The Silent Neurological Pandemic 2025
More children than ever in Sweden and around the world struggle today with focus, regulation, behaviours, motor skills, anxiety and school difficulties. Parents feel overwhelmed, schools lack resources, and children’s nervous systems are being pushed in a way we have never seen before. This is what many experts now call the silent neurological pandemic – and it affects our entire future.
At Brain Body Balance in Västerås, we want to highlight this problem, bring hope, and offer practical solutions built on movement, physiology, neuroscience and human care.
Why so many children are struggling today
During recent years, children’s everyday lives have changed faster than their biological development can keep up with. In Sweden, in Västerås, and across the country, we are seeing more children with neurodiversity, ADHD, autism, anxiety, school difficulties, and challenges with emotional regulation.
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Too little movement and too little time outdoors
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Overload from screens and fast digital stimulation
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Stressed family structures and lack of recovery
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Sleep deprivation and irregular routines
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Sensory overload in school environments
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Nutrient-poor diets and poor gut health (poor diet)
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Too little time for play, coordination development, and physical body awareness
All of this affects the brain, the nervous system, and children’s ability to regulate emotions, focus, and learn.
We cannot ignore what is happening.
Sweden and the world are facing growing challenges: more children with neurodiversity, more mental-health issues, more burnout, autoimmune problems, increasing cancer, suicide, divorces, and crime.
This is not the children’s fault – it is a system issue. Our society is built for speed and stress, not for children’s needs for movement, safety, and stable brain development.
We must act now. This is not only about the future of children, but also about what kind of Sweden we want to live in when this generation grows up.
Why we chose Västerås
Västerås is a growing city with families from many backgrounds, schools that are struggling with increasing needs, and a community that is searching for solutions.
Here, Brain Body Balance takes the first step in Sweden to create a center where children, parents, and schools receive support through modern neuroscience, movement, and nervous-system regulation.
Our dream is to establish BBB Learning Centers across Sweden, but our journey begins here – with a space dedicated to children, families, movement, and the essential foundations of physiology.
How Brain Body Balance Supports Families
We use tools that improve the nervous system’s regulation and the brain’s ability to receive, process, and respond to information.
Our methods include:
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
• PEMF
• Photobiomodulation / red light therapy
• Neuromotor training
• Reflex integration
• Breathwork training
• Cognitive vision training
• EEG-based assessments for brain function
Everything aims to create safer, more regulated children with better focus, balance, and joy in daily life.
We need the support of the entire society.
The neurological pandemic is bigger than any single family, school or clinic can carry.
We need:
– local businesses
– schools
– sports clubs
– the municipality
– and parents
Together, we can give children the tools they need to succeed in school, in life, and in the future.
