Thu Jun 30, 2022 – 11:06 am EDT
(Children’s Health Defense) – Chronic disease among children is “skyrocketing,” Dr. Joel “Gator” Warsh told Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on a recent episode of “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast.”
If we don’t change something, “every kid’s going to have a chronic disease,” Warsh said.
An integrative and holistic pediatrician in Los Angeles, California, Warsh also is the medical advisor for Earth Conscious Films.
While the COVID-19 pandemic led to more worried kids, said Warsh, even more worrisome is the increasing rate of chronic disease among children.
Warsh told Kennedy he fielded calls about depressed or anxious children “every single day” during the pandemic. It was “devastating,” he said. “It’s really terrible, what’s happened to the kids.”
He went from seeing “a lot of colds and coughs and runny noses and earaches – and all of the normal stuff – to a lot of mental health concerns, anxiety, stress, worries,” he said.
Though the situation has improved somewhat over the last few months, Warsh said, many children are still afraid.
“If you’re told every day to be concerned about something, then it’s really hard to turn that off … If we’re just talking about disease every day
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