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Yes, we're better diagnosis. That's no question. That's a small part of it.

But especially if you just look at the last 20 years, things haven't changed that much in terms of diagnosis criteria.

You can go back hundreds of years but even then we

didn't go from one in 25,000 or one in a few thousand to one in 30 because it's not

happening more we didn't go from one or five percent chronic disease to 50 percent over a few decades

because it's not happening more. Yes we're absolutely better at

diagnosing things so that's a small part of it but if you go if you think

back to when you were a child you don't most people

almost anyone I've ever asked they don't really remember anybody with

autism or maybe one or two people they don't really remember allergies or

maybe one person had a peanut allergy they don't really remember asthma I why do you

think now most people, it seems, are waiting later in life to have children?

I think number one, people don't feel ready to be parents.

We're forgetting that to be a good parent you really don't need anything right

that there's not enough stuff that you can get to be a great parent I mean some some things could

probably help a little bit here and there but to be a good parent it's about being

there and loving your children.

Is it too late to turn this ship around?

Parenting at your child's pace, the Integrative Pediatricians Guide to the first three

years. This one is going front and center in my bookshelf at home. I'm so

stoked to to welcome my son into the world in just a few months and this is

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