97: On-air session - Daughter is having health problems, what do we do?

A mother named Tracy calls in after Chef AJ told her she was out of her league and sent her to Dr. Lisle. Tracy's 12-year-old daughter Emily has daily bowel and bladder accidents, a diagnosis of encopresis and enuresis, and a decade of failed interventions ranging from polyethylene glycol drinks to a one-hour bathroom protocol to now, at last, a recommendation for psychiatric medication. Dr. Lisle listens, asks three questions, and reframes the entire 12-year ordeal in a single sentence. In this on-air session, Dr. Lisle explains why the psychiatrists, pediatric GI specialists, and the Collins Protocol have all been looking in the wrong place, why anxiety is not the driver even though it sounds plausible, and why this is fundamentally a Digestion 101 problem hidden inside the pleasure trap. He walks Tracy through the exact strategy for getting a 12-year-old with a decade of learned shame to voluntarily run a grand scientific experiment on her own diet. Key question covered: Why do so many cases of childhood encopresis and enuresis fail to resolve even after years of specialist care, and what is the evolutionary psychology explanation most doctors miss? Beat Your Genes is co-hosted by evolutionary psychologist Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, DC. New episodes every other week. YouTube: youtube.com/@BeatYourGenes beatyourgenes.org Doug Lisle: esteemdynamics.com Nathan Gershfeld: fastingescape.com X: @BeatYourGenes Intro and outro: City of Happy Ones. Ferenc Hegedus. Licensed for use. Copyright Beat Your Genes Podcast