Nervology Chiropractic and Neurodevelopment

Nervology Chiropractic and Neurodevelopment I am deeply passionate about providing every child the best start in life through chiropractic and functional neurology.

09/02/2026

Violet is one of the first wavelengths I reach for.... Particularly for kids who are wound up and stressed out, and their nervous systems need a little more break pedal.

08/28/2026

If you have a 6-8 week old baby, work on these 4 things for their sensory diet!

08/26/2026

Sometimes constipation is the symptom we finally notice.... but the nervous system has been telling the story for much longer.

Birth stress can contribute to sympathetic dominance, often leading to the constipation and then once a painful bowel movement is encoded as a threat, the bathroom signal itself can begin triggering a limbic fight-or-flight loop.

That’s why these kids need more than a one-time “poop adjustment.” They need enough frequency and duration of parasympathetic input from consistent chiropractic care to create real neuroplastic change within the limbic system itself. That way we can teach the brain that going to the bathroom is safe again and get to the root of the cause, which is sympathetic dominance.

08/21/2026

Spinning is one of the most powerful— and underutilized— forms of vestibular input for the developing brain.

Every time a child spins, they are flooding the brainstem and cerebellum with information about movement, acceleration, position, and gravity. That input helps build the neuroarchitecture needed for balance, coordination, spatial awareness, focus, attention, and emotional regulation.

The simple way to think about it is:

Spin right → left brain.
Spin left → right brain.

But there’s an important layer of nuance here:

Vestibular processing isn’t perfectly symmetrical between the two hemispheres. The right hemisphere plays a stronger role in cortical vestibular processing, especially for spatial orientation, body awareness, and integrating where we are in space. So spinning either direction, even to the right, will still activate the right hemisphere to some degree.

That matters tremendously in young children because the right hemisphere is developing rapidly early in life. It’s one of the reasons slow, controlled spinning and other vestibular play is such valuable developmental input when children are very young.

The direction still matters because spinning one direction versus the other changes which vestibular apparatus, cerebellar pathways, and cortical networks receive the strongest drive.

So when little kids want to spin over and over again, lean in and continue the play. It's one of the BEST ways to wake up their cerebellum!

Their developing cerebellum seeks movement because movement is one of the primary ways the young brain learns to organize itself.

Sometimes play really is brain development in disguise. 🧠

08/11/2026

One of the patterns I commonly find on the Nutrient Zoomer—especially when someone also carries an MTHFR variant—is that their standard blood work can look reassuring while their functional nutrient picture tells us there may be more going on.

B12 is one of my favorite examples.

Someone may have a serum B12 that looks beautifully high, yet testing that looks more closely at nutrient status can suggest that B12-dependent pathways still aren’t functioning optimally.

Why?

Because having a nutrient circulating in the bloodstream and being able to process, transport, activate, and actually use it are not necessarily the same thing.

And the form matters.

A lot of inexpensive multivitamins, B-complex supplements, gummies, energy products, and fortified foods use cyanocobalamin as their source of B12. It’s a synthetic form that the body has to process into biologically active forms such as methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin.

At the same time, many conventional supplements use folic acid rather than naturally occurring food folates.

That becomes particularly interesting when I find an MTHFR variant, because MTHFR plays an important role in converting folate into the methylated form used within the methylation cycle. And the enzyme need to convert cyanocobalamin to usable B12 is driven by the same methylation pathway that the MTHFR gene controls. Thats why you get a bottleneck of high cyanocobalamin in the blood stream and not much getting converted to methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin and into the cells. 

So instead of simply asking, “Are you taking a B vitamin?” I want to know:

• What does your nutrient testing actually show?
• What forms are you taking?
• How are your methylation pathways functioning?
• And is your body actually getting the nutrients in forms it can effectively utilize?

This is also why I’m such a fan of whole-food vitamin concentrates when they’re appropriate.

One of my favorites is Standard Process Whole Food Folate. Rather than being built around isolated synthetic folic acid, it uses food ingredients— golden chlorella, organic collard greens, and organic turnip greens— to provide naturally occurring f

08/07/2026

Just some Friday neuroscience + theology while watering plants 🪴

08/05/2026

Your baby waking when you leave the room isn’t a sleep defect.

It may be their nervous system noticing that one of its most powerful signals of safety is gone: you.

Your baby knows your unique scent. And smell is neurologically different from every other sense.

Visual, auditory, and tactile information typically passes through the thalamus before reaching higher brain regions. But olfactory information has unusually direct access to the limbic system—including the amygdala, one of the brain’s primary threat-detection centers.

Even during sleep, your familiar scent continues communicating:

“You’re safe. I’m still here.”

That familiar chemosensory signal can help quiet threat-scanning and support autonomic regulation. When the nervous system feels safe, it is less likely to be pulled toward sympathetic arousal— the internal alarm that can bring a baby back into lighter sleep or wakefulness.

And deeper, slow-wave sleep matters.

During this delta-dominant stage of non-REM sleep, the brain’s glymphatic clearance system becomes more active, helping cerebrospinal fluid move through brain tissue and clear metabolic waste.

So when your baby sleeps more peacefully beside you— but wakes moments after you slip away— it doesn't mean you’ve created a bad habit.

Their nervous system simply recognizes your presence as part of the environment in which it feels safest letting go.

**Your scent isn’t just familiar. To your baby’s developing brain, it's a biological signal of parasympathetic calm. **

07/30/2026

First patient to bleed on my adjustment table...

Life can make you feel like you're fighting a bull. It pays to have a good chiropractor.

07/24/2026

Anyone who's been pregnant knows how nice it is to lie facing down on your belly! This table provides such a nice stretch for the belly, allowing it to hang vs using a pregnancy pillow.

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