Skills before Pills - Danielle Gansky's story (started ADHD meds at age 7, leading to polypharmacy for OCD and anxiety). Please listen - parents are not given truly informed consent, and children are certainly not informed.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6o0k7yTOBNjdMGCR5W9qDT?si=O4q0u7WmRLSZb48At67yLg
cc @physiologyfirst
R to @KrugAlli: As a high-performance coach, I enjoy helping people address the mind, body, and spirit. Sleep is a body-focused intervention that has impacts on the mind and spirit. It's amazing, really. I am so grateful to wake up each morning and be given a new chance to live out my God-given mission on earth. Most days, it's to discern what that mission is - respond to the prompt!
R to @KrugAlli: If you got all the way down here and are curious to learn more, please visit http://www.trainmyaim.com. I offer individual and group coaching to enhance self leadership - my current focus is communication in relationships (marriage, parenting younger kids, adult children with their parents, and workplace influence).
R to @KrugAlli: If anyone has full text access, please feel free to elaborate, but from what I can gather, they offered standard sleep intervention guidance, including wind-down routines (30-min to 60-min before bed), bed is only for sleep, don't hyper-focus on sleep being the outcome but just focus on preparing the body to accept sleep (my paraphrasing). Also be mindful of timing of stimulants, food, etc.
R to @KrugAlli: What I think is very important for folks to remember here is physiology matters - not just for kids with ADHD but for ADULTS with sleep challenges, and all humans in this wired-and-tired world.
Lack of quality sleep impairs athletic performance, cognitive flexibility, emotional regulation, and all the things that go into good self-leadership.
R to @KrugAlli: An RCT sleep intervention - SIESTA sleep protocol offered + treatment as usual (TAU) in one group vs TAU in the other. Pre/post surveys plus 4-month followup.
Note that depression improved. With sleep.
R to @KrugAlli: Keuppens L, Marten F, Baeyens D, Boyer B, Roose A, Becker S, Danckaerts M, Van der Oord S. Effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral sleep hygiene intervention for adolescents with ADHD: a randomized controlled trial. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2025 Nov;34(11):3415-3426. doi: 10.1007/s00787-025-02755-0.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00787-025-02755-0
Sleep intervention for ADHD improves depression in adolescents:
"Results: Results indicated significant improvement in SIESTA+TAU compared to TAU from pre- to post-test on sleep hygiene ([Formula: see text] =.21), chronic sleep reduction ([Formula: see text] =.15), and sleep-wake problem behaviors ([Formula: see text] =.05). Actigraphy and sleep diaries showed no significant differences, with both groups improving on sleep diaries. The improvements in sleep hygiene were maintained at follow-up ([Formula: see text] =.09). Of secondary outcomes, depressive symptoms reduced significantly more from pre- to post-test in SIESTA+TAU than in TAU only ([Formula: see text] =.09)."
cc @physiologyfirst
I think the High Point band has identified the proper amount of cowbell.
The FDA did a very unusual thing this week: It included photos from a recent unannounced inspection of an Indian drug manufacturer in its Warning Letter to the company - the first time I believe it's ever done so.
Would you believe this is from a drug manufacturer?
23% of schizophrenia patients test positive for anti-gluten antibodies.
In people without schizophrenia, that number is 3%.
A gluten-free diet improved negative symptoms with an effect size more than double what antipsychotics achieve.
Up to 30% of schizophrenia patients may not need to be on medication at all.
I met an 84-year-old woman who was offered euthanasia at a Canadian hospital practically upon arrival.
Miriam didn’t want to die. She recovered well and travelled to Cuba, Mexico, and Guatemala.
Stop offering death to people who have adventures to lead!
A Childhood on Psych Drugs: 14 Prescriptions by Age 20. @ChildrensHD @CHDTVLive #thirdCause @RxISKS #MAHA
At deaths at 1/118 for anyone who got the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, the risk of death alone outweighed any potential benefits for which there were essentially none. The deaths that my have been averted early due to induction of trained immunity following the first dose were cancelled out by the high number of deaths following the second dose.
While @NYCMayor outrageously sugarcoats Saturday’s horrific act of terrorism, I am beyond grateful to know NYPD heroes like Chief Aaron Edwards are working every day to keep us safe. This incredible image should remind New Yorkers to honor our brave @NYPDnews and thank them 🙌
Hospitals kill between 250,000 and 400,000 Americans per year through preventable medical errors. That makes “your doctor’s mistake” the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only cancer and heart disease.
Everyone reads advice like “stay with your loved one in the hospital” as a family values tip. The actual reason is darker. A board-certified physician is publicly admitting the system he operates in has enough failure points that an untrained person sitting in a chair provides a meaningful safety layer.
The math explains why. A landmark Penn study tracked 170,000+ surgeries across 168 hospitals. Each additional patient added to a nurse’s workload raised the odds of dying within 30 days by 7%. Staffing ratios across US hospitals range from 4.3 to 10.5 patients per nurse. That means one hospital gives your family member 2.4x less nursing attention than the hospital down the street, and you have zero way of knowing which one you walked into.
So what does a family member in the room actually do? They catch the wrong medication bag. They notice breathing changes at 2am when the nurse is covering nine other beds. They flag a deteriorating condition 6 hours before anyone on staff would have checked. They function as an unpaid, around-the-clock monitor compensating for a staffing model designed around reimbursement rates, not patient survival.
When a physician says “be cordial with staff but watch everything like a hawk,” he’s describing a system where the margin between good outcome and catastrophe is one missed check during a shift change. Hospitals don’t optimize for your family member’s recovery. They optimize for throughput.
700 people die from preventable hospital errors every single day. Your presence in that room isn’t emotional support. It’s a rounding error in a broken staffing equation that nobody has the budget to fix.
Not only does the U.S. have the highest per capita healthcare spending (to go along with its poorer outcomes), it’s the most liberal when it comes to drug approval. Too bad media doesn’t care to look into that very much, instead piling onto the Prasad takedown.
I am very sad that he has been pushed out. It is a sign of very deep corruption. However, I look forward to him being back on @Sensible__Med at some point in the future.
VP is a very special person so here’s the hard question your community should be asking:
If he wasn’t able to manifest change, what mere mortals can?
Is the regulatory enterprise so structurally flawed that it needs to be done away with entirely?
One of the best things you’ve written. More of us should be seething mad at how this played out.
Really excellent responses from @FogelSylvia including her own personal experience holding her son for hours while he grappled with terrible gastrointestinal pain and headaches. Grateful for her leadership here, and taking the time to provide thoughtful responses!
Happening Now in the Oval Office at the @WhiteHouse.
God Bless the USA!
🙏❤️🇺🇸🦅
I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of these…
Before the Devils/Leafs game tonight, they honored Megan Keller, Aerin Frankel & Haley Winn who were joined by Jack Hughes & Auston Matthews for the puck drop.
Loud USA chants. Incredible moment again 🇺🇸
R to @KrugAlli: 15 years later, I decided to become a SENG-certified facilitator and co-lead groups for parents of 2e kids. If you would like to find a community of parents who get it, resources and strategies to help you feel more connected, capable, confident in your parenting and less overwhelmed - please consider joining us!
Next group starts April 14! Join here...
https://trainmyaim.com/home/seng-group-parents-of-gifted-2e-children
Great article on serving 2e students! https://sengifted.org/supporting-twice-exceptional-students-with-adhd-a-strength-based-lens/?utm_source=brevo
"Mentorship plays a critical role here. One student I worked with was obsessed with weather and maps. His thinking was hard for others to follow, but when his family leaned into that interest and connected him with a mentor, everything changed. They met only a handful of times, but the intellectual match was transformative. Being with “his people” mattered more than any worksheet ever could. Research on belonging and identity formation among gifted learners reinforces the importance of intellectual peer alignment and mentorship (Kaufman, 2018; Sabatino & Wiebe, 2018)."
R to @KrugAlli: I can personally attest to the life-changing value of finding a community of parents who get it. SENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted) was the first place I found other parents who really understood the emotional and intellectual (as well as physical) load of parenting a child with exceptional educational needs.
Doctors were banned from LinkedIn for attempting to give informed consent on risk vs. benefit of C19 vax. BMI should have been the all-important risk factor for youth.
https://x.com/KrugAlli/status/2023842411869565336?s=20
@WhiteHouse46’ @CDCgov & #Fauci knowingly lied to the American public, stating over & over again that that the covid infection, including males 18-25, presented far higher risks of hospitalization & myocarditis than the covid vax. 🔥🔥🔥
The OPPOSITE was true. Males 18-25 had an 8x greater risk of myocarditis as a result of the covid vax than via covid infection.🔥🔥🔥
Just imagine how many families have endured their son’s senseless death b/c of covid vax mandates.😣😣😣😣 @SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay @drdrew
My 2 sons are in the 18-25 age range,
You make some fair points: myocarditis after mRNA vax was real, eventually quantified by surveillance systems, and is rare overall. But you selectively frame and leave out important context:
1. Downplay timeline. Early reports surfaced in Israel and in U.S. military in spring ‘21, yet public messaging lagged. CDC Director Walensky (below) said there were no vax-linked cases even as the signal was being investigated. Concern isn’t that signal wasn’t studied but that authorities lied.
2. You cite population averages that obscure the highest-risk group. Multiple systems found ~100–300 cases per million second doses in young males, especially ages 16–24, which changes the risk–benefit calc (below).
3. The “COVID myocarditis is worse than vaccine myocarditis” claim lacks context. Vax doesn’t prevent infection, so there’s vax risk plus infection risk.
4. You lean on early-pandemic concerns like MIS-C, now rare, and call vax myocarditis mostly mild without noting ICU cases, persistent MRI abnormalities, and rare deaths reported in the literature.
5. You dismiss ongoing scrutiny as a “historical grievance.” Questions about subgroup risk, long-term outcomes, and policy choices remain legitimate, especially when vax uptake in the U.S. has plummeted.
Sounds like you’re still defending some terrible decisions. Also thanks to new FDA (below) and people like @KrugAlli who help shine some light.
This peer-reviewed study is now in the top 25% of all published research. Thank you for ensuring it is visible. Previous studies by our team have been in the top 1%. I fear that folks have moved on and no one cares about the bad science conducted in 2021-2022, but I do, and my team does.
We hope that this study offers a template for sound benefit-risk analysis of vaccines - taking into account immunity from prior infection (which the Biden FDA ignored) and comorbidities (also ignored by the prior FDA). They also overestimated benefits and underestimated harms - all meticulously discussed in this paper.
Please share on all platforms that matter! Thank you.
R to @KrugAlli: Donate what you can here - all amounts are appreciated.
https://restorechildhood.com/donate
R to @KrugAlli: "Restore Childhood’s mission is to ensure that independent, unfunded research continues in parallel, not because we distrust what is being rebuilt, but because decentralized science is healthier than science that flows only from the top. The work our team published is exactly the kind of research that should exist alongside what government agencies produce: a check, a comparison, an independent voice.
The study is published. The methodology is transparent. Anyone can examine it."
R to @KrugAlli: Independent research funded by Restore Childhood. Donate now to support work like the published study above.
https://brownstone.org/articles/a-small-nonprofit-did-what-the-fda-would-not/
R to @KrugAlli: The article continues...
"This is not the same FDA.
I came to this country from the Soviet Union as a six-year-old child. I understand in my bones what it looks like when institutions demand deference they have not earned. I spent the pandemic watching that demand made, of parents, of children, of doctors, of scientists, and I have spent the years since refusing to comply."
R to @KrugAlli: "But I want to be clear: the institutions that failed us are being rebuilt. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his team at the NIH (and now the CDC) are working to restore transparency, replication standards, and independence to American science. Dr. Marty Makary and his team at the FDA are committed to the same. This matters. The problem was never science itself. The problem was the corruption of science by institutional and financial incentives that displaced honest inquiry. Those incentives are being confronted."
"When you account for what the FDA failed to account for, the math changes. Vaccine risks outweighed benefits for the general population of 18–25-year-old males relative to hospitalizations: those caused by vaccine-attributable myocarditis/pericarditis exceeded the hospitalizations prevented via vaccination — by between 8% and 52%, with the team’s most likely scenario showing a 38% excess."
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/14/2/165
This is truly disgusting. I once had a high regard for Dr. Offit.
Agree with this post. I'm glad ACIP is looking at all vaccines, and HPV is one particularly deserving of an honest risk-benefit appraisal.
Up until about 5 minutes ago, we all knew what a woman was. That's why there is a Women's History Month.
@xx_xyathletics & @ADFLegal made this video asking why the ACLU legal team can't define "woman" now for the purpose of protecting women's rights.