This special bonus episode features Dr. George Papanicolaou from the UltraWellness Center, diving into how functional medicine approaches ADHD — and why the root cause is rarely just in the brain. In this conversation, Dr. Papanicolaou shares the story of a young woman struggling with ADHD symptoms that conventional medicine failed to resolve. Through a deeper investigation into gut health, nutrient deficiencies, mitochondrial dysfunction, and even genetics, Dr. Papanicolaou explains how addressing the body’s imbalances can dramatically improve focus, energy, and emotional regulation. You’ll learn: • Why ADHD is being diagnosed more than ever—and what you might be missing • How your gut health affects your brain, inflammation, and attention • Why nutrients like omega-3s, vitamin D, and magnesium are essential for cognitive health • How your genes and lifestyle work together to shape your brain health • What you can do—without medication—to support mental clarity and better focusThis is part of a limited bonus series spotlighting the work of the UltraWellness Center team, with new episodes dropping monthly on select Fridays. To learn more about the UltraWellness Center or inquire about becoming a patient, visit: https://ultrawellnesscenter.com
Full Episode
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.
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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.
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