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Please read this book with a lot of caution, and I’d recommend reading a book from an actual medical professional.
This author is not a medical professional or researcher. She is a nutritionist who is giving heavy medical advice without sufficient training. While she might be a “certified functional medicine practitioner”, she’s not practicing within her true scope.
She’s also a business woman and frequently promotes her own business the entire book, and this feel like a big PR stunt to get people to refer back to her website.
As someone who personally is licensed as a mental health counselor with actual additional and specific training in ADHD and Autism, this author frequently refers to Autism and ADHD as a “disease”, which is inaccurate and harmful language. She also had some lines about how you can lessen these diagnoses with habit changes, which we know to be inaccurate.
I looked into some of the research she quotes and found some studies she referenced is inconclusive or weak, or there isn’t enough data to prove points she’s trying to make, and it appears she grasps at straws for some of her topics. She promotes detoxifying your body, which through additional reading outside of this book doesn’t sound like there’s significant medical basis and accuracy for this claim and that this is a “buzzword” currently in circulation.
I also found this book to be a little fear inducing. She talks a lot about causes of infertility or what not to do and I found it to be lacking a strength based perspective.
If you do read this book, please do additional research on your own and talk with a medical professional to discuss accuracies and inaccuracies.
This author is not a medical professional or researcher. She is a nutritionist who is giving heavy medical advice without sufficient training. While she might be a “certified functional medicine practitioner”, she’s not practicing within her true scope.
She’s also a business woman and frequently promotes her own business the entire book, and this feel like a big PR stunt to get people to refer back to her website.
As someone who personally is licensed as a mental health counselor with actual additional and specific training in ADHD and Autism, this author frequently refers to Autism and ADHD as a “disease”, which is inaccurate and harmful language. She also had some lines about how you can lessen these diagnoses with habit changes, which we know to be inaccurate.
I looked into some of the research she quotes and found some studies she referenced is inconclusive or weak, or there isn’t enough data to prove points she’s trying to make, and it appears she grasps at straws for some of her topics. She promotes detoxifying your body, which through additional reading outside of this book doesn’t sound like there’s significant medical basis and accuracy for this claim and that this is a “buzzword” currently in circulation.
I also found this book to be a little fear inducing. She talks a lot about causes of infertility or what not to do and I found it to be lacking a strength based perspective.
If you do read this book, please do additional research on your own and talk with a medical professional to discuss accuracies and inaccuracies.