The Perfect Storm, Talk Prep

Topics Only (Quick Glance)

Key Talking Points, in Order (Your Voice)

1. Open with empathy: who this is for

   • If your child struggles with chronic neurological challenges (autism, ADHD, anxiety, seizures, PANS/PANDAS, sensory, chronic gut issues), this is for you.
   • You have likely exhausted the medical system and come out with labels but no root-cause answers and no drug-free action steps.
   • You have probably already tried diet, supplements, and detoxes. You love your child, you know they are made the way they are made, and you want the daily struggles to get better, not just the diagnosis.

2. What we are up against

   • About 1 in 4 kids has a chronic illness, 1 in 6 has sensory issues, 1 in 36 is diagnosed with autism, and the trend is rising.
   • The medical world, and even much of the natural-health world, is missing one foundational key: the nervous system.

3. It is all connected (one system)

   • Autism, ADHD, anxiety, and seizures are not purely genetic and not purely psychiatric. They reflect an environmental perfect storm acting on the nervous system.
   • One system connects the brain and body and runs digestion, immunity, motor tone, sleep, speech, and emotion: the central and autonomic nervous system.
   • Medicine silos these into separate specialists and misses the forest for the trees.

4. It starts early: trust your gut

   • The early signs (colic, reflux, torticollis, plagiocephaly, constipation, chronic ear infections, eczema, always getting sick) are not things kids simply grow out of.
   • Without addressing the nervous-system root, kids grow into tantrums, ADHD, sensory, and anxiety.
   • About 70% of the immune system lives in the gut, and the gut and immune system are run by the nervous system.

5. Stressor 1: prenatal and maternal stress

   • A high-stress or high-risk pregnancy can begin to dysregulate baby's developing nervous system in utero.
   • Stress on mom's nervous system can cross to baby; the cord can carry cortisol and stress markers, not just nutrients.
   • The hallmark of these conditions is too much sympathetic fight-or-flight tone, and it often starts here.
   • Tone note: this is never about blaming moms. Mom often needed that care. Knowing the trigger is simply what lets us address it.

6. Stressor 2: birth trauma and intervention

   • Interventions (C-section, forceps, vacuum, induction) have been normalized but can stress and injure the upper neck and brainstem.
   • In a large share of tough neurological cases there is a significant birth intervention in the history.
   • This creates subluxation: misalignment, tension, and neurological interference in the upper cervical spine and brainstem, the air-traffic-control for the whole nervous system.

7. Subluxation to dysautonomia

   • Subluxation of that area shifts the child into dysautonomia: too much sympathetic (fight or flight), too little parasympathetic and vagal (rest, digest, heal, regulate).
   • When the vagal side is suppressed, the system cannot calm, soothe, digest, communicate, or regulate, all essential for development.

8. Stressor 3: toxins and medication overload

   • Antibiotics (especially in the first two years), Miralax, nebulizers, plus everyday environmental toxins, often used instead of addressing the root cause.
   • In a nervous system already stressed and less resilient, these become the straw that breaks the camel's back.
   • Toxins matter, but usually the storm was already brewing underneath. Keep this factual, not anti-medicine; medication has its place.

9. The core four: fix the body before the brain

   • When the storm throws the nervous system off, the first four systems to go offline are sleep, gut, immune, and motor.
   • These four are the foundation of neurodevelopment; missed motor milestones point toward sensory, ADHD, and learning challenges.
   • We restore the basics first.

10. Root cause, right order (not a cure)

    • This is not a treatment and not a cure. We support the root cause in a specific, sequential order.
    • You cannot fix the brain until you support the body first: foundation, plumbing, then electrical.
    • Quality of life (sleep, eating, bathroom, haircuts, fewer meltdowns) improves first; then the brain has room to heal.

11. The solution: nervous-system-focused care and INSiGHT scans

    • At Van Every this is gentle, light-touch, nervous-system-focused care: Talsky Tonal Chiropractic (TTC) and the Koren Specific Technique (KST), with the Arthrostim. No cracking, popping, or twisting.
    • INSiGHT scans show it objectively: neurothermal (interference and inflammation), surface EMG (motor and neuro tone), and HRV (vagal versus sympathetic balance).
    • This is different from meditation, yoga, and breathing, which are wonderful for maintaining health you already have. A dysregulated child's nervous system needs the gentle adjustments first.

12. Hope into action (close)

    • You are the hero in your child's story.
    • Every kid can heal when we do things root cause, in the right order.
    • Get a nervous-system-focused pediatric and family chiropractor on your team. Here at Van Every in Royal Oak, we do exactly this work, and we are affiliated with the national PX Docs network.
    • Call to action: call 248.616.0900, text the word SKED to 248-616-0900, or book online to get your child's INSiGHT scans and a personalized plan.

Illustrations, Stories, and Numbers (from the Van Every Webinar)

Analogies that make it land

• The chili recipe (for "why my child?"): hand a hundred people the same chili recipe and you get a hundred different chilis. Same diagnosis, same ingredients, a hundred different versions. That is why there is no single cause and no single answer.
• The breaker box (for root cause): if every light in the house goes out, you do not run around replacing every bulb, you go to the breaker box and fix the breaker. We work on the breaker so the lights come back on. And if the breaker keeps flipping, the answer is not to keep flipping the switch, it is to fix the overload.
• Boiling water and the fever (for adaptation, not suppression): a fever is not the enemy, it is the body turning up the heat to boil out an infection, the same way you boil water on purpose. Adaptation is the whole point. We support the body's ability to adapt, we do not just silence the signal.
• The Ferrari at ninety (for these kids' nervous systems): a child stuck in fight or flight is a beautiful Ferrari doing ninety miles an hour, gorgeous to watch and not very safe. The brake is the vagus nerve, and our job is to gently tap the brakes, never slam them.
• Two rivers (for good input vs bad input): proprioception, the good movement input, and nociception, the stress and pain input, are two rivers feeding the brain, and the louder one wins. In these kids the stress river is Metallica at full blast and the calm river is quiet elevator music. We turn the calm one back up.
• The induction piledriver (for prenatal stress): when the body is not ready and labor is forced, an induction can land on a baby like a piledriver. Vivid, use sparingly.

Real patient stories from our practice

• The sensory little boy (a mom's testimonial): third child, so touch-sensitive that a light brush felt like a punch, so he punched back. Labeled, picking fights, not invited to a single birthday party that year, telling his mom "nobody likes me, I have no friends." Her gut said sensory, not autism, and she trusted it and stayed consistent with care. A neighbor who had not seen him in a year, knowing none of the story, said within seconds "he is a different kid," noticing the eye contact and the clear speech. Now top of his class, and he has friends. The trust-your-gut beat in human form.
• Weston, six weeks old (the perfect storm in the making): fourth baby, induced a week early "because he was going to be big," then born under eight pounds, not big at all. Bruised face, fast delivery, colicky and screaming from day one, jaundiced for weeks. After one gentle adjustment his mom described a different baby, finally sleeping. The kicker: her oldest had an extreme, bruising birth and now has ADHD, severe anxiety, and learning disabilities, while the two middle kids with normal births are fine. When someone says it is genetic, her answer is "okay, why one and not the two middle?" This is your genetics-versus-birth-trauma argument, and your "it is never too late" line.
• Drew, seventeen: came in for an ankle that kept spraining, with a concussion in his history and rough posture, and he never once complained about his neck. First scan showed a very high stress load [VERIFY: total energy 906 against a 120 to 150 target]. After about a month of care his scan and his posture transformed [VERIFY: down to 151] and he was noticeably calmer. Objective change in a kid with no neck symptoms.
• Gabriel, seven: trouble in school, mood swings, could not sit still or listen. High initial scan [VERIFY: 1,300], and after a short run of visits it dropped sharply [VERIFY: to 460]. His mom's marker of change: he sat and did six sheets of homework, where before he could not sit still in the car. Quality of life first, then focus.

Numbers and studies (confirm every figure before saying it)

• Cord blood: a 2005 study found a long list of chemicals in the cord blood of healthy newborns, many of them known carcinogens, before the baby was even born [VERIFY: 287 chemicals, 180 carcinogens; this matches the well-known 2005 cord-blood study, confirm before quoting]. The toxic load starts before birth.
• Healthy babies and subluxation: a study of a hundred healthy newborns found nearly all of them subluxated right after birth [VERIFY: 99 of 100, roughly 90% with subluxation in some area]. Birth itself is the first stressor.
• The right-side pattern: a large share of newborn subluxations sit on the right side, because most birth providers are right-handed and the dominant hand jams that side during delivery [VERIFY: about 90%].
• Birth intervention in tough cases: a significant documented birth intervention shows up in the large majority of our hardest neurological cases (your script already says 85 to 90%).
• Proprioception: a majority of the body's position-sense input comes from the spine, with the upper neck and the sacrum as the two biggest sources [VERIFY: about 60%, roughly a third from the upper neck].

Lines worth borrowing

• "We don't guess, we test." (our scanning, in five words)
• "Nerves that fire together wire together."
• "You can't be in growth and protection at the same time."
• "Our goal is to add things to their life, not take things away."
• "Healthy by choice, not by chance."
• On the vagus nerve: vagus is Latin for "wander," and it wanders through the whole body, which is why upper-neck work can help digestion. "What happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas." (light, optional)

Two more concrete touches

• The nursing-side tip (a sign parents recognize): a baby who will nurse happily on one side and fights the other often has something going on in the neck. We have two sides for a reason, and a baby should take both equally.
• Everyday hidden trauma (for the birth-and-beyond beat): it is not only birth. Learning to walk and ride a bike is falling over and over, and hours a day in car seats and bouncers add up on a little spine. The home-video clips that are funny to everyone else can be cringe-worthy to a pediatric chiropractor.
• The reversible-poem close (optional ending): the webinar ends on a "Lost Generation" style poem that reads as despair from top to bottom and as hope from bottom to top, landing on "there is hope." A strong, non-salesy way to close on hope.

Your own opener line (from a 2023 clip, in your voice)

• "It is called the Perfect Storm because the biggest takeaway is this: there is not just one thing driving the rise in ADHD, autism, sensory challenges, seizures, and chronic illness in our kids. It is a multitude of things, but there is a pattern, a missing link, something happening early that the pediatrician, the medical system, and even natural health are not picking up." (Your own words, a clean way to open. The deeper 2023 workshop talks are folded into the Pass 2 enrichment below.)

Pass 2 enrichment (from the two deeper 2023 talks)

Sharper framings (the strongest net-new teaching)

• The cascade, named at every step (for "they grow out of it"): the more honest line is they do not grow out of it, they grow into a new diagnosis. The same root issue just changes its name as the child grows. A baby who cannot turn the head well does not latch well, so drainage backs up, so the ears get infected, so come the antibiotics, so the gut takes a hit, so the tonsils flare, so allergies, then asthma, then sensory issues, then ADHD. The colicky, constipated, cannot-sleep baby is often the fifth grader with ADHD. Same storm, different name.
• The neuro imbalance comes first, the chemical imbalance follows (your best answer to the meds model): a lot of people are told they have a chemical imbalance, and some do. But what we keep finding is a neurological imbalance driving the chemistry. Address the neurology and the chemistry tends to settle on its own. The single sharpest reframe in either talk.
• Amygdala, then hippocampus, then prefrontal cortex (the stress chain): when early stress keeps the amygdala, the fear center, overactive, it crowds out the hippocampus, which handles learning and situational awareness, and that in turn starves the prefrontal cortex, where focus and higher reasoning live. Anxiety is fear of the future, and that is the amygdala in the driver's seat. A clean, teachable chain for why focus and behavior suffer.
• Perception, coordination, behavior (the universal sequence): perception is the input, coordination is the processing, behavior is the output. If trauma scrambles the body's ability to perceive, the coordination is off, and the behavior everyone sees downstream is off too. When a child is misbehaving, they are often responding to misinformation in the nervous system.
• Motion is the fuel (sharper than the proprioception number): the nervous system runs on motion, that is how the information flows, and a large share of that movement signal comes from the upper neck and brainstem [VERIFY: about 30% from that upper area]. When that area is locked up, kids go hunting for the motion elsewhere, the tapping, the toe-walking, the chewing, the teeth-grinding. Those are recruitment attempts, not just quirks.
• An incomplete system, not bad people (a fairer frame than bashing medicine): our acute and trauma care is the best in the world. Ironically that same system flips and becomes some of the worst at chronic care. They are not bad people, they are doing the best they can inside an incomplete system, because they were never taught to look at the nervous system as the cause.
• Why steroids can backfire (mechanistic): steroids turn the sympathetic system up. If a child is not draining because the parasympathetic side is down and the sympathetic side is already too high, a medicine that pushes the sympathetic higher can tip whatever symptom they were on the edge of into the open.

Analogies that make it land

• The library of cards (for the genetics objection): you do not get a small fixed hand of genetic cards for life, you get a whole library, and the environment decides which ones you flip over and play. That is epigenetics. Stress plus a predisposition is what tips you over the edge. Genes load the gun, the storm pulls the trigger.
• Drainage and plumbing (for ear infections and the gut): the body is endlessly complex, but a lot of it comes down to something simple, drainage and plumbing, things have to be able to come out. When the parasympathetic side is down, the drainage backs up, and that is when the ears and sinuses keep getting infected.
• Teach the body, do not create dependence (for "do I have to come forever?"): instead of training the body to wait on an outside force, the goal is to teach the body to get better and better at adjusting itself. It is meant to be empowering for the system, not to make it dependent.
• The moonwalking bear, as a live demonstration (for the missing link): run the count-the-passes awareness test. Everyone gets the number right and almost no one sees the moonwalking bear walk through. That is the whole point, you cannot find what you do not know to look for. The nervous system is the bear the system was never told to watch for. (Pairs with your opener line above.)

A scan typology parents remember

• Three patterns on the scan (a memorable way to explain findings): the Raging Bull, gas pedal floored with plenty still in the tank, the high-energy, classic hard-charging presentation. The Drunken Bull, the gas has been on so long the tank ran low, so things go quiet, flat, low tone, poor focus and memory. And the scattered Raging-Drunken Bull, gas and brake both on at once, chaos throughout the system. A picture parents hold onto when they see their own child's scan.

Stories of what is possible (attribution and care framing above, not Van Every patients)

• Evan, and the head-banging clue: diagnosed with autism at three, told he likely would not walk or talk, parents told to start saving money, the diagnosis packet so templated the family said it looked identical to others they had seen. One detail worth knowing: head-banging often tracks with a fixation in the nervous system, the child is innately trying to break it free, trying to adjust themselves. Placed under neurologically focused care, the change over the following months was real, eye contact, coordination, speech, following directions. A hope story, framed as possibility, never a promise.
• Guru: came in nonverbal, in diapers with no bladder control, having regular seizures, could not sit still. Over a run of care his family saw dramatic change, potty trained, a long stretch seizure-free, more eye contact and engagement. Tell as a story of what the nervous system can do when the interference comes down, not as a treatment claim.
• Oliver (a traumatic-birth story of hope): a difficult birth with a head and upper-neck injury, a frightening early prognosis [VERIFY: the two talks state the prognosis differently, use the gentler framing and do not quote a survival percentage]. His father, a chiropractor, held gentle upper-cervical care from the very start. A follow-up MRI came back clear, and today he is a thriving teenager. Powerful, but keep the medical specifics soft and frame it as one family's story.
• The teen and the chemical-imbalance reframe (HIGH-CARE story): a bright kid, hard birth, colicky and sleepless as a baby, who ended up on several psychotropic medications as a teen. A scan showed significant neurological imbalance. Under neurologically focused care, and in coordination with his medical team, the neurological picture changed and he was able to reduce his medications over time. Never say "got off all his meds" flat. Always pair it with the medical-team coordination. The teaching point is the neuro-before-chemical reframe, not a medication claim.
• The 83-year-old mentor (for the wellness-for-life close): a mentor in practice 58 years, 83 years old, who never advertised, with patients who have come once or twice a week for thirty and forty years and are remarkably healthy and spry into old age. A quiet, non-salesy picture of what lifelong nervous-system care can look like.

Numbers from these talks (confirm every figure before saying it)

• The anatomy of the storm (rough proportions of the contributing factors, all VERIFY): documented major prenatal stress in a large share of cases [VERIFY: the talks say 50% and 60% in different versions]; some form of birth trauma or intervention in the large majority [VERIFY: about 80% across cases, your earlier script says 85 to 90% for the hardest cases, confirm which denominator]; genetics as a major variable in a small minority [VERIFY: about 10%]; a documented adverse reaction to a toxin or exposure in a meaningful slice [VERIFY: 20 to 30%].
• C-section rate: climbed from roughly 6% in the mid-1970s to about a third of all births by 2012, and higher since, more than one in three [VERIFY: 6% to 33%, ASR-rendered].
• Early antibiotics: antibiotics before age three associated with a two to four fold rise in allergies and asthma [VERIFY].
• Gut and mood chemistry: a large majority of serotonin and dopamine activity is tied to the gut [VERIFY: about 80%], which is why the brain-gut connection runs both ways. Brain to gut comes first.
• Constipation and autism: constipation reported several times more common in children with autism [VERIFY: about 4 times].
• How rare this approach is (for "why have I never heard of this"): only a small percentage of chiropractors practice this neurologically focused way [VERIFY: a rough 1 to 5%, a spoken estimate, not a study].

More lines worth borrowing

• "You cannot find what you do not know you are looking for."
• "They do not grow out of it. They grow into a new diagnosis."
• "When the neurology gets straightened out, the chemistry straightens itself out."
• "We are removing the interference, not adding one more thing."
• "There is no ceiling to neurological optimization."
• "A diagnosis names the symptoms. It does not tell you the cause."

Handling the expected questions (from the talk Q and A)

• If someone raises polyvagal theory or Stephen Porges: a gracious answer is that polyvagal-informed therapy is valuable a step or two downstream, on the awareness and regulation side, and that you want to address any interference at the nervous-system level first, from the inside out, then layer those approaches in alongside. Complementary, not competing.
• If someone asks "are you talking about a bone, like T1 or T2?": the honest answer is no, not really the bone, the brainstem and the flow of information through that area. Tension there alters the signal. This is the line that separates this work from structural, bone-popping chiropractic.
• If someone questions the scans: what is hard to get a false read on is the pattern, and the error rate on pattern is low. The scans are for pattern recognition over time, not a single precise point measurement.
• If someone asks what the scans are actually for: they show how much stress the system is carrying and where, so they guide how often and how long care runs, not just whether to adjust. We rescan about every twelve visits to track progress against the first reading, and it rolls into a single core score the family can watch move. And say it plainly: we do not decide an adjustment on the scan alone, the scan informs the plan, the exam and the hands still lead.
• If someone asks "will we have to come forever" or worries about dependence: the honest framing is that the goal is better function and quality of life, not a standing appointment. We track progress, we taper as the system holds its own, and when something is outside our lane we co-manage and refer. The aim is a body that needs us less, not more.

From the room: your own voice and local specifics (the Nov 2023 talks)

• Your own origin story (a warmer opener than the textbook setup): the road in, your time at Experience Wellness in Minnesota watching high-volume pediatric care and realizing this was your lane, then bringing it home through Cultivate. Told in your own voice it does more than any statistic, it tells a room of parents why you, specifically, do this work.
• "Neurologically pleasing, not invasive" (the single best line for a nervous parent): we are not putting something into the child, we are helping the body release something it has been holding. The adjustment is gentle and neurologically pleasing, not invasive. This disarms the fear faster than any explanation of force.
• Inside out, not outside in (how to place this next to everything else they are trying): most approaches work from the outside in, the diet, the therapy, the supplement, the medication, all good and all downstream. This works from the inside out, starting at the nervous system itself, the source. You are not asking them to stop the outside-in work, you are giving it a foundation to land on.
• The body responds perfectly to its own perception (the root metaphor under the whole talk): the body is not malfunctioning, it is responding exactly right to the information it is getting. Change the information, through the nervous system, and the response changes. Pairs with the perception, coordination, behavior chain above.
• First-visit mechanics [HISTORICAL, internal, do NOT publish as current]: the 2023 talks walked through the first-visit flow, a couple of visits, a history, tonal analysis, three INSiGHT scans, and a report of findings, at a low scan fee at the time. Treat every figure as 2023-historical and confirm the current offer with the clinic before any number goes public.

Full Script (Cleaned, Faithful)

Source: the original Perfect Storm talk, captions cleaned and formatted. Faithful to the speaker's wording. Localize the personal references noted above as you present.

Who This Talk Is For

Hey parents, if your child struggles with chronic, really, really tough neurological challenges like autism, epilepsy, seizures, OCD, anxiety, ADHD, pandas, pans, dysautonomia, POTS syndrome, and the list goes on. If your child's neurological challenges have been there for quite some time, and they really significantly impact your family's daily life every single day, then I bet these four things are very true for your family. Number one, you've exhausted the traditional medical system.

You've gone to the pediatrician. You've gone to the neurologist. You've gone to the geneticist.

You've gone to the gastroenterologist. You've gone in all the different hospital and medical buildings. And you've come out of there with more confusion and no answers.

And especially no drug-free action steps that actually address the root cause and tell you why your child is struggling in the first place. Second, I bet you've been up late at night looking for those answers, looking for that the the answer, which is a multiffactorial answer to what's causing this, what is behind this. Number three, maybe you've already moved forward on your own and you've done some incredible stuff.

Maybe you've found a functional integrative holistic doctor and you've done a ton of diet changes and detoxes and supplements and vitamins and essential oils and homeopathics and herbs and the list goes on. I bet you have thrown the natural health book at your child to try and get their neurological their almost kind of brainbased challenges better because maybe you learned about the gut brain connection and the microbiome and those things. And maybe this fourth thing is really true for you as well.

I bet it is. You're watching videos like this. You're looking for solutions like we're going to talk about in this video.

Not just because you want to get rid of the diagnosis. You love your child. You know they're made the way they're made.

You know that on the other side of their struggle is the best of them, their fullest potential. And you're looking for help with those daily struggles, not just the diagnosis. You know that with an autism diagnosis or with a seizure diagnosis or with an ADHD diagnosis comes these daily struggles like constant challenges with transitions, short fuses that lead to tantrums and meltdowns, difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, difficulty staying healthy, chronic neurological kiddos are sick all the time and they're constipated all the time.

There's chronic gut issues. So really what I know after 15 plus years of being knee to knee working with families with the toughest of neurological conditions those four things fit your family and if we could just make the daytoday better then you can see that hope then you can see that path to your child healing recovering and getting through this in its optimal potential or what we like to talk about in our work optimal outcome. So, if you've tried all those things and you're looking for answers to what's really causing it and natural drug-free options to help your child get better, then this video all about the perfect storm is exactly for you.

We're going to get pretty into it. We're going to get pretty sciency. We're going to get pretty neurophysiologically.

That's a long word. Okay? So, and at the same time, there's a little bit of a inside scoop to my personality.

We're going to talk about the vagus nerve. We're going to talk about the gut brain connection. We're going to talk about the autonomic nervous system.

We're going to talk about what's really causing these neurological conditions and it's really going to be simplified at the same time. We're going to take the multiple things that we know are behind this and we're going to break it down into three categories. But first off, I'll tell you this.

I know parents when they hear the perfect storm, when they go all the way through this, this is a video you're going to want to watch all the way through. This is a video you might want to watch all the way through two to three times because here's what we say when parents hear us do this have this conversation about the perfect storm or maybe they go full out and they watch our workshop or our webinar about this which if you love this video I'm going to try and do this one in 15 to 20 minutes. If you love this and these three things I'm about to say or how you feel when you're done then send us a DM comment below.

Let's get you signed up or get a recording of the full Perfect Storm webinar or if you're local to me here in Chicagoland, let's get you attending the live perfect storm workshop. I'm telling you, when you get done with this, you're going to want to get more and those are the places that you get that. So, what we hear all the time is, "It was like you described my child and our journey word for word, step by step." That's what we're about to do.

Another mom said, "When I first heard you explain all this, I finally felt hope once again." and we finally had a sense of direction. We finally had a plan and a path that we could take to get our child better. And another mom said, "It all just made so much sense.

I cannot believe that no other doctor out of all the specialists we've seen, no other doctor, no other specialists, nobody else online told me this or taught me this. It's so simple and straightforward, which is what makes it so impactful." So those are the feedback. That is the feedback that parents get when they hear this perfect storm message.

So, let's get it to you.

What We Are Up Against

So, first off, what are we up against? We're up against some real not good things. One in four kids today, kids.

Kids, kids have chronic illness. That is the most not all right thing. One in six kids have sensory issues.

One in 36 kids will be diagnosed with autism are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder currently. That's actually outdated data. Those trends are all going in the right direction.

If I were to fast forward this video three years, those numbers will be worse because the perfect storm is still brewing and the traditional medical system and most of the information on the internet isn't talking about it at all. And even those getting into awesome natural functional integrative health and talking about the gut and talking about those things, they're still missing a huge foundational key to getting these kids to heal with, which is all about the nervous system, which is what we're going to talk about here.

Everything Is Linked Together

So the first main point I want to give you with this perfect storm concept is this. Everything is linked together. This right here is why you can almost really figure out why medicine struggles to make sense of autism.

We're going to use autism for our best analogy to to to really show the point. Everything is linked together. So autism is not a psychiatric disorder.

Autism isn't a purely genetic disorder. There's a small little bit of genetic predisposition, but like all illnesses that don't have real actual chromosome or or genetic changes, this is an environmental perfect storm that's happening that takes a child's genetics and skews them in the wrong direction. A whole conversation, whole another video for another day called epigenetics.

How our environment influences our genetic expression. That's autism. And so with autism, every single child I've ever seen with autism clinically, we've been busted our tails and taken care of thousands, they don't just have the behavior, the emotion, the social social, speech, and communication challenges.

So for this conversation today, we're going to call those the brainbased challenges. Okay? And that's one of the problems.

Autism in the medical world, they look at it as a psychiatric condition, as a brainbased condition. And even if it were, by the way, they think all psychiatric conditions, anxiety, ADHD, like the cause of them is simply either in the genetic code or inside the brain. Well, the brain works for the body.

And so, there's one system that connects everything together. First and foremost, foundationally, it connects the brain and the body together and the and the body to the brain. And that's the central or autonomic nervous system.

If we just say nervous system, we're talking about both of them in this video. But the nervous system controls the digestive system. The nervous system controls the immune system.

The nervous system controls the proprioceptive motor motor tone and coordination, the vestibular system. And of course, the nervous system controls speech, communication, socialization, and behavioral and emotional regulation. And so what medicine has become is all these separate silos, right?

All these separate specialists. So because every single specialist of medicine tends to be looking only at their one little thing, they don't see the forest through the trees that says all of these neurological conditions, especially autism, is interlin to one system. The storm starts with the nervous system.

We know that from looking at it from a neurophysiological perspective, a global perspective if you will. And we actually know that by taking kids case histories and looking at the research as well and going back and finding these common triggers. And again, we're going to simplify them to three big ones here to put into the categories, but it really starts early.

It Starts Early: Trust Your Gut

And the signs of this are the things that the traditional pediatrician still says parents, ah, don't worry, they'll grow out of it. Ah, it's normal. They'll be fine.

Yet deep down, speaking of gut brain connection, deep down in your gut brain connection, mom and dad, your gut feeling is that's not okay that my baby is colicky and screaming and can't latch and can't nurse and has their head stuck to one side torticollis and has a flat spot plagiocephaly and is constipated and is getting chronic ear infections and then his eczema and then gets sick all the time every time there's a seasonal change or big brother has. It's not normal for a kiddo, a baby to be stressed. It's not normal for an 8 to 12month-old or a toddler, one or two-year-old to be sick all the time.

It's not normal for them to need antibiotics. And we're going to jump ahead here real quick. Antibiotics are a big part of this conversation, especially if given in the first two years of life.

But that's what traditional doctors are going to say because they can't again see the forest through the trees. Colic isn't something that kids grow out of. They grow into tantrums.

These sleeping challenges isn't something that a child grows out of. They stick with them because they have a neurological foundation. Constipation isn't something that a child grows out of.

Constipation because 70% of our immune systems in our gut and the gut and the immune system are modulated by the nervous system. Once constipation and microbiome disruption set in long enough and bad enough, now it's going to spill upward and it's going to mess with the brain and a child is going to grow into from constipation and eczema and and gut issues as a baby. They're going to grow into ADHD, autism, sensory challenges, especially if they're put on antibiotics, especially if they're put on Miralax because those medications have side effects of all these things that are hallmarks of autism and ADHD.

So while medicine may go send you to all these different specialists and their own and and therapy is a little bit similar. We work on this, we work on this, you need a doctor, you're hearing from one right now who knows how it's all connected together.

The Perfect Storm: Prenatal and Maternal Stress

Number two, let's break down these perfect storms. So we kind of have 2 A, 2 B, 2 C here with number two, it all is this perfect storm. And the first component of the perfect storm that we I've seen clinically taking case histories on kids.

So, how do we put together the perfect storm? This wasn't taught in school. This wasn't taught in, we didn't read randomized clinical trials and meta analysis from PubMed and drug companies who want the, you know, want the research to go the way they want it to go.

We found these answers because we knew you, Mom and Dad, were looking for them. So when we took care of kids with autism and ADHD and seizures in our practice, we did what only really to this degree that doctors of chiropractic are designed to do, which is to go all the way back in time to fertility to pregnancy to early childhood and look for the cause. That's the word of the day.

If you don't really dig all the way into the nervous system and all the way back into a child's case history, you can't find the real root cause. It's not just genetics. And also I got to tell you it's not just the gut either, okay?

And it's not just the motor system. So all these different awesome things that are going forward in this world where different practitioners are working on this and working on that that are maybe outside the traditional medical world, they are awesomely getting towards the trunk of the tree, but we're going to go to the roots, the real actual roots. And so the first thing we found in case histories all the time is that there's a high if there was a high risk pregnancy, a high stress pregnancy that can disrupt and already start to lead to imbalance within the development of the child's central and autonomic nervous system.

So, skipping ahead really quick, the hallmark of all neurological conditions from autism to sensory to ADHD to anxiety to seizures is too much of what's called sympathetic fight orflight tone. So, the sympathetic fight orflight protective stress, high high stress, you know, hyperactivity, impulsivity, nervousness side of the nervous system is not at all supposed to be very activated in kids. Think of a baby.

What are they supposed to do? eat, sleep, poop, chill, and be happy. So when a child, when an infant is stuck on sympathetic dominance, that's a sign that's colic, that's constipation, that's stiffness, that's arching, that's crying.

And so autism later on when they're stimming and walking on their toes and stuck in fight or flight, that's the same neurology. Well, often that neurology first got its start in what we call fetal development or in uterero development. There's some really incredible research.

You can go to our website if you love this video and you want to learn more not just in video format but you love to read you love to get really sciency and get the research links as well. You can go to our website pxdocs.com. I'm sure the team will link this video right to our perfect storm article and some other ones.

But there is really solid research that is showing what's called maternal distress or prenatal distress. And actually fertility challenges are highly interlin as well with autism and neurological challenges. And really there's just one word that sums this all up.

Stress. Stress stuck on mom's nervous system can lead to stress getting into baby's nervous system. So that umbilical cord, yes, it brings oxygen and nutrients, but it can also bring nervous system stress.

It can bring cortisol. It can bring these high levels of stress markers. And that baby's nervous system, especially in utero and in these early stages where we're going next, it's most plastic.

It's most impressionable or moldable or programmable. And so if there's a lot of stress in that scenario, which often times there needs to be, mom needs to be taken care of medically. And that's what I got to say real quick right in here too.

This is the least favorite part of my job. I love making this video because those responses that parents share before because you finally get your hope back. You finally have a doctor to tell you the truth about what's really causing this stuff.

But it also stinks in one way because we're going backwards. I have two kids. Two of my children were exposed to massive stressors that we definitely did not plan for.

The plan wasn't for a traumatic birth for Oliver. And yet it was there. But because I knew what it would do, which is what we're teaching you here with this, the bad news, if you will, can immediately become the good news that says, "Hey, now that I know these things within the perfect storm could have very likely triggered my child's neurological challenges, even 17, 19, 27 years later, that's the stuff you've got to address to get them better." So, maternal distress, prenatal stress, that electrical power cord is kind of the connection between mom and baby.

And a lot of the times this stress on their nervous system starts there. Now 2B if you will or the third main point I want to talk about

The Perfect Storm: Birth Trauma and Intervention

is birth intervention and birth trauma. This is what we call the moonwalking bear which is a funny YouTube video where this bear is walking in the middle of these guys playing basketball and he's there the whole time but you can't see him because of the distraction because there's so much else going on in the world that you don't see the bear doing the moonwalk in the middle of the video. Well, isn't that having a baby?

It is the busiest, most awesomely overwhelming time ever. And what medicine has does done is normalized by far birth interventions like forceps, vacuum, c-section, induction, epidural, and so forth. And what we know clinically, we've seen this in 85 to 90% of our cases of kids with these neurological issues have some documented significant birth intervention that now we need to teach you can lead to birth trauma, birth stress on their nervous system.

And the research shows it as well. There is research again you can go to our website if you want it. It is study after study after study that says the more intervention that gets in and physically injures their brain stem and here's the science here's the neurology behind it almost the neuroanatomy that upper cervical area where the big pliers or the big plunger go with forceps and vacuum or a big set of hands go grab a hold yank and twist when there's c-section or manual assistance from the doctors or breach and cord that's in there is a big one with this too that creates what's called subluxation which is misalignment, fixation, tension and neurological interference within the cranial bones within the upper cervical part of the neurospinal system and really throughout that whole system.

Subluxation and Dysautonomia

Now that system is designed to house and protect the entire central and autonomic nervous system specifically the vagus nerve and the brain stem. The vagus nerve is the rest regulation, digestion, communication side of the nervous system. The upper cervical, brain stem, cerebellum area controls motor planning.

It controls visual connection. So, social emotional communication and regulation. This area up here, the upper cervical spine and brain stem is air traffic control for the entire central and autonomic nervous system.

And what happens for a child with autism? air traffic control doesn't work. The gut doesn't work.

The immune system doesn't work. Their motor tone and coordination doesn't work. Their speech doesn't work.

Their social emotional regulation doesn't work. Their sleep center doesn't work. So, what is one thing that can injure and damage and disrupt all of those functions?

Subluxation of that area. Subluxation of that area shifts the child's nervous system into what's called dysautonomia. So it's what we were talking about before where the sympathetic nervous system is dominant.

It's the tone of the nervous system is way too much. And then on the flip side, when you have dysautonomia with too much sympathetic fight orflight tone, you end up with too little parasympathetic what's called vagal nerve tone. So the nervous system can't relax, it can't soothe, it can't communicate, it can't regulate, it can't do these things that are essential for development and essential for daytoday health and well-being.

And so it's that system, that vagus nerve and parasympathetic system that I need you to hang on to because we're going to come back and we're going to teach you about technology that is now available for every kiddo. No matter how sensory, how wound, how much they don't like to do. It's not a blood work.

It's not an MRI. The challenge with doing, you know, traditional medical testing and functional medical testing for a child with autism and sensory issues is good luck getting the exam. Good luck getting the findings.

Good luck getting people say all the time, I'll just clean up their diet. You know what, a child with autism, they need to eat healthy meats and vegetables and and healthy fruits, and then take these 85 supplements, these big old horse pills, and and then they'll heal. You ever try and get good food into a stressed out sensory spectrum kiddo?

You ever try and get them to not have carbs, not have sugar? It's just neurology. Neurology dictates and governs everything.

So this is your cheat code to healthy living too when we teach you at the very end of this which I'm very close to how to reset recalibrate reorganize or what we call restore balance to the nervous system by stimulating activating the vagus nerve and parasympathetic system. You can finally shut down the sympathetics into fight or flight and then the gut works better. motility, absorption, elimination.

Then their picky eating and sensory challenges fade and smooth out. Then their motor issues become calmer and more coordinated and stronger. And so everything gets better once you get the nervous system, central autonomic nervous system, specifically brain stem and vagus nerve better because everything got worse when it got offline.

That's the most important thing with this. And then when a child has had a stressful pregnancy, a a really traumatic stressful labor and delivery and birth, then all this stuff isn't working. And so then they get sick.

And when they get ear infections, unfortunately, still today, even though they're bad plumbing, subluxation, tension, and usually viral infections, they're still we still overuse and misuse antibiotics and medications and nebulizers and Miralax and all these medications and toxins are everywhere. We overuse them for sick kids instead of addressing the root cause.

The Perfect Storm: Toxins and Medications

And then the same thing our house, our food. No, kids and chemicals don't mix. Kids and toxins don't miss mix.

Whether they are ingested, injected, or inhaled, they're not good. They're going to take a child's nervous system, which remember is already stressed out and wound up in 90 to 95% of cases. And then the toxins come in and they absolutely are the straw that breaks the camel's back.

and then the inflammation and then the issues and then the regression. So this is also tricky for families because you see those toxins come in, you see what gluten does, you see what casein does, you see what medications and other medical interventions do and your child has these allergic intolerant adverse reactions to them. And it really looks like that's the target then.

It's gluten, it's dairy, it's medicine. We've got to stop that. And that is a huge part of it.

Kids and chemicals again don't mix. They don't make us healthy. They're going to have side effects.

They're going to create these challenges. But in 98% of cases that I see when children regressed after toxins, environmental toxins, medical toxins, these things, they already were on the perfect storm. They already had a nervous system that was sympathetic dominant and out of balance.

And so when you're in subluxation, sympathetic dominance and dysautonomia, your child's nervous system, just their health period is less resilient. It's less adaptable. And so when toxins get into a shutdown, less resilient, less ability to detox toxins um system, that's a 1 plus 1 equals 11 in a negative direction.

So it all adds up to this dysautonomia, dysregulation, dysfunction within the gut, within the immune system, within the motor system. That's the body stuff. And if that's not going to get online,

Fix the Body First: The Core Four

so here's how development works. If the basics, and we talk about sleep, we talk about poop, we talk about immune system, so lymphatics, respiratory, and immune system. And then we talk about the motor system, gross motor specifically first.

If those four primary functions of development are not which are all run by the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system. If the perfect storm throws the nervous system off track, throws it into subluxation and dysautonomia. The first four systems it's going to shut down are sleep, gut, immune, and motor.

Those are essential to neurodevelopment for the brain. Every chart, every this is something even conventional pediatricians understand. If we alter motor function, especially gross motor function and development, and a child misses milestones or has these delays, they're on the path to sensory spectrum, ADHD, learning disabilities s and on it goes.

So, just think about that for your 13-year-old, your 17-year-old, your seven-year-old. What if those four major systems still aren't online? What if they're still not sleeping well?

What if they're still not pooping well? What if they get a cold that turns into, you know, instead of a two-day, you know, little bit of congestion and cold, they're sick all winter. They're sick all the time.

What if their motor system is a mess despite all the PT, OT, and speech you're trying? That is their hangup. We have to fix the basics.

We've got to address these core four basic neurophysiological health and development functions before we try and fix the brain.

Root Cause, Right Order (Not a Cure)

Now, I'm saying the word fix. Everything we do isn't a treatment. It is not a cure.

We target the root cause and we address that and we do it in a very specific sequential order. And this is where medicine and also a lot of autism, ADHD, anxiety, brainbased kind of functional neurology specialists miss it. You can't fix the brain until you fix the body first.

That's my Iowa farmer terminology to say fix it. That's our job. We've figured out literally step by step foundationally what goes haywire first.

You can't repair the entire home until you take care of the foundation, until you take care of the plumbing, until you take care of the HVAC, and until you especially take care of the electrical system. And so a lot of times families will go out and they'll do these other sort of intensives that have lasers and primitive reflexes and neurointegrative therapies and all these fancy polyvagal this and all of these fancy words which to a child to a family struggling with autism and epilepsy and brainbased challenges that seems like the direction to go right you've exhausted medicine didn't work. You've exhausted diet changes and detoxes didn't work.

So you go after the brain with all these things that the world is finally waking up to the nervous system both traditional and on the other side is finally waking up to the importance of the nervous system. But we actually also need to simplify the nervous system. It's actually really awesome in how simple and basic we can make it.

And so when we have 17-year-olds with seizures and dysautonomia and irretractable epilepsy come to our clinic for what we call these intensives, we don't worry about their brain, their anxiety, their seizures first. We worry about their sleep. We worry about their digestion.

We worry about their motor system, their movement, their posture, and their neurospinal system. And we fix that first through what are called neurotonal chiropractic adjustments. And when you take care of the basics and you get the basics of neuro development and neuro function better, then actually two things happen.

One, your day-to-day life gets better. If we just did that, it would be awesome because so many of the day-to-day so many of the struggles with these conditions. It's I know this for parents.

It's about the big stuff. Heck yeah. But it's about what you got to live with every single day and how difficult getting a haircut, brushing teeth, falling asleep, going to the bathroom, and eating food is.

And so we just get that stuff better first. That's the first thing. Quality of life goes through the roof with neurologically focused chiropractic for tough neurological conditions.

And then second, once you've taken care of the basics, bam, now the brain can start to heal because the body's not stressing it out and messing it up so much. So it's really straightforward how much healing then begins to happen with speech, socialization, and emotional and behavioral regulation. That's how chiropractic works.

It works sequentially by addressing the root cause foundationally first and that is the central and autonomic nervous system. So parents, you got to learn more about subluxation, dysautonomia, the vagus nerve, nervous system dysregulation. I really encourage you and I know who I'm speaking to when your kid is struggling with big stuff.

You're ready to learn big words. You're ready to get more information because you're so ready to get out of this storm. And you know other places aren't going to get you out.

They're not going to teach you this stuff. So go to that website. Go to pxdocs.com and read it.

Please, maybe you're watching this on YouTube, but go to our YouTube page and watch all these videos. Spend the time getting up to speed. Register for one of our webinars or our workshops and get this information.

The Solution: Nervous-System-Focused Care and INSiGHT Scans

And the last thing I need to show you, and it'll be linked in here as well, or sorry, say to you, is you've got to learn about what we call our INSiGHT scans. So, all of this, I'm sure, I'm certain is making sense for your family. And the first question ought to be, how do we find it?

How do I know? How do I know that? I know that I know that my child is subluxated, sympathetic dominant, vagus nerve is shut down, dysautonomia, dysregulation.

There's incredible technology called the INSiGHT scans. There's three sets of scans we run. I'm going to simplify the heck out of them here.

And they measure that neurological inflammation and interference with what's called the neurothermal scan. The EMG, which is like EEG, EKG, that's going to measure the neuro tone and the motor tone and those challenges within the nervous system that runs it. So we can really see if a child is over stimulated and stimming and stressed and impulsive.

And we can really measure if they're disorganized, what we kind of call the drunken bowl effects of some of these challenges. And then there's HRV, heart rate variability technology, which measures vagus nerve parasympathetic versus sympathetic balance directly. and HRV technology is the technology that's going to change healthcare because the world's finally waking up that whether we're talking about autism or honestly constipation and colic we have to start the conversation with the nervous system because it controls everything and therefore we have to start healing the nervous system first and what we call repairing and restoring the nervous system is way different than meditation, yoga, deep breathing and walking barefoot in nature.

Those are awesome things for someone to maintain neurological health when they have it. Kids who are struggling with neurological conditions have a busted, disrupted, dysfunctional nervous system. So there needs to be neurologically focused chiropractic adjustments.

This is a way different kind of health care period chiropractic. And it's also a way different kind of chiropractic. You're looking for a nervous system focused pediatric and neurological specialist.

You can find more information about that on the website. You can also find a directory full of doctors who are trained in the exact science and the exact clinical protocols there if you're not local to us in that way. Okay.

So again, I mentioned it a ton. I need to say it one more time as we wrap this up. This is my life's work.

So I have written multiple articles. I think there's like 150 articles on our website all about this stuff. Go there, mom and dad, other providers.

Share this video with your OT, your PT, your speech therapist, every share with your pediatrician. Let's let's wake up the whole world, okay? To what's really causing these challenges.

Go to the website, read it. We'll make even if you love to read and you love to read the research links, they're in there. Go to our social media, go to Facebook, go to Instagram.

You may be watching this on there and you can see more there. And then, especially when you're ready, go into one of the webinars. either watch the recording if we have it a it depends when you watch this if we're doing a live one or doing a recording but watch the webinar go to a local workshop I not only provide them here locally outside of Chicago all the time many of our PX docs hundreds of them provide that workshop locally to you and you can find those doctors again on the directory

Hope Into Action

I know that I gave you a long deep detailed video but I also know that for so many of you right now you might have tears of joy and tears of hope coming down your face because you finally found someone to make sense of it all for you. You got your hope back because you got your answers and your explanations you've been looking for this whole time. Stay in that emotion and turn it into action.

Make sure for sure that you get the resources you need and most importantly you get a nervous system focused pediatric and family chiropractor on your team. If you already have a chiropractor send them this. Make sure they do this work.

Okay, this is again, I got to say it one more time. It's a unique specialized form of chiropractic. Kidos struggling with neurological issues really need that perfect pairing of the perfect kind of clinical protocols that certain chiropractors have the training to do.

It's your child. Be choosy. Be on the hunt.

Make sure you get the resources. Make sure you get your questions answered. And make sure you get a connection to a doctor who can do this work for you.

Any of those questions you need, you send them below. Comment below, ask your question. We got you.

Don't want to put it in the comments? Send us a DM on Instagram, Facebook, through the website. We've got you.

I love teaching this stuff. Even if I never meet you in person, I promise I can get you your hope. I can get you your answers, and I can get you your connection to your nervous system focused chiropractor.

And that's what God put me here to do. So, I want you to know you are the hero in your child's story. I know there's many nights where it feels like, where the heck are these answers?

Where the heck are these doctors that are going to finally get us out of this storm? I think they're called PX doctors. I know they're called PX doctors and nervous system focused chiropractors.

So, I'm really blessed, really honored that you watch this one all the way through. I'd love for you to share it as well. Share it on your socials.

Share it on your group chats. I know you got a moms. Share it in those Facebook groups with autism and ADHD and seizure support.

Let's get this perfect storm message out to the world so every family can go. That's it. That makes so much sense.

Let me go there and get my child through the storm to the other side, their optimal potential. Every kid counts. Every kid can and will heal when we do things root cause, right order.

God bless. Be well. See you on the next one.