180: Parents, Listen! What Sugar and Technology Are Doing to Your Kids; Treating ADHD and Sensory Challenges, Naturally | Nicole Beurkens, PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD, has 20 years of experience supporting children, young adults, and families. She has specialized expertise in evaluating and treating a wide range of learning, mood, and behavior challenges including autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, learning disabilities, anxiety, bipolar disorder, behavioral disorders, brain injury, and other neurodevelopmental conditions. She is the author of Life Will Get Better: Simple Solutions for Parents of Children with Attention, Anxiety, Mood, and Behavior Challenges and host of The Better Behavior Show. Full show notes: https://maxlugavere.com/podcast/180-nicole-beurkens
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| 0:00.0 | What up family, welcome to episode 180 of the Genius Life, Psych2Habbier. |
| 0:17.6 | What's going on everybody, Happy Wednesday, how you doing? I'm your host Max Lugovira, |
| 0:21.1 | filmmaker, health and science journalist and author of The New York Times Best Selling Book, |
| 0:24.8 | Genius Foods and The Genius Life. You guys, today's episode is going to be lit |
| 0:29.9 | and by that, I mean, it is going to be illuminating in a way that few podcasts are present-coming |
| 0:35.1 | excluded. Today, we welcome the brilliant Nicole Dr. Nicole Berkins. Dr. Berkins is a clinical |
| 0:43.1 | psychologist, nutritionist and special education teacher. With 22 plus years of experience supporting |
| 0:49.0 | children, young adults and families, she's rapidly becoming one of the world's leading holistic |
| 0:53.9 | child psychologists. She has specialized expertise in evaluating and treating a wide-rage of learning, |
| 0:59.6 | mood and behavior challenges, including autism spectrum disorder, ADHD learning disabilities, |
| 1:04.8 | anxiety bipolar disorder, behavioral disorders, brain injury and other neurodevelopmental conditions. |
| 1:10.4 | She's the author of Simple Solutions for Parents of Children with Attention, |
| 1:14.0 | anxiety, mood and behavior challenges. And she's also the host of The Better Behavior Show. |
| 1:19.6 | Despite her very busy schedule, given all that she does, we were able to lure her into Genius |
| 1:24.7 | Life HQ and get her for an hour plus to talk about a range of really important topics. |
| 1:31.6 | We discuss what nutritional psychiatry is and how it is still and inexplicably considered a fringe |
| 1:37.3 | field by many primary care physicians and why that is a problem. Dr. Berkins explains why parents |
| 1:43.1 | should take heart with the knowledge that a lot of health issues their children commonly experience |
| 1:46.9 | have very simple solutions. We discuss the role of technology and nutrition in managing behavioral |
| 1:52.0 | problems in children and how to set boundaries around food so that your children will learn how to |
| 1:56.2 | eat healthily while also having a healthy relationship with food. We also discuss whether or not |
| 2:02.0 | rates of ADHD, autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders are actually going up or have we just |
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