90% of ADHD Kids Have THIS Hidden Sleep Problem

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This episode's sponsored by Airway Breathing Academy

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In this urgent Dropping Bombs episode, international ENT specialist Dr. David McIntosh and board-certified orthodontist Dr. Bill Harrell expose the silent breathing epidemic destroying children's health. From ADHD and anxiety to crooked teeth and jaw issues, they reveal how mouth breathing and snoring sabotage kids' brains, faces, and futures.

They expose medical oversights ignoring airway health, linking poor sleep to gut changes, developmental delays, and long-term issues like heart disease. With their 2026 textbook revolutionizing treatment, they unveil why early ENT-orthodontic intervention before age six is critical. Parents: Spot these signs now—this could save your child's future.

🔗 Connect with Dr. David McIntosh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.mcintosh.ent/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drdavidmcintosh/

Website: https://entspecialists.com.au/

Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001K8ATIY/allbooks

🔗 Connect with Dr. Bill Harrell

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bill.harrell.31/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarrellOrthodontics

Website: https://www.drharrell.com/

Office phone: 256-234-6353

Coming Soon

-Airway Breathing Academy (upcoming online resource—follow Dr. McIntosh for updates)

-Upcoming 2026 Textbook: "Sleep, Craniofacial Form and Airway Function Disorders: Interdisciplinary Diagnosis, Assessment, Management and Prevention"

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Brad Lea is a self-made entrepreneur who turned small-town grit into a multi-million-dollar empire. With over 25 years dominating sales and leadership, he's mentored thousands to outsmart, outwork, and out win their competition. His top-rated podcast, Dropping Bombs, brings raw, game-changing insights from the biggest names in business.

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0:00.0	90% of children with ADHD have a sleep problem.
0:03.4	Oh, you would consider that linked somehow.
0:05.4	Oh, yeah, it's absolutely linked.
0:06.9	It changes your gut bacteria.
0:08.9	The microbiome.
0:09.6	The microbiome.
0:10.5	It is leading to dementia, inflammation, depression,
0:14.0	depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar effective disorder, PTSD.
0:17.3	The list goes on.
0:18.2	If a child mouth breathes a lot, their whole face becomes narrow and longer.
0:23.8	You get this long facial pattern. The chin tends to go back. Well, what happens when the chin
0:29.0	goes back? It goes back in the airway. They also don't get dates. It shows up later as type 2 diabetes,
0:35.6	heart disease, stroke. Back in the 1800s, the scientific literature actually points out these things.
0:41.0	They knew this stuff in the 1800s.
0:42.8	This is not new.
0:43.6	So how do you fix it, though?
0:45.3	So what it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of dropping bombs.
0:52.7	Stay in the studio, folks.
0:55.2	As always, I've got a real in the studio, folks. As always,
1:01.2	I've got a real treat for you, Dr. David McIntosh and Dr. Bill Harrell in the house.
1:02.3	What's happening, gentlemen?
1:06.8	Nice to be here. Thanks, Brad. Just glad to be here. Thank you. Thank you for being here.
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