How it works
Your path to a roadmap.
Three steps. The first two are on us — what's wrong, and the plan. Then you're never alone working it.
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Share what you have
Your child's labs and history. No labs yet? The Synthesis tells you exactly what to run.
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Get your Synthesis
One integrated read of everything — what's wrong, why, and the roadmap: what to ask, what to test, in what order.
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Work the plan — never alone
Minta (your AI guide) and a 60-second daily tracker walk every step and adapt as your child changes.
Why buy the synthesis
You don't need another opinion. You need every piece connected.
Most PANS parents are handed a half-baked protocol — one that treats a single issue at a time and never integrates the whole. Plan B does the opposite: it brings every healing modality and every issue your child faces into one compact healing journey, and it knows things your doctor doesn't. When you're stalled, Minta has your Plan B — a real idea of why, and many new things to try. Doing that takes two things working together.
What you actually get · free
The Synthesis
Every piece, in one place.
- ›Every lab, symptom, prior treatment and practitioner letter — read together, not in slices.
- ›Every healing modality your child's picture calls for — methylation, infections, gut, immune, detox — woven into one sequenced plan.
- ›What's been missed, and what hasn't been tried — the drivers no single specialist connected.
- ›A compact, week-by-week healing journey you can actually follow — with a practitioner letter to bring to each visit.
Then ask Minta anything to troubleshoot — pay-as-you-go, no subscription. Fed new studies and learning across every family, she evolves daily.
Why trust it — and why “not a doctor” is the point
Rachel
The doctors are who failed you.
- ›Every family here has already been failed by doctors — the “wait and see,” the specialist who read only their slice. You're not missing a doctor. You're missing the integration.
- ›No one doctor has the hours or the cross-training to connect Walsh, Shoemaker, Buhner, methylation, immune and gut against your child's labs. That's the work — and it isn't a prescription.
- ›We never prescribe. Every recommendation is a question to bring to your practitioner, plus the test or driver they overlooked — leverage, not a competing opinion.
- ›Built by a mom of three recovered PANS kids who did this homework for years — and every number checked against the source.
Not a doctor — and the doctors are exactly why you're here.
Why it works
You don't need another doctor's opinion. You need someone to connect every piece — and tell you exactly what to ask for next.
That's the synthesis. The receipts are on the stories page: in one case it surfaced an immune deficiency, a tickborne infection, and a methylation block that five specialists had missed over three years.
Isn’t ChatGPT already good for this?
Yes. It’s extraordinary — and getting better.
Gemini remembers. ChatGPT remembers. The models are remarkable, and Minta runs on the same kind of engine — so we won’t pretend we’re smarter. We’ll be honest about the parts a chat window will never be:
It learns across families — not just yours.
A chatbot remembers your chats. Plan B sees what's actually moved the needle across hundreds of PANS kids like yours — which driver showed up, what order worked, what backfired. That's outcome data no general AI has or can get. Your hardest season sharpens the next family's read; theirs sharpens yours.
There’s a human who has lived it.
A mother who has been exactly where you are reads your synthesis and gets on the phone with you. A chatbot does not call you back at 2am.
It’s not a chat window — it’s the whole way through.
A chatbot gives you answers. Plan B gives you the system: the tracker that catches when your child stalls, the synthesis built from your whole record, the map, and the exact thing to hand each doctor. A parent with a chatbot still has to drive. Plan B drives.
It already knows PANS — and what to ask.
Not just memory — it brings the field (Walsh, Yasko, Shoemaker, O'Hara, Crista, Nathan, the FRAT test, mold sequencing), kept current with every new study, and asks the questions you don't know to ask yet.
We don’t beat the AI. We wrap the data, the human, and the systemaround it — the parts a chatbot can’t be.
Where they were · What the synthesis found
Two families, stuck for years. The picture no one had connected.
Real syntheses. Names anonymized, lab details shared with permission.
Family 01 · Teen son · Europe · 30+ labs, 25 categories · 5 specialists, 3 years
Three years. Thirty labs. Three drivers nobody had stacked together.
Where they were
A teen son with PANS-spectrum symptoms — OCD, anxiety, recurrent infections, gut problems that wouldn’t resolve. Five specialists across three years. Hospital bloodwork, a full functional-genomics SNP panel, EU l…
Read the full synthesis →Family 02 · Teen son · U.S. · multi-driver PANS · 2 years of treatment
Two years of treatment. The labs never moved. Minta knew why.
Where they were
Two years of homeopathy, functional medicine and biomagnetism. Every panel run, more than once. And the labs kept coming back the same — histamine high, strep that never came down, mycoplasma climbing, mold throu…
Read the full synthesis →Our thesis
A path out of the fire — built from every modality, every family, every hard-won answer.
Today:a synthesis that reads every lab, every modality, and your child's whole history together — and names what's been missed and what hasn't been tried. Tomorrow: as more families join, the patterns sharpen — which modality actually helps, for which child, in what order.
Built by a mother who's lived it · We never prescribe · Every number checked against the source
Compounding promise
It gets better with every family who joins. Over time — together — we build the way out.
§ 01 · The problem
35 symptoms. 12 supplements.
Three new meds this month.
What is actually working?
PANS and PANDAS families carry a cognitive load no spreadsheet can hold. New symptoms appear. Old ones come back. You start a binder and the headaches get worse — is it the binder, or a flare, or the guanfacine you bumped up last Tuesday?
Plan B is the tracker built for that exact confusion.
§ 02 · The engine
One system.
Every facet feeds it.
Parent forums have suggestions. A doctor sees one slice. Plan B reads every modality, every practitioner teaching, and your child's full history together — and synthesizes them into one plan, sequenced for your kid. The more families who join, the sharper that synthesis gets for the next child.
Inputs · What feeds it
Outputs · What it produces
Your family's journey feeds back into the library. The 100th family's synthesis benefits from what the first 99 contributed. More families in → sharper patterns → faster to answers, for everyone.
A real plan, not silence. Sharpened with every family. Together we get out.
§ 03 · The center
The tracker is Plan B.
- →Answers at 2am, when there’s nowhere else to turn.
- →The friend who'll help you troubleshoot when you're out of options and can't sleep.
- →Every modality, held in one place — so you can see your next lane.
Every answer Plan B gives starts from your kid's full story — captured in intake, extended daily by the tracker. Without that, there's nothing to synthesize. With it, the engine works for your kid specifically, and sharpens every time you come back.
Your Synthesis is real today — built by a person, checked against the source. And it keeps getting sharper: with every family who joins, the patterns behind it grow stronger.
§ 02 · The method
Four pieces. One picture.
PP. 12 — 19
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● ACTIVEIntake
Log your kid's baseline — symptoms, meds, onset, history, and everything already tried. Takes about fifteen minutes, or an unhurried conversation with Minta.
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○Weekly
Rate each symptom on a 0–10 scale, week by week. Add new symptoms as they surface, flag the returning ones.
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○Daily
When titrating meds or starting a protocol, track changes in real time and flag new symptoms as they appear.
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○Analysis
Minta reads your full timeline and flags likely correlations, possible reactions, and the one thing most worth pausing — or trying next.
01 — Intake form
← INTAKE · LIVE VIEW
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Intake
The whole story, captured once.
Pregnancy, birth, environment, diet. Every medication ever tried, every supplement, every modality. Every symptom, every flare, every weird behavior that nobody else took seriously. Labs, tests, imaging. The onset story — told in your own words, in conversation with Minta, at your pace. About twenty minutes in one sitting, or broken up across days. It all saves as you go.
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After intake, the tracker opens
Daily check-ins. Thirty seconds before bed.
Once your intake is in, the tracker takes over — from your phone, every day. Tap a mood rating (0–10). Log any med change, new supplement, dose tweak. Rate each symptom you care about — OCD, rage, sleep, tics, food aversion, anxiety — on the same 0–10 scale. When a new weird behavior shows up (a tic, a food fear, a rage episode, a 2am wake-up), tag it the moment you see it. Free text for context when you need it: ‘meltdown at 4pm, right after screen time and missed lunch.’
Saturday gives you a weekly rollup — bar charts for every symptom, a timeline of every med change, all your flare notes in one place. Patterns you couldn't see before start to jump out: rage was 8/10 Monday, 3/10 Wednesday — what changed? The binder dose, probably. Six weeks in, the pattern is visible in a way no memory, no folder of doctor notes, no stack of Google tabs could ever hold.03
Minta reads both
Troubleshoots from the full record, 2am included.
Minta already has your intake. Now she has every day you've logged. Ask anything — ‘why did we have a bad week?’, ‘is this new symptom concerning?’, ‘what should we try next?’ — and she reads the whole record before answering. She runs correlations across meds, symptoms, timing, triggers: ‘Rage spiked the week you raised guanfacine AND started the new binder. Tics ticked up same week — may be rebound. Pause the binder at half-dose for 10 days to isolate which one is the driver.’ Specific to your kid. Grounded in your data. Not generic advice.
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It sharpens
We’re teaching Minta to spot patterns.
Your kid's data (consent-based, de-identified) joins every other family's data in the library. As stories come in, Minta is learning which modalities actually work for which symptoms — spotting the patterns no single family can see alone. Every successful story teaches her what to suggest. Every failed one teaches her what not to. Every cohort run adds signal. The read you get today is only as sharp as what the first families contributed. The read the hundredth family gets is sharper still.
Nothing works without your intake. Nothing sharpens without your log. This is where the compounding lives.
Use · Share · Use again
The more you log — what's failing, what's working — the faster Minta sees your kid's patterns and the path out.
Make this your trusted advisor while you're waiting six weeks for the next intake appointment — or when the $2,000 half-hour specialist consult isn't an option. Your free Synthesis is the path that always is. Every log adds to your kid's picture and the library that helps the next family. Use it. Share it. Come back.
§ 03 · The why
Understanding the mechanism — so solutions get easier to craft.
Plan B isn't only matching modalities to kids. It's pursuing the questions underneath — which behavior is which driver? Every added family, every added cohort, every added data point pushes these questions closer to answers.
- Q1
Are these behaviors pathogen-driven?
When sudden OCD, rage, or regression appears — is the brain reacting to a specific infection? Which one, and in which kid?
- Q2
Or are they symptoms of an inflamed brain?
Is the driver the pathogen itself, or the inflammation it provoked? Different answers mean different protocols.
- Q3
Does strep have a personality? Does mold? Does lyme?
Do specific pathogens produce specific behavioral signatures? Does a kid picking their nose constantly mean parasites? Does a kid saying "I want to die" mean lyme? We're collecting the data to find out.
- Q4
Which combinations load the bucket fastest?
Mold + strep + methylation stall + stress — what order? Which is the bottleneck for which kid?
- Q5
Where does each modality actually fit?
Not “does it work” — where in the sequence does it belong, for which kind of kid?
The why is how the solution gets precise. Every family helps us answer it.
Our promise on your kid's data
Yours, always
Your kid's intake, logs, and conversations are your data. We don't sell it. We don't share it with advertisers, insurance, or schools.
Deleted on request
One click and everything your family put into Plan B is gone — from the tracker, the chat, the aggregate library. No questions asked.
Never shared without consent
Aggregate patterns (de-identified) help the next family's read — but only if you opt in. No consent, no contribution. Default is private.
Read the full privacy policy.
What makes Plan B different
You've already tried the other places.
| Facebook groups | PANS forums | Doctor visits | Plan B | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2am access | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Specific to YOUR kid | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reads every modality together | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Remembers your kid's full history | — | — | partial | ✓ |
| Gets sharper with every family | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Cost | free | free | $300–$2,000 per visit | free synthesis · pay-as-you-go Minta |
| Data belongs to | Meta | forum owner | their chart | you |
Parent forums have suggestions. Doctors see their slice. Plan B is the only place that holds everything together— your kid, every modality, every family's story.
Voices · From the families using Plan B
“This is the most comprehensive document I have ever received concerning my son's health and test results. You and Minta are excellent — it makes so much sense.”
Mother of a teen son · Europe · read his story
Using Plan B and want your story here (with consent)? Email Rachel.
The free spot · Non-profit
Can't afford it? One family a week, free.
Cost should never be the reason your child doesn't get this. The waitlist is open and public; the finished synthesis is published anonymized, so we all learn together from what Minta finds.
Join the waitlist →Stay in the loop
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Put Plan B on your phone
No app store. No download.
Plan B lives on your home screen like any other app. Updates automatically. Works offline for the daily tracker.
iPhone · Safari
- Open app.planbforpans.com in Safari
- Tap the Share button (square with arrow)
- Scroll down, tap Add to Home Screen
- Tap Add
Android · Chrome
- Open app.planbforpans.com in Chrome
- Tap the ⋮ menu (top right)
- Tap Install app (or Add to Home screen)
- Tap Install