Brainstorm Health Clinic

26/11/2025

Winter hits.
Flare hits.
Everyone screams infection.

Sometimes it’s not.

Christmas trees.

Real trees = pollen
Mould
Microbes
Histamine fire
Mast cells explode
Brain inflames.

Artificial trees = dust
Stored mould
New plastics off-gassing VOCs
Chemical irritation

Decorations = particles in the air
Tinsel
Boxes. Old fabric,
All triggers.

Result looks identical to infection:
⚡️OCD s***s
⚡️Tics
⚡️Rage
⚡️Sleep wrecked
⚡️Sensory overload

Do not assume.
Remove the exposure.
Reassess.

Not every winter flare is a bug. Sometimes the trigger is hiding in plain sight.



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24/11/2025

High serum B12 is not reassurance. It’s a red flag.

In autism PANS and PANDAS we see this pattern again and again:

The gut is inflamed.
Intrinsic factor drops.
Transport stalls.
B12 stays in the blood because it can’t reach the cells that need it.

This is not abundance.
It’s blocked utilisation.

And the signs show up fast:
Sensory overload
Speech stalls
Fatigue
Neuropathy
Bladder issues
Cognitive slowing.

Serum B12 doesn’t tell the truth.
MMA does.

When MMA rises the body is running on empty even while serum B12 looks high.

Fix the chain and the numbers fall into place. Support B2. Activate B6. Bring in lithium selenium molybdenum and iodine.
Restore methylation. Calm the gut.



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21/11/2025

I see the same pattern in clinic every day.
Children crashing 💥 with mood, energy, sleep and focus while their gut and immune system are fighting fires no one has measured.

A new 2025 microbiome study shows the same pattern we see in testing every day:

🪫Low Bifidobacterium
🪫Low Faecalibacterium
⚡️High Escherichia Shigella
🔥Distorted Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes ratios,
📉 Satiety hormones dropping off.

The kind of gut biology that makes regulation almost impossible.

The kind of data that explains why so many children feel overwhelmed before the day even starts.

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Real cases. Real data. Clear explanations.

This Sunday 23 November at 7:30pm UK time I am sharing the full study analysis plus 11 year old Jaxson’s story and how we helped him stabilise after years of decline.

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13/11/2025

A white powder can change the night. Not melatonin.
Cornflour (in the the U.K. this is the terminology we use for white fine pure starch)

Professor Richard Kelley at the Kennedy Krieger Institute documented something important in his metabolic work.

Some autistic children wake repeatedly because their brain runs out of fuel before morning.

The final hours of the night are the weak point.

❗️Glucose drops.
❗️Glycogen empties too early.
❗️Mitochondria cannot hold the load. ❗️Cortisol rises to compensate and that cortisol surge becomes the wake trigger.

The brain forces the child up again and again.

Parents describe the same pattern:

⚠️Restless nights
⚠️Multiple wakings
⚠️Hard to settle back
⚠️Irritable on waking
⚠️Unsteady early morning
⚠️Behaviour dipping when meals are late
⚠️Crashing during illness

The organic acids often reflect it:

⚡️Raised α-ketoglutaric acid,
⚡️Shifts in lactate and pyruvate handling, markers that signal overnight energy stress.

🧠This is why Kelley used cornflour.
It digests slowly and releases glucose gradually for several hours.

🧠It helps prevent the early morning drop that drives the cortisol spike and fragments sleep.

Parents often see clear change:

✔️Fewer wakings
✔️Longer stretches
✔️Better mornings.

This fits the physiology.

Other slow release starches which may work:

❓Potato starch
❓Green banana flour
❓Tapioca starch (uncooked)
❓Ground lentil or chickpea starch
❓Oat resistant starch fractions
❓Partially hydrolysed guar gum

Full explanation is in my glucose metabolism article.

Link in comments 👇

09/11/2025

Your child is not broken.
Their body is protecting.
And it can heal. ⚡

Yesterday I was at the British Network for Functional Medicine conference.

The standout talk came from Dr Olivia Lesslar, Australian doctor and psychoneuroimmunology researcher. 🧠

She studies how the brain, immune system and hormones decide if the body feels safe or under threat.

For families living with autism, PANDAS or PANS this makes sense.

A cold, a food, a stressful day, a loose tooth, a bad night’s sleep and the body shifts into defence.

I wrote a new blog breaking down her key points.

Psychoneuroimmunology finally gives language to what we have done in our clinic for over a decade.

Calm the inflammation.
Restore safety.
Regulation follows.

Full blog: Link in comments 👇

05/11/2025

The least-known sign of low B2 (riboflavin)?
Cracks at the corners of the mouth.
Red, sore, slow to heal.

Other signs your cells are running low: ⚡️fatigue,
⚡️light sensitivity,
⚡️burning eyes,
⚡️migraines,
⚡️magenta glossy tongue,
⚡️poor iron or B6 activation.

Riboflavin isn’t optional, it’s the switch that powers everything.

Low B2 stalls methylation, blocks B12 and folate activation, and drains energy at the source.

✔️Check glutaric acid on an organic acids test (high means low B2).
✔️Rebuild with riboflavin-5-phosphate or a B-complex.
✔️Add magnesium and B6.
✔️Eat liver, eggs, lamb, and dairy if tolerated.

Watch for mould, it burns through B2 fast.

29/10/2025

Most adults now living with ME, chronic fatigue, long COVID, or unexplained immune crashes were never diagnosed as children.
But many would meet today’s criteria for PANS or PANDAS.

Same infections.
Same immune chaos.
Same neuropsychiatric flare patterns, just given different names.

A new Nature study makes you wonder why these patterns persist.

Researchers followed healthy adults from 25 to 90 and found the immune system starts to rewire decades before old age.

T cells shift into a TH2 pattern, allergic, autoimmune, inflammatory. B cells lose precision. Antibody control slips.

No raised cytokines.
No obvious infection.
Just silent reprogramming.

Could what we label as ME, long COVID, or “post-viral fatigue” in adults be the long arc of the same immune misprogramming seen in PANS and PANDAS children?

Not new disease. Continuing biology.

Study link in comment 👇

28/10/2025

I’ve been reviewing the new Metals and Minerals DNA report from Lifecode. It’s clear, detailed, and full of information that actually matters for autism, PANS and PANDAS.

We often focus on inflammation, detox, mitochondria, but none of it works if the electrical and chemical foundations are unstable.

Sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium.
Zinc, copper, iron, manganese, selenium, phosphorus.
And the toxins that compete with them: mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium.

These aren’t minor details.
They’re the wiring, shielding and fuel for the nervous system.

When that balance breaks, regulation collapses.
Anxiety spikes. OCD worsens. Rage hits. Fatigue deepens.

You can see it in every flare.

This report breaks down the genes that control it
Who holds on to metals
Who clears them
Who burns through key minerals under stress.

It connects what we see in testing to the mechanisms that actually explain it.

It shows why nothing about these patterns is random.

We already run extensive DNA testing in clinic, and this is a strong addition.

I have no affiliation with this company. I just rate their DNA reports highly.

24/10/2025

You’ve tried everything.
You’re tired of hoping for change that never comes.

But their body hasn’t stopped.
Even in the hardest moments, it’s working - quietly, precisely, cell by cell.

Gut renewing in days.
Blood regenerating in months.
Bones, liver, heart - repairing steadily.

What you can’t see is still happening.
The work runs deeper than the symptoms.
It just moves slower than your fear.

The body never forgets the way back.

21/10/2025

We run urine organic acid testing on almost every child who comes through our clinic.
Autism. PANS. PANDAS.

Thousands of cases over the years. Different triggers. Same pattern.

The same marker keeps flashing red.
5-HIAA.
Raised in over 80% of them.

That’s serotonin turnover in overdrive. Not excess. Exhaustion.
The brain burning through its calm and sleep chemistry to survive inflammation.

Parents describe the same picture before they ever see the results: wired at night, soaked in sweat, startled by sound, panicking over small changes, refusing food, trapped in rituals, raging one moment and inconsolable the next, exhausted but unable to rest.

Then we test.
And the numbers tell the story their child’s body has been shouting.

It’s a simple urine test - non-invasive, quick, clear.
But it shows exactly how the nervous system is coping under immune fire.

When we reduce inflammation, repair the gut, and restore the missing cofactors, that number drops - and children start to stabilise.

This is what objective data can do. Evidence that the chaos is chemical, not character.

19/10/2025

Through my clinic I’ve met thousands of autistic individuals.

The pattern is clear.
They are some of the most beautiful souls I’ve ever encountered.

Depth. Kindness. Integrity.

So many carry a level of empathy that would humble most people.

What they crave most is belonging.

And this - what happened here - is the opposite of belonging.
It is rejection disguised as policy.

A system blind to its own hypocrisy.

Waitrose & Partners should be ashamed.

Share this.

Shame them into change.

Because nothing else will move them.

16/10/2025

Everything sets them off.
A new food. 
A new supplement.
Even the thought of change.

This is the body caught in a feedback loop - brain, gut, and immune system locked in defence mode.

We see it every week.
And we see what happens when the body finally remembers how to stand down.

This week’s newsletter breaks it down - the biology, the pattern, a real case from clinic, new research on stress and inflammation, and how safety starts the recovery.

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