Bonus Episode: Healing ADHD at the UltraWellness Center
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Coming up on this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show. Your brain's not working the way you want. It's hard to have a life you want because your brain drives everything and how it functions drives everything in your life. So whether you can work or function or be in relationships or feel good, depends on how your brain's working. Now, before we jump into today's episode, I'd like to note that while I wish I could help everyone by my personal practice, there's simply not enough time for me to do this at scale. And that's why I've been busy building several passion projects to help you better understand, well, you. If you're looking for data about your biology, check out Function Health for real-time lab insights.
And if you're in need of deepening your knowledge around your health journey, check out my membership community, the Hyman Hive. And if you're looking for curated and trusted supplements and health products for your health journey, visit my website at drhyman.com for my website store for a summary of my favorite and thoroughly tested products. Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark Hyman here. Today's episode is something a little different from our usual programming. As a special bonus, we're highlighting one of the incredible doctors from my clinic, the Ultra Wellness Center. And over the next few weeks, we're going to be sharing a short Friday episode each month featuring an Ultra Wellness Center practitioner diving into how functional medicine tackles real world health issues.
from fatigue to brain fog to mold toxicity, cancer metabolism, and lots more. Now, this is a limited series for now, but if you find it helpful, we might offer more like it down the road. If you're interested in learning more or working with the Ultra Wellness Center team and one of our docs, visit ultrawellnesscenter.com. Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy this bonus conversation. Hey, everybody, it's Dr. Hyman. I'm excited to present to you a new way of thinking about chronic disease and all sorts of diagnoses that we get labeled with. that are just labels. And what functional medicine does is talk about the root cause. And every day I get emails, texts, can you help me with this? Can you help me with that?
And people are really unhappy with the conventional medicine approach to their issues. What I'm really excited to talk to you about today with my colleague, George Papanikolaou, who's one of the physicians at the Ultra Wellness Center, is a very common problem, which is attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, whatever you want to call it. And this is a problem. Now, when I was a kid, there was that one kid in my class, I think his name was Patty Ainsworth, I still remember his name, who was that troublemaker who had, I'm sure had ADHD and that was it. Now it's increased from 1% of the population when I was born to 11.4% of kids. That's a big problem. 8% of them are on medication. So why are we having this problem?
Why is it so prevalent? And rather than just saying, let's medicate it and diagnose it, let's talk about why we've seen this increase and then how do we approach it with a new way of thinking, which is really the root cause approach of functional medicine. So I want to introduce you, George Papanikolaou is one of the physicians at the Altruist Wellness Center. By the way, if you're listening and you're excited to kind of learn more about what we're doing at the Ultra Wellness Center, you can go to ultrawellnesscenter.com and learn how to become a patient and learn about all the resources we have to help you think through complex chronic disease issues that are not dealt with well by traditional medicine.
So welcome, George. Mark, it's always a pleasure. Thanks for having me. I am so excited to talk about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with you today.
This is something that a lot of people struggle with. And when you see an increase of 1,000% in a condition like this, probably 1,100% if you look at the data, something's going on. And the question is, why are we seeing such an increase in the prevalence of this disease? Is it something that we have to endure and take medications for for the rest of our life?
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