James Nestor
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And they're yelling at me and they're crying because their kid isn't getting any help.
They're like, you need to help me.
I was like, I'm a fricking journalist, right?
I'm not a doctor, but they're not getting the help from the doctor.
So this is what I've learned.
I'm a filter.
I don't do this research, but I talked to the leading experts in the field.
I spent a lot of time doing this.
They have told me this, that ADHD is diagnosed as a neurological problem, right?
It's a problem with the brain and it's treated
as a problem of the brain, right?
So we can give kids uppers to wake them up in the day, Ritalin, whatever, it absolutely works.
You can give them downers at night to go to sleep, right?
And 10% of the population in the US has ADHD and around 60% are on these pharmaceutical drugs and these drugs absolutely work.
But what these guys are saying and the story that's starting to come out is for so many kids with ADHD,
It's not a neurological problem that has caused this.
It's a breathing problem at night.
It is a plumbing problem, not an electrical problem.
They said that the vast majority of kids with ADHD suffer from something called sleep disordered breathing.
What this is, is when you're sleeping, you're choking on yourself, you're snoring.