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Why ADHD is not a psychiatric disorder or brain disease with George Papaicolaou
Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognised leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Functional Medicine. He is the founder and director of The UltraWellness Centre, the Head of Strategy and Innovation of the Cleveland Clinic Centre for Functional Medicine, a thirteen-time New York Times bestselling author, and Board President for Clinical Affairs for The Institute for Functional Medicine.
2023
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Dr Hyman chats to IFM practitioner George Papaicolaou about their experiences with ADHD patients, delving into some of the root causes that may be linked to poor gut health such as dysbiosis and intestinal permeability. They discuss how this may be driving brain inflammation, nutrient deficiencies, and reduced serotonin production and that could be perpetuating ADHD behaviours. They also discuss the difficulties for parents managing children with ADHD and the fine balance between providing high carbohydrate sugary food to calm the child transiently but that will also just fuel the fire in the long term.
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Revolutionising the Treatment of Mental Health with Nutrition
Ben Brown hosts the Positive Health Podcast. He specialises in nutrition and functional medicine and produces regular content for the podcast, speaking to industry leaders on a wide variety of topics. The podcast can be found on www.scientificwellness.com, a site which aims to connect people with free evidence-based health information focusing on natural and lifestyle medicine for chronic disease prevention and the promotion of optimal health.
2022
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This podcast features Prof Julia Rucklidge, a Clinical Psychiatrist and Director of Mental Health and Nutrition at the University of Calgary in New Zealand. She is one of the leading voices in the field of Nutritional Psychiatry and she has researched a diverse array of mental health disorders and their link with nutrition including areas such as ADHD, anxiety and stress in children and adults plus following natural disasters and more. In this podcast Dr Rucklidge discusses micronutrient deficiency in the global population and dives into her research using broad spectrum micronutrient therapy for ADHD and also PTSD after natural disasters. It is a fascinating insight into the management of mental health issues today and how it could be improved, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.