Hi Jan

As a matter of fact, we just finished up the twelve week session about two weeks ago. My wife and I will meet with the woman in charge on Tuesday for her assessment and recommendations. I was going to post about this all after that. But since you asked, I'll post now. This will be long.

As of now, my son is ticcing as much as ever. And I am quite disappointed about that. But that doesn't mean that it won't help his tics going forward. I'll elaborate on that later. He has benefitted in other important ways.

The brain balance regimen includes blood testing for food sensitivities and nutritional deficiencies. They then provide (rather, you purchase) customized supplements.

The elimination diet and supplements routine was very hard. My son was found to be sensitive to dairy, eggs, soy, and more. He was also found to have a yeast overgrowth. Due to the yeast overgrowth, we needed to avoid sugar and starches in addition to dairy, soy and eggs.

We started with the elimination diet several weeks before we decided how to handle the yeast overgrowth. We did not see any benefits from the elimination diet, but then after attacking the yeast (a week of diflucan and no sugar and starches) we noticed that his stomach aches stopped. He used to get frequent severe stomach aches. So that was the first benefit.

My son had many warts growing on his hands. Including one huge cluster on his pinky. We had been fruitlessly fighting them in various ways. My wife finally decided to take him to a dermatologist. She made the appointment at about the same time we started the diet. Two months later, when they went to the dermatologist, my wife found that the warts were pretty much all gone. We hadn't even noticed, because we weren't really paying attention to them anymore. The dermatologist hypothesized that his immune system had improved due to the nutritional routine.

My son is a very good athlete. It seems that Brain Balance has helped with his coordination, as they said it might. Keep in mind that he was already very well coordinated. He competes in several sports. It seems that he recently improved in every one of them. Not by leaps and bounds, but noticeably. For a competitive child, this is nice benefit.

Most importantly, his school works seems to have improved (I'd like his teacher's thoughts on this, but she hasn't replied to my emails yet). He generally got good grades, many A's. But there were some tasks, most notably creative writing, that were very hard for him. When faced with these tasks, he would get very anxious. The teacher would have to give him quite a bit of extra help and we would have to help him at home. It would often be quite difficult because when his anxiety is up he digs his heels in and can get very uncooperative.

Well he just completed two creative writing assignments with no incidents at all. I know that we did not help him at home and according to him he got no help from teacher. So it appears that he did them independently and without incident. And he did well with them. He has also gotten 100% on his two most recent tests.

Now it's only been two weeks since we completed the program and these improvements may be coincidental. Or maybe, I'm looking for benefits to justify the investment (substantial time and money). But I can say for sure that the warts are gone and he isn't complaining about stomach aches.

Of course you could do the nutritional routine without doing brain balance. FWIW, I did find it helpful to have the guidance of their nutritionists.

After you complete the program, they do an assessment that is the same as the initial assessment that they give you before you start. We'll be meeting with them on Tuesday. I expect that they'll recommend another session, or at least a partial session. I'm not sure what we'll do. I'm not sure how we'd pay for another session. Also, it's now soccer and baseball season. So I don't think we could fit in. We may just send him back to the Chiropractic Neurologist that he went to prior to Brain Balance. You may want to look into that. Brain Balance is an outgrowth of the field of Chiropractic Neurology.

Lastly, it is still possible that Brain Balance will still help his tics. At brain balance, they liken the effects to taking a turkey out of the oven. The turkey still cooks for awhile.

In summary, at this point my son is ticcing as much as ever. And we are very disappointed about that. Perhaps it will still help his tics though. And we may end up doing more work. My son is pretty motivated. In any event, while I disappointed, I'm not sorry that we did it. He has benefited in other ways. And of course, the improved school performance is very important.

I'd be glad to answer any specific questions that you might have.

Best
Bigal