First module: Jaundice (aka high bilirubin in babies) overview

Learn what makes bilirubin high in babies, how the current paradigm treats high bilirubin, and the potential risks of sticking with the status quo and phototherapy

There are a few, very rare conditions that can cause disease-driven newborn jaundice. These are severe problems—true diseases— where the liver or particular enzymes are lacking in ability to break down bilirubin. These are not easy to test for. 

Part of my mission with this course and with putting together this research about newborn jaundice is to make those disease cases more quickly visible. 

By decreasing the number of babies with physiologic jaundice, it will become all the more obvious when a baby is really sick (the vast minority of babies with jaundice). And in that way, fewer of those really sick babies will slip through the cracks. Disease-driven jaundice is outside the scope of this course, but you can still apply the information in those instances to support overall wellbeing, which it does, even if it might not be able to get at the root causes of those rare diseases.

The other name I considered giving this course is the "Thriving Bioelectric & Circadian Pregnancy Protocol."…