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The Dr. Hyman Show

Anxiety, Autism, Allergies: The Hidden Triggers in Children No One Talks About

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rates of chronic illness, behavioral disorders, and neurodevelopmental challenges are rising rapidly among children, often tied to underlying gut dysfunction, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental triggers such as toxins and ultra-processed foods. Conventional treatments frequently overlook these root causes, relying instead on symptom management or medication. Functional approaches emphasize foundational lifestyle changes—clean nutrition, microbiome support, movement, sleep, and stress reduction—as powerful tools to restore health. Children are especially responsive to these changes, often experiencing rapid and dramatic improvements in behavior, mood, and physical symptoms. With education, testing, and family-centered strategies, parents can take simple, effective steps to help their children thrive. In this episode, I discuss, along with Dr. Elisa Song, Dr. Suzanne Goh, and Dr. Elizabeth Boham why a root-cause approach is just as important for children, as it is for adults. Dr. Elisa Song, MD is a Stanford-, NYU-, UCSF-trained integrative pediatrician, pediatric functional medicine expert, and mom to 2 thriving children - and she is on a mission to revolutionize the future of children’s health. Dr. Song is the bestselling author of the Healthy Kids Happy Kids: An Integrative Pediatrician’s Guide to Whole Child Resilience. Dr. Song created Healthy Kids Happy Kids as an online holistic pediatric resource to help practitioners and parents bridge the gap between conventional and integrative pediatrics with an evidence-based, pediatrician-backed, mom-approved approach. In her integrative pediatric practice, she’s helped 1000s of kids get to the root causes of their health concerns and empowered parents to help their children thrive by integrating conventional pediatrics with functional medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and essential oils. Dr. Song is chair of A4M’s pediatric education and has lectured around the world at leading integrative and functional medicine conferences and premier parenting events. She has also been featured in hundreds of top podcasts, print and online media outlets, including the Wellness Mama podcast, BloomTV, Forbes, Healthline, MindBodyGreen, National Geographic, PopSugar, Parents, Motherly, Parade, Verywell Health, and New York Post. Dr. Suzanne Goh, co-founder and chief medical officer at Cortica, is a Rhodes Scholar and graduate of Harvard University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School who has spent decades working with autistic children. Her work as a board-certified pediatric behavioral neurologist, behavioral analyst, neuroscience researcher, and author led her to create the Cortica Care Model, an innovative, whole-child approach that combines optimal medical treatment with the most effective strategies for advancing cognition, communication, and behavior. Dr. Elizabeth Boham is Board Certified in Family Medicine from Albany Medical School, and she is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and the Medical Director of The UltraWellness Center. Dr. Boham lectures on a variety of topics, including Women’s Health and Breast Cancer Prevention, insulin resistance, heart health, weight control and allergies. She is on the faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine. This episode is brought to you by BIOptimizers. Head to bioptimizers.com/hyman and use code HYMAN10 to save 10%. Full-length episodes can be found here: How to Raise Healthy Kids: A Functional Medicine Approach The Surprising Causes of Autism & Why It's On The Rise Addressing The Root Causes Of Childhood Obesity

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0:00.0

Coming up on this episode of the Dr. Hyman Show, all these kids have massive amounts of neuroinflammation.

0:05.7

Their brains are on fire. When your brain is on fire, it's hard for it to function.

0:11.8

I'm all about food first, but some nutrients like magnesium are nearly impossible to get enough of through diet alone.

0:17.0

Our soils are depleted and things like sugar, caffeine, and stress drain our levels.

0:21.5

Magnesium supports over 300 functions in the body. Think metabolism, sleep, energy, pain,

0:26.1

and more. That's why I recommend magnesium breakthrough by bioptimizers. It's the only supplement

0:30.6

with all seven forms of magnesium for full body support. Get 10% off at bioptimizers.com

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slash hymen with code hymen 10.

0:38.2

Before we jump into today's episode, I want to share a few ways you can go deeper on your health

0:42.5

journey.

0:43.0

While I wish I could work with everyone one-on-one, there just isn't enough time in the day,

0:46.9

so I've built several tools to help you take control of your health.

0:49.6

If you're looking for guidance, education, and community, check out my private membership, The Hyman Hive,

0:54.6

for live Q&A's exclusive content and direct connection. For real-time lab testing and

0:59.3

personalized insights into your biology, visit Function Health. You can also explore my curated

1:03.7

doctor-trusted supplements and health products at Dr.hyman.com. And if you prefer to listen

1:08.7

without any breaks, don't forget, you can enjoy every episode of this podcast, Add Free with Hyman Plus.

1:13.9

Just open Apple Podcasts and tap try free to start your seven-day free trial.

1:18.3

As a pediatrician, I always try to approach things with some fun, some joy, some hope, because as you said, it can be like, oh my gosh, the world is against me.

1:29.3

How can anyone be healthy in this world?

1:31.9

And we can.

1:32.8

So just, you know, empowering kids and parents to know there are simple steps that we can take to be healthy.

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