Welcome to Wellness on Mass. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, your host, Mom, and Forever Truth Seeker.

And today, I want to dive into something really important to all of us. I'm sure you have heard the

headlines or seen them a little bit about the recent Maha report that came out, put out by

Secretary Kennedy, the HHS Secretary. It was met with a lot of fanfare. A lot of

people were excited about it because he made a lot of promises before he dropped out of his own

presidential campaign race to join President Trump. But he has been talking about something that

for parents, physicians, just humans, we all should be interested in.

And that's chronic illness in our country. Now, I don't want to get into the entire report

because that is more than just one episode. But there was one aspect of the report that I thought

was really interesting that I absolutely wanted to touch on. One of it was talking about

the rise in ADHD and anxiety diagnoses in our children, and more specifically, about how much

we're actually medicating children, and not just medicating children, because obviously if there is a

proven benefit to treating someone, you want

to do that. If you have good outcomes and well-documented benefits, then what is the concern?

Well, the problem is the benefits of some of these medications, especially in children,

sometimes have more risks than even benefits.

And the overall benefit or success isn't the best documented. So I think it's a really interesting

point that they're bringing up. Now, mind you, what this report was, was just pointing out

problems. They threw out a whole bunch of fancy statistics, some of which I could probably argue for and a few I could argue maybe against.

Maybe there was a little bit of misrepresentation of some of the data.

But overall, the concept of what they're saying holds true.

And it's not new.

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