Holistic Healing with Megan Martin

For this episode we speak with Megan Martin, personal trainer, health coach and purveyor of holistic wellness who used lessons learned from her own health journey to help her son with autism. She shares with us what the biomedical approach means and how she used it to address her son’s symptoms, including how she did an at home fecal transplant.  We talk about: Personal illness and disease that led to path of holistic healing Exploring functional medicine Lifestyle factors and diet being the foundation for disease prevention and treatment Supporting the entire body to help with brain function Addressing GI dysfunction as not just another symptom of autism Using diet to address autism symptoms, including eczema  Naturopathic doctors and what they do All about fecal microbiota transplants (currently only FDA approved for C-Diff but many clinical trials in patients with autism) Using the AMD Ion Cleanse foot bath for detox and she get her son to sit still Other alternative treatments to try Links Autism Research Institute - Gi webinar  Arizona State University Uses Bacteria to Improve Autism Symptoms  Stanford University - Microbiome studies AMD - Ion Cleanse The Autism Community in Action Recovering Kids Facebook Group Detoxing Kids - A Parent Guide to Safe Metal Detox Autism Effective Biomedical Treatments: Have We Done Everything We Can? ATEC - Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist Personalized Vitamins and Minerals