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AMP #115 Dr. Gabor Mate on Addiction, Stress, and the Way Out

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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What Is the Root of ADD and ADHD?

I think you have some interesting takes on kind of where this comes from and what this is actually a symptom of what is the root of ADD and ADHD well my first book was on that and I wrote that after I was diagnosed with myself in my 50s but I never bought into the idea that it's a genetic disease or a disease at all because tuning out the absent-mindedness the scattering detention is not a disease it's actually a nature-given coping mechanism. The parenting environment for so many families have become so stressed that more and more kids as infants are having to tune out than end up being diagnosed. To be radical you have to go to the roots of things and and deal with

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