Jan 29, 2019
Dr. Joel Gator is a conventionally trained pediatrician. One day during his residency, he was faced with a 10-year-old boy with juvenile arthritis. None of the doctors had any idea of the cause, and labeled it simply as idiopathic. But Dr. Gator, noticing that the boy was always snacking on junk food like chips and candy, brought up the possibility that his diet might be connected to the symptoms. “Everybody kind of just laughed it off,” he remembers.
But after the child left the hospital, his family sought out Dr. Gator as a pediatrician, and they immediately began working on dietary changes, eliminating wheat and dairy and reducing sugar. The symptoms went away, and the child never came back to the hospital again. “That, to me, was a light bulb moment,” says Dr. Gator.
Listen to this episode to hear his thoughts on the troubling trends in chronic disease trends in children today, how diet may be connected to a rise in ADHD diagnoses, how to approach vaccines, what really causes autism, how he treats asthma, and why bridging the divide between Eastern and Western medicine is more important in today’s environment than it’s ever been.
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