ADD Awareness and Alternative Approaches

1. ADD Awareness and Alternative Approaches

2. Antidepressants: Tricyclics SSRI’s: Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft Desipramine Nortiptyline Imipramine Stimulants: Ritalin Dexedrine Concerta Methylphnidate Aderall Cylert Western Perspectives: Medication, Medication and more Medication

3. Educational Strategies • Extended time on tests • Place child in area of class room with few distractions • Teacher gives visual and verbal instruction

4. ADD and Addiction • 25 - 50% of people with drug and alcohol addictions have ADD • Addictions are progressive • “If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise,” William Blake. • Let yourself be and let your creativity flow freely.

5. 3 Reasons to Self-Medicate • Numb painful feelings • To feel like you function better • For the high • Self-medicating that relates to ADD: compulsive overeating, bingeing, bulimia, anorexia, sugar cravings, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, tranquilizers, narcotics, nicotine, caffeine, gambling, spending, working, sex, love addictions and stress addicts. • The only way out of pain is to go through it.

6. The ADD Nutrition Solution • The 30 day plan: • A. This plan contains actual serving sizes for certain age ranges based on the necessary balance in food groups • B. This plan also addresses what foods to cut out of the diet • C. Where to shop, how to stick to the plan, what’s encouraged – mainly organic ingredients

7. Food to Eliminate from Your Diet • Foods: dairy products and components such as chocolates, egg whites, wheat, corn, oranges and peanuts. • Sweeteners: sugar, refined starches(corn syrup & corn starch), all artificial sweeteners. • Additives: all artificial colors especially red dye #3 and yellow dye #5. • Flavors: MSG, vanillin, smoke flavoring, sodium containing agents and potassium phosphate.

8. Foods to Eliminate from Your Diet • Preservatives: BHA, BHT, TBHQ, sodium benzoate, calcium propionate, nitrates, nitrites, sulfites and citric acid. • Beverages: all caffeine teas, coffee, and sodas; sweetened fruit juices and beverages that contain phosphate. • Fats: all hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats, mono and diglycerides, olestra, olean, and cottonseed oil.

9. Chiropractic Care • Early traumatic injury • Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction • Occiput misalignment • Environmental factors

10. Acupuncture • ADD is caused by a deficiency in kidney essence. • Yin aspect is deficient. • Tonify kidney yin by: • Auriculotherapy

11. Herbal Treatment • Tonify the kidney yin • Example: rehmannia, tortoise shell, deer antler gelatin, lycium and cornus • Treat the excessive kidney Yang • Example: dragon bone, oyster shell, succinum and cinnabar