Hey folks it's Ben Greenfield and I'm here with David Minkoff from the

LifeWorks Wellness Center down in Florida. He's been on the podcast before and

of course for the show notes to this episode I'll make sure that I link you to

all the other great calls that we've done with Dr. Minkoff but today we're

going to talk about asthma and specifically exercise induced asthma in kids

because I actually ran this question by Dr. Minkoff a few weeks ago when I

noticed that one of my children would run up a hill and would get to the top

of the hill and be just great smiling and and ready to move on to the next

thing and the other boy his twin would stop about halfway up the hill and

complain that he couldn't breathe and the same thing has happened during soccer

games it's happened during wrestling matches and you know these are these are

little five or four-year-old children I know this type of thing happens to

adults as well and Dr. Minkoff's reply really surprised me and it kind of went

outside of what you would consider to be the mainstream response to something

like exercise induced asthma so Dr. Minkoff and I today are going to talk a

little bit about this what it is and and why we see kids and adults

struggling with this possibly more and more so Dr. Minkoff thank you for coming

on the call today. Yeah Ben I'm looking forward to it also. So before we

kind of launch into this can you kind of give me your your spin on exactly what

exercise induced asthma is like you know how does it manifest or what causes it.

Yeah I think my background originally it was pediatrics and when a kid would

come into my office who was weeding the traditional treatment would be to

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