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Inside a PANS Flare: A Child Explains What It Feels Like
What if the behaviors everyone sees aren't choices at all, but signs of a brain under siege? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, Dr. Nancy O'Hara speaks with ten-year-old Aiden and his mother about living...
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Is Your Home Affecting Your Child's Brain?
What if healing didn't start with another treatment, but with the space your family walks into every day? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, Dr. Nancy O'Hara speaks with designer and author Stephen...
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From Reassurance to Recognition: When Symptoms Mean More
The most powerful tool in pediatric care may not be a test or a treatment… but presence. In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, Dr. Larry Rosen shares how curiosity, listening, and relationship-centered care...
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When a Common Fever Drug Changes Brain Development
What if one of the most commonly used childhood medications carries risks that medicine has failed to fully confront? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, I speak with Dr. William Parker about decades of...
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When the Right Dose Changes Everything
In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, I talk with TruDOSE leaders Tapley Holland and Elena Herning about how precision-dosed platelet therapy works to modulate immune dysfunction, calm neuroinflammation, and...
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The Diet Mistake Almost Everyone Makes With Kids
What if the fastest way to change a child’s diet is to stop trying to take foods away? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, I talk to Dr. Joshua Green on integrative care for complex illness, how he helps kids...
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Why Sudden Skill Loss Is a Medical Emergency
Why does neuroinflammation look different as children grow? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, pediatric neurologist Dr. John Gaitanis explains the continuum of neuroinflammation, why regression represents...
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The Most Misdiagnosed Illness in America? A Lyme Expert Explains
Lyme disease: what if everything you know about it was only a fraction of the truth? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, Dr. Tom Moorcroft joins us to break down misdiagnosis, co-infections, persistence,...
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Why Protocols Fail Complex Kids
This is the mistake most protocols make with complex kids… In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, Dr. James Neuenschwander, also known as Dr. Neu, joins us to talk about root-cause biochemistry, why there’s no...
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From Self-Blame to Self-Compassion: Parenting a Child with PANS/PANDAS
What if you did everything right in pregnancy… and your child still developed autism and PANS/PANDAS? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, functional clinical nutritionist Inna Topiler joins us to talk about...
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When Childhood Suddenly Changes: Izzy’s Journey Through PANDAS
What happens when a ten-year-old wakes up as a completely different child, hearing voices, gripped by terror, and no one can explain why? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, Isabel Witkos shares her story of...
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The Hidden Link Between Infections and Sudden Behavior Changes
What if your child’s sudden tics, rages, anxiety, or personality changes were signs of the immune system attacking the brain after an infection? In this episode of Demystifying PANS/PANDAS, Dr. Craig Shimasaki reveals...
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