WEBVTT 00:00.560 --> 00:08.460 NIH has just brought in a maps doctor, pediatrician neurologist, Dr. John Gay-Tannis to lead NIH's 00:08.460 --> 00:12.760 Eunice Kennedy Stryver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. 00:13.440 --> 00:18.600 I have the head of maps coming in to talk about John, great guy. This is a huge advancement. 00:19.260 --> 00:23.620 And anyone who wants to say, you know, Robert Kenney Jr. is not doing anything, this is going to be big. 00:23.960 --> 00:28.940 Dr. James Neu and Sean joins me now. Dr. New. All right. 00:28.940 --> 00:33.840 Yes, Del. First of all, for people watching, what is a maps doctor? What does this mean? 00:35.060 --> 00:43.840 Well, it's the Medical Academy of Pediatrics and Special Leads. And basically, we're the only organization that's dedicated to children with special needs. 00:44.160 --> 00:54.440 And we're taking the approach of root cause medicine. So, you know, that previous segment that you just showed with that poor woman with her children and mental health, 00:54.440 --> 01:02.640 you know, that's a really good example of how medicine's gone wrong, where psychiatrists don't even try to figure out what's causing the problem. 01:02.880 --> 01:07.660 They're just going to medicate. You know, you have symptoms. Here's a pharmaceutical. That's what the models become. 01:07.920 --> 01:11.620 So, at maps, we're trying to teach, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, you've got a kid with ADHD. 01:11.960 --> 01:15.520 You have a kid with autism. You have a kid with depression. You have a kid with asthma. 01:15.700 --> 01:18.900 You have a kid with diabetes or obese, whatever the case might be. 01:18.900 --> 01:27.240 There usually is an underlying root cause causing that issue. And your job as a physician is to figure out what that cause is and then treat at that level. 01:27.520 --> 01:32.220 And when you have somebody like John, who, you know, this is guys, I mean, he's a superstar. 01:32.520 --> 01:38.320 You know, he's a head of pediatric neurology at Tufts, and then he was at Brown. 01:38.640 --> 01:44.060 And now he's going to head up a department that is dedicated to pediatric health and development. 01:44.060 --> 01:51.100 And this is not a small department. I mean, this is $1.7 billion budget over 1,100 employees. 01:51.340 --> 02:01.480 It's a big deal. But when you look at, you know, I mean, I have a big issue with, and I know Secretary Kennedy's dealing with this. 02:01.920 --> 02:06.120 You know, when you look at autism and the research at NIH, you know, where have they put their money? 02:06.620 --> 02:09.980 You know, the money's where your mouth is. Where did they put their money on research? 02:09.980 --> 02:14.180 Almost all of it's gone to genetics, right? So over 85%. 02:14.180 --> 02:19.420 In the last 10 years, that's almost $3 billion that they've spent on autism research. 02:19.720 --> 02:24.760 And 85% of that went to looking at genetics, you know, for an epidemic. 02:25.080 --> 02:27.840 I mean, when was the last time we had a genetic epidemic? 02:28.120 --> 02:33.780 And to their credit, some of that was the interplay between the environment and the genes. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.680 But even that was only about 11%. 02:36.680 --> 02:46.680 Most of the rest of it was just pure genetics. You know, in the same time period, they spent maybe 1.5%, 2% on, like, epigenetics, 02:47.440 --> 02:51.280 and maybe 5% on environmental causes. I mean, it's just ridiculous. 02:51.480 --> 02:54.980 And if anybody thinks, oh, that's because we were trying to figure out autism, no. 02:55.220 --> 02:57.780 Just look at 2025's number. It's the same thing. 02:58.200 --> 03:04.180 John understands that the answers to things like autism are not in the realm of genetics. 03:04.180 --> 03:10.200 They're in the realm of biochemistry, of environmental impact on the health of our children. 03:10.380 --> 03:17.500 And he's the guy that is now the head of that organization that has his fingers on the purse strings of that $1.7 billion. 03:17.980 --> 03:24.080 So we're all very, very excited to see him take that job, to see him take that helm 03:24.080 --> 03:28.300 because this could truly alter the course of pediatrics. 03:28.620 --> 03:32.180 I mean, we've discussed this before. We have completely failed our children, right? 03:32.180 --> 03:36.460 I mean, our children are sicker and all that than ever before. We failed them. 03:36.800 --> 03:42.420 And he's the person that can put that train back on the tracks and get it heading in the right direction. 03:42.580 --> 03:45.040 So we are very, very excited about him being there. 03:45.740 --> 03:51.520 That's fantastic. You know, when you describe it, Dr. New, it sounds like you're describing what medicine used to be. 03:51.660 --> 03:56.600 I talked to every doctor over the age of usually about 60. 03:56.600 --> 04:01.580 They say, you know, it used to be an investigation. We were trained. Your patient knows more than you do. 04:01.720 --> 04:04.760 Listen to them. Really get deep into their background. 04:04.980 --> 04:08.000 What did they start seeing their issues? Where did it come from? 04:08.320 --> 04:11.580 All that's been erased by the pharmaceutical trained doctors now. 04:11.740 --> 04:13.640 There's just a drug, another drug, as we just heard. 04:14.020 --> 04:19.360 Every answer, every problem is a drug. It's like that joke, you know, for every hammer. 04:20.420 --> 04:23.340 Was every hammer the problem was a nail? 04:24.540 --> 04:26.940 Every nail problems a hammer? I don't know. Whatever that is. 04:27.060 --> 04:32.200 When your only tool, when your only tool is a hammer, then the entire world is a nail. 04:32.440 --> 04:32.880 That's the problem. 04:34.500 --> 04:40.780 There are times when medications are appropriate, but obviously, many times they're not. 04:41.240 --> 04:46.620 Well, I mean, in this measles thing. I mean, I'm terrified that doctors now, if I go to the, they don't know how to treat measles. 04:46.620 --> 04:52.740 I mean, you know, if you don't have silver hair, I don't think I want you near my kids if we have the measles, you know, 04:52.780 --> 04:57.140 I just want you to know this used to not be deadly. We should be dying here today, right? 04:58.640 --> 05:04.460 Well, and that's, you know, again, that's also part of what maps is about is teaching that, you know, how do you teach, 05:05.500 --> 05:12.220 you know, how do you treat these illnesses that we've forgotten how to treat because they've been vaccinating for them, right? 05:12.220 --> 05:18.080 And so, you know, if you choose not to vaccinate, and that should be your choice, but if you choose not to vaccinate, 05:18.320 --> 05:24.500 is there a practitioner you can go to should your child get the measles or mumps or chicken box or whatever the case might be? 05:25.240 --> 05:27.140 You know, you want to have somebody that has that knowledge. 05:28.140 --> 05:33.060 Absolutely. Well, look, if there's doctors out there, more and more of them are waking up. 05:33.200 --> 05:37.600 COVID was a big wake-up moment. I know maps is starting to boom, but you have a conference coming up. 05:37.600 --> 05:44.660 And one of the things you do is train doctors that want to, you know, move out of drug-based, you know, medicine 05:44.660 --> 05:48.760 and in to actually learn to investigate again. So tell me about your conference coming up. 05:49.700 --> 05:56.400 Yeah, so we have a conference coming up in Philadelphia, it's September 10th through the 12th for doctors. 05:56.980 --> 06:02.920 And then we also have, starting with our last conference, we have on Sunday, which would be the 13th, 06:02.920 --> 06:08.520 we have a conference for parents as well. So the really important thing is that, you know, 06:08.580 --> 06:13.340 the title of our conference is, you know, originally we wanted to put redefining autism. 06:14.160 --> 06:18.460 We just got rid of the RE because I don't think anybody's defined autism in the first place. 06:18.800 --> 06:24.860 So a big part, right? I mean, it's based on symptoms. It's the same thing that you were talking about with a psychologist. 06:25.320 --> 06:29.600 You know, if all you're doing is describing symptoms, then pneumonia is, you know, 06:29.600 --> 06:33.600 group B strep pneumonia, what are streptococcus pneumonia is not that. 06:33.840 --> 06:38.820 It's chest pain, you know, fever and cough syndrome. That's a psychiatric diagnosis, right? 06:39.120 --> 06:44.160 So we're trying to say, okay, you have a kid with autism. We know that that's not one thing. 06:44.240 --> 06:48.300 We know there's multiple subtypes of autism. What are they? What causes autism? 06:48.520 --> 06:52.900 What are these syndromes? What's the metabolism behind it? 06:53.160 --> 06:57.080 So that's what it's all about. And it's really important for parents to understand that 06:57.080 --> 07:01.060 when you start getting into this realm of, you know, on this end of the spectrum, 07:01.220 --> 07:07.400 you've got the kid who's nonverbal, you know, banging his head against the wall, smearing his poop on the wall 07:07.400 --> 07:12.460 and we call that autism. And on the other end, you have some guy who woke up at age 34 07:12.460 --> 07:15.740 and said he's had a lot of problems with relationships and doesn't get along with people 07:15.740 --> 07:18.620 and he's diagnosed with autism and they have the same diagnosis. 07:18.900 --> 07:20.500 You know, I don't think they're the same thing. 07:20.740 --> 07:24.780 So we're trying to present this the way you would present anything in medicine as 07:24.780 --> 07:28.300 these are biochemical problems that these children have. 07:28.560 --> 07:31.920 It's a neurologic disorder, not a psychiatric disorder. 07:32.200 --> 07:35.380 And if that's the case, then it should be treatable at that level. 07:35.660 --> 07:40.140 Again, not with drugs, but what's causing that autism and that's really what this is all about. 07:40.500 --> 07:43.800 So we're really excited. We've been having great success with these conferences. 07:44.460 --> 07:48.480 The idea is, can we bring practitioners up to speed with what we're doing 07:48.480 --> 07:52.840 and get them trained in a way that they start thinking this way, right? 07:52.840 --> 07:58.120 You know, it should never be, here's a symptom, here's the pharmacy to go along with it. 07:58.440 --> 08:02.700 You know, here's a symptom. Okay, how is it connected to all these other symptoms as a child has, right? 08:03.080 --> 08:05.700 And then what is the underlying cause that's driving it? 08:05.840 --> 08:10.000 That's what we're trying to look at. And with parents too, because I always say, 08:10.160 --> 08:12.740 you know, you want to get to the doctors, get to the parents, right? 08:13.060 --> 08:15.280 The parents are going to start asking the doctors questions. 08:15.500 --> 08:17.260 And then it's like, well, where did you get that information? 08:17.480 --> 08:19.120 Oh, I went to a maps conference, right? 08:19.120 --> 08:24.120 So, you know, it really should become the standard of pediatrics in the country. 08:24.820 --> 08:27.380 And even doctors will say, well, I don't see kids in my practice. 08:27.740 --> 08:29.620 You know what? You're going to learn a lot at a maps conference 08:29.620 --> 08:32.540 because it's not just kids that this stuff applies to. 08:32.920 --> 08:35.340 You know, if you're just throwing drugs at your patients 08:35.340 --> 08:37.900 and you know that patient's going to come back with the same symptom 08:37.900 --> 08:41.860 because a drug doesn't fix anything, it just suppresses the symptom. 08:42.020 --> 08:43.540 That's what drugs do for the most part. 08:43.960 --> 08:47.700 You know, then if you want to find out a way to actually care for your patients, 08:47.700 --> 08:49.440 that's also what maps is about. 08:49.860 --> 08:51.600 Well, I love that you're out there, James. 08:51.860 --> 08:53.040 It's such an important work. 08:53.220 --> 08:57.140 I love that we now have a map stocker in a really powerful position. 08:57.420 --> 09:01.320 Good on Robert Kennedy Jr. and President Trump for making this happen. 09:01.600 --> 09:03.180 We really are starting to evolve. 09:03.460 --> 09:05.500 This is where medicine needs to go. 09:05.620 --> 09:06.380 Do you have a nonprofit? 09:06.700 --> 09:09.600 I know a lot of the work that you do takes donations, right? 09:09.660 --> 09:12.460 Where does someone go if they want to donate to the cause? 09:13.500 --> 09:13.920 Oh, here we go. 09:13.920 --> 09:18.920 Again, yeah, we do have a funding source for maps. 09:19.180 --> 09:21.400 It's the givebutter.com medmaps. 09:21.800 --> 09:24.080 You know, and our website is medmaps.com. 09:24.480 --> 09:24.880 Is it givebetter or givebutter? 09:25.080 --> 09:25.780 Did we write that wrong? 09:25.920 --> 09:27.020 Just want to make sure we have this. 09:27.100 --> 09:28.020 No, it's givebutter. 09:28.180 --> 09:29.920 It's givebutter.com. 09:30.200 --> 09:31.200 All right, all right. 09:31.760 --> 09:35.760 And if you're going to send me butter, it better be grass-fed, organic, 09:36.080 --> 09:37.960 grass-raised butter, okay? 09:38.140 --> 09:39.420 But no, it's the name of it. 09:39.420 --> 09:42.280 You know, we're trying to avoid some of the companies 09:42.280 --> 09:45.500 that were a little shady with funding during COVID. 09:45.760 --> 09:48.160 So this is one that's been legitimate for us. 09:48.500 --> 09:51.900 And then if people want to, again, we do have Sunday Open 09:51.900 --> 09:57.200 to non-practitioners, you know, the Thursday through Saturday 09:57.200 --> 09:58.680 conferences for practitioners. 09:59.140 --> 10:04.480 And the code there, it's a 20% off if you scan that code 10:04.480 --> 10:05.560 to register. 10:06.440 --> 10:08.280 And the beautiful thing about the conference 10:08.280 --> 10:09.600 is, you know, it's a family. 10:09.920 --> 10:12.840 I mean, we really, I always say I learn more in the hallways 10:12.840 --> 10:15.000 and the bar than I do in the conference room 10:15.000 --> 10:16.700 because we're available. 10:16.860 --> 10:18.680 We have all our speakers there the whole time 10:19.180 --> 10:21.280 so that, you know, attendees can interact 10:21.280 --> 10:23.160 if they're questions answered, you know, 10:23.240 --> 10:26.080 questions they may have been too afraid to ask on the, 10:26.100 --> 10:28.020 you know, in the main conference room 10:28.020 --> 10:28.960 they can ask in the hall. 10:29.340 --> 10:34.080 So we love that family feel for the conference 10:34.080 --> 10:36.040 and I look forward to having people there. 10:36.040 --> 10:39.520 Awesome. Dr. Neu, we'll see you there. 10:39.680 --> 10:41.480 If you want to check it out, this is a little taste 10:41.480 --> 10:42.260 of what it's all about. 10:50.080 --> 10:50.960 How's everybody doing? 10:51.840 --> 10:55.690 The MAPS conference is a three-day CME training course 10:56.020 --> 10:58.140 for practitioners, anyone that's working 10:58.140 --> 10:59.160 with kids and young adults. 10:59.540 --> 11:02.880 MAPS is the future of pediatrics with the goal 11:02.880 --> 11:05.820 of educating all practitioners across the country 11:05.820 --> 11:09.100 on how to properly treat kids 11:09.100 --> 11:11.340 with complex medical issues and special needs. 11:11.340 --> 11:14.040 We are here to help every child with special needs 11:14.040 --> 11:15.080 reach their full potential. 11:15.340 --> 11:18.420 We're trying to create this coalition of physicians 11:18.420 --> 11:21.740 who understand the needs of our patients 11:21.740 --> 11:23.640 in a more integrative way. 11:25.440 --> 11:27.640 When inflammation occurs in the brain, 11:28.080 --> 11:29.060 brain development stops. 11:29.720 --> 11:31.740 We have one in five children in our country 11:31.740 --> 11:33.160 with neurodevelopmental disorders. 11:33.860 --> 11:36.100 We have one in 36 children with autism. 11:36.560 --> 11:39.100 And so we're seeing a massive increase 11:39.100 --> 11:41.200 in children with chronic illness. 11:41.680 --> 11:43.540 There's a tremendous amount of science 11:43.540 --> 11:46.380 that we were never taught in medical school 11:46.380 --> 11:49.180 or science that we were taught in medical school 11:49.180 --> 11:52.400 that's been overridden by pharmacology. 11:52.700 --> 11:54.260 The aluminum nanoparticles are bound 11:54.260 --> 11:56.400 to bacterial and viral antigens, 11:56.600 --> 11:59.020 which means that not only are nanoparticles 11:59.020 --> 12:00.580 getting across the blood-brain barrier, 12:00.980 --> 12:02.880 but so are microorganisms. 12:03.220 --> 12:05.420 The bottom line is the traditional way 12:05.420 --> 12:07.220 of approaching things, they've failed our kids 12:07.220 --> 12:08.380 in terms of our health care. 12:08.480 --> 12:10.840 So we need to be looking at what do we do? 12:10.980 --> 12:12.220 How do we take care of these kids? 12:12.440 --> 12:14.900 That's why we need maps because that's what we teach. 12:15.300 --> 12:17.260 Get to the foundation, get to the root. 12:17.600 --> 12:20.760 The idea is to expand your box of tools 12:20.760 --> 12:23.920 so that these children don't stay chronically ill 12:23.920 --> 12:25.660 and we can actually bring them 12:25.660 --> 12:28.080 to a more optimal form of health. 12:28.600 --> 12:31.380 This year we are hoping to shift the paradigm out there 12:31.380 --> 12:34.080 that non-speaking equals non-thinking. 12:34.560 --> 12:36.100 If they have difficulty with speech, 12:36.100 --> 12:38.340 they're generally all lumped into the same category 12:38.340 --> 12:39.820 as intellectually disabled. 12:40.080 --> 12:42.460 Once you give a reliable form of communication 12:42.460 --> 12:43.500 to a non-speaker, 12:43.860 --> 12:45.680 it turns out they're really pretty smart 12:45.680 --> 12:48.480 and they're very much able to make decisions 12:48.480 --> 12:50.560 about their own health care and their own futures. 12:51.020 --> 12:54.040 Hi, my life has been saved by doctors like you 12:54.040 --> 12:56.240 and I am grateful for all the extra effort 12:56.240 --> 12:58.860 you put into helping solve such a complex disorder. 12:59.080 --> 12:59.940 The Speller's Method, 13:00.240 --> 13:02.720 it's probably the biggest shift 13:02.720 --> 13:05.000 in the autism community to ever happen. 13:05.000 --> 13:06.840 This is something that I believe 13:06.840 --> 13:08.960 every practitioner needs to know about. 13:09.300 --> 13:10.260 Please take it from me. 13:11.240 --> 13:12.800 I am someone who had their life saved 13:12.800 --> 13:15.540 by the principles of functional and biomedical interventions. 13:16.080 --> 13:17.060 Before I got to MAPS, 13:17.160 --> 13:19.600 I didn't even know that non-speakers could speak. 13:19.820 --> 13:21.240 But that's what MAPS is about 13:21.240 --> 13:22.600 and that's what Speller's is about 13:22.600 --> 13:26.320 is in empowering these amazing human beings 13:26.900 --> 13:29.060 to share their light on the world 13:29.060 --> 13:30.900 so that we can all together make this 13:30.900 --> 13:32.440 a much greater place to live. 13:32.440 --> 13:34.540 What the families of special needs children 13:35.080 --> 13:37.680 really need are doctors on every corner. 13:38.060 --> 13:39.280 We just need every doctor 13:39.280 --> 13:40.920 that really cares about our children 13:41.200 --> 13:42.300 to come to a MAPS conference.