Primitive reflexes

And, I mean, so on our online community, the private online community we've got, we've actually got a channel on there called Rabbit Holes because there are just so many rabbit holes you go down on this journey.

And one of them is about retained primitive reflexes.

And some people on there have said that when they've tried to address the primitive reflexes, it has actually made their child's symptoms worse.

And I'm just wondering, is there, there's obviously this order that we're sort of talking about, sort of going back to, but is there things that need to happen before addressing those types of things, like with the primitive reflexes?

Yeah, I think it's a very good question.

And I think there are, we could do the same with a lot of the protocols that we're advised to use along the way for our children, right? Primitive reflex integration is one big piece.

And there is no question that many of the children in this space will have retained primitive reflexes.

That's a given.

So, you know, nothing I say comes from just an opinion, right? It's, this is something that we've actually published research on.

I've published more than anybody in the world on retained primitive reflexes, and that's a huge thing.

And so first of all, you know, why do certain kids develop imbalances and others don't? As we talked about, it's a delicate balance, but one of the reasons is that these kids that are unusually gifted in an area of their brain have areas that are very strong, and they might come on too early or too strong or later than they should, and that can disrupt this delicate balance, right? So that's why we see, like I said, my kids were all really good at certain things, like exceptionally good at certain things, but really struggled with other things.

I'm sure your daughter who's on the autism spectrum is probably brilliant in certain ways.

In an autism, for instance, they're, they, we know that they have exceptional left brain skills, right? They're, like you said, you know, let's say reading, memory, math, numbers, the engineering type of brain.

Simon Baron-Cohen out of Cambridge wrote a book, you know, The Technical Mind, that, you know, people that are physicists and scientists and, you know, work in the IT industry are much more likely to have a child with autism.

Just like people in the creative fields are more likely to have people with dyslexia or are bipolar, which is the opposite, right? So this balance, and this relates to primitive reflexes.

Why do they miss a milestone? Why are they delay? Even pre-birth milestones, like a baby getting in the right position, turning upside down and backwards without the cord being wrapped around their neck.