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It takes multiple tools that just changing your kid's diet, for example, and going organic may not be enough. It was 25 years ago, not anymore. 20 years ago might have been enough. Going organic, taking out gluten and dairy, that might have been enough. Not now. Fifteen years ago, it might have been organic gluten, dairy and a remedy, maybe not now. Five years ago, it's now. Organic gluten, dairy, remedy, herbal and a frequency therapy now, because kids are sicker. Why? Because they're being poisoned.
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If you're a parent of a child with autism, you are being called to rise with love, courage, and clarity. This journey isn't easy, and most parents aren't equipped, but you can be. This podcast is your invitation to rise higher because how you navigate matters. I'm Len, and this is Autism Parenting Secrets, where you become the parent your child needs now. Hello and welcome to the show. I am so excited about this conversation because we're diving into something that gives parents more control, more confidence, and more capability to actually help their child. Today I'm joined by Dr. Michelle Perro, a seasoned clinician with over 45 years of experience in pediatrics and integrative medicine. And she's been on the show before, but she's been on the front lines seeing what's really happening with our kids and more importantly, what actually helps them to heal and to thrive. And she's also the author of a powerful new book that was just released, Making Our Children well, which is all about giving parents a practical roadmap to take back control of their child's health. And one of the key tools we're going to focus on today is homeopathy. What is it? Why is it often very misunderstood? And how parents can actually use it at home in a safe and effective way? The secret this week is homeopathy puts healing back in your hands. Welcome, Michelle.
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Len, thank you for the intro. Such a pleasure to be here with you today.
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Wonderful. Well, again, I know you were on before, and that was a dynamite conversation, and we touched on homeopathy. And for anyone who's a longtime listener, it comes up a lot because it was a huge key component in my son's trajectory, one of the top things that really changed everything for him. So I can't talk about this topic enough, and I couldn't have been more of a skeptic early on about homeopathy. So I would love for our listeners to really hear from you about what are those key insights about this option that many people dismiss but can be so powerful?
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Certainly let Me give you a little personal story. It's not like I was blessed or downloaded with this knowledge of homeopathy. I was trained in New York City, the land of troglodytes and fashion medicine many, many, many decades ago. I had never heard of homeopathy when I came to California, where I now reside. I've been here for a long time. And I had a serendipitous encounter with an MD Homeopath when I was joining new practice, which I then actually left. But that's another story. So this my son was having, and he lets me talk about this, by the way, he was having recurrent croup. And croup is an inflammatory condition which causes kids to kind of bark like a seal, often at midnight. They sound like this, like that. And this gal, her name is Dr. Ekenze. She's. She's in my book, said, you know, Michelle, give Jesse spongiatosta. It's a homeopathic remedy. I thought this woman lost her mind. She was giving me a name in Latin. I had never heard of it. I didn't know what she was talking about. So she gives me these little sugar pills. I give them to my son Jesse. He's an itty bitty guy. And within five minutes he was better. I went and I am trained as a pediatric emergency physician. That's my background prior to my foray into environmental health. Jesse gets it again, remedies go in again. Sure enough, five minutes later, again, voila, he's better. And my reaction was not like, wow, look at that. You know, praise the Lord. Oh, my gosh. It was. I was pissed off. Maybe it's my nature. I tend to get a little bit fiery up and a little bit passionate about things. And I was righteously angry that here I was at that point, this was 30 years ago, that there was this medicine out there that I had never even heard of that could cure my son for five bucks with five little sugar pills. And I thought, this is really not happening. I went back to school at night. My kids were little. I had a practice doing the soccer mom room parent thing, as overachievers type A's do. Guilty as charged. And I learned homeopathy. But then I also began to dig deep as to why we don't know about homeopathy and why it's been excluded from the pharmacologic toolbox. You know, they are medicines, but they're not synthetic medicines. They're often made from natural substances. Not always. Not anymore. And when I discovered the history of how the truth was obfuscated about homeopathy and what happened to it historically, which we can talk about or not. It became my lifelong love and journey to get into homeopathy. Now, I didn't stand on the, I wasn't on the crossroads, the Joan of Arc of homeopathy, because I've been in GMOs and food. There are only so many crosses I can stand on at once. And I didn't want to get into that as well. But I've been a champion for homeopathy since I learned about it on that creepy night 30, 32 years ago. So there you have it. That's a little background that I too, even as a pediatrician and a seasoned pediatrician, still learning, still going forward, still bringing tools into my toolbox. And homeopathy has been the cornerstone of just about every treatment plan I've ever created for the past 30 years.
