Two founders. One inside
the clinic. One inside the family.
I grew up with dyslexia, heart disease, repeated antibiotic courses, immunity problems that nobody connected to anything else. I also lived with undiagnosed gluten and dairy sensitivity for years. A system that named what it saw and moved on.
I carry the MTHFR mutation, gut problems, mitochondrial dysfunction. I tried many paths to support my body — and eventually I began connecting the dots. These are not separate problems. They are one system that is not working as it should. I focused on what mattered most: diet, gut support, and finding the missing links. Methylated forms of folate and B12. Zinc and manganese — chronically deficient in cryptopyrroluria, and often missed entirely in children with dyslexia, ADHD, and absorption problems. I am today in remission from heart disease.
In my clinic I began seeing children whose patterns looked familiar from the inside. When I started with gut support first — and then addressed deficiencies based on cellular-level testing, hair mineral analysis, genetic testing — I saw that sometimes just a few key elements were missing. Unlock those, and things that had been stuck for years began to move. What a child eats, and what a mother eats before and during pregnancy, shapes development in ways we are only beginning to understand systematically.
My daughter has childhood epilepsy. A diagnosis tells you what you are dealing with — it does not tell you how to support that child's body, day by day, so they can develop as fully as possible. Every child has their own instruction manual. My work — and the work of this organisation — is to help families learn how to read it: to look at symptoms, find their causes, and address them one by one. I do not have all the answers. That is exactly why I want to research this properly.
My daughter Nahili was diagnosed with autism. We received the diagnosis — and then we received a long list of things that could not be done, could not be changed, and should not be expected.
I did not accept that. Not because I was in denial — but because I knew there was more. I kept looking, kept asking, and eventually I found Paulina's clinic. We ran testing, adjusted the diet and supplementation, supported Nahili's gut and metabolic system step by step. What we observed changed everything — how she slept, how she communicated, how she experienced the world.
The families who came to Paulina asking "what can we do more? what else?" — those conversations became the foundation of what we are building now. We saw that an anti-inflammatory diet and targeted supplementation makes a difference. But to do more, we need structure. We need our voice to be heard. And we need to build something that a single family — or a single clinician — cannot build alone.
I am not a clinician. I am a mother who walked this path and wants to make it shorter for the next family. I want to give parents back what the system too often takes away: the ability to act, to understand, and to help their own child. That is what this organisation is for.
Each of us can contribute something.
Your experience as a parent. Your presence. Your voice. Your willingness to act. Every one of us can bring something to this organisation. Start with the first step.
