Hello and welcome to the wellness mama podcast I'm Katie from wellnesswama.com and I am back for round

to with today's guest Donna Kay about supporting children with ADHD through a multifaceted approach. If you missed our first

episode the link for that is in the show notes and we go deep on a food first

approach even supplemental to medication or in place of medication to really supporting our children's nutritional and

inflammatory and detox needs if they are working through the symptoms of

ADHD. In this episode we go even deeper on the gut brain connection and how this has such a dramatic

and direct impact on the symptomology of ADHD. She shares some really surprising

statistics including that over 54% of American children

are diagnosed with some sort of chronic condition and how 80% of the immune

system lives in the gut as well as 95% of serotonin in the body and 50% of dopamine are produced in the gut.

She talks about how this is a two-way communication pathway between the gut and the brain

and how they both affect each other quite dramatically.

This episode also gets very practical and she talks about testing that can help you get an accurate

picture of what's going on in the gut and in the rest of the body in a child that is working through ADHD as well as most

commonly helpful supplements and dietary interventions with caveats on how to personalize those to your child based on testing.

I say so often on here that we are each our own primary health care provider and I feel like she gives

some very practical and actionable advice on how to step into that role if your child is struggling through ADHD.

So let's join her and learn now.

Donna, welcome back.

Thanks for being here again.

Thank you so much for having me.

Well, if you guys missed it, our first episode

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