uk/2025/06/case-s… 🧠 Want the game-changing product + the exact recipe we used? Our…

To all medics out there Can we normalise believing parents The ones who know their child The ones who’ve watched the light go out The ones who said “something changed overnight” and were told there’s nothing you can do The evidence is not missing You just keep dismissing it…

Tics. OCD. Rage. Insomnia. If any of these get worse at night, start with the light. Your child’s brain doesn’t just respond to light. It regulates itself by it. And every time they scroll before bed, their brain gets one instruction: stay wired, stay inflamed, skip repair.…

Your brain emits light

This is one of the most striking cases I have seen Josh is 14 and had moved from France to the UK a few months earlier Not long after, he was hallucinating Hearing voices Confused, frightened, losing touch with reality The psychiatrist was preparing to assess him for…