The Hello, welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Evan Brand. Today, we're talking about motivation,

something that everyone's lacking in. I've lacked in motivation sometimes, but usually I catch myself

and then I go, oh crap, I got to hurry up and get

myself back on track here. Let's do some of this. Let's do some adaptogens. Let's do some amino acids.

And then boom, I'm back in action. And so that's what we're going to talk about today. Some of the

functional medicine strategies that I use clinically and personally to fix low motivation. This is a huge

problem for children and teenagers. I had a new client last week

who was a school psychologist and she told me that every kid she works with age 12, 14, 16, 17,

the whole age group that she's seen over the years grow up in the school system. They have no

motivation. They're on their cell phones 24-7.

They have no drive.

They have no zest for life.

They have no future outlook.

They have no one year, five-year, 10-year plan in life.

They're just living in survival mode, constantly in fear of judgment from others via social media,

constantly worried about what others think about them. And they're so focused

on this intrapersonal relationship drama that they just can't create any motivation for life

to actually get things done. And I just felt so bad hearing that. I'm like, my God, this is crazy.

Now, we had our own issues when we were kids, right? But the world is just a totally different place now.

And so I'm really grateful for the opportunity to help so many children.

You know, I work with children from prenatal appointments, women that can't get pregnant,

to women that are pregnant and helping them detoxify safely during pregnancy

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