Savannah Dixon-Salazar was diagnosed with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), a rare and severe form of epilepsy, after experiencing frequent seizures as a child. Despite numerous medications and treatments, nothing worked — and some medicines even made her condition worse. Determined to help her daughter, Tracy Dixon-Salazar earned a Ph.D. in neurobiology. Through her research, she discovered that a common heart medication, verapamil, could reduce Savannah’s seizures by 95%, dramatically improving h