I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

How can Lyme disease mimic ADHD?

Well, Lyme disease, not for everybody, but there's this thing

called neurolime where the Lyme begins to infect brain tissue and what we see initially a cause in

an inflammatory reaction so you may feel anxious, you may feel depressed, you may get

this sort of emotional storm that over time it can actually decrease activity and be associated

with brain-fought memory and attentional problems.

So if you have been struggling with mental health issues, I do think it's a good idea to be screen for Lyme.

Another question from Jessica is marijuana and ADHD.

How does marijuana negatively affect ADHD

versus narcotic pain medications?

So marijuana in our experience, and we've studied thousands of people, a small pot, it decreases

brain function.

It decreases activity in the cerebellum, the back bottom part of your brain and can decrease activity both in your temporal

lobe so learning and memory and in your frontal lobe so focus narcotic pain

medications can decrease activity in the brain as well.

So over time, you know, I've just become not really a fan of either.

All right, the next one is from Mike, what happens when someone has a brain scan at our clinics? Well

almost always it occurs in the context of a thorough evaluation. So when people

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