Well, what do you know, friends? It's another episode of The Genius Life. I'm your host, Max Lugovere,

a filmmaker, health and science hero, and the author of The New York Times' best-selling book,

Genius Foods. This episode features my good friend, Vanessa Fitzgerald, who's a certified nutrition

consultant and health coach, which is also known to her legions of fans on Instagram as Vee's Honey.

This episode focuses on Adderall, which is one of the drugs currently being used to treat ADHD

and children around the world. Did you know that over 5% of all children in the United States,

ages 2 to 17 take ADHD medication? And that rates of ADHD diagnoses seem to be increasing?

Yeah, according to the CDC, the percent of children aged 4 to 17 ever diagnosed with ADHD

had increased from 7.8% in 2003 to 9.5% in 2007 and to 11% in 2011 to 2012. So, I mean,

this is quite frankly startling, and I'm not so sure that it's the brains of our children

that are the problem, as much as it is the one size Fitzgerald education paradigm that simply

doesn't work for every learner, but I digress. Over the next hour, you're going to learn how

Adderall began taking over Vanessa's life and how she was able to quit her addiction.

You're going to discover the difference between ADD and ADHD, how treating ADHD in childhood can be

potentially a recipe for massive missed career opportunities, and of course, ways to improve your

executive function naturally, which includes focus and attention, of course, whether you have ADD,

ADHD, or neither. There's going to be lots of actionable takeaways, and to remind you guys,

neither of us are medical doctors, so there's no medical advice being doled out over the course of

the next episode. If you currently take one of these drugs, I recommend consulting with your doctor

if you decide to come off of them. But whatever the case may be, here at Vanessa's case, and I would

love to hear what you think about it on social media. Just be sure to hit me up.

All right, guys. Now, before we get into it, please support the Genius Life. You can do that in

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