July 16, 2014 – Amala Holt
with Larry Palevsky, MD
Amala Holt’s son had significant asthma and food allergies, and her daughter had eczema and skin rashes. She consulted with Dr. Larry in 2012 and 2013 for guidance regarding both children.
Dr. Larry and Amala will talk through her journey. She will speak about her deep concern about her children’s health struggles, the advice delivered by conventional physicians, the information she received from Dr. Larry in the office, how she used it to make dramatic changes in her home, and the process by which she became empowered to improve her children’s health.
Amala will share how she feeds and cares for her children, such that her son no longer wheezes, and can tolerate more and more foods without reactions, and such that her daughter no longer develops the kind of skin outbreaks that interfered with her health and her social life.
Join us for a fascinating, nuts and bolts show about food, supplements, healing, and how Amala was inspired to take action and help her children enough to stay out of Dr. Larry’s office. She will share how the information she learned in the office helped improve her own health, too.
Amala Holt, a software engineer by profession and a stay-at-home mother of three by choice, was born and raised in India. She immigrated to the United States to pursue a graduate degree in Computer Engineering. Here true passion for good food and for good health led her into her side career, to open the CT School of Indian Cooking. Amala enjoys teaching with lively, heart warming anecdotes about the health benefits of Indian spices and the traditions of soaking, fermenting, and sprouting. She has done a few cooking segments for local television. Amala gave birth to her children in a birth center at the hands of midwives. Having suffered asthma all her life, she was searching for a way to heal her third child’s evolving asthma symptoms without the use of conventional medicine, the ones she had taken all her life. Along with her immigrant European husband, Amala believes she might finally know the cause of much that ails us: food; and the solution to much that ails us: food!
Lawrence B. Palevsky, MD is a board certified pediatrician who utilizes a holistic approach in his work with children and families. He graduated from NYU School of Medicine, completed his pediatric residency at Mt. Sinai, and fellowship training at Bellevue Hospital. Larry runs his own holistic pediatric practice in Northport, NY and Manhattan. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Medicine and is the former President of the American Holistic Medical Association.
As a Specialized Kinesiologist and Clinical Nutritionist in south Lake Tahoe heere are a few recommendations I might suggest from my experience and practice. Clean foods, no GMO, organic as much as possible. Good probiotics which I would muscle test for the best for that particular body, fermented products, kim che, no wheat, soy, except fermented, corn, peanuts or p. butter, dairy. These are the main allergy foods, Reestablish healthy flora in the gut, and digestive enzymes may be appropriate. Vit C, appropriate for age, astralagus an adaptagen, which works according the the needs of the body No sugars, or too many grains. Use the ancient grains.complete kinesiology testing to determine any other deficiencies, organ imbalances, structural or allergy issues. Dorothy
Thanks Dorothy!
But I have to tell you, that is precisely where our journey started! I pretty much follow everything you have said!!! Started with muscle testing with a Kinesiologist (which blew me away)! We practice “clean foods” to frustrating levels (to the point, I can’t eat foods that I now “see” as harmful). My son was tested muscle tested for good probiotic but from my own experience, the homemade kombucha/kimchi/kefir cultures FAR FAR outweigh the storebought probiotics. How do I know? My son (with asthma) and my daughter (with skin allergies) too probiotics for about 2 years. It was out of sheer frustration I started to look for a way to *heal* their gut and stumbled upon this miraculous discovery of homemade cultures. The only things I haven’t done are using ancient grains.. One mistake, and it takes us back too many steps (mistakes such as 4 lollipops, or “trying out” organic St******d yogurt smoothie).. in other words, his particular gut needs time to heal and recover before I can try anything new. Try keeping sugar, pizza, all cheese, all icecream, all yogurt out of a young 7 year old — just imagine it — and you’ll see how painful a growing it is for an active, outgoing, bright and wise-beyond-his-age 7-year old!!! We’ve been able to manage with maple syrup, and honey, plus a bit of raw sugar. Once he recovers from episodes, then, as long as I keep the allergy “causing” foods out, its a jolly ride now!
Amazing!