I used to cringe when I heard that at cocktail parties way back. It was usually some over lubed socialite wife or mistress of some high powered business man who was tripping over her gown to get at the bar. And yes this is exactly the way they said it and would have spelled it if they could have .
"No," I thought, "you don't. You have lemon's disease and are in serious need of some ‘sweetner!’"
And you have ADD from the absolute worst cause. Boredom.
You see in those days (20 years or so ago) when Lyme disease was the disease to have if you wanted attention, we barely knew anything about what is now called ADHD. We didn't know about the hyperactivity component of it.
I found out first hand what it was all about when a very intelligent, young lady came into my office telling me she had adult attention deficit disorder.
Over the next 2 years, until she joined an HMO and had no choice but to go elsewhere, I cared for her problem and learned volumes about it.
You see unlike the spoiled, bored cocktail-goer who was not getting enough attention from her significant other, this lady had a real problem and struggled with it daily. In those days adults did not use Ritalin and very few children did either, as behavioral therapy was preferred to zapping your kid's brain with legal speed and Prozac.
Once the drug companies got a hold of it, however, this class of modified speed blossomed and now contains several new drugs.
All complete and replete with multiple dangerous side effects.
It never ceased to amaze me how the "time crunch problem" affects all doctors even those who take care of kids.
Here is the problem.
It costs a lot to run a practice. Doctors are making less across the board and have to hire more people to deal with insurance companies that don't pay half the time any way. The ever-growing mound of paper work also has to be done by someone as well.
The network is the same in medicine as in many fields. People are working more and making less.
It translates into the slaughterhouse scenario.
Which patients feel like cattle herded into the slaughterhouse and given just about as much time with their doctor as the cattle get waiting in line to die.
Sadly there is a natural tendency on the health professionals part to say, "Here take this and you'll feel much better", and hand out yet another pill.
This happens to the child suffering from ADHD as well.
Who makes out from this?
The doctors?
Nope, it does nothing to lighten their load or improve their shrinking bottom line. Nor will it help them to feel good about themselves when the true dangers of this practice are revealed.
What about the kids with ADHD?
Well do you think having your mind become the toilet to flush previously unusable drugs down and probably doing permanent damage to both brain and body is a good thing?
No, the only people who make out are the drug companies who now have a lucrative new market.
They can finally do what big biz has been doing for decades; get at parent's money (or their insurance company's) by making kids their target market.
The ADHD drug market has become the virtual equivalent of "myspace.com" in terms of capitalizing on making money from kids.
At least myspace.com is probably harmless and fun for kids.
Now here is the thing about drugs like Ritalin: they do work for some kids.
But in my opinion, there are better first options that concerned parents should try, especially for their school age children.
And there are better options for adults as well.
There have been over 200 deaths linked to the use of Ritalin and related drugs, and probably many more never revealed.
And what about the side effects?
Here is what one of the head's of the FDA's Pediatric advisory Committee said:
"Whether by ignorance or design," Dr Jackson states, "the regulators remain oblivious to the evidence-based limitations of the prescription pad: at least 40% of all children fail to tolerate or respond to stimulant therapy; about twice as many respond at least as well to non-pharmacological interventions; and, as documented in the National Institute of Mental Health’s most prestigious study to date (the MTA study), the long term outcomes for medicated children demonstrate diminishing returns over time, persistent suppression of growth (about 1 cm per year), and artificial behavioral improvements which dissipate when treatment is withdrawn."
So let's see, the drugs don't work much of the time, they can cause death, heart attacks and worsen mental disorders and now we find out they can interfere with growth by up to half an inch a year.
I know what some of you are thinking.
Could we use Hercules Factor in our kids to stimulate growth hormone and get around this problem?
Some have asked if Sleep Wizard would work to calm kids down as well.
The truthful answer is in both cases, I don't know as we've never tested them in children.
So I cannot recommend them for pediatric use.
I do know that fish oil has worked wonders for some kids both with ADHD and without and that is certainly worth a try.
As far as dosage here is what I recommend.
As far as adults go, if your focus is not what it should be and/or you think you may suffer from Adult Attention Deficit Disorder,
Get on fish oil, Hercules Factor, and Instant Einstein as soon as you can.
And watch your life transform before your very eyes.
Al the Best of Human Potential,
Dr Dave
Please note: I make no claims to treat, mitigate or diagnose any diseases. I am simply relating to you the doses that have been reported as successful to me by our users.
For more on the problem of over drugging and ADHD go to:
ADHD Experts Head To Washington - Is the FDA Up To The Task?
Evelyn Pringle
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