Unraveling The Brain With Dr. Josh Madsen
Aug 10, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
For ten years, Matei’s parents were told by doctors that his developmental delays were just laziness or that he was simply a late bloomer. Despite severe physical struggles and the loss of his…
Josh MadsenHostMatei's FatherGuest
You know, I always ask this question because I think it's important of, you know, if there's any advice that you guys could give parents that are maybe in the same scenario that you were in, let's just say...

when he was, you know, in that first couple years of life, what would that advice be, um, for those parents? What, you know, what are the things that they should look into? What are, um, even just mindset stuff? Cause obviously that's a traumatic event in your own family.

And what are, what are things that would benefit them after you guys have gone through that? Um, what's, what would that advice be for a parent that's maybe going through that right now?
First of all, they never give up.
Never, never give up.
Don't
lose your hope.
For us, his case, of course, approached us and we are a big family now and we are together.
and then they have now now you can find everything on internet also you have the ai you can find a lot of things and you can improve a lot even if if it's bad and this is you you don't have to give up yeah because you now have everything on your hand or on your phone and you can find like here a special a special place where you can make a lot of improvements

Something Dr. Lauren or that I want to talk about that Dr. Lauren had brought up to me was you guys prior to coming to us.

What was the biggest difference between what you were doing and what we had you guys do? And what was that difference?
We used to work that other plan for like a year and a half.
I was doing all the reflexes, all the laser, all everything.
But we were somehow stuck.
Every time I was doing the laser, he was getting like really agitated.
Like his behavior was really weird.
Yes, and we were not really confident that we were doing on the right side or on the right direction or we were doing the right thing.
Maybe that's why it was also from us a little nervous.
But after being here and see how it's working and also she got used with the laser more and more.
Now she accepts it with no problems and
I just wanted to be sure that I'm doing the right thing because I always took him to therapies because somehow when the situation with him happened, my brain got like stuck.

You know, I always ask this question because I think it's important of, you know, if there's any advice that you guys could give parents that are maybe in the same scenario that you were in, let's just say...

when he was, you know, in that first couple years of life, what would that advice be, um, for those parents? What, you know, what are the things that they should look into? What are, um, even just mindset stuff? Cause obviously that's a traumatic event in your own family.

And what are, what are things that would benefit them after you guys have gone through that? Um, what's, what would that advice be for a parent that's maybe going through that right now?
First of all, they never give up.
Never, never give up.
Don't
lose your hope.
For us, his case, of course, approached us and we are a big family now and we are together.
and then they have now now you can find everything on internet also you have the ai you can find a lot of things and you can improve a lot even if if it's bad and this is you you don't have to give up yeah because you now have everything on your hand or on your phone and you can find like here a special a special place where you can make a lot of improvements

Something Dr. Lauren or that I want to talk about that Dr. Lauren had brought up to me was you guys prior to coming to us.

What was the biggest difference between what you were doing and what we had you guys do? And what was that difference?
We used to work that other plan for like a year and a half.
I was doing all the reflexes, all the laser, all everything.
But we were somehow stuck.
Every time I was doing the laser, he was getting like really agitated.
Like his behavior was really weird.
Yes, and we were not really confident that we were doing on the right side or on the right direction or we were doing the right thing.
Maybe that's why it was also from us a little nervous.
But after being here and see how it's working and also she got used with the laser more and more.
Now she accepts it with no problems and
I just wanted to be sure that I'm doing the right thing because I always took him to therapies because somehow when the situation with him happened, my brain got like stuck.
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