Dr. Kenneth Bach is a board-certified physician and the best-selling author of Brain Inflamed.

Over the course of his 35-year career, he's become known for his unique ability to identify

and untangle the most complex, multi-system, multi-symptome medical cases.

And today, we're going to chat about neuro-inflammation, Lyme disease, mold, and our immune system.

Kenneth, welcome.

Thank you. It's great to be with you, Jason.

So it's great to have you. I loved your book, Brain Inflamed.

You touch on a number of really important issues, word of time in 2021, when mental health

is, I think, on a lot of people's radar.

And you start off the book. There's a statistic that really jumped out.

The number of 12 to 17-year-olds suffering from mental health disorders has doubled.

And this is, like, pre-COVID.

And I think things are a hell of a lot worse coming out of COVID with kids being out of school

and social distancing and all that.

So who knows how bad it is today, but it's bad.

And so what do you think is driving this?

So first of all, that's always the great question.

The question I always ask when I see any patient is what's driving it.

So this is more on a macroscopic level, what's driving, right?

And I think it's the truth is, I think it's, firstly, the toxicity in the environment.

It's not genetics, because they don't change.

And when I talk about the toxicity in the environment, it's much broader than just chemicals

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