What's Actually Driving Your Child's ADHD Symptoms (It Might Start in the Gut) with Dana Kay
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What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?
You've tried the strategies. You've read the books. You've managed the behaviors. And the chaos is still winning.
What if the problem isn't the behavior at all? What if it starts somewhere else entirely?
Dana Kay is the founder of the ADHD Thrive Institute, a board-certified health and nutrition practitioner, and a mom who watched her five-year-old get prescribed a fourth medication before she decided there had to be another way. Today she walks us through the gut-brain connection, what functional lab testing actually shows about ADHD kids, and the one small rule your whole family can start with today.
In this episode:
The quick win: the "no naked carb" rule and why blood sugar stability changes everything for ADHD brains
Why 95% of serotonin and 50% of dopamine are produced in the gut, not the brain
How a compromised gut sends inflammatory signals straight to the frontal lobe, the part responsible for focus, planning, and executive function
What functional lab testing looks like for kids (hint: no needles)
The "trash can" framework for understanding inflammatory load
Why Dana is not anti-medication and why she still advocates for this approach first
Dana's son went from daily meltdowns and four medications at age five to thriving at sixteen, off medication for years. More than 1,600 families have been through her method. This conversation will change how you think about what your child's body is trying to tell you.
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