Brent McMillan

11/18/2022

A child that snores is at risk of brain damage.

Neuroimaging studies are the first to show that white matter damage caused by plummeting oxygen levels during severe obstructive sleep apnea. It ca reversed by continuous positive airway pressure therapy.

The issue is that this is a very difficult treatment for a child.

Over the past two decades, parents and teachers have reported epidemic levels of children with trouble focusing, impulsive behavior and so much energy that they are bouncing off walls. Educators, policymakers and scientists have referred to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, as a national crisis and have spent billions of dollars looking into its cause.

What is interesting, is that the medical literature has been showing a very strong connection between kids diagnosed with ADHD, and underlying sleep issues.

Are they just tired?

What if, as a growing number of researchers are proposing, many kids today simply aren't getting the sleep they need, leading to challenging behaviors that mimic ADHD?
Sleep disorders often mimic ADHD symptoms, causing inattentiveness and restlessness in people who don’t have ADHD.

Growing evidence suggests that a segment of children with ADHD are misdiagnosed and actually suffer from insufficient sleep, insomnia, obstructed breathing or another known sleep disorder.

But the most paradigm-challenging idea may be that ADHD may itself be a sleep disorder. If correct, this idea could fundamentally change the way ADHD is studied and treated.

75% of people with ADHD have sleep disturbances and that the less sleep they get the more severe the symptoms. In one paper, scientists showed that a group of children with nighttime breathing issues who were diagnosed with ADHD no longer met the diagnostic criteria for the disorder after they had their adenoids or tonsils removed to treat the sleep problem.

That means if kids snore, and have symptoms of ADHD, you need to investigate their breathing at night.

This includes development of the dental arch which supports the airway at night and tendencies to mouth breathe.

Don’t ignore kids who don’t sleep well.

Do you or a family member suffer from these issues?

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03/09/2022

Posted • Posted • Another HBS certification course in the books! Great job to everyone involved. Regenerating is a road with many twists and turns. My job is to try and make the hard ones more bearable. In life, there are no certainties, but there are probabilities. I operate on probabilities and it’s proven to serve me as well as those who occupy the same mental space.

What’s the mental space oriented around? Getting results on a consistent basis. The bias in this thought process is oriented around whatever actually solves the problem. It doesn’t matter how the solution is packaged so long as it solves the problem. I think everyone here learned that this week.

Thanks again for coming everyone, heavy changes on the way!

08/05/2020

Reposted from Unstable realities are the product of poor choices. The poorer the choices, the more instability we face. Solving problems is a binary process most of the time. If you contextually choose the 1 and the 0 when you are supposed to, reality rewards you. If you don't, the opposite happens.
Right now, humanity is in the process of mapping out the 1s and 0s. That's one thing we aren't in control of. Life is a big experiment and you partake in it one way or the other. How you experiment matters and that's the role I have been mostly concerned with all this time.
Nature gives us the feedback, we just have to read the signals. Learning to read the signals is within the realm of our control. That's my focus. Hope that helps.

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08/02/2020

In order to change mechanisms in your physiology, a change in your behavioral patterns must come along with it. After some fun in the sun(correctives), getting some reading done so I can try to better understand what’s going on.







@ Brooklyn, New York

01/18/2019

I truly want the best for all humanity. That goes for strangers, close friends, family, my students, my clients, the list goes on. With that comes with the responsibility of telling people things that they do not always want to hear.
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Criticism isn’t something that I’ve seen others do too well with. It’s as if by deciding to disregard a particular relevant concept, it’ll eventually dissipate. You don’t solve issues by being sedentary, and you don’t fix your physiology by constantly burying your head in the sand. So I say, bring on the criticism...I am forever evolving and you should be too.
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09/24/2018

Intention is what gets stuff done.
“You’re life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by change” -Jim Rohn