09/22/2026
CASE STUDY below…
I guarantee this child had toxic metals in his body for years that went undiagnosed by the average physician.
Fungal overgrowth loves to feed on the metals. As soon as I learn a client is dealing with disruptive behavior or fungal overgrowth, I always recommend getting a toxic metal urine provocation challenge (I suggest collecting the urine for 24 hours not 6 or 12 hours because those suffering with these symptoms tend to be slow chelators)
So glad Dr Hyman’s patient chelated the lead out and that he is feeling much better. Bravo Mark Hyman, MD! 🙌 🤩
Folks, this is how to address symptoms, not merely by medicating them, but by doing our due diligence to get to the root causes of disease.
Think of all the children who aren’t getting correctly diagnosed because the doctors aren’t educated enough to do the proper due diligence to discover the root cause of their disease. How many of them end up on pharmaceuticals unnecessarily? How many of them get labeled with mental health issues unnecessarily?
It’s time our Health System makes a shift to discovering the root causes and treating them properly, not merely medicating them. Above all, physicians should be healers, not merely administers of pharmaceuticals. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
A 12 year old boy walks into my office having already seen a psychiatrist, an allergist, a lung doctor, maybe a GI doctor. Seven different drugs by age 12. Kicked out of kindergarten for being disruptive. Diagnosed with ADHD and put on stimulant medication for years.
Nobody connected the dots. He also had asthma, headaches, stomachaches, insomnia. Each doctor treated their one piece and ignored the rest.
I did a full workup instead of writing another prescription. His gut microbiome was a mess. Leaky gut. Elevated gluten antibodies. Reacting to dairy. Fungal overgrowth. Low zinc, low magnesium, low B6, low folate, low omega 3s. Lead toxicity.
He ate only processed food. Never a vegetable in his life.
So we removed the gluten, dairy, sugar and processed food. Rebuilt his microbiome with probiotics. Treated the fungal overgrowth. Chelated the lead. Corrected the nutrient deficiencies with magnesium, zinc, fish oil.
Two months later his mother brought him back. No more symptoms. No more meds. No more behavioral issues.
And his handwriting went from illegible to perfect penmanship. Same kid, same brain, two months apart.
That handwriting change is what made me write The UltraMind Solution. A brain that chaotic and disorganized became coherent and synchronized once we fixed what was happening in his body. The writing on the page was just a reflection of what was happening in his gut.
ADHD is not a brain problem. It's a systemic problem that shows up in the brain. If your kid's brain isn't working right, don't just look north of the neck. Look at what's happening south of the border first.
