We have been able to acquire a larger room that can easily accommodate 100 people!

Biofilm & Healing Foods

• Overview of biofilms, good and bad, as well as the role of biofilms in autism and chronic gastrointestinal disease
• Biofilm Targeting Approach
  • Lysis/Detachment of Biofilm
  • Killing
  • Clean Up
  • Rebuilding/Nourishing the Gut Lining
• Practical ideas for Rebuilding and Nourishing the Gut Lining
  • Avoiding What Hurts
  • Adding What Heals: Healing Foods for Rebuilding/Nourishing
    • Cultured Vegetables
    • Kombucha
    • Young Coconut Kefir
    • Bone broths
• Recipes
• Questions and Answers

Stephanie Belseth is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with over 17 years experience in pediatrics, with advanced training in Functional Medicine and Defeat Autism Now! approaches to treating children with autism and related disorders. She attends all of the major DAN! conferences/clinician trainings in order to keep up on the latest research and clinical approaches, and is pursuing ongoing training in Functional Medicine by attending the Institute for Functional Medicine Advanced Practice Modules on topics pertinent to the treatment of children with ASD. Stephanie additionally has recently trained at the Rimland Center in Virginia with Dr. Liz Mumper in order to further refine her skills and will maintain a mentoring relationship with Dr. Mumper for consultation on particularly challenging cases. She is also familiar with the approaches of other biomedical providers in the state and nationally.

Before focusing entirely on biomedical and functional medical care, Stephanie worked in the areas of general pediatrics, asthma, autism/developmental delays and early childhood development. Stephanie has always been interested in nutrition and holistic care and became more interested in biomedical treatments for ASD and related conditions when her son developed such symptoms as a young toddler. She jumped on board aggressively to treat him from biomedical and other early intervention approaches and saw amazing response to treatments. She feels blessed that he is doing very well at this time. She also applies a biomedical approach to her other two children who have related issues. All of this has made her able to to provide practical support to parents/families implementing biomedical care with their children. Stephanie founded Newbridge Clinic in order to make quality biomedical care more accessible, affordable and supportive for parents and children with autism and related conditions She has been seeing patients since late August 2009 at the Bloomington location, off of 35W and 82nd Street.