If you're parenting a kid who seems to be changing in real time, more anxious, more reactive, more rigid, more overwhelmed, and you keep getting the same tired answers, this episode is for you. Too often pediatrics treats behavior like the whole story: label it, medicate it, manage it… and then wonder why nothing truly shifts.

In part two of this conversation on Medical Disruptors, I bring back pediatrician and integrative medicine fellow Dr. Pejman Katiraei to go deeper on a missed driver: brain inflammation. 

Because "ADHD," anxiety, sensory overload, phobias, obsessive looping, and even rage can be what it looks like when a child's nervous system is stuck in high alert. Not a kid being "difficult."

Pejman explains the brain's immune cells (microglia) in plain English and why, when they're activated, everything can start to feel like a threat. That's when you see fear-based behavior, rigidity, big reactions, and changes that don't match your child's baseline.

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