I wanted to say a big Thank You to Pebble Nutrition and to Charlotte in particular for supporting us with our teenage son.  He is a suspected chronic PANS/PANDAS case and there is little that conventional medicine has to offer him as we'd been dealing with symptoms for a long time before we realised how serious things were.  Nearly eight months into the Pebble "low and slow" functional medicine approach and after doing OAT and GI testing we've made a lot of progress.  Our son is less angry, eating all sorts of foods, OCD has improved, he's doing so much better at school and is able to speak more fluently.  At his worst he was raging, self injurious, OCD made him scream in distress if it was triggered and we were restraining him if he became very unregulated.  We didn't want to go down the conventional antibiotics route as we knew he already had gut issues and it could make things worse.  We also didn't want to spend lots of money on blood tests and appointments just "getting diagnosed" when we could spend that money on actually rebuilding his gut health as well as using natural antimicrobials to kill off infections and calm his nervous system .  It was a good choice and we're glad we went down the functional medicine route and bypassed the conventional medicine route.  Kathryn and Charlotte have personal experience of what PANS/PANDAS/Autistic families are going through and they have over a decade of experience in this field.  

Liz and Mike