LOVE REMEDIES A MULTITUDE OF WRONGS 
February, as you know, brings in Valentine’s Day. A holiday where many of us scramble to make sure those close to us KNOW we love them! After all – Love is a many-splendored thing. While Love for our family and friends is the most important, I think it’s also essential to express my heartfelt desire for helping people find a home where their heart is.
My favorite love description is: Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. I could go on with all kinds of examples like – “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself,” even go all business-like and say “ how much we love your referrals” and more.
But, the point is we do love helping people sell and buy real estate. And those people say we are good at it!
Please know that my team and I are eager to help anyone you know wanting to make a move. So much so that we are willing to make an offer that your referrals will LOVE – AND – the Kids at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will love too.
Your referrals help the kids!
Go Serve Big!!! Investing In Our Southern Californian Kids
If you or a friend are thinking about selling, make sure to choose a real estate company you can trust! A real estate company with experience, proven results and a give-back philosophy!
AND REMEMBER… Your referrals help the Kids…
We are on a mission to raise $25,000 for CHLA. We do this by donating a portion of our income from homes we sell. As you know, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles does great work in helping kids fight through and survive nasty life-threatening diseases like cancer, Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia and others. They also lead the way in helping kids come back from spinal cord injuries as well as early diagnosis of autism. Last year alone, Children’s helped over 1,000,000 kids right here in Los Angeles. BUT, Children’s relies on sponsorships and donations to provide their elite level of care, and to keep families’ expenses to a minimum. So YOUR REFERRALS REALLY DO HELP THE KIDS…
Who do you know considering buying or selling a home you could refer to my real estate sales team?
Not only will they benefit from our award-winning service, but you can rest assured we are also donating to a very worthy cause.
Go Serve Big!!! Investing in the Children of Los Angeles.
A Real Estate Company that Gives Back!
Children’s Hospital LA leads the way in serving kids one patient at a time.
We are still boldly on a mission to raise $25,000 for the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and we are making progress! We do this by donating to them a portion of our income from homes we sell. As you know, CHLA does AMAZING work in helping kids fight through and survive nasty diseases like cancer, Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia, and others. They also lead the way in many other fields.
They can provide this care and keep patient costs to a minimum due to donations and sponsorships. We are proud to support the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles!
As in the attached story, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles provides the best pediatric medical care available anywhere in the country. To do that, CHLA needs donations to continue its leading-edge care. We proudly donate a portion of our income from real estate sales to CHLA to help them continue serving the needs of those who most need it in our Los Angeles!
Who do you know considering buying or selling a home you could refer to our real estate sales team? Not only will they benefit from our award-winning real estate service, but a very worthy cause will also benefit as well. To refer anyone considering buying or selling a home just give me a call or pass on my number. 213-880-9910.
Thank you in advance for your referrals!
You and your referrals mean more than ever to my team and me. As we move forward thru this winter, please know we are extremely thankful for you and you being a special part of our business.
Go Serve Big!!! — Corey Chambers
Entar® Real Estate and Investment Technologies!
P.S. I copied and pasted the story below from the CHLA website. It better tells the story of the work they are doing.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
As a leading charitable hospital, CHLA depends on sponsorships and donations to continue its leading-edge service. We proudly donate a portion of our income from real estate sales to CHLA to help them continue serving the needs of those who most need it in Los Angeles!
A real estate company with experience, proven results and a give-back philosophy!
Over the years of helping many families sell their homes and/or buy another, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring people. People like you! So your referrals can rest assured that, not only will they get the award-winning service we are known for and the guarantee to back it up, but that a solid portion of the income we receive will go toward helping the kids.
Refer your friends, neighbors, associates or family members considering making a move:
You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info online or forward the link to someone you know considering a move.
Of course you can always call me direct as well at 213-880-9910
Why I support Childrenʼs Hospital Los Angeles
I grew up right here in the Greater Los Angeles Area, born in Los Angeles County at St. Francis Hospital. I remember when I first heard about a young person close to our family suffering from a serious disease and getting treated for that at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. It was then that I began to pay closer attention to the work they do at that hospital. Since then, I have learned that it is a collection of hard-working health care professionals, most making their home right here in the Los Angeles area, all coming together for a common cause. That cause is to help young people overcome unfortunate health issues that life sometimes throws our way. Being a Los Angeles Area California native, I take pride in supporting in a way that I can do the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rallies around our annual goal of raising money and donating portions of our income to help Children’s in their quest to heal young people when they need healing. My team and I are committed to providing outstanding results for buyers and sellers referred to us by our past clients. I have discovered that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles shares a similar commitment to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations, we are happy to contribute and proud to support them.
Sincerely,
Corey Chambers
Medical Ketogenic Diet Helps Lucia Stay Seizure-Free
A medical odyssey with epilepsy led Lucia’s parents to CHLA, where they found the diet therapy treatment that Lucia’s brain needs to thrive.
by Caitlin Kryl
Not all precision medicines come in pill form. For some children, like 18-month-old Lucia, foodhas been that precision medicine.
Before she started the medical ketogenic diet, a then-2-month-old Lucia would have several seizures per week that could last as long as five minutes each and weren’t helped by antiseizure medications. After discovering the rare genetic mutation behind Lucia’s epilepsy, her parents, Rebecca and Gloria, took her to CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center for specialty treatment.
Today, as an energetic toddler, Lucia moves through the world seizure-free and continues to meet new growth and development milestones. “Once we finally knew the cause of Lucia’s seizures, the ketogenic diet felt like ‘cool, easy fix,’” Rebecca remarks. “I never thought about the power of food before this experience … It changes lives.”
Concerning episodes
Lucia was born at 38 weeks, with no observable health problems, after what Rebecca describes as a “typical pregnancy.” But starting at 6 weeks old, Rebecca and Gloria noticed Lucia having several odd and troubling episodes. “We were out house hunting,” Rebecca says, recalling the first episode that concerned her. “All of a sudden, she got really sweaty. We didn’t know what that meant.”
These episodes happened several more times—with Rebecca and Gloria constantly adjusting the air conditioning and changing Lucia’s clothes—until one day when Lucia had an episode so severe that Rebecca called 911 and even started CPR. “We had her at home in a swing, and we were going to take pictures of her. She was so happy. All of a sudden, she looked pale, went limp, and was drenched in sweat,” Gloria describes. “She just wasn’t responsive to us. The best way we could describe it is that we thought she was choking … but we hadn’t given her anything.”
Several times over the next few weeks, Rebecca, Gloria, and Lucia repeated this pattern—Lucia would have a serious episode, and Rebecca and Gloria would call 911. While they’d begun to suspect seizures, paramedics weren’t yet able to identify what was happening.
“This little 8-pound baby on a big old stretcher, being put into an ambulance, was so scary,” Gloria says, recalling several times when paramedics assured her that Lucia wasn’t having a seizure. “You want to trust your mom instincts, even when medical professionals are telling you you’re wrong.”
An initial diagnosis with few solutions
The family spent a collective 30 days at area hospitals before Lucia finally received an epilepsy diagnosis.
At first, doctors tried the solution that works for about 70% of people with epilepsy: levetiracetam (brand name Keppra) and phenobarbital. But while Lucia was prescribed increasingly higher doses, her seizures kept coming. Gloria recalls even hearing the words medically induced coma at one point.
“It was like our baby was gone,” she says. “We asked ourselves, is this the future? Is this what we’ll have to do to keep Lucia from having seizures?”
Lucia’s DNA holds the answer
Finally, Rebecca and Gloria were introduced to a child neurologist who completed his residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and studied under a physician-researcher in CHLA’s Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. Through his residency, he’d learned about specialized epilepsy treatment for patients with a rare genetic marker called GLUT1. Suspecting this might be the case for Lucia, the doctor sent the family home with a genetics test.
GLUT1 stands for glucose transporter 1 deficiency. GLUT1 is a protein that transports glucose from the blood to the brain. Glucose is an essential fuel for daily brain function—and without it, people can experience seizures, difficulty with memory and learning, and even lifelong developmental delays.
It took a month to get the genetics results back, but the test confirmed that Lucia did have GLUT1. “It didn’t feel like good news at the time, but now we understand there’s a known treatment,” says Rebecca.
Diet therapy as precision medicine
First-line medications don’t work for kids with GLUT1 because they don’t solve the chronic lack of fuel to the brain. GLUT1 patients need an alternative first-line treatment, and diet therapy—specifically, the medical ketogenic diet—provides exactly that.
“Diet therapy is a fantastic therapy for certain types of epilepsy,” says Asri Yuliati, MD, attending physician at CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. Dr. Yuliati explains that kids with medication-resistant epilepsy, or intractable epilepsy, can see life-changing results with a ketogenic diet. “For kids with Lucia’s particular condition, the ketogenic diet acts as precision medicine.”
The medical ketogenic diet enables Lucia’s body to create and use alternative fuel through a meal plan that’s extremely low in carbohydrates, moderate in protein, and high in fat. When the body can’t source carbohydrates to break down into glucose, it seeks out fat and breaks it down into ketones, which serve as fuel when glucose isn’t available. “Ketones bypass the glucose transporter protein,” Dr. Yuliati adds. “They can fuel the brain directly.”
All the horrifying events Lucia had experienced over the past several months started to make sense: Lucia’s brain wasn’t getting the nutrients it needed to function.
Lucia’s new world
Once Rebecca and Gloria had Lucia’s results, their doctor referred them to CHLA, where they quickly connected with Katie Klier, RD, CSP, CDCES, and Candice Barrow, MPH, RD, Clinical Dietitians at CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
“We have 100 to 150 patients on the medical ketogenic diet at any given time,” Klier says. While GLUT1 is a rare condition, CHLA treats many children with GLUT1 whose families travel from all over the country for specialty care.
Lucia spent 5 days as an inpatient at CHLA while her care team closely monitored her health and ensured her new ketogenic formula could safely bring her body into ketosis. “This is not a diet I would ever recommend anyone do on their own,” Klier says, explaining that the medical ketogenic diet can have significant side effects and should be supervised by a medical team. Patients on the medical ketogenic diet can experience low blood sugar, vomiting, nausea, and weight loss while their body adjusts to the alternative fuel. “We observe patients closely, individualizing the therapy to whatever that particular child will tolerate.” Klier adds that Lucia adjusted to her new way of life “like a champ.”
Within three or four days, Klier explains that patients typically achieve a full level of ketosis while maintaining healthy blood sugar levels. Most patients who respond to the therapy can expect to see their seizures improve within one to three months.
“It was like our daughter woke up”
As hard as it was seeing their daughter in a hospital bed again, getting constantly poked and prodded, the change Rebecca and Gloria noticed just a week later was monumental.
Lucia lifted her head for the first time just four days after she left the hospital. “She was suddenly noticing things … knowing we were there,” Gloria says, explaining that before diet therapy, Lucia wouldn’t react to changes in her environment, whether it was bathtime or she was riding in the car.
“It was like our daughter woke up,” Gloria reflects, “She became a whole other baby.”
“She became Lucia,” Rebecca adds.
A year of firsts
Lucia has been seizure-free since Sept. 16, 2023.
With Klier’s guidance and a diet-specific meal calculator app, Rebecca and Gloria transitioned Lucia from formula to solid foods when she was ready and have gained confidence in creating recipes that keep Lucia’s body in ketosis. For Lucia’s first birthday, Rebecca even baked her a specialty “keto cake.”
“It isn’t easy to change your whole lifestyle as a family,” Gloria says, remarking on the challenges of cooking meticulously measured and portioned meals for Lucia that might look completely different than what is considered healthy for someone without epilepsy.
“I think all you have to do is look at your child,” Rebecca adds, “Then yeah, it becomes a little bit easier.”
Today, Lucia goes to speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy to ensure she’s meeting key neurodevelopmental milestones. “Her dance card is full!” Gloria jokes. With the help of Lucia’s physical therapist—one of her favorite people in the world—Lucia started crawling last year and is learning how to walk.
“Diet therapy just totally, completely changed our daughter,” Gloria says, “We’re just so grateful.”
Learn more about the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at CHLA.
How You Can Help
Refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move: www.ReferralsHelpKids.com or call Corey at 213-880-9910
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