Steven Bartlett

Yeah.

Okay.

Yes.

So ADHD was one of the factors that drove me to right being there because I was seeing this huge uptick in ADHD diagnosis and children being medicated so, so early.

Do you know what the fight or flight reaction is?

Yes.

So, well, it's basically our evolutionary response to a predatorial threat.

So if a sable-toothed tiger was chasing you, you either stood and fought, fight, or you ran for your life, flight.

Right.

So when our children are under stress, they go into fight or flight.

So one of the first signs that a child is under stress that they cannot manage is when they become aggressive in school.

They hit, they bite, they throw chairs.

They have trouble, you know, socially in daycare or preschool or even in school.

Or they become distracted, which is the flight part of fight or flight.

So what's happening is their nervous systems, the stress-regulating part of their brain is getting turned on.

So we say that the stress-regulating part of their brain has to do with a little almond-shaped part of the brain called the amygdala.

It's a very primitive part of the brain, very old part of the brain.

And it regulates stress throughout our lives.

It helps us to manage it.

What we know is that part of the brain is supposed to remain offline for the first year to three years, which is why mothers wear babies on their bodies.