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                      Over the past couple of decades I  Dr.  Williams  is  the  author  of  Radi-  wealth of information, none of it familiar
                  have witnessed that many of my col-  cal Medicine and has been a popular  to me.
                  leagues’ well-meaning exuberance in  speaker at Wise Traditions. Visit her     We were referred by a friend to Ka-
                  helping their patients get well has often  website  at  www.marinnaturopathic-  sha from Kennedy’s Health Food Store
                  resulted in the extraction of all of their  medicine.com.              in Falls Church, Virginia, where I met
                  patients’ root canal teeth. However, even                              the most wonderful and knowledgeable
                  when these teeth are appropriately cavi-  EASY MONEY                   owner. Not knowing her or the store,
                  tated by a well-trained biological dentist,     “Easy money” was the nickname  I walked in a total stranger, but when
                  in too many cases I have not seen these  given to Erik by his babysitter. “Good  Kasha asked me why I was there, I told
                  patients’ health significantly change.  disposition,” said a friend of the fam-  her my son had been diagnosed with
                      Of course, it is a different mat-  ily during his first year of life. Things  ADHD. I still vividly remember her
                  ter when patients are suffering from  changed  after  age  eighteen  months  response: “Sit down.”
                  ALS, MS, cancer or other degenerative  (about the time of his first immunization     After telling her the whole story,
                  disease. In these cases, the removal  shot). What we thought was just the ter-  she immediately asked me about his
                  of these and other “obstacles to cure”  rible twos was in fact the beginning of a  diet. She told me to scrap any and all
                  is  imperative  in  potentially  healing  five-year ordeal during which time our  junk food (“there is no fruit in Fruit
                  these weakened and very ill patients.  son developed such bad behavior ten-  Roll-Ups!”), start him on supplements
                  Thus, as soon as they are functioning  dencies as trying to jump off a balcony,  including cod liver oil and a children’s
                  well enough to excrete these bacterial  jump out of a moving car, and threaten  probiotic. She also gave me the number
                  poisons adequately (liver detoxification  his mom with a kitchen knife—I still  of a nutritionist in California named
                  pathways,  kidney  clearance,  etc.)  to  remember the look of a cold blooded  Theresa Vernon, who wanted to set up
                  undergo appropriate cavitation surgery,  killer in his eyes. He was five.   a hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA)
                  this population of patients is referred to     Finally, when he was suspended  for Erik.
                  a holistic dentist or dental surgeon with  from kindergarten (the school would     Selling my wife on the option of
                  appropriate pre- and post-op support.  not let him return without a doctor’s  alternative treatment was no easy chore,
                  However, for those individuals who are  note) we took him to Children’s Hos-  but after she spoke on the phone with
                  not significantly ill, removal of a root  pital where he stayed in the children’s  Theresa for almost one hour, she em-
                  canal tooth may not be necessary.   psychiatric unit for twelve days.  phatically said, “We’re in!”
                      This decision, of course, should be     Erik was diagnosed with ADHD     The HTMA results showed a high
                  made on a case-by-case basis, and the  and a “mood disorder not otherwise  copper content for Erik. A vitamin-
                  patient and the root canal teeth should  specified.” While in Children’s Hospital  mineral  routine  was  established  as
                  be monitored over the years. If at any  the doctors first tried giving him the  well as glutamine plus phenylalanine
                  time symptoms and signs (including  drug Concerta, which turned our bright  amino acid supplements first thing in
                  energetic testing) indicate that a root  child into a zombie. Adderall ended up  the morning after which eggs were to
                  canal tooth is no longer dormant and  being the “answer.” He was admitted  be the mainstay for breakfast instead of
                  quarantining  toxins  adequately,  the  back into school with the prescription  cereal.
                  tooth then needs to be sacrificed at that  and an IEP (Individualized Education     We noticed a difference the first
                  point for the health of the patient.   Plan). Although Erik did hold it together  day. Things just got better and better
                      Louisa L. Williams, MS, DC, ND  pretty well that following school year,  after that. We eliminated Gatorade (we
                                San Rafael, California  the anger issues and mood swings were  felt the red #40 was contributing to his
                                                     still a problem. I Googled “Alternatives  outbursts) and Fruit Roll-Ups (again,
                                                     to  ADHD  medication”  and  found  a  artificial colors). Cashews were given

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