Linda Folden Palmer, DC

 Healthy Parenting and Nutrition

Dr. Linda Folden Palmer is a widely recognized author and speaker specializing in nutrition of pregnancy, lactation, and childhood, as well as in infant health and bonding. She is dedicated to raising awareness about how powerfully early parenting and healthcare choices can influence a child's mental and physical outcomes.

Having run a successful chiropractic practice for over a decade, focused on nutrition and women's health, Palmer's life became transformed in 1995 by the health challenges of her newborn son. She found the standard advice available to her extremely lacking, even harmful, and often strongly contradicting her own instincts.

The culmination of her ensuing research and related activities led to her writing Baby Matters, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby, which was then updated, embellished, and re-released as The BABY BOND, The New Science Behind What's Really Important When Caring for Your Baby.

Extensively documented, her healthy parenting books presents the scientific evidence behind attachment parenting practices, supporting baby's immune system, and sparing drug usage. She reveals important considerations in infant nutrition and discusses the seldom-recognized frequency of food intolerance symptoms, even in breastfed infants.

Palmer stays an active advocate of the natural parenting principles she supports, often addressing the motives and actions of big industries. She has coordinated local attachment parenting support groups for the last six years since 1998. She has provided private consultations in lactation, nutrition, colic, reflux, and sleep challenges to many new families and has been certified in natural childbirth education.

Palmer has instructed in physiology, pathology, and pediatric nutrition, is certified in natural childbirth education, and guest lectures in infant health, breastfeeding, and the biochemistry of parenting. She lives in San Diego with her son and physicist husband.

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