102: Dr. Marilyn Wedge - There's No Such Thing As ADHD
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Marilyn Wedge is a family therapist, author, and popular speaker, with more than twenty years of experience helping children, teens, and families. She's also written for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Children in the US being diagnosed with ADHD is on the rise
- Drugs being used as performance enhancers in high schools and colleges
- Kids in the US are being stripped of their childhood
- How children diagnosed with ADHD can benefit schools
- Artificial food colourings and preservatives have been shown to cause hyperactivity in kids
- Young people in the US spend between 6 and 8 hours a day in front of electronic screens
- Kids mimic the behaviour of their parents
- Fast paced cartoons negatively effect kid's focus and attention
- Boys have more energy which leads to them getting diagnosed with ADHD more often
- 2 ways medical journals are corrupt
- The negative side effects of ADHD drugs
- There's no such thing as ADHD
- Trauma sensitive schools
- Schools are slowly coming around, making positive changes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 102nd episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman, and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:18.6 | Today our featured guest is Dr. Marilyn Wedge. |
| 0:21.6 | She's a family therapist, author, popular speaker, and she has more than 20 years |
| 0:27.0 | of experience helping children, teens, and families. Marilyn has also written for the |
| 0:32.0 | Huffington Post and Psychology today. |
| 0:35.0 | So before we get into our episode with Dr. Marilyn Wedge, I'm going to give a shout out to |
| 0:38.3 | our show sponsor Sun Warrior. |
| 0:40.9 | And today I'm going to talk about an awesome additional ingredient that I added into a smoothie for Jesse and I this week. |
| 0:47.0 | I've been cycling through some of the different proteins between Classic Plus, Warrior Blend, |
| 0:52.2 | Illuminate, |
| 0:53.2 | and the New Warrior Blends, the Moak and the Berry. |
| 0:55.6 | And lately, I've been loving a combination |
| 0:58.0 | of the Illuminate with Coconut Butter. |
| 1:01.0 | I've been adding Coconut Butter in our smoothies and it's so good. |
| 1:05.3 | Now guys this is different than coconut oil. It's coconut butter with the meat and the oil and |
| 1:09.6 | it tastes really really good with the illuminate. |
| 1:12.6 | There's something about that combination that's delicious. |
| 1:15.2 | So it also is going to taste good with any of the other varieties. |
| 1:18.4 | I've tried them with all of them. |
| 1:19.7 | So good. |
| 1:20.6 | Whatever protein powder floats your boat boat put coconut butter in your |
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