Dr. Andrew Huberman
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And I'm obviously not a psychiatrist and I can't diagnose you, Nick, from a question on a slide.
But I just want to start off by saying that there are indeed people who truly struggle with focus
to the extent that they have clinically diagnosable ADHD.
And I did two episodes on ADHD in focus, one that was mainly focused on behavioral tools and nutrition, and to some extent, supplementation.
And when I put out that episode, about half of the comments out there were, how could you?
You don't respect modern science.
You have no...
integrity.
How could you suggest that people use these tools?
It's all about prescription drugs.
And the other half were like, yes, finally some tools and some acknowledgement that these things actually matter and can help, maybe even in conjunction with pharmaceutical aids.
And then
We did a second episode, which was all about the prescription drugs, and it was the exact reverse.
People writing to me in droves saying, thank you so much.
I've been prescribing these drugs, or I've been giving these prescription drugs to my child, rather.
It's really been helping, but I'm embarrassed to tell everybody because then people demonize me and tell me I'm poisoning my kid, that they're on meth.
And then the other half saying, how could you?
The pharmaceutical industry, big pharma is out to get us all.
I must say that, and I'm happy to be in this role.
We're not happy, but I'm willing to be in the role of, I try and cover it all and give people options.