Oh gotcha, sounds good. I am not familiar with Gabor Mate, but it depends on what his theory was. Wikipedia tells me he considers ADHD to be a coping mechanism.

Oh gotcha, sounds good. I am not familiar with Gabor Mate, but it depends on what his theory was. Wikipedia tells me he considers ADHD to be a coping mechanism. So for example if he had a theory that trauma can cause things like ADHD, then I'd say I don't think that particular theory seems to be supported by the evidence. But it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility to me that two seemingly unrelated complicated things can be linked. It's possible that he got that advice because he felt he was onto a grand theory and the evidence wasn't there for it. Or whatever, who knows. It's possible there is something to say about anxiety/cortisol/stress, neurodivergence, gut micro-biomes, and some autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes. There are studies on all of this stuff, but it's all in early stages, we don't know if the statistical effects are even real. And we certainly have no reason to conclude that one set of effects would cause the other.