ADHD question

[Jenny Wilson]

Bud Weiss wrote:
> You might want to check out the Nurtured Heart Approach and the books
> that are listed on the site www.difficultchild.com
> <http://www.difficultchild.com/> Read the research page there and you
> will see massive reductions in problem behaviors as well as all but one
> student off of all drugs in one fairly large title one school within
> less than two years after the school wide implementation of the Nurtured
> Heart Approach. One of the books by Howard Glasser, the creator of
> Nurtured heart is called "101 reasons to avoid Ritalin like the Plague."
>  Sandy Newmark, MD, the pediatrician who worked closely with Andrew Weil
> among others agrees with much of that
> book. http://www.doctornewmark.com/adhd.html
> 
> Newmark has many recommendations. Unfortunately, despite lectures I have
> heard by him, he still holds out for Ritalin in some so called
> extraordinary cases supported by an integrative approach.  He has not
> looked seriously at breathing issues that I work with in having helped a
> number of students from ages 8 up. Nor does he really look sufficiently
> into thyroid issues which I am certain many of these children have.
> Counter intuitively, I believe they are hypo not hyper thyroid and they
> are running on empty with adrenals teetering on the verge of exhaustion.
> Environmental physicians like Doris Rapp, MD, in her books describes so
> many chemical factors that contribute to serious hyperactivity and how
> to avoid then as well as developing antidotes for them. 
> 
> Serious developments with nearly all of these can be avoided if the
> children, most of whom are serious mouth breathers and often have
> malacluded teeth as well due to mouth breathing--which you can learn
> about that
> at http://orthodonticearlytreatment.com/index.php?home --- can be helped
> to retrain their breathing, keeping their mouths shut doing simple
> supervised appropriately increasing step exercises and proper reduced
> breathing for several weeks and so many of them calm down from little
> more than that and of course some modest and not radical restrictive
> improvements in their diet. Newmark claims that if you go on a very
> clean totally organic diet for 3 weeks, you will clear more than 95% of
> all the toxic chemicals you have stored in your body.  The children who
> have asthma are on medications that produce hyperactivity. They are
> basically adrenalin type drugs. And then there are the steroids which
> must be given regularly to protect the children from the dangers of the
> adrenolin type meds like Albuterol or worse far worse killers like the
> long acting Beta Agonists in Advair or Symbicort. 
> 
> In Scotland, whole schools were addressed with the Buteyko Approach and
> the changes were enormous in terms of the reduction of attentional
> deficits let alone asthma. see Glasgow school children video
> here: http://www.sleepingallnight.com/conference-videos.html#movie_start
> 
> <http://www.sleepingallnight.com/conference-videos.html#movie_start>Best
> of luck with all. Be well, Bud Weiss
> 
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:16 PM, PATRICIA DESERT <honeybwomn at msn.com
> <mailto:honeybwomn at msn.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Would the person who sent the information on the diet that supports
>     elimination of ADHD symptoms in children please send it again.  I
>     inadvertently deleted it.  Thanks.  Patti
> 
>     Patti Desert, LCSW-C, CEMDR, CP Singular Pathways 208 East Melrose
>     Avenue Baltimore, MD 21212 Phone: 410.435.3755 Fax: 410.435.0547
>     www.singular-pathways.com <http://www.singular-pathways.com> "from
>     fears and tears to confidence and joy"
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