Dra. Patricia Restrepo recounts her son’s severe head injury (a twin) after falling onto a marble floor, which left him initially unresponsive and later with behavioral changes, tics, learning difficulties, and emotional dysregulation. After three months of repeated hospital visits and consultations with eight neurologists across cities (Columbia, Miami, New York, Atlanta) who reported no neurological pathology, specialized brain imaging revealed significant chronic brain inflammation not seen on conventional tests. Restrepo links this inflammation to issues in the digestive lining (gut–brain axis), prompting her to study cellular metabolism and ancestral medicine and to focus treatment on supporting the body and the gut rather than only suppressing symptoms.
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Eight neurologists (consultations in Columbia, Miami, New York, and Atlanta).
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And they called us, my mom and my aunt, to meet us at Mercy, at the hospital, that they were in the ambulance, that my son had had an accident. One of the twins. That thing that stops your heart. My husband picks me up. We leave. The longest trip down 95 that I have ever had was a blind disaster in my body of panic. My skin felt panic. We entered the hospital, he had suffered a blow. He fell on a marble floor from top to bottom. He fell on his head, unconscious. And he was unresponsive. And a gray cloud began. Three months in my family, in and out of the hospital. Everything was fine. But the boy changed drastically after that blow. What happened? He began to have noticeable ticks. He began to become a difficult child with emotional issues, to have less emotional tolerance, to have more frustration, more difficulty with frustration. And after the academic year began, at that time in school, he began to have reading and writing problems. And we needed to hire a shadow for him all the time in order for him to stay in school. Eight neurologists, we went everywhere, to Columbia, Miami, New York, Atlanta. And they all told me the boy is perfect. The last two told me, maria Patricia, your problem is that he is a twin. And you are comparing them, and how do you compare them? That's it. And they suggested that I take medication to calm myself down. Wow. And I said, one of those times when taking a step back is not it? Let's take a step back. And we want to help the boy. What are we going to do? The four of us were playing board games. It was a Sunday. And my son started with tic tac toe. Alejandro and I looked at each other and said, what's going on? No. And the boy started to cry, Crying, crying. What's going on? I feel like I'm crying, but I can't control it here. We have to do something. I called someone who had been my professor who studied the brain. I went with him. They did several brain studies. And what they found was a lot of inflammation. Images not used in conventional medicine, but used to study the brain. And there was a very significant inflammation. And it was not detected in any of the neurological ones. He was perfect. Thank God. There was no issue of neurological pathology, but there was an issue. If you looked at the brain as an organ, there was an issue of significant chronic inflammation that had already become chronic at that time. And that's when I decided to go back to school. I started studying my cellular metabolism. And I began to have reconnected with mentors. And it was impressive. I didn't know this. Whenever you have a brain issue, there is a digestive issue. But not only that, because we already recognize the gut brain axis. And in ancestral medicine it was recognized, but at a cellular level, at the level of the digestive lining. The blow was in the brain. But what was maintaining this brain inflammation was the inflammation in the digestive lining. Once we start doing this process with him, we are going to support the body with what it is showing us. We are not going to fight with the symptom. And it is difficult because the intestine is everything you eat. So it is getting into what a child was.
