A Parent’s Guidebook: Empowering Healthy Families with Nutrition and Homeopathy

Book by Michelle Perro, MD, DHom
Published April 5, 2026 by GMOScience
ISBN 979-899902380, 474 pages, paperbac

Making Our Children Well, Dr. Michelle Perro’s new sequel to her landmark 2017 exposé What’s Making Our Children Sick, is a game changer.  As the subtitle states, it is an invaluable guidebook for empowering healthy families with nutrition and homeopathy.

A veteran pediatrician with over four decades of experience in acute and integrative medicine, Perro was one of the first to recognize the dangerous health effects from GMOs, glyphosate, and pesticides. Her nonprofit organization GMOScience, has educated the public about the connection between these modern poisons and today’s epidemic of chronic childhood illness for more than 15 years. Her core message is that our children are not broken; they are poisoned! 

The COVID pandemic sharpened Dr. Perro’s thinking by adding fear mongering, experimental interventions, and the exclusion of healthier holistic options like nutrition and homeopathy to everyone’s total load. From this period emerged Perro’s Children’s Environmental Health Bill of Rights (CEHBR), a set of seven principles designed to protect the sanctity of children’s health from harmful industrial and governmental negligence. CEHBR recognizes that children require:

• Organically grown food free from chemical inputs;
• Clean water, free from environmental pollutants;
• Clean air;
• Reduced exposure to electromagnetic frequencies and no exposure to SG;
• Freedom from experimental medical therapies  and pharmaceuticals;
• Protection from environmental toxicants, such as e-waste; and
• Freedom from the harmful images of TV, social media, and predictive programming.

How to incorporate these guiding lights constitutes the four parts of this book. What I love is that each section is practical, specific, and drawn from years of experience. This is not just philosophy; it is truly a manual.

Part I: Nutrition and Foundations of Health includes the basics on the nutritional needs of kids at all ages and stages. Perro recognizes the need to teach families how to set up a workable pantry that emphasizes both healing and prevention, and not fall into the trap of being a short-order-cook for picky eaters. She simplifies meal prep and planning, emphasizing the importance of nutrient density. She includes many of her favorite recipes for a smoothie, sauerkraut, and brownies. This section is jam packed with SO many gems, it will take the reader a good year to work through them: the benefits of fermentation, understanding immune system reactions, factors affecting the microbiome, the ins and outs of detoxification, histamine intolerance, gluten sensitivity, the sugar trap. It’s ALL there!

Part II: Introduction to Homeopathy starts with a discussion of homeopathy’s origin and basic principles that support recovery and balance. It moves on to presenting how remedies work both energetically and biologically. The doctor provides guidelines focusing on fertility and pregnancy, as well as an alphabetical overview for most common ailments from asthma, bed-wetting, bug bites, burns, coughs, constipation, diarrhea, fever, flu, hives, to sore throats, and more. Emotional issues, such as anxiety and mood swings are also included from babyhood through adolescence. 

Perro’s goal is to transform parents into capable at-home healers by teaching them how to assemble a simple at-home kit and to respond quickly to the small, frequent health challenges by applying key remedies with confidence. Her personal, life-changing story of how she learned to blend modern conventional medicine with ancient homeopathy is compelling. What started as simple curiosity became a calling, as she pivoted her career, breaking away from the pharmaceutical stronghold of her medical education, and found a way to practice medicine in an integrative healing fashion. Most important is the section that offers urgent signs to seek professional medical intervention. 

Parts III and IV: Putting it All Together and Practical Resources are my favorite sections because they are SO inclusive, practical, and personal. Dr. Perro has done all the research. No need to look for the best place for non-toxic pots and pans or the facts about Lyme. Everything is there including her favorite supplement companies and support groups.

The book ends with an extremely important chapter on vaccines and informed consent that should be required reading for everyone. This potentially contentious topic guides parents into making informed decisions and recognizing vaccine injury, if and when it occurs. 

Making Our Children Well is not only a deeply informative book, but an attractive one as well. The beautiful use of color highlighting and chapter headings guides the eye to key points. Stunning colorful charts and photographs appear often. And a beautiful garland of flowers heads each chapter. What an attractive display!

This book is a treasure. It should sit on the desk of every family and healthcare practitioner as a daily reference and guidebook. Give it as a gift to expecting couples, and family members. I cannot recommend it more highly for professionals and parents alike!

Patricia S. Lemer is a pioneer and an internationally recognized authority on applying a holistic model of care to autism, ADHD, learning, and mental health conditions. For over 50 years she has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to identifying and ameliorating root causes rather than treating symptoms. She is the author of four books, including the award-winning Outsmarting Autism (2019). Her most recent book, Total Load Theory: Transforming Lives in Autism, ADHD, LD, SPD, and Mental Health (2025) was reviewed in this publication by Julia Schopick on April 30, 2026. This is her second book review for the Townsend Letter.