007: Do Tics Start in the Gut? Answers for Families of Kids with Autism with Dr. Piper Gibson

Healthy Parenting Handbook with Katie Kimball

I realized during this interview (and never before) that my own husband had a tic off and on for years in our early marriage and before.

Seriously!
He was always told it was either neurological/anxiety or that he should see an eye doctor (who didn’t know what to do). For years we tried to figure out environmental patterns like what season or climate/city/state it might happen in or stop happening after being present for a few weeks.

But what if…it was all in his GUT???

We’ve done a lot of gut healing for him over the years, including reversing a chronic autoimmune disease, and he hasn’t experienced the blinking for a really long time.

If you’re interested at all in the gut-brain connection and how to help kids on the spectrum and/or with tics resolve them, OR how to help your own kids understand how to talk about and interact lovingly and respectfully with kids struggling with something like a tic, this is a must-listen.

Dr. Piper Gibson needed answers so badly for her own son that she left the SAHM mom life and went back to school to find a solution that no one else could give her. (Spoiler: There’s a reason she’s known as a tic expert, and wait until you hear how it all went with her son!)
Resources We Mention for Gut Health

• Reducing chronic inflammation in kids
• Applying functional medicine to autism
• What’s Making Our Children Sick? by Dr. Michelle Perro (Amazon/Bookshop.org)
• Strategies to help kids go gluten and dairy-free
• Strategies to help kids with SPD to eat
• Watch a mini-interview I did with Piper about her new book on tics!
• Tic Talk by Dr. Piper Gibson
• Find Dr. Piper Gibson online
• Follow her on social media: Facebook, Instagram

• Kitchen Stewardship
• Kids Cook Real Food
• follow Katie on Instagram or Facebook
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• YouTube shorts channel for HPH
• Find the Healthy Parenting Handbook at kidscookrealfood.com/podcast

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