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Let’s discuss the categories of the autism spectrum wheel. There’s a section of social communication and interaction, and another one for restricted and repetitive behaviors. Another section is sensory processing. Another section is cognitive and learning skills, and then there’s the physical and medical needs.

Each piece of this autism spectrum wheel is intertwined with the certified autism health coach training at the Total Wellness Empowerment Institute. Let’s look a little deeper. For social communication and interaction, we’re looking at symptoms such as difficulty initiating, maintaining conversation, lack of interest in interacting with others, alongside difficulty understanding and applying nonverbal communication cues, like understanding and applying nonverbal communication cues like eye contact, facial expressions, and body language. Restrictive and repetitive behaviors include symptoms like needing constant routines, displaying repetitive movements or behaviors, showing intense interest in specific topics or objects, trains or cars or blocks.

Sensory processing. These symptoms include difficult processing sensory, such as loud noises, bright lights, certain textures, difficulty regulating emotions, and challenges with self regulation and self care. The cognitive and learning skills include symptoms related to cognition, learning abilities, difficulty with problem solving, memory, and attention, as well as challenges with learning new things. And the physical and medical needs include self-care, sleep, physical coordination, as well as any medical conditions or challenges related to the autism spectrum disorder.

So what we teach at Total Wellness Empowerment Institute for the certified autism health coach program is that we look at how the body functions across all systems. We look at the gut-brain access, the gut-adrenal access, the gut-immune access, the detoxification, the absorption, the nutrition, as well as the Krebs cycle, the energy cycle, and the mitochondria. And we put this all together, and we do a deep dive into the functional medicine markers that are necessary to show if there are imbalances in the individual, is it going to exacerbate these categories on the autism spectrum wheel. We have parents and grandparents who are in this training, who then start implementing it for their family. And we also have individuals who want a new career path or they’re in behavioral therapy or speech therapy occupations now, and they want to fully understand how they could help the children. If you are ready to make this amazing career choice, then we welcome you, and we look forward to supporting you along your journey.

What is the vital piece to the autism spectrum disorder treatment puzzle? There’s a reason why autism is usually shown as a puzzle piece. There are many pieces to the puzzle. Behavioral and communication therapies, which are central to the autism spectrum disorder treatment, fit seamlessly with functional medicine as they aim to enhance daily functioning and the quality of life for those on the autism spectrum. But beyond those established conventional methods, the functional medicine approach looks into the biomedical and nutritional imbalances of the individual, integrates alternative treatments, and offers considerable potential to improve the well-being and potential capabilities of the individual on the spectrum because we look at the root cause. And it’s really hard to do behavioral and communication therapies if the individual has an imbalance biomedically or nutritional deficiencies.

And you need to look at every piece of the puzzle. So this is why the training that we offer at the Total Wellness Empowerment Institute for the Certified Autism Health Coach is a vital piece to the treatment puzzle of individuals on the spectrum who have neurodevelopmental disorders as well. We look forward to you being empowered with the knowledge to not only help if it’s your family member, but also others in your community with your business and your practice.

Let’s look at the nutritional deficiencies that are common in individuals diagnosed on the autism spectrum disorder. Research highlights these deficiencies, and you can also do functional medicine testing to determine if the person has these imbalances because then you have a starting point for customized personalized treatment of nutraceuticals as well as nutrients from food. E vitamins is very common to be imbalanced and deficient, and there’s an essential need for methylation, which is a detox process that also helps with neurotransmitter synthesis. Basically, you need these b vitamins for the neurotransmitters and the neurons to actually work together.

Vitamin a, someone is vulnerable to anemia, that could be a genetic vulnerability from their biological parents, or if the individual has weak infection resistance, this would be the need of vitamin a. Vitamin d is essential for bone metabolism, but we see that so many are deficient in vitamin d. That also links to skin issues and immune dysfunction.

What we have noticed are positive results when supplementing with vitamin D of reduced irritability and hyperactivity.

Magnesium actually calms the nervous system and support sleep. We also notice that if children are sensitive to sound and cover their ears a lot, they usually have a magnesium deficiency. And if they are constipated, they usually have a magnesium deficiency.

Studies do show that supplementing with magnesium reduces hyperactivity and aggressiveness and improves school attention. Omega three fatty acids, that deficiency when supplementing it, can help reduce inflammation and help with brain cell communication. Omega three fatty acids helps reduce inflammation and also boost brain cell communications. And studies indicate that supplementing with omega three fatty acids reduces irritability and hyperactivity. Glutathione is required for normal immune function and detoxification.

The thing with glutathione is if the individual has candida overgrowth, you don’t want to give glutathione at the beginning. You want to get rid of the candida, and then you want to supplement with an acetyl cysteine and vitamin c or straight up glutathione. Again, testing really helps decide which way to do that, and we teach that in the certified autism health coach training. Iron is important because it’s a cofactor for enzymes, and we want to look at one’s diet to make sure they’re getting enough iron. Selenium is crucial for thyroid functioning as well as preventing oxidative stress throughout the body, and zinc is critical for metabolism and immunity. It can also help with sleep and helps with behavioral deficits.

So these are some of the nutritional deficiencies that are common with the research in individuals diagnosed with the autism spectrum disorder, and we teach this in the training to create personalized regimens. So if you’re ready to become a certified autism health coach today, just click on the link and get started: https://totalwellnessempowermentinstitute.com/autism-expert-training/

Let’s talk about the signs of immune dysfunction. This is something that we talk about in the Certified Autism Health Coach Training at the Total Wellness Empowerment Institute. So what are some signs of immune dysfunction? Well, some children are better after they have a fever, or some are too sick all the time.

Some never get fevers. Some never get sick. Some lose skills when they have a sickness and some actually have behavioral symptoms when they have acute illness like strep. And that’s what we call PANDAS or PANS depending on the illness if there are behavioral symptoms after it.

So either a child is too sick or never sick, losing skills, or getting behavioral symptoms when they are sick. These are the signs of immune dysfunction, and this is why we deep dive into which functional medicine test would be advantageous for the child. So some signs of immune dysfunction, again, is having more illnesses than a typical child or does not have that fever to fight off illness and then has behavioral issues instead of typical illness symptoms, skill regression, or improvement after they’ve had what we call the fever effect. So you wanna look at the child if the child is in your household, or if you are becoming a health coach or are in the healthcare profession, or if you’re a speech therapist or behavioral therapist, you wanna look at seeing if there’s a pattern of an immune dysfunction.

Does the child rarely get sick or always sick? Is there regression in skill if they’re sick or behavioral issues? And these are signs. And with the biomedical and nutritional intervention taught at the Total Wellness Empowerment Institute for the certified autism health coach training, you will see how you want to put together personalized treatment because every child is different, just like a snowflake.

We look forward to you becoming a certified autism health coach and being the ripple effect for the betterment of the children and adults on the spectrum.

Welcome to the Total Wellness Empowerment Institute, the functional medicine and nutritional approach for individuals on the autism spectrum disorder. This training teaches you how to become a certified autism health coach. We have parents and grandparents who use this training, not for a career, but to implement and start using for their family. And we have others that use this training to become a health coach certified and specializing in the autism spectrum disorder and also neurodevelopmental disorder because this applies for OCD, Asperger’s, ADD, ADHD, PDD, speech apraxia, and much more.

So what exactly is a functional medicine approach for autism? Well, we look at the root causes. We go deeper into understanding where the imbalances are and why do certain experiences trigger the individual. Because what we’ve noticed doing this for over twenty-five years now is that there are imbalances that are common, certain patterns for the individuals.

And once we work on those patterns, it actually lessens the symptoms and really helps the individual get to their full potential. If you see a child plateauing or the therapy they’re they’re doing only gets them so far, it’s because you’re not looking at the full picture. There are many pieces to the puzzle. So we look at improving brain health.

Well, we look at improving gut health because there’s a gut-brain axis that is scientifically proven. We also look at detoxification.

We look at refining the diet to make sure the individual are getting the nutrients that they need and not processed sugary foods that could be triggering all these issues and making them worse. We also look at increasing cellular energy. That’s the mitochondrial. The mitochondria are the center of the cells that give the communication from one cell to another.

So we have to make sure that the diet is giving the nutrients to increase the cellular energy. So all of our trillions of cells in the body can communicate with one another. We also look at lowering inflammation and improving immune functioning. And we do have some genetic testing if people wanna run that to see if they have a specific MTHFR gene.

We have so many wonderful tests that you can run, and I always recommend an organic acid test and a gut test to really get the markers that you can start making changes right away with the test results. So I welcome you to register for the Total Wellness Empowerment Institute Health Coach Training to become a certified autism health coach and start implementing it on your own family, as well as in your coaching practice.

Total Wellness Empowerment Institute offers a certified autism health coach training program. This can be used by parents and grandparents for their own family or for professionals or anyone who wants to become a health coach and help the children diagnosed on the spectrum. We look at the emotional and behavioral impact, and the way we look at it is we’re looking at it from a biomedical and nutritional imbalance. So for emotional regulation, we look at stress and anxiety.

So constant sensory challenges can lead to those heightened stress levels resulting in panic attacks, anxiety, as well as mood swings because of the sensory inputs that give these rapid shifts in mood. That we see is the gut adrenal system causing this. And even the frustration and anger for the individual has an inability to effectively communicate sensory discomfort and needs can lead to frustration, anger, and aggression, and sometimes even self injury. For the behavioral issues, what is being triggered by the gut adrenal imbalances?

We see avoidance tactics, engaging in behaviors to avoid those sensory input, refusing to participate in activities that are not controlled environments, sensory seeking or avoiding. We either have extreme behaviors may develop repetitive touching of objects or avoiding certain textures and then meltdowns because the adrenal system is so overwhelmed. Now it has overwhelmed sensory experiences leading to overstimulation meltdowns because the child or the adult for that matter cannot control emotions and their actions in response to these triggers. The certified autism health coach training teaches what to look for in the functional medicine lab testing and how you can use nutraceuticals and food to balance out and deal with these irregulations.

Did you know that cholesterol affects individuals with autism? Those with autism can have abnormal lipid levels. Let’s talk about why the brain needs cholesterol and what we see with cholesterol abnormalities in individuals diagnosed with autism. If someone is on the autism spectrum disorder, they can have some abnormal lipid levels of cholesterol, and those individuals are likely to have epilepsy, sleep disorders, ADHD, so attention issues, hyperactive issues, anemia, hypothyroidism, as well as vitamin D deficiencies.

This is why you always want to get tested. Research from two thousand and nineteen shows that low total cholesterol is four times common in children with autism. And when someone has low cholesterol of a hundred forty-five or lower, it actually is problematic because it leads to mental health issues such as depression, moodiness, confusion, anxiety, poor sleep, aggression, and much more. Now, if someone has high cholesterol, that can be problematic as well.

And what we usually see is that we need to reduce sugar and simple carbohydrate consumption because high levels of sugar can raise the LDL and lower HDL. And this is what we teach in the certified autism health
coach training, the Total Wellness Empowerment Institute.

Let’s talk about sensory processing disorder in individuals on the autism spectrum disorder. We teach this in the certified autism health coach training from the Total Wellness Empowerment Institute. Here are some common examples of sensory issues that individuals on the spectrum may experience. Irritation from clothing tags, itchy from certain types of fabric, heightened sensitivity to bright lights bothered by those flashing lights, as well as heightened sensitivity to loud noises, and they cover their ears, overwhelmed by strong smells, increased stress in crowded areas, difficulty focusing in busy places, as well as feeling very panicked in sensory rich spaces, elevated levels of stress with a lack of routine or going the same way when someone is driving them, fidgeting, rigid behavior, and wanting things to stay the same.

What we teach in the certified autism health coach program is that the sensory issues can be exasperated by certain gut brain imbalances. We really wanna look at markers from a functional medicine test that are checking candida and bacteria overgrowth on the GI tract. So there’s so much more when you see symptoms of autism. It can be biomedical and nutritional imbalances, and this is what we teach.

And we welcome you to become a certified autism health coach to help the individuals on the spectrum.

Is your child suffering from yeast overgrowth? Did you know that many kids with autism have chronic gut issues and yeast and candida overgrowth, which severely impact brain function and behavior? Well, what causes yeast overgrowth? We do a deep dive into this in our certified autism health coach training program.

Let’s just go over some potential causes: sugar, simple carbohydrates, antibiotic usage, as well as steroids. And what symptoms are yeast overgrowth? Behavioral symptoms range from inappropriate laughter, sleep issues, bedwetting, fatigue, depression, mental fogginess, hyperactivity, increased self stimulatory behaviors, such as stimming, high pitched squealing, increased sensory seeking, as well as climbing, jumping off things, sugar cravings, self limiting foods, and plateauing in their skills. The physical symptoms can range from GI issues and extended belly, constipation, white tongue, diaper rash, skin rashes such as eczema, as well as rashes and cracking between the toes and joints.

So what type of treatment options do you have for candida and yeast overgrowth? Again, we do a deep dive in the certified autism health coach training. What you can look into doing is reducing the amount of candida or yeast in the GI tract by refining one’s diet and adding specialized supplements supporting the immune system, addressing leaky gut issues, and identifying and addressing all other factors that are contributing to gut dysbiosis. If you’re interested in empowering these children and the families, then you can become a certified autism health coach today.