Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

So when we give people medications like steroids—

Steroids happen all over the body, right?

Steroids just suppress the activity of our immune system.

When we suppress the activity of our immune system, things like an acute asthma exacerbation will completely go away.

That's like first-line treatment for really severe asthma.

But it's not specifically lung-specific.

Lung is just where the problem manifests, but the root of the problem is in these little white blood cells, and we get histamine release.

And we get interleukin-1 release and interleukin-6 release and all this kind of stuff.

We get all these tiny little cells that are all over our body that are a little bit too hyperactive.

And when they start activating, when they start panicking, we get all these problems in our lungs.

But the lungs is not where the problem starts.

It's just the symptom of the problem.

Now, the problem is that when it comes to ADHD, we are just now developing this sophistication of understanding of neuroscience, right?

For a long time, we've been treating ADHD symptomologically, right?

Because we don't know what's going on in the brain.

We haven't done all these fMRI studies and PET scans and EEGs and all this kind of stuff.

We don't know exactly what these deficits are.

So we're taking a kid who has trouble sitting still and we're saying, hey, kid, take a stimulant because that'll help your ass sit still and stop getting in trouble at school.

We're treating these symptoms instead of treating the root cause.

Okay, Dr. K.