ADHD Natural Treatment - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Alternative Medicine Solutions

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In a December issue of US News and World Report, there was an article on “The Lure of an ADHD Treatment Minus the Meds”. The article focused on Neurofeedback therapy for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Neurofeedback, also called EEG (electroencephalogram) biofeedback, has been investigated as an ADHD treatment since the 1970s but no intensive studies were completed.

More recent research has shown that EEG biofeedback therapy for AD/HD results in significant improvement in cognitive functioning for 75-85 percent of patients. It is possible faster and better outcomes might be achieved by combining other alternative therapies with EEG biofeedback.

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Barbara Reed Stitt, author of Food and Behavior, had learned about the profound effects of food in the unlikely position of probation officer. The first thing she did with anyone who was came under her care was to change their diet. Children who were hyperactive, distorted in their thinking, unruly, etc., were able to turn their lives around.

Dr. Stitt and her husband Paul, a biochemist, approached their local school with an offer that was as unusual as it was generous. Take out the vending machines, take out the processed foods, and feed the students fresh, whole, nutritious food and watch their behavior improve.

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The new program had an instantaneous effect.

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A new study, published in Neurobiology of Disease, states that daily consumption of marijuana (cannabis) in teens can cause depression and anxiety, and have an irreversible long-term effect on the brain.

Researchers have generally known for years that young people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are more likely than others to smoke cigarettes and abuse alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and other street drugs.

According to Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a psychiatric researcher from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, the damaging effects of marijuana on young brains are worse than originally thought.

“We wanted to know what happens in the brains of teenagers when they use marijuana and whether they are more susceptible to its neurological effects than adults,” stated Dr. Gobbi.

Her study points to an apparent action of marijuana on two important compounds in the brain — serotonin and norepinephrine — which are involved in the regulation of neurological functions such as mood control and anxiety.

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I recently finished producing this video for Dr. CE Gant. The video – Stop Aging and Stay Well – identifies the 12 types of stressors that are at the root cause of all medical and psychiatric disorders, premature aging and death. The video is now available at the web site of Dr. CE Gant

Stress is defined as any mental or bodily tension resulting from factors which tend to alter an existent equilibrium. Chronic stress can lead to distress, defined as pain, anxiety, physical or mental suffering, which is often diagnosed as a medical or psychiatric disorder. Stress commonly plays a part in ADHD symptoms.

Most people vaguely realize that chronic stress is harmful, but they can’t quite identify what it is until distress arises, and even then the relationship to stress is often not clear.

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Most studies tend to focus on ADHD treatment rather than prevention, but now there is evidence that children exposed to tobacco smoke prenatal and lead exposure during childhood are facing a higher risk for ADHD.

Exposure to tobacco and lead each have their own adverse effect, but children exposed to both have a combined synergy effect according to the Behavioral Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center.

The research showed that children exposed to tobacco smoke during prenatal stages were 2.4 times more likely to have ADHD symptoms. Also, the researchers found that children exposed to both tobacco and lead were more than 8 times higher at risk for ADHD than children who were not exposed.

To measure prenatal exposure to tobacco, the researchers used mothers’ reports on their cigarette use during pregnancy. To assess lead exposure, the researchers used current blood lead levels, and the diagnosis for ADHD was based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition.

Listed below are what the research results showed:

*8.7% of the children met the diagnostic criteria for ADHD
*Prenatal children exposed to tobacco smoke were 2.4 times more likely to have ADHD
*Children whose blood levels were in the top third for lead were 2.3 times more likely to have ADHD
*Children with both prenatal tobacco exposure and in the top third for blood lead levels were 8.1 times more likely to have ADHD compared to children with neither exposures
*The increased risk of ADHD from both types of exposure was even greater than expected by multiplying the independent risks

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I recently completed producing and editing this 2 hour DVD, “Grand Unified Theory of Mind Brain Function”, for Dr. CE Gant

Dr. Gant states: “After 35 years of practicing complementary/alternative, integrative and holistic medicine and psychiatry, and carefully assessing (and “curing”) many thousands of patients with in-depth, functional medicine testing, I am happy to present the culmination of my life’s work.”

In the DVD, he presents 20 mind/brain concepts, some of which I list here:

* Drugs are used to anesthetize stress, fear, anger, burnout, psychic pain, derived from the past and future

* The primary cause or exacerbating factor of most mental disorders is the “fight” or “flight” response and chronic stress.

* The scientifically proven, immediate cause of the “fight” or “flight” response comes from within the brain in an area called the Locus Ceruleus (LC)

* Many stressors can ignite the Locus Ceruleus (not only psychological)

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