Wholistic Kids

Wholistic Kids A holistic pediatric practice with a focus on prevention and health

08/16/2026

Comment "Podcast" and I'll send you the link to the full video I recorded with Dr. Brighten about the surprising link between inflammation and behavior in kids.⤵️

Dr. K

08/14/2026

If you are a provider and you want to join me at the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference in San Diego, comment “Conference” and I’ll send you a discounted link to book your spot.⤵️

Dr. Pejman Katiraei

08/12/2026

Picky eating in kids with autism is not a behavior problem. It's a neurological one.

When there's inflammation in the brain, it triggers a massive histamine response.

And histamine is one of the most powerful controllers of appetite and sensory perception.

What that means practically is that the food you're putting on your child's plate, the steak, the vegetables.

They are not being difficult. They are not exerting their will. Their nervous system has been hijacked by inflammation and they have no other choice.

Here's what's remarkable though. When you identify and remove the trigger driving that inflammation, kids who were eating two foods suddenly start eating everything. I've seen it happen over and over.

This is not about forcing new foods onto the plate. It's about putting out the fire first.

Dr. K

If you want to learn more about gut inflammation and how it should be approached, comment “Microbiome” and I’ll send you...
08/09/2026

If you want to learn more about gut inflammation and how it should be approached, comment “Microbiome” and I’ll send you an article I wrote that goes in depth on this issue.⤵️

Dr. K

08/06/2026

There's a reason some kids struggle to write, ride a bike, or move without looking clumsy.

At the back of the brain sits the cerebellum, essentially a dedicated computer whose only job is to track where the body is in space and coordinate movement down to the millimeter.

Inside the cerebellum live immune cells called microglia.

When anything trips them off, a toxin, an infection, mold, something happening in the gut, they cause the cerebellum to essentially short circuit.

This is not clumsiness. Something is inflaming the part of the brain responsible for movement, and until that's addressed, no amount of occupational therapy is going to fix what's happening at the root.

Dr. K

08/04/2026

We have conducted an experiment on our population without realizing it. And the outcome is the most immunologically vulnerable generation in modern history.

Atrazine and glyphosate are just the beginning. Antibiotics, plastics, forever chemicals, all of it woven into the food supply with basically no understanding of what it would do to human physiology over time.

Here's where I push back though. Twelve years ago I was loading kids and myself with every binder imaginable, zeolite, all of it, convinced it was the answer. The results were underwhelming.

Binders can help. I still use them. But they are not the mechanism that reverses chronic illness.

The most underrated detox system in existence is a healthy gut and a thriving microbiome.

When those are functioning the way they should, the body clears toxins on its own, the way it was always designed to. Eat enough fiber, clean up the diet, fix the gut, and the body does the rest.

No protocol required.

Dr. K

07/30/2026

Some parents go through their entire life without seeing any form of affection from their autistic children.

And I believe there is nothing more heartbreaking than this.

But it doesn’t have to be like that.

Any kid with autism - no matter the level - can achieve incredible progress with the right guidance and treatment.

We just have to be aware that there are solutions to these problems.

If you know someone with a kid suffering from autism, please send this video to them and help me spread the word.

Together we can make the world a better and safer place for these kids.

Dr. K

07/29/2026

95% of people with mold contamination in their home have absolutely no idea it's there.

I had my own house remediated.

I brought in the best inspector I know, someone who drove up from San Diego because the LA inspectors had already missed it.

She found mold sitting in the walls all the way around the house from improperly draining stucco, plus contamination in the AC unit that was spiking particle counts every time it ran.

The kids with chronic allergies, recurrent ear infections, asthma, weird sleep issues, attention and mood problems that seem to come out of nowhere. That could all be a hidden exposure that nobody has thought to look for.

If you want to test your own home, comment "TEST" and I'll send you a link to a discounted kit my families use.⤵️

Dr. K

Comment “Breathing” and I’ll send you the complete study. ⤵️Dr. K
07/25/2026

Comment “Breathing” and I’ll send you the complete study. ⤵️

Dr. K

07/22/2026

We are confusing the suffering with who these people actually are.

The anxiety, the OCD, the aggression, the overwhelm, getting trapped inside their own mind, that is not autism.

That is what is happening to them because of something triggering an imbalance, usually neuroinflammation, that is distorting their entire experience of the world.

Most of these individuals are deeply loving, kind, intelligent, and capable in ways that most people aren't. But they can't share any of that with the world because they are trapped in a mind and a body that is literally on fire.

The goal was never to change who they are. The goal is to put out the fire so the person inside can finally come through.

Dr. K

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