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🗓️ 27 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | ADHD. |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:05.4 | Okay. |
| 0:06.3 | I don't feel like I don't even have to ask a question here, but just to set the stage, the reason why I'm so compelled by this is just this, I have to say it, the shocking rise in diagnosis and prescriptions over the last 10 years. Between 2020, 2018, ADHD diagnosis is in the UK |
| 0:26.4 | rose approximately 20-fold. Yes. Among boys aged 10 to 16 diagnosis increased from 1% roughly to |
| 0:33.9 | about 3.5% in 2018. And in men aged 18 to 29, there was a nearly 50-fold increase in |
| 0:42.0 | ADHD prescriptions during the same period. And the same applies to the United States, |
| 0:45.9 | where an estimated 15.5 million adults in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD. Approximately |
| 0:51.3 | one in nine US children have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point, with |
| 0:56.6 | 10.5% having a current diagnosis. I don't know where ADHD was, but the conversation around |
| 1:03.3 | at the prescriptions, the diagnosis seemed to have really surged into culture in a really, |
| 1:07.2 | really big way. What's going on? |
| 1:09.6 | So ADHD was one of the factors that drove me |
| 1:12.9 | to right being there because I was seeing this huge uptick in ADHD diagnosis and children |
| 1:18.8 | being medicated so, so early. Do you know what the fight or flight reaction is? |
| 1:24.1 | That's when the sympathetic nervous system starts to kick into action. |
| 1:31.1 | Yes. |
| 1:32.0 | So, well, it's basically our evolutionary response to predatory threat. |
| 1:37.3 | So if a sable tooth tiger was chasing you, you either stood and fought, fight, or you ran for your life, flight. So when our children are |
| 1:52.5 | under stress, they go into fight or flight. So one of the first signs that a child is under stress that they cannot manage is when |
| 2:04.6 | they become aggressive in school. They hit, they bite, they throw chairs, they have trouble |
| 2:12.0 | socially in daycare or preschool or even in school. Or they become distracted, which is the |
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