What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

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What’s going on in there is the core principle around which I created one of the most successful nutrition practices in the world. Milić D, Lazarević M, Vuković N, Kamenov A, Perić V, Golubović M, Stošić M, Spasić D, Stojiljković V, Stokanović D. Milić D, et al. Medicina (Kaunas). 2023 Jun 26;59(7):1202. doi: 10.3390/medicina59071202. Medicina (Kaunas). 2023. PMID: 37512014 Free PMC article. Wright FL et al (2020) Fibrinolysis shutdown correlates to thromboembolic events in severe COVID-19 infection. J Am Coll Surg [cited 14 Jun 2020]. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32422349/ I’m sure a lot of people would agree that we live in strange times. But do they have to be so strange that Area 51 is making headlines? And what’s this about fish the look like aliens. September’s Words in the News explain all. I give you all the best questions to ask your clients so you really can uncover what’s going on in there.

It’s interesting to think of this choice through the lens of mirror neurons—which essentially speak to the ways we respond to actions we see in others. Mirror neurons were only discovered in the early 1990’s. They’re a type of brain cell that reacts equally to an action performed and an action witnessed. When a complex client arrives at your door (like my husband’s cancer diagnosis or the myriad digestive, autoimmune and hormonal issues we see in our clinic), having the insight to pause, to ponder what’s going on in there, and to ask a few critical questions, is key to making sense of it all. Babies all around the world begin to understand the meaning of their first words at around nine months of age. In their second year, they begin to comprehend words more rapidly, and learn about eight words each day between two and six years of age. There’s another important element of being an investigator who can uncover what’s going on in there:Over the years, I’ve built Functional Nutrition Lab and the Functional Nutrition Alliance with a lot of love and passion, and with one core principle — a principle I like to call… I once knew a man, a Jamaican, who when he first came to England always answered truthfully when asked ‘How are you?’ A bit sniffly, he might reply; or he would describe his indigestion, or the twinge in his left knee. One day a woman lost patience: ‘Look,’ she snapped, ‘there’s something you must understand; in England, the answer to “How are you?” is “I’m fine, how are you?”’ So he’d been told, and he didn’t need telling twice: for all the English care, you can die and stiffen on the street. Experiences of motion satisfy a baby’s need for stimulation. They can handle motion well too, because they’re born with a well-developed sense of balance. This, in turn, allows babies to observe their environment from a very young age, as their brains are able to make sense of visual changes when they move their heads. Israel launched one of its deadliest operations in years in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, sending soldiers on an unusually fierce raid to kill militants stationed in the Jenin refugee camp. Ten Palestinians, mostly gunmen, but also two civilians, including a 61-year-old woman, were killed. I remember when I first started practicing as a functional nutritionist. I’d get caught up in the flurry of my clients’ symptoms, trying to “fix them” or make them go away.

And if you’d like to dive deeper with this concept, grab a copy of my Functional Nutrition 101 ebook. Adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19 admitted to the ICU were prospectively enrolled after Ethics Committee approval (HCB/2020/0371). All patients received venous thromboembolism prophylaxis; those on therapeutic anticoagulation were excluded. The standard laboratory coagulation test and ROTEM were performed simultaneously at 24-48 h after ICU admission. Sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and sepsis-induced coagulopathy (SIC) scores were calculated at sample collection. Fei Z et al (2020) Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet (London, England) 395(10229):1054–62 [cited 14 Jun 2020]. Available from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32171076/?from_single_result=Lancet+Lond... Stettler GR, Moore EE, Moore HB, Nunns GR, Silliman CC, Banerjee A, et al. Redefining postinjury fibrinolysis phenotypes using two viscoelastic assays. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2019;86(4):679–685. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002165.

Imagine watching a film where the images and sound aren’t synced – it’s very confusing or irritating, right? This is because our hearing and vision are deeply connected. But as infants, we rely far more on sound than we do on sight. Those companies I talked to offer such low salaries I don't even consider working in the UK anymore. Company with budget for 3 YOE outside London, 51k euro (converted already), company in London for 7 YOE, 68k euro. All babies begin smiling at the sound of other people’s voices at around six months of age, and not only their parents’. This is called social smiling, and even blind babies develop this innate tendency around the same time. However, babies also exhibit stranger anxiety from six months of age, largely because they start moving around independently at that time, too.

Today, there’s no shortage of guidebooks filled with advice on what to do during pregnancy. Of course, all children and mothers are different, but these discussions are important. After all, pregnancy and birth are crucial stages in human development. This comes as hope for a resolution for Palestinians living under occupation for more than half a century is at possibly the lowest point it has ever been, especially after the former US president Donald Trump encouraged Israel’s government to solidify its grip on the Palestinian territories. Newly released polling shows that support for the moribund “peace process” has reached an all-time low. It is our mission to help coaches, clinicians, and health care practitioners across the globe to transform healthcare with Functional Nutrition.Bocci MG, Maviglia R, Consalvo LM, Grieco DL, Montini L, Mercurio G, Nardi G, Pisapia L, Cutuli SL, Biasucci DG, Gori C, Rosenkranz R, De Candia E, Carelli S, Natalini D, Antonelli M, Franceschi F. Bocci MG, et al. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2020 Dec;24(23):12466-12479. doi: 10.26355/eurrev_202012_24043. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2020. PMID: 33336766 I compared it with companies in other countries I talked to and especially given net salary you can make literally more than in the UK with lower cost of living. So it's not just salary / col, it's net salary that is higher. My promise to myself in that moment was to be the mirror, not to do the mirroring. Be the Mirror, Don’t do the Mirroring As I discuss in my ebook, Functional Nutrition 101, the key to uncovering the truths of what’s going on in there lies in your abilities, session after session, to ask the right questions—questions that will lead to more questions as well as to the answers that will reveal your evolving protocol. What’s Going on in There Principle #2