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The Real Causes Of ADHD, Eczema & Chronic Illness In Kids | Dr. Ana Maria Temple · Everyday Ancestral with James Barry

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  Welcome back to Everyday Ancestral.
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  Today I am joined by holistic pediatrician Dr. Anna Maria Temple to talk about kids,
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  immunity, and what modern life may be doing to developing bodies.
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  Are kids
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  today actually less healthy than past generations?
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  You know, it's so
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  stressful that the answer is yes.
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  1980s, like there were the rates of chronic disease were like 1 in 25.
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  A few years ago it was like 1 in 5.
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  as of this year, it's one in two.
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  That means 50% of our kids have a chronic disease.
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  And a lot of
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  people are like, oh, my kid doesn't have a chronic disease.
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  I'm like, well, if they're taking any
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  prescription medications, if you have to go to the pharmacy, they have a chronic medications.
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  If you're buying over-the-counter medications on a regular basis, like Zyrtec and Clareton
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  and Antacid, pain medications, et cetera, your child has a chronic disease.
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  The chronic disease
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  has become the normal.
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  And people have put it in their background and they're like, no, my kid's
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  my kids fine.
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  They're healthy.
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  And I'm like, are they taking any kind of medications on a regular
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  basis that you're purchasing from a pharmacy or over-the-counter?
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  Then the answer is yes.
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  And our kids are sicker than ever before.
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  And unfortunately, people always like, how can that
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  be?
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  We have like the modern medicine and we're in 2026 and we have the latest technology in the
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  United States.
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  The U.S., we are the sickest country in the world.
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  We are the number one country for
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  prescription medications.
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  We are the number one country to prescribe chronic medications,
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  and we're the number one country to use chronic medications.
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  And one chronic medication leads to
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  another, and our children are no exception to this rule.
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  What is a parent to do?
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  Like,
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  where should a parent start?
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  Because a lot of them are going to their doctors, and they are
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  being prescribed the medications you're telling them they probably shouldn't be prescribed.
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  A lot of doctors, right, have 10-minute visits, and they're ruled by patient satisfaction scores,
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  and they're worried.
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  And I'm speaking as a physician who was in the traditional model
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  and we were graded on patient satisfaction.
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  And if a parent came in, because parents also
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  request medication.
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  So we have the folks that come in, request medications.
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  There's a lot of
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  pressure on the doctors.
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  I mean, oftentimes people get mad at me that I wouldn't give their children
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  antibiotics because they had a fever for two days, but they had an exam tomorrow and the parent felt
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  they needed an antibiotic.
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  That's a lot of pressure.
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  And then I would say no.
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  And guess
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  what?
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  I would get rated as a poor doctor because I would not give the parent what they requested.
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  So it goes both ways.
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  Doctors are rushed.
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  They're too fast.
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  I mean, the visits are too fast.
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  They're
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  10 minutes.
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  It's easier to prescribe than to talk about alternatives.
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  A lot of parents are
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  requesting medications.
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  It's a catch-22.
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  One simple thing that you can do as a parent who
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  is more holistically mindset and is like, I want less medication, simply ask.
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  If your child has an
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  ear infection, if your child has croup, if they have allergies, if they have asthma, before they,
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  when they say, oh, your child has XYZ and I'm going to prescribe this, your question should be,
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  what are other alternatives that we can do to manage said condition?
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  Are there any nutritional
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  changes we can make?
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  Are there any supplements that we can take?
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  Are there any other interventions
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  from other medical, like Eastern medicine, chiropractic care, craniosacral therapy?
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  Are
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  there any methodologies that we can implement before we go to a prescription medications?
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  What changed you?
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  You said you were part of the, you know, normal medical model.
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  So what,
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  what got you to go more holistically?
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  My three kids were sick and they had chronic diseases.
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  And yes, I was trained like as a general pediatrician and my children had eczema, asthma,
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  seasonal allergies, chronic constipation, recurring ear infection, recurrent croup,
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  ADHD, you name my kids had it.
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  And one day I got tired of my kids being on chronic meds.
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  And I was
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  like, well, what's going on here?
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  So I took the three ring circus to the doctor and I lined my
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  three ducklings on the table.
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  And I was like, how come my kids aren't on so many chronic medications?
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  Like what else?
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  I asked those questions.
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  What else can we do besides chronic medications?
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  And
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  The answer was, for the little one, I mean, we have run out of medications.
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  He was on five allergy medicines that time.
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  He couldn't go out for an Easter egg hunt because his eyes would swell shut,
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  his tears would stream down his face, and his body was covered in hives,
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  and he would rip his skin off in the spring.
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  We have run out of medications.
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  The only next option for him is allergy shots.
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  He was two years old.
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  for my daughter they were like well for asthma the chronic inhaled steroids are working for eczema
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  topical steroids seem to be working for allergies zyrtec seems to be working for chronic constipation
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  miralax look it's like fine and she'll outgrow the recurring ear infections don't worry about it but
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  the time we got to my middle one with adhd and chronic snot that you would never even be able
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  to walk out of the house these days.
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  I stopped paying attention because I felt dismissed.
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  I felt unheard.
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  I felt like a crazy person.
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  So I walked out of that office and it was like,
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  my mama warrior took over.
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  And she was like, yeah, wait, what?
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  This is not, this cannot be
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  the rest of the story.
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  I hear you.
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  These kids are on chronic medication, but this is not how
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  the story ends.
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  I don't know what the next step is.
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  All I know, this is not the answer.
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  We're
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  to figure out the answer.
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  And one day, these children are going to be the example by which
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  other families are going to change their health and their life.
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  I didn't know what to do next.
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  I just knew that that was my calling.
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  That was it.
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  And it's funny, you know how the
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  universe presents opportunities and we take them when we have a different mindset and we're like,
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  we're lucky or it was a coincidence.
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  There's no such thing as coincidences.
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  It's just opportunities
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  would choose to take.
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  And the week later, there was a nutrition talk in my children's elementary
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  school.
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  And I always showed up at any event that the school had because I was supporting.
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  But I walked in with total attitude.
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  I was like, I'm a pediatrician.
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  I know exactly what she's
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  going to say, but I got this, but I'm just here to support.
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  Tell you what, on that Tuesday morning,
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  7.30 in the morning, sitting in a first grader's classroom, freezing my booty off in one of those
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  hanging little chairs.
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  The fog lifted and I realized the root cause of my children's chronic
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  disease.
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  All that the lady talked about was sugar.
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  I thought I was doing a great job with the
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  strawberries at lunch and broccoli at dinner.
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  They kids were getting nutritious meals.
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  I didn't
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  realize how much added sugar my children had in their diet and what the impact of that was on
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  their chronic illnesses.
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  So that night I came home in my stilettos from clinic and I went to the
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  pantry and I got rid of the cinnamon toast crunch, lucky charms, pop tarts, toaster strudels,
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  orange crackers with peanut butter because you know, protein, the chocolate milks because you
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  know, calcium, and all the garbage that my children were eating went in their trash bag.
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  And that's when I became an outcast in my own family.
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  My husband and I, who is an orthopedic
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  surgeon, he and I fought over food over the next five years.
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  My friends thought I lost my mind.
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  My family was like, need to get her off the will immediately because she's a goner.
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  And my partners in medicine were like, where's the evidence behind all this?
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  It was like
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  2007, guys.
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  My kids were two, four, and six.
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  I don't know where the medical evidence was that
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  time in 2007, but he couldn't be wrong to get rid of processed food and replace it with fresh fruits
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  and vegetables.
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  And that's all that was my mission to get my, and my kids were selective and annoying
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  about food because they had eaten so much processed food for their entire lives.
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  My little one never
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  needed allergy shots.
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  He came off his allergy medicines.
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  My daughter stopped needing inhaled
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  steroids.
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  She got off of the topical steroids.
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  My middle one never needed ADHD medicine.
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  He didn't
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  need any more antibiotics for his recurred sinus infections.
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  And in 2016, my husband and I quit
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  our jobs.
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  We moved to New Zealand where we had no health insurance, no medications.
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  We didn't have
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  any connections into that world.
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  And our children thrived.
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  They climbed the highest mountains and
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  the bungee jumped off all the bridges.
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  And that's when I realized what it looks like to come back
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  from chronic disease.
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  So when I came back in 2018, I wasn't going to do medicine the way I used to.
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  I started doing it differently because I saw the change in my children and I knew that other
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  families could achieve the same goal.
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  But it sounds like your first step towards healing
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  was simply around food, focusing on the food.
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  It's the foundation.
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  You know, a lot of people
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  are like, I talk about food all the time, right?
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  On all my channels.
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  And people are like, right,
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  but what supplement do I take?
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  I'm like, you cannot out supplement a terrible diet.
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  You can't
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  eat Chick-fil-A and take vitamin D and expect their immune system is going to be rocking and
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  rolling.
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  Sometimes when these foundations are talked about, like, you know, getting outdoors,
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  this sun, you know, they're very simple, but they also sound to me sometimes like an adult's
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  perspective of a foundation.
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  So if you as a pediatrician were coming at these ancestral
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  tenants, but we were specifically shaping them for kids from a kid's perspective of like,
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  how does a kid achieve these tenants?
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  Well, I'll tell you, the kids will focus
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  on those tenants if the parents do.
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  Children don't listen to what we say.
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  They model everything that
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  we do.
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  And I'll give you a perfect example.
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  My husband and I, you know, our nutrition was
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  garbage for a long time.
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  However, we always had movement.
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  Movement, fitness, exercise was
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  an integral part ever since we met before med school.
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  So when the kids were little,
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  I would take them.
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  We had a local YMCA and we had on Sundays, the classes were outdoors.
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  So you can bring, well, we brought our children.
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  No one said anything.
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  And so the kids would kind
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  of do a workout.
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  Maybe they'll do some lunges, but there was a playground.
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  So they'll go on the
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  playground over there.
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  And they were like five, seven and nine.
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  And I'm like, no, I never had
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  the fear that they were getting taken.
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  I mean, the playground was literally next to where we
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  were working out.
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  Anyway, so my kids would work out.
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  One of them would complain.
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  One would lay
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  on the ground in the middle of the grass of everyone working out because he was like,
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  I'm doing Shavasana.
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  But they were outside in the sunshine next to us doing whatever they
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  wanted to do.
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  They didn't get in trouble if they didn't do the exercise.
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  It was an opportunity they
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  were given and they had the choice to take it or not take it.
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  Anyway, I remember at 14, I remember
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  the day my husband and I went to work out with a next door neighbor.
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  And all of a sudden, the 14
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  year old gets up out of bed at nine o'clock and is like, where's the workout?
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  And John is like,
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  we're like, don't make a face.
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  Don't make a face.
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  Well, that's so interesting because with teenagers,
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  you cannot make a face.
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  We can explore that further, but you cannot make a face.
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  You have
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  to have a neutral expression.
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  We're like, wow, that's just so interesting.
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  You want to work out?
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  He was like, yeah, where are we going?
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  And from that day on, that boy came to the workout classes,
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  participated fully.
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  There's no motion of vasana.
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  Then he started going to the gym with his friend
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  and now he's in college, has a workout routine.
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  All my kids have workout routines, nutrition routines.
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  But it didn't happen overnight.
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  I mean, we're talking when he was five, he's doing Shavasana.
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  14, when the neurons clicked, that's nine years.
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  You have to lead by example.
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  If you want him to eat vegetables, you have to eat vegetables.
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  If you don't want to on blue screens, you have to put your phone down.
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  If you want him to move, you have to move.
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  And perseverance.
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  It's a long play.
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  How long is this going to take?
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  and it's years.
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  It is little years.
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  That was nine years of work to get this kid.
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  That was perseverance.
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  We were, every time we, on Sundays, we worked out, he came with us,
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  whether he complained, whether he, I don't care, you're coming.
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  So those would be the thing.
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  I
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  said, those two things is going to be role modeling and it's a long place.
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  So perseverance.
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  I don't know about you, but it feels to me like something that's very different from the current
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  generation versus maybe our generation, you know, those of us that are older, we have very strict,
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  at least I did.
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  I had very strict boundaries that I... With consequences.
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  That's what I get in clinic
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  all the time when I give these examples.
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  They don't want to come work out.
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  I'm like, I'm sorry,
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  why is that a choice?
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  We've confused gentle parenting with child-led parenting.
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  Gentle
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  parenting is you have boundaries.
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  I love you.
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  I adore you.
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  I'm not going to shame you.
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  I'm going
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  to provide you with a safe home, with a roof over your head, with food on.
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  That is gentle.
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  I'm not
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  yelling at you.
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  I'm not making you feel bad about yourself, but we have boundaries.
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  We have
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  expectations.
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  I'm the leader.
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  You are the follower.
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  You have feelings.
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  We're going to validate those,
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  but we're not going to lead by those feelings.
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  So what's happened in our current parenting world
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  is become more child led of the child doesn't want to do it.
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  If they're not happy, here's the thing.
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  we, me, you and I are the only people responsible for our own happiness.
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  Children are responsible
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  for their own happiness.
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  Us, the parents are not responsible for their happiness.
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  And because we've
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  confused that with what parenting is, and we've confused gentle parenting with child led parenting,
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  they really want to eat Lucky Charms.
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  So I mean, I can't take that away from them.
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  Literally, this is what I say in clinic.
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  I'm like, dude, I don't know.
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  I've had a bad day.
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  I kind of want a margarita right now.
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  What I'm not drinking a margarita.
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  I mean, you can figure out why I'm not.
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  So just because they want Lucky Charms doesn't mean that they're going to get it.
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  It's become this conflict.
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  But then they're not happy.
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  Well, that's their choice to not be happy.
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  Your choice as a parent to put a boundary in and how you tell them about the boundary
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  and why this boundary is in place.
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  I'm all about explaining the boundaries, why that's happening.
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  However, the boundary stays and then the consequences, positive or negative, on the follow through.
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  The screens is a hot topic, right?
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  That's really the biggest difference between these most recent generations and our generation.
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  We didn't have them.
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  We were told TV was rotting our minds.
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  But now TV is like, well, I'd rather have them watching TV than on an iPad, right?
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  So we keep moving the marker.
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  Is that something we genuinely should be concerned about?
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  Do you think it's affecting children's nervous systems, their sleep, their immunity, behavior?
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  or is this just us moving the needle like once it was TVs,
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  then it was video games, and now it's iPads?
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  Screens are a toxin, are a horrible toxin.
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  We are on a screen right now,
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  so I'm not saying it's not a necessity of humanity,
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  but it is a toxin to children's brains.
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  Children under two should not be on screen.
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  They do FaceTime with grandma.
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  That doesn't count.
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  You're sitting and watching Sunday football with your baby on your lap
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  and you guys are laughing and talking and interacting
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  and you're like, oh my gosh, and you're talking about the play.
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  That's not what I'm talking about.
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  I'm talking about when you take the child and you put them in front of a screen
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  so they can sit and have their show.
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  Or, you know, what drives me nuts when kids have their iPads.
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  I'm like, they have iPads with like plasticky handles that like their initials on it.
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  I'm literally like, I have like this nervous twitch.
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  I was like, we just gave them a toxin that we put their initials on it.
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  And basically now the kid is like, well, it's my iPad.
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  it's not on your iPad.
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  It is my iPad and with my Wi-Fi and with my data.
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  So I choose when you have
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  it.
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  When it becomes their thing, they're the boss of it.
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  So then it becomes a huge conflict.
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  But here's the thing.
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  There's a pediatrician in 1998 who looked at children's programming in 98,
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  which is not the programming of now, which is even more insane.
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  And he did a comparison.
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  It
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  was a mouse experiment.
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  It was so fabulous.
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  He put mice in front of lights that simulated Mr.
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  Rogers show.
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  And for anyone who hasn't seen Mr. Rogers, he talks like this, is very neutral,
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  nothing's moving in the background.
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  It is very wholesome.
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  And now everybody talks like this and
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  all the cartoons are like really like this and there's lights and there's flashing and there's
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  the continuous movement of the screen so that the kid is watching a frame for like three seconds and
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  then he moves to another frame and another frame.
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  So what he did is he put the mice in front of Mr.
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  Rogers simulation, the mice, and then he put mice in front of current programming of 1998,
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  which was really fast paced, la la la.
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  And then he looked at the mouse behavior.
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  The mice who
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  watched the Mr. Rogers simulation did mouse things.
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  What happens is when you go in a box
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  with the cheese in the middle, the mouse goes around because he's scared everything eats him.
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  So he has to be very cautious.
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  So he went around the perimeter, he would go get the cheese and
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  around the perimeter is very clean, how he just stayed around the perimeter with a little bit of
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  cheese.
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  The mice that watched the simulation of the current children programming for three to
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  five hour simulation went into the same box and they start on the perimeter and they become
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  completely disorganized and they would eat the cheese and be in the middle and run around in
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  circles and go to the corner.
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  So basically they're open to the predators.
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  But what he demonstrated
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  is that the mouse brain became completely dysregulated, hyperactive, inattentive, no
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  inattentive, no memory, discombobulated, neurologically chaos from the programming.
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  So when we say that the children's programming, because my parents are always like,
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  oh, it's just this show.
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  The amount of money spent on that show to see how much they could
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  retain a child's attention, how many ads they can add to that show so they could sell to the parents.
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  There's so much strategy.
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  It's not just a benign show.
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  Oh, we're all here for children's benefits.
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  get out of here.
• 17:30
  It is all a marketing.
• 17:31
  It's the end is money.
• 17:32
  And the children's brain are not
• 17:34
  taken into account.
• 17:35
  Children's brain from a young age are very susceptible to the blue light and the
• 17:41
  continuous stimulation from blue screens.
• 17:45
  And that affects them long-term.
• 17:46
  And you know, now most
• 17:47
  schools have moved to all this stuff online.
• 17:50
  We don't have long-term data on what happens when
• 17:53
  you're eight hours in front of a screen learning, I had to do quotations, but I mean, you're
• 17:59
  learning in front of a screen for eight hours, how would that affect your brain?
• 18:03
  We know that because of screens, brains have, in unfunctional MRIs, have changed fundamentally.
• 18:11
  So it is a toxin.
• 18:13
  It needs to be used with caution.
• 18:14
  We do need it for our daily lives, absolutely.
• 18:18
  but we need to intermix that with a lot of outdoor sunshine, parent quality time,
• 18:25
  face-to-face communication with other humans.
• 18:28
  We have to see these things like the way you're saying, which is they are a toxin or they are a
• 18:35
  drug or we have to label them a specific way so that we approach them with the delicacy and the
• 18:42
  hesitancy that we would if something was a drug.
• 18:45
  Right.
• 18:46
  And I'll give you a perfect example that's going to scare everybody.
• 18:48
  Everybody get ready.
• 18:49
  Here we go.
• 18:50
  So TikTok, we'll just use TikTok.
• 18:52
  Let's beat up on TikTok for a second.
• 18:54
  TikTok is a dopamine hit.
• 18:56
  Doing cocaine is a dopamine hit.
• 18:59
  And what's happened is that our teenagers are using TikTok and they're becoming more accustomed to it and it's quick and it's fast and it's moving.
• 19:07
  majority of teenagers cannot watch a 60-minute show without referencing back to their phone and
• 19:14
  watching TikTok.
• 19:15
  They can no longer sit to whatever murder mystery, whatever show, family show
• 19:22
  without TikTok.
• 19:22
  I'm saying that again and again and again.
• 19:24
  That is an addiction.
• 19:26
  Addiction means
• 19:27
  that you, doesn't matter what the substance is, in this case TikTok the toxin, they get such a
• 19:32
  dopamine hit that now regular TV programming is not enough, you need to look at it because
• 19:37
  otherwise your brain is getting like the, you know, when you're doing a withdrawal,
• 19:41
  you basically go and went through a TikTok withdrawal without you realizing.
• 19:44
  So I just
• 19:45
  want anyone with a teenager, watch them when they're watching a family show.
• 19:49
  What percentage
• 19:49
  of your kids pull out their phone to either text, but it's usually TikTok because they need to get
• 19:56
  that dopamine hit from somewhere else because the TV is not doing it for them anymore.
• 20:00
  Really, we're almost inducing ADHD, right?
• 20:03
  Absolutely.
• 20:04
  The rates of ADHD are through the roof, not just from the food, but also from the screens.
• 20:09
  The combination is lethal.
• 20:11
  I feel like, though, we can't just talk about the problem because the reality is,
• 20:14
  it's like when we as parents start to create these boundaries and say,
• 20:18
  OK, I'm going to feed my family differently.
• 20:21
  Let's just use that as an example.
• 20:22
  When you did that, you got ostracized because the minute you do something that's different
• 20:27
  from society, society sees you as like, oh, well, she's da, da, da, da, da, or they treat you
• 20:33
  differently.
• 20:33
  And that's the last thing kids want to be treated like.
• 20:37
  They don't want to be treated
• 20:38
  differently in school.
• 20:38
  They don't want to open up their lunchboxes and have kids laugh at them or
• 20:41
  be looked at because they have some, you know, specific, you know, cracker that was homemade
• 20:48
  versus a goldfish, right?
• 20:49
  How do you recommend we navigate those waters of kind of societal norms
• 20:54
  versus like wanting to be optimally healthy?
• 20:58
  God, I will first.
• 20:59
  I will also say that the children don't want to feel different,
• 21:01
  but the parents don't want to be different.
• 21:04
  I can't tell you many parents like,
• 21:06
  yeah, but I don't want to be the weirdo mom on the sports field
• 21:09
  bringing orange slices and water when everyone else is bringing Doritos.
• 21:13
  Again, it's got to start with the parents.
• 21:15
  We have to be the role model to it.
• 21:17
  Okay, so three things that we're going to do to change this.
• 21:21
  Number one, we've got to change our mindset.
• 21:24
  We have to understand that food, walking outside, being in the sunshine, decreasing screens,
• 21:29
  and prioritizing sleep and pooping every day is imperative to children's wellness.
• 21:34
  If that is a number one and you understand that that is what needs to happen, that becomes
• 21:38
  your mission and all the other stuff falls to the wayside.
• 21:41
  Number two, we're not going to become a no culture.
• 21:43
  No, you can't have goldfish.
• 21:44
  No, you can't have Doritos.
• 21:46
  What we're going to do is, of course, you have the processed food, but first you have
• 21:49
  to eat a fruit or a vegetable before you're going to eat the processed snack.
• 21:52
  When you eat a fruit or a vegetable, your body gets the right to have a processed food and then worry about changing the processed foods later.
• 22:02
  And number three, we have to be the example that our children are going to grow up seeing.
• 22:07
  Anxious parents raise anxious kids, right?
• 22:10
  The apples don't fall far from the tree.
• 22:11
  I mean, it's like, you know, when families come into the clinic, you could see the ducklings following along.
• 22:15
  If mom is anxious, the kids are anxious.
• 22:17
  If the mom is like, let's go do this, the kids are like, we're going to do this.
• 22:21
  And there's nothing wrong if you are anxious.
• 22:23
  It's just how are you projecting that?
• 22:25
  What work are you doing on you?
• 22:27
  Are you putting your oxygen mask on first and then teaching the kids?
• 22:32
  Unfortunately, so many parents are like, oh, no, no, no, no.
• 22:34
  The kids are first.
• 22:36
  The kids are never first.
• 22:38
  Mama's first.
• 22:39
  Then the marriage is second.
• 22:41
  The children are third.
• 22:43
  We've got it all backwards.
• 22:44
  We're like the children first.
• 22:46
  The marriage will wait, guys.
• 22:47
  The marriage doesn't wait.
• 22:48
  I've been through four marriage counselors.
• 22:50
  The marriage does not wait.
• 22:52
  If you don't cultivate it and care for it, it is not going to withstand the difficulty.
• 22:58
  It is.
• 22:58
  Having children is hard.
• 23:00
  It is much harder than anyone anticipates.
• 23:02
  I cannot tell you how many people come in a clinic and they go, well, I knew it was
• 23:05
  hard, but I didn't think it was this hard.
• 23:07
  Raising kids is hard.
• 23:09
  Raising healthy kids is even harder.
• 23:12
  And if your marriage is wobbly, then that's a thousand times harder.
• 23:17
  Let's touch base on some fast fire topics that are making people anxious.
• 23:22
  And I'd love your answers to hopefully alleviate some of the anxiety.
• 23:26
  Right off the bat, the one I just read about recently is, oh, measles outbreak, you know, it's increasing and everyone's blaming MAGA or MAHA.
• 23:34
  Should we be worried about measles?
• 23:36
  And I will preface this with I remember as a kid watching the Brady Bunch and Peter got measles and it was no big deal.
• 23:46
  Like and I don't remember the measles being a big deal when I was a kid.
• 23:50
  And yet everyone's so scared.
• 23:52
  So what's truth?
• 23:53
  What's fiction here?
• 23:54
  So measles is super contagious.
• 23:56
  It is a viral illness.
• 23:58
  Number one complication of measles is your infections.
• 24:01
  Second is going to be respiratory asthma, pneumonia.
• 24:04
  There could be some encephalitis, which is brain inflammation, and there could be some
• 24:09
  long-term.
• 24:10
  Generally, for most people, it's a mild disease.
• 24:12
  But because of the encephalitis and because of how many people were sick with it in the
• 24:19
  hospital, that's one of the reasons that they started the immunizations.
• 24:24
  We had in 2019, before Maha and whatever, we had about 1,275 cases of measles in the United States.
• 24:31
  Then we had COVID.
• 24:32
  Then we had none.
• 24:32
  This past year, we had about 2,279 cases of measles in the United States, 285 hospitalizations.
• 24:40
  Out of those hospitalizations, the number one was respiratory issues.
• 24:44
  Number two was dehydration.
• 24:46
  And number three was isolation.
• 24:49
  There were three deaths, two children, six and eight, and one adult.
• 24:53
  Whenever it comes to measles or anything, pertussis, before we panic, let's look at the numbers.
• 25:00
  Because the moment there's one case, the media is going to explode.
• 25:03
  It is sensational.
• 25:05
  Having measles has not been around for us.
• 25:07
  It was around the Brady Bunch, but not as our children have grown up.
• 25:11
  So it's new-ish.
• 25:14
  And because of the political climate, it's controversial.
• 25:18
  So news sells.
• 25:19
  So if one case shows up in your community, boom, it's like a major dramatic thing.
• 25:23
  So number one, when it comes to measles, what I would do is figure out what the numbers
• 25:28
  are around you and where you usually travel.
• 25:31
  Number two, you're going to find a provider who can have this open conversation with you,
• 25:36
  whether you choose to do the vaccine or not do the vaccine.
• 25:39
  And number three, we're going to work on the things we already addressed.
• 25:42
  We got to work on our nutrition.
• 25:43
  We're going to do our sleep.
• 25:44
  We have to poop.
• 25:45
  We have to be outside.
• 25:46
  We have to have resilient immune systems.
• 25:49
  To your point, when you have a fragile immune system and you get measles, you're more likely
• 25:54
  to have severe complications.
• 25:56
  The same way when we had fragile immune systems and we got COVID, we had horrible complications.
• 26:02
  Resilient immune systems can withstand the viruses that have been around for thousands
• 26:06
  and thousands of years.
• 26:08
  Do immunizations work?
• 26:09
  They do.
• 26:10
  One immunization protects you 93%.
• 26:13
  Having two shots of the MMR protects you 97%.
• 26:17
  The timing is also important.
• 26:18
  if you have it between 12 and 15 months, it is not as effective as if you have it over 18 months
• 26:24
  of age.
• 26:25
  So all these things have to be addressed with a provider who's open-minded to discuss and
• 26:29
  alleviate your stress regarding this illness.
• 26:32
  We are not doomed.
• 26:33
  It's not the end of the world.
• 26:35
  It's an illness that can be addressed in many different ways with many different options,
• 26:39
  depending on everybody's anxiety and level of stress.
• 26:43
  How about ear infections?
• 26:45
  That one comes up a lot and it's always recommended with antibiotics.
• 26:51
  Is that parents only option?
• 26:53
  Absolutely not.
• 26:54
  So fun fact, 80% of ear infections get better without antibiotics.
• 26:58
  Let me say that one more time.
• 27:01
  80% of ear infections get better without antibiotics.
• 27:04
  So after you go and your child gets diagnosed with a near infection, three things you can do.
• 27:09
  Number one, if they're not having 104 fever and screaming in pain and we have some time, we can do some pain relief.
• 27:16
  I do ibuprofen for three nights because ibuprofen is way less toxic than 10 days of antibiotics.
• 27:24
  I use Synex, which is an afrin, a form of afrin, even in little people.
• 27:29
  But there's like a niosinefren if you don't want to use afrin.
• 27:32
  and you use it for three nights, no more than three, that helps decongest.
• 27:35
  Again, three days
• 27:36
  of the Sinex or Afrin, significantly less toxic than 10 days of antibiotics.
• 27:41
  And then I do teach
• 27:42
  parents how to do craniosacral therapy, that there's a specific ear massage.
• 27:46
  You can Google
• 27:47
  that.
• 27:47
  You check that on YouTube.
• 27:49
  There's specific ear massage that helps open the eustachian tubes
• 27:52
  so we can have everything drain and we can let the pus come out so the child can get over the
• 27:58
  ear infections without antibiotics.
• 28:00
  Easy.
• 28:01
  There's no side effect.
• 28:02
  I mean, I have like more tips,
• 28:03
  but I'm trying to do so people are not overwhelmed because if I give you 17,000 options, but those are
• 28:09
  super simple.
• 28:09
  Most people have ibuprofen.
• 28:11
  You can go to CVS and get Sinex, and then you just need
• 28:13
  your hands and your youngster to do the craniosacral moves on the ears.
• 28:17
  If the ear infections are
• 28:18
  chronic, meaning they keep happening, right?
• 28:21
  Are there certain foods that should be looked at or
• 28:23
  removed from the kid's diet?
• 28:24
  Absolutely.
• 28:26
  So one off-year infection happens to everybody,
• 28:28
  no big deal.
• 28:29
  Now we have a recurrent situation.
• 28:31
  Number one is going to be our processed foods.
• 28:33
  And a simple rule of thumb for that is if you can't read it, don't eat it.
• 28:38
  If you turn the
• 28:38
  package around and you have to send me a DM on Instagram, is monosodium glutamate bad for my
• 28:44
  child?
• 28:44
  You're going to put that food back.
• 28:46
  Can't read it?
• 28:47
  Don't eat it.
• 28:48
  Number two, we're going to
• 28:49
  Reduce the added sugar in a child's diet.
• 28:52
  No fruits don't count.
• 28:53
  Less than 24 grams of added sugar in children over two.
• 28:58
  Under two, zero grams of added sugar.
• 29:00
  And if mama's nursing, mama has zero grams of added sugar in her diet because it comes
• 29:05
  through breast milk.
• 29:06
  Sugar lowers our immune system and makes for immune fragility.
• 29:11
  And third thing for chronic ear infection is dairy.
• 29:15
  I don't care if it's wild-caught, farmed, raw, cow, goat, camel, sheep.
• 29:23
  It's the casein protein that can be very inflammatory to specific humans.
• 29:28
  Is it 100%?
• 29:29
  Never 100%.
• 29:30
  But it's majority that when we remove that until the ears infections have now resolved
• 29:36
  and you can bring it back in the diet at like once weekly or twice weekly tops, then we
• 29:43
  can show a significant improvement in recurrent ear infections.
• 29:47
  What is your thought about dairy, by the way?
• 29:48
  That's kind of a bit of a topic, and it's one that, you know, historically, pediatricians
• 29:53
  are like, oh, yes, of course, drink all your milk you want.
• 29:55
  But I think you probably agree that it's not so black and white.
• 30:01
  It's not so black and white.
• 30:02
  And here's the thing.
• 30:03
  By the way, I used to be a big dairy pusher.
• 30:06
  My kids drank five gallons of milk a week.
• 30:09
  I am not kidding you.
• 30:10
  I'd go to Costco and the people were like, OMG, you need a cow.
• 30:14
  I'm like, all right.
• 30:14
  And I was like, oh my God, my kids drink so much milk.
• 30:16
  And then I was like, oh my God, why do they drink so much milk?
• 30:19
  Dairy on its own is not anything bad.
• 30:22
  The problem is the overconsumption.
• 30:25
  And the same thing for gluten.
• 30:26
  Because when people hear a holistic pediatrician, they're like, ah, she's gluten free and dairy
• 30:29
  free.
• 30:30
  And I'm like, nah.
• 30:31
  The point is that when we eat a food over and over again, we become sensitized to it.
• 30:36
  You know what people are not sensitized to?
• 30:38
  Brussels sprouts or sardines.
• 30:40
  broccoli because we don't eat them.
• 30:43
  But what happens with dairy?
• 30:44
  For breakfast is milk and
• 30:45
  cereal.
• 30:46
  At lunch, we have cheese sticks.
• 30:47
  For a snack, we have some cheese.
• 30:49
  At dinner, we put
• 30:50
  cheese in our tacos.
• 30:51
  Right.
• 30:51
  Dairy, dairy, dairy, dairy.
• 30:53
  When people go, I don't need that much
• 30:54
  dairy.
• 30:54
  Awesome.
• 30:55
  Go to next Thanksgiving meal and tell me how many foods you can eat.
• 30:59
  And everyone's
• 30:59
  like, I can't eat anything.
• 31:00
  I'm like, I know.
• 31:02
  Because there's dairy in every single main and
• 31:05
  side dish and dessert.
• 31:07
  That's where the problem is.
• 31:09
  It's the overconsumption of it.
• 31:11
  And so when
• 31:12
  kids are over the age of one, I usually go, yeah, should you have some dairy sometimes?
• 31:17
  Sure.
• 31:17
  And I
• 31:17
  usually go, okay, so do some whole milk.
• 31:20
  Never skim or any of the other stuff because that's
• 31:22
  the process.
• 31:22
  So you do a whole milk, preferably from locally sourced.
• 31:26
  You do some milk, but then
• 31:27
  after you finish that, then you do some almond milk, then you do some cashew milk, then rotate
• 31:31
  all the different milks.
• 31:33
  People are very obsessed with calcium.
• 31:35
  When we look at the medical
• 31:36
  literature, it's vitamin D that strengthens bones.
• 31:40
  It's not the overconsumption of dairy.
• 31:44
  Right.
• 31:44
  It's not necessarily the most optimal source for either of those, right?
• 31:47
  Correct.
• 31:48
  And another thing I heard from doctors, and this is a legit quote,
• 31:51
  well, they have to eat dairy because that helps them grow.
• 31:53
  And I'm like,
• 31:56
  because there are other things that grow too, like tumors, like insulin resistance.
• 32:02
  There's
• 32:03
  a lot of other things that grow.
• 32:04
  So I'm like, what is our end goal?
• 32:06
  I want a giant kid full
• 32:08
  of chronic disease or I want a normal-sized kid that is healthy with a resilient immune system
• 32:13
  that goes out and conquers the world.
• 32:15
  What is filling the carts at these stores?
• 32:18
  isn't it just processed junk i mean it's just bigger amounts of the crackers of the cookies
• 32:24
  now you're seeing all those nutritional bars and and what's a crime and what i'm shocked about is
• 32:30
  you know you've jumped the shark and that's like a tv term of when you know a tv show is like
• 32:36
  clearly gone past like being relevant it's just like they're trying to put everything and anything
• 32:41
  on the show just to keep it relevant so basically you know that nutrition bars have jumped the shark
• 32:46
  when you now see candy bars that are putting out nutrition bars?
• 32:49
  Because nutrition bars have always just been expensive candy bars.
• 32:53
  How should someone really shop at Costco?
• 32:55
  Because I don't see anyone truly shopping there
• 32:58
  the way that I think either of us would want them to.
• 33:01
  When you go to the big box stores, it's always like massive stuff.
• 33:04
  I will give Costco prop.
• 33:06
  They're the number one distributor of organic food in the country.
• 33:09
  So there's my gold star for Costco.
• 33:12
  And the reason I do go to Costco is because you can get amazing whole foods, organic, at really good prices.
• 33:21
  And that's why I direct people.
• 33:23
  And, yes, I agree.
• 33:23
  I'm like, we're not going to go in the mac and cheese section.
• 33:27
  I will tell you that they've done a great job of, you know, yes, you have your Doritos and the other chips and stuff, but they have the other versions with avocado oil and organic.
• 33:36
  option.
• 33:36
  So you can go to Costco and get a lot of good food.
• 33:39
  That is whole foods with great
• 33:41
  ingredients.
• 33:42
  Yes, there's going to be the junk.
• 33:43
  Yes.
• 33:43
  When people go and you look in their carts,
• 33:45
  absolutely.
• 33:46
  So that's one of the reasons that I go to Costco specifically just has higher
• 33:51
  number of products that are going to be organic than other stores.
• 33:54
  And I'm very much pro like,
• 33:56
  let me show you, don't get this, get this.
• 33:58
  Because going and doing are very two different things.
• 34:01
  and parents are like, oh, now I have to read the labels and how would I know?
• 34:06
  And I'm going to
• 34:06
  spend a thousand hours reading labels.
• 34:08
  I'm like, no, you just take my video and you walk through
• 34:10
  the aisles and you go, and I'm going to get this from and make smoothies with this.
• 34:13
  And I'm going
• 34:14
  to do breakfast with this.
• 34:15
  And here's my lunch.
• 34:16
  That's because it is very confusing.
• 34:18
  The marketing
• 34:19
  is off the chain for all these products.
• 34:21
  So I usually go to Costco and Walmart to kind of hit
• 34:24
  two different target audiences to make life easier because there's also a lot of changes
• 34:30
  happening at Walmart.
• 34:31
  They're actually getting rid of artificial food dyes in their Walmart
• 34:34
  brands and they're working on decreasing the artificial flavoring.
• 34:37
  I'm going to give some
• 34:38
  kudos to Walmart as well.
• 34:39
  They're actually putting some real effort into making real
• 34:43
  changes to their food so it's more economical for those that need to shop in that store.
• 34:47
  But I do worry though that the swaps or the things like that, it's just like pushing things
• 34:52
  down the road with like, first it's TVs, now it's video games, now it's screen iPads,
• 34:57
  that we're just pushing down like, well, it's not Doritos, but it's the siete chips.
• 35:02
  You know,
• 35:02
  I mean, it's still reliance on chips and snacks.
• 35:06
  And so we're still moving away from the priorities
• 35:09
  of like that basics of how you should be filling your diet with the real foods that are single
• 35:14
  ingredients.
• 35:15
  Right.
• 35:17
  So I do get the lure of like, oh, people going there, but I just still question
• 35:21
  if we're just pushing the health conversation a little bit further down the road
• 35:26
  and avoiding the real grittiness of it of like, you know, really,
• 35:30
  maybe we shouldn't be snacking so much.
• 35:32
  Like, why are we snacking so much?
• 35:34
  We're 100% on the same page on the snacky situation.
• 35:37
  And by the way, do you know this?
• 35:39
  It's a fun fact.
• 35:39
  Snacking didn't become a thing until the 1950s.
• 35:43
  And guess what country invented snacking?
• 35:46
  You're right.
• 35:47
  United States.
• 35:48
  In the U.S. in the 1950s, after the war, because they were like, oh, women are in the kitchen too long and we need, that's when they started developing processed foods.
• 35:56
  And they're like to help women not be in the kitchen so much.
• 35:59
  Well, what happened in the 50s when they did these processed foods, people became nutritionally devoid.
• 36:03
  So their labs were horrible and they were sick.
• 36:06
  So then the food companies were like, oh, we should put vitamins in there because then we can get them to eat more processed foods.
• 36:12
  And so then they're like, oh, now they're nutritionally dense.
• 36:15
  And then it was like, oh, well, you know, when the mom is on the go, we need to have some snacks.
• 36:20
  So we became a snack culture.
• 36:22
  We develop snacking issues when our children are tiny little beady.
• 36:28
  Because you know why?
• 36:29
  When you're trying to do something and your child's crying, they're annoying.
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  We're just going to be honest about it.
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  And so then you give them food because then they shut it.
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  And then we develop this thinking, which is back to the mindset.
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  Well, you know, they're crying because they're hungry.
• 36:44
  No, they are bored and they want your attention, but now they have something to do and food
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  and the snack foods that we choose are usually carbs or sugar.
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  So either carbs or sugar, they both break down into sugar.
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  They feed the part of the brain, which by the way, loves cocaine.
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  So it's a dopamine hit.
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  And now the child is like, all right, well, I feel great.
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  I just had a bagel or goldfish for 30 minutes.
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  And then I'm going to scream again in 30 minutes.
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  So what the parents do, then I give more snacks.
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  And then they're like, oh my God, they're so annoying.
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  They want snacks all the time.
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  I'm like, we created it.
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  It is, we create the snacking.
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  And they were mad.
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  And then, by the way, and then we purchased the snacking.
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  So we become the drug dealers.
• 37:26
  And then we're annoyed that the drug users are always whining and complaining and want
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  another fix.
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  I'm like, back to me.
• 37:34
  So when my younger one was also the selective eater, and what I'm telling you, so I would
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  say 50% of his younger childhood, he ate air for dinner because in my house, you don't get a second
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  meal.
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  In a food secure home, you choose to eat or you choose hunger.
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  Then there's nothing wrong
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  with choosing hunger, but I'm not going to cater to your sad self because you don't want to eat
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  the good food.
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  So he ate 50% of the time, he ate air.
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  And as I was trying to dissect, why is he
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  always eating air?
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  He's never hungry.
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  Then we went into the snack and then I was like, you know,
• 38:07
  let me do this exercise.
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  Every time he puts something in his mouth, I'm going to write it
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  down.
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  And I literally was like, oh, goldfish.
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  Got it.
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  Oh, we're at Target shopping goldfish.
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  Okay.
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  Oh, a pouch, a fruit and veggie pouch.
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  Oh, we're in the carpool line and he's bored.
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  So then I
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  started taking notes, giving him so many snacks.
• 38:26
  I'm not even realizing anymore because it's become
• 38:28
  my background noise and I'm doing a thousand things.
• 38:30
  So every time we would get in the minivan,
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  he's like, I'm hungry.
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  I'm like, of course you are.
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  Because I created a habit every time we're
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  target.
• 38:37
  They want to go official because I created a habit without even realizing it.
• 38:41
  So then I was
• 38:42
  like, well, let's bring it back.
• 38:43
  And so was it hard?
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  Of course it's hard because I got to deal
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  with a whiny, annoying kids.
• 38:49
  But I was like, okay, well, we're going to play I spy.
• 38:51
  It was my job as
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  a parent to come up with other things.
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  They had to be bored for a bit and had to tolerate whining,
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  obviously, because they would figure some things out.
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  But at other times, I'm like, like at a
• 39:02
  restaurant.
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  There's no screens at a restaurant.
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  I don't bring snacks at a restaurant.
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  Never did,
• 39:06
  thank God.
• 39:07
  Always was like, all right, so let's play tic-tac-toe with the sugar packets.
• 39:09
  Let's
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  play sticks with whatever.
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  To this day, and they're adults, we always have games that we play
• 39:15
  when we're sitting and waiting at a restaurant rather than snacks.
• 39:18
  When you're in the car,
• 39:19
  waiting in the carpool line, when you're shopping, what other things are you doing?
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  Are you tolerating
• 39:23
  boredom?
• 39:24
  Are you tolerating some whining?
• 39:25
  Or are you giving in and always feeding them?
• 39:27
  And now
• 39:28
  it's become a snack culture.
• 39:29
  But when we're a snack culture, the reason we go for the siesta
• 39:32
  chips, which I do love sometimes, but the reason that's become a norm because mamas have to have
• 39:38
  something in their purse all the time.
• 39:40
  You don't need something in your purse.
• 39:42
  In my clinic,
• 39:44
  I had to put giant signs, no food in here because our appointments are an hour and the kids whine
• 39:52
  because it's boring, even though we have toys.
• 39:55
  And they're like, I want a snack.
• 39:56
  And the moms
• 39:56
  are like, here's a snack.
• 39:57
  I'm like, under no circumstances.
• 39:59
  First of all, a doctor's office,
• 40:00
  not a restaurant.
• 40:01
  Number one.
• 40:02
  Number two, I have kids with major food allergies and they're like,
• 40:05
  oh, we are so clean.
• 40:06
  No, you're not.
• 40:07
  The food falls out of their mouth.
• 40:09
  I mean, it's just their
• 40:10
  kids.
• 40:11
  And then three, I'm like, it's okay for them to be bored.
• 40:15
  It is okay for them to whine.
• 40:16
  It is okay that they're unhappy for an hour.
• 40:19
  And by the way, after they whine for like five,
• 40:21
  six minutes, then they're like, oh, I can play.
• 40:23
  Back to your point.
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  Yes, we're reliant on process
• 40:26
  foods has increased significantly because our snack culture.
• 40:29
  We have created the snack culture.
• 40:31
  It is our job to reverse the snack culture.
• 40:33
  And as we reverse it, we're going to eat more whole
• 40:35
  foods.
• 40:36
  If we rely on snacks for all the things we have, we mentioned, yes, then you're going to go
• 40:41
  and choose more packaged foods for sure.
• 40:43
  What's the one thing you wish parents would stop worrying
• 40:45
  about?
• 40:47
  And one thing you wish they take more seriously?
• 40:50
  I wish parents would stop worrying
• 40:52
  about what's on their Instagram feed.
• 40:55
  The number one cause of anxiety in my clinic is the Instagram
• 40:59
  feed.
• 41:00
  I wish they would just stop worrying about Instagram and missing out on what other people
• 41:04
  are doing.
• 41:05
  Mind your own business, do your own stuff.
• 41:07
  Go video yourself if you want to, but stop
• 41:09
  watching what other people are doing because that's just creating more anxiety and more FOMO
• 41:14
  and then making the mamas especially feel like less than, that they're not good enough because
• 41:18
  who look at that mom with six kids that she's got it all handled and she's making sourdough bread
• 41:23
  and they're all riding horses.
• 41:25
  Get out of here.
• 41:25
  That's not true life.
• 41:27
  Stop it.
• 41:28
  Stop the madness.
• 41:29
  That's complete garbage.
• 41:30
  Number one thing people need to stop worrying about is what's on their
• 41:33
  Instagram feed, what everybody else is doing.
• 41:36
  One thing people need to take more seriously
• 41:38
  is the food that they put in their children's bodies.
• 41:40
  Sometimes these natural ways, these
• 41:43
  holistic practices do take longer.
• 41:45
  These are lifestyle changes that will not only just affect
• 41:49
  a few years, but will affect the kid's lifetime.
• 41:53
  So a lot of folks are like, well, it's my genetics.
• 41:56
  There's nothing I can do because it's my genes.
• 41:59
  I have type 2 diabetes because it's my genes.
• 42:03
  That's not a genetic disease.
• 42:04
  You may have the genes, but the environment pulls the trigger.
• 42:08
  It is a lifestyle that changes the genes.
• 42:11
  So you can have the gene for cancer.
• 42:14
  You can have the gene for type 2 diabetes, for type 1 diabetes, for all the different things.
• 42:18
  Eczema, asthma.
• 42:20
  It doesn't mean that this is your story.
• 42:23
  And if you gave those genes to your child, it is your responsibility to give them the tools to turn those genes off.
• 42:29
  It's called epigenetics.
• 42:31
  Feel free, everyone, to Google this.
• 42:33
  What is epigenetics?
• 42:34
  Epigenetics means we are given the genes, but we, the human, have the power to turn those genes on or off on how they're going to manifest.
• 42:41
  And if you help your child turns those genes off, let's say eczema, you have eczema, you gave your child the genes of eczema,
• 42:48
  you do all the things that we were talking about for immune resilience, you turn off those genes.
• 42:53
  Well, that child, when they have kids, that gene will be transmitted as off.
• 42:59
  So their kids are not going to have a gene for eczema because they've turned the gene off with the food, nutrition, lifestyle changes that you have implemented, role modeled, and enforced through their childhood.
• 43:13
  And as they become adults, they'll continue that.
• 43:15
  Their genes will be turned off, and their children are not going to have to deal with the illnesses that your generation or their generation had to deal with.
• 43:23
  Last question.
• 43:24
  So if you could wave a magic wand and bring back one ancestral practice, what would it be and why?
• 43:30
  There's two foods, sardines and organ meats.
• 43:35
  You're speaking my language now.
• 43:37
  I know.
• 43:37
  And that's why I was like, oh, you're teeing me up.
• 43:39
  Because they're nutritionally dense foods.
• 43:43
  Culturally, we don't eat them.
• 43:45
  Why eat them?
• 43:46
  But culturally, people don't eat them.
• 43:48
  And there, again, instead of leaning on supplements and buying, I make supplements too, but I am of the, please eat the food first, because mother nature has created the human body with the food in the environment.
• 44:02
  Our bodies know how to extract the nutrition, how much of it to extract, how to use it as compared when it comes from a supplement.
• 44:09
  So I would bring back sardines and organ meats.
• 44:12
  Thank you so much.
• 44:13
  So before we go, though, I want you to share, A, how people can work with you, how they can follow you.
• 44:20
  And if you wouldn't mind also sharing about the supplements you offer, because I know they're unique.
• 44:25
  They're different from what most supplements contain ingredient-wise.
• 44:30
  You can find me at Costco or Walmart shopping, showing you how to eat, not eat.
• 44:35
  Many people meet me there and they're like, oh, my God.
• 44:37
  And they watch the behind the scenes and they're like, this is really interesting.
• 44:41
  We can see me at those stores.
• 44:43
  I'm on Instagram, TikTok, of course, and it's D-R-A-N-A Maria Temple.
• 44:49
  And I share tons of information from nutrition to ear infection tips, flu tips, fever tips,
• 44:56
  measles.
• 44:56
  We talked about measles.
• 44:57
  Whatever is current, I try to share.
• 44:59
  My goal is to empower, inspire, and educate families to raise healthy kids with less medications.
• 45:05
  And I do that on my social platforms.
• 45:07
  I have an online eczema program for anyone suffering with eczema.
• 45:11
  Please don't do it yourself.
• 45:12
  We can make your life so much easier and get to the finish line faster.
• 45:16
  And I'm super excited about our supplement line.
• 45:18
  We have an organic vitamin D with just two ingredients.
• 45:21
  It's liquid.
• 45:22
  We have organic zinc liquid with a couple ingredients, no natural flavors or preservatives.
• 45:27
  We have two eczema creams, actually, that don't have antibiotics or steroids in them.
• 45:32
  They're loaded with B12, which is powerful anti-inflammatory.
• 45:36
  and up on deck is our organic zinc gummy with amazing ingredients and less sugar and we should
• 45:44
  be able to go into production at the end of February.
• 45:47
  Oh we needed that one like yesterday
• 45:50
  due to all the cold weather right now and everyone getting sick.
• 45:53
  Well I so appreciated talking with
• 45:55
  you and it's just been lovely getting to know you.
• 45:57
  Obviously they got a sense of your liveliness of
• 45:59
  your just your passion for what you do but your your social media exudes that even more so because
• 46:04
  there's just so much even more content obviously than we can encompass in an hour but i just really
• 46:10
  appreciate that you made the switch that you had the courage to make the switch and we need more
• 46:16
  doctors making that holistic switch with you uh so hopefully you're inspiring those people to do
• 46:22
  that um and maybe even generations to come who become doctors to think about that i think we
• 46:27
  are seeing a trend it's turning in the in our direction of what we hope to see it is slow but
• 46:31
  I think we are seeing the ties are turning, and I'm very excited to see what's next.
• 46:36
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 46:37
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