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ADHD.

I don't feel like I don't even have to ask a question here.

But just to set the stage, the reason why I'm so compelled by this is just this, I have to say, the shocking rise in diagnosis and prescriptions over the last...

Ten years?

Between 2000 and 2018, ADHD diagnoses in the UK rose approximately 20-fold.

Among boys aged 10 to 16, diagnosis increased from 1% roughly to about 3.5% in 2018.

And in men aged 18 to 29, there was a nearly 50-fold increase in ADHD prescriptions during the same period.

And the same applies to the United States, where an estimated 15.5 million adults in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD.

Approximately one in nine US children have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point, with 10.5% having a current diagnosis.

It...

I don't know where ADHD was, but the conversation around it, the prescriptions, the diagnosis seemed to have really surged into culture in a really, really big way.

What's going on?

That's when the sympathetic nervous system starts to kick into action.

ADHD children.

Isn't that point of view, I've got two questions here.

The first is, how do you know that it's stress?

And the second is, if it is stress, then the problem, or at least the inconvenient truth that that then creates is that the parent is responsible.

For that child's ADHD.

Give me some examples of the type of stresses, the everyday stresses that we're now exposing children to that are leading to ADHD in your opinion.

What do you say to some of the evidence around there being a link to a hereditary component?