Hi, I’m Ashley. A mother of 3 & a crazy animal lover who is over all the marketing and lies from the big food companies. I’m starting this blog to share my knowledge about ingredients and the effects they have on our health. I was an EMT-P ACLS PALS for a long time and I have studied nutrition since I was 19. Many people are struggling with chronic health issues and are watching their children and pets struggle with them as well. All while having no idea the very products they are purchasing and using daily are contributing to their illness greatly. I know this because I was also one of those people. I was struggling for years with chronic nerve pain, Trigeminal Neuralgia, and even all the specialist doctors couldn’t figure out what was causing it and many even accused me of attempting to get prescribed controlled substances. My saving grace that sent me down the rabbit hole was my psychiatrist at the VA Hospital. She ran blood test and found out I have a two copies of the A1298C MTHFR mutation. She called me as soon as she got the results and said to stop consuming synthetic folic acid. I felt like my whole world stopped in that moment as my oldest daughter was having severe developmental delays. She had tested positive for celiacs but wasn’t getting better. She was 3 years old and completely non verbal, had a pot belly, severe eczema, and hardly any hair on her head. She had no ability to focus and would rip pages out of books as I would attempt to read to her. I ran to the pantry and looked at the organic labeled gluten free food I had purchased and sure enough it was enriched with folic acid. That night I threw away every supplement and food item in our house that contained the word enriched, modified, or folic acid in the ingredients. I was prescribed by my doctor a methyl folate of 15mg twice daily. And honestly I started to see almost immediate results in my pain and with my daughter reaching developmental milestones. She started growing hair, her pot belly went away after a couple weeks, she calmed down over the course of a few months, and shortly after she started speaking. With in two years my nerve pain was completely gone; like it was just a bad dream. I know there are people who claim there is nothing wrong with people who have mthfr variants consuming folic acid.. but I’m living proof they are wrong. During this time I took my extensive knowledge from working in emergency medicine and understanding how the human body works, and everything I learned from studying nutrition; & I entered the rabbit hole as far as I could go. Along the way I learned about the corporate lies to keep us sick so we are dependent on synthetic medicines to mask our symptoms all so they can indulge their greed for money. There are so many areas to cover so please if you care at all give my blog a follow and share as my goal here is to spread knowledge so that our future generations will not suffer and so we may all begin to heal. This blog with cover not only wellness for us but also for our dogs. You want the evidence on how ethyl mercury passes the blood brain barrier and what those effects actually are, what synthetic folic acid really does, how your brain and thought process are regulated by glucose levels…. What actually are natural dyes & how they aren’t natural at all? Then stay tuned. As for my oldest she is 8 now. She has gorgeous long blonde hair, absolutely no issues with her skin, making straight A’s, doing 4th grade math, can run 3 miles at a time, and is the most polite child of my 3. Oh and she can eat wheat again and loves it.