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Stella has a special interest in digestive disorders, autoimmune conditions, food intolerances and the relationship between genetics and nutrition.

Brainstorm Health is an award-winning Functional Medicine and Nutritional Therapy clinic, providing cutting-edge health solutions for children and young adults on the autism spectrum, as well as those with PANDAS, PANS, depression, anxiety, and long COVID Brainstorm Health was founded by Stella Chadwick, with a commitment to achieving optimum health for children and young adults on the autism spectrum, as well as those with behavioural and learning difficulties, and food and chemical sensitivities. Stella has a first class BSc Honours degree in Nutritional Therapy, with extensive training in the principles of Functional Medicine, which assesses and addresses the underlying causes of conditions.

08/01/2026

If your PANDAS/PANS child is stuck in repeated flares, look beyond crisis management.

It’s not one missing piece. It’s the whole system:

✔️Daily infection control, not just during flares
✔️Adrenal support
✔️Inflammation regulation
✔️Mast cell stability
✔️Mineral balance

When these foundations are in place, everything else holds.

07/01/2026

Many families try leucovorin (folinic acid) expecting a clear improvement.

Sometimes it helps.
Sometimes nothing changes.
And sometimes things get harder - more agitation, poorer sleep, increased stimming.

There’s a blind spot in how this is being approached.

Folate doesn’t work on its own. It relies on the system behind it, and in many children that system is already running on empty.

In those cases, folate can stall or destabilise rather than help.

I’ve seen this play out in clinic for well over a decade, and the issue sits upstream.

Before the full blog goes live, where I explain why Leucovorin often doesn’t work as expected and what to do about it, I’d like to ask:

👉 What has your experience been with methylfolate or leucovorin?

06/01/2026

January flares are common in PANS, PANDAS and autism.

Christmas loads the body with sugar, stimulation, late nights and stress. The adrenals get drained, minerals and B vitamins are burned through, and cortisol keeps firing but no longer calms the body.

Regulation drops. Sleep breaks. Meltdowns increase.

This is what you do. Simple but powerful.

⚡️Start with magnesium. Epsom salt baths - a couple of cups in warm water, soak around twenty minutes if tolerated. PLUS transdermal magnesium - one of the fastest ways to get it into cells, and parents often notice calmer evenings and better sleep quite quickly.

⚡️Cut back sugar - hard. Sugar depletes magnesium and B vitamins and keeps the stress response switched on. Replace it with proper meals, more protein and healthy fats, and bring bedtime earlier.

⚡️Add bee pollen if tolerated (check for allergies). Around one teaspoon is enough. It provides minerals and B vitamins that are heavily drawn on during prolonged stress. Soak it first – a few minutes will do – to break down polysaccharides and improve absorption. Add to smoothies, porridge or yoghurt.

Put these in place and watch what happens. When the biochemical load drops, children start to settle.

Have you noticed January flares in your child? What has helped most?

24/12/2025

To our Brainstorm families.

This year you've navigated meltdowns, sleepless nights, endless research, and medical systems that don't always understand.

You've shown up for your children when it's been hard, when progress stalled, when nobody else got it.

That's not just parenting. That's fierce love in action.

Thank you for trusting us to be part of your journey.

Wishing you restful sleep, unexpected progress, and moments of real joy this Christmas.

Here's to 2026 bringing the breakthroughs your children deserve.

Merry Christmas from all of us at Brainstorm Health.

Stella & the team x

05/12/2025

Most parents can pinpoint the moment something shifts.

A child who handled mornings suddenly can't.
Bedtimes stretch longer.
Meltdowns arrive faster.
Recovery takes weeks, not days.

What looks like regression is often simpler: a small nutrient running critically low.

Thiamine.

It drives energy production.
Steadies the brainstem.
Anchors the autonomic nervous system.

When it falters, the body loses its buffer.
Energy drops.
Inflammation rises.
Behaviour unravels.

Children with autism, PANS and PANDAS drain thiamine fast.
The gap between what the body needs and what's available is where everything falls apart.

The signs aren't behavioural.
They're biochemical.

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03/12/2025

If your child has chronic SIBO and nothing seems to work - it's thyroid.

When T3 falls, motility stops.
Food sits. Bacteria bloom. The child looks reactive, anxious, inflamed.

Normal TSH means nothing here.
Not even close.

This is why nothing holds.
This is why it keeps returning.

We test what standard panels miss.

More in the link in comments 👇

02/12/2025

You are underestimating how violently a disrupted serotonin pathway can derail a child. When the gut breaks down serotonin too fast, the vagus nerve treats it as threat, not calm.

This is when sleep fractures, sensory tolerance collapses and behaviour turns volatile.

What looks like sudden mood swings or food reactions is often the body responding to this biochemical alarm system, not the trigger itself.

More in comments 👇

28/11/2025

A child can unravel completely while their MRI remains entirely normal.
That single fact changes everything.
The brain is not broken.
The regulation is.

Parents see the change first.
A child who connected now withdraws.
A child who coped now startles.
A child who spoke now struggles for words.
The Child, who was steady now swings between fear and agitation.

None of this appears on a scan because the structure is intact.
It’s the regulatory environment that has collapsed.

I came across a 2020 longevity study that should have rewritten the conversation.
Neurons under pressure don’t lose their abilities.
They lose access to them.
The chemistry shifts.
The signalling falters.

It means the problem is access, not ability - and access can be restored.

When inflammation settles, when infections clear, when the gut stops sending danger messages, when the metabolic load drops, the child returns.
Not because they relearn everything.
Because the brain becomes accessible again.

This is why the return of function can be sudden, precise and unmistakable.
Why a word reappears.
Why a fear drops.
Why a meltdown vanishes.
Why a child reconnect as if pressure has finally lifted from their nervous system.

Regression is not loss.
It’s blocked access to the abilities a child already holds.

Full breakdown in the blog.
Link in comments 👇

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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.

If you want to hear more from me directly, I break this down inside my free newsletter.

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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