
Finding the Root Causes of PANS/PANDAS | Functional Medicine Insights
Hello, Lucy here with Episode 1 of our Easter mini-series. This week, I talk to functional practitioner and nutritionist, Stella Chadwick. Stella talks about her journey to treating PANS/PANDAS after ...
25 Mar 202454min

How Doctors Treat PANS and PANDAS | Dr Tim Ubhi Explains
Hello everyoneIn our last podcast of our first series, Lucy speaks to Dr Tim Ubhi. He is well-known here in the UK as a passionate advocate for PANS/PANDAS, and has played a large part in many people'...
13 Nov 202356min

Severe Tics, Fits and OCD: A Mother’s Story of PANDAS
In our fifth PANS/PANDAS Stories, Lucy McDonald chats with Helen Huitson, a PANS/PANDAS mother and campaigner from the NE of England. She is the mother of the wonderful Jessica, Lucy spoke to in Episo...
6 Nov 202339min

Nutrition and PANS/PANDAS: How Diet Can Support Brain and Immune Health
Jo Joyner talks to naturopath Lucinda Miller about the healing power of food. Lucinda has helped hundreds of families, including Jo's, and focuses on feeding the brain, the immune system and the gut m...
30 Okt 202345min

My Daughter Changed Overnight: A Father’s PANDAS Story
This week, Jo Joyner talks to Gareth Costello about his daughter Rose who went from a confident, popular girl, who loved school, to a shadow of her former self almost overnight. Gareth describes this ...
23 Okt 202353min

Living With PANDAS as a Teen: Tics, Seizures and Sudden OCD
In Episode Two Lucy meets Jessica, a warm and courageous 14 year old with PANDAS. Her initial symptoms were tics and anxiety, but progressed to multiple non-epileptic seizures every day. She talks abo...
16 Okt 202340min

Sudden Onset OCD After Infection: A Parent’s PANS/PANDAS Story
Who better to start the series than Vicky Burford, who runs the PANS/PANDAS UK charity? She talks to Jo about how her son Gregory had a flu-type bug on holiday in Tenerife aged 12, and developed serio...
9 Okt 202355min

What Is PANS and PANDAS? Understanding Sudden Onset OCD in Children
Hello and welcome to Jo Joyner and Lucy McDonald's podcast on PANS/PANDAS. In this introduction to the first series of the PANS/PANDAS Stories, Jo and Lucy discuss how they met and how a shared intere...
2 Okt 20238min



















