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Are There Other Options Than Just Medications?

Well certainly medications can be used to help out the various systems of the brain as was mentioned earlier. The most commonly used medication is Ritalin, which is fairly effective with the majority of individuals who have ADD. Of course some individuals suffer side effects from medications, and so they should be used with caution, and must be monitored closely by a physician. However, what I see as the major drawback to stimulant medications is that they only work for the short term. For example, Ritalin begins to work about 20 minutes after it is ingested, peaks in effectiveness at about 90 minutes, and is used up and gone by about 3 1/2 or 4 hours. Then the subject returns back to where he started and must again take another dose of the medication. For the short term, the function of the brain is improved, sometimes a great deal, but the basic underlying problems are unaffected. Medications are not bad, or evil. They can be very helpful to a lot of people, and should be considered among your list of treatment options.

However, medications are a short-term solution, a Band-Aid to the problem. Now, there are times when Band-Aids are needed and are useful, and I have lots of Band-Aids around my house. I have no problem using Band-Aids as Band-Aids. But Band-Aids don't heal the cuts and scrapes that they are placed over. They offer a short-term benefit, but only the body itself provides healing. Many researchers, over the past twenty years or so, have worked hard to try to find real solutions to the problem of ADD, and a few good treatment options have been developed. Up until now, though, these treatment options have been very labor intensive and very costly. Many families simply cannot afford the investment of time and money required for these treatments, so the search continued to find an effective and affordable treatment.

STOP! You now have a decision to make. You may either continue reading, which will lead to a description of one of the Treatment Options that we strongly  recommend, or you can jump here to our TREATMENT OPTIONS page.

Throughout 1996 Dr. Greg Young and Vaxa International worked very hard to develop the most advanced treatment for problems with Attention, Impulsivity, and Learning available today. This product is the newly revised formula of the Nutraceutical Medicine called "Attend." Attend is a safe, all-natural product, specifically designed to increase a child or adult's ability to filter incoming information and be less distracted, and to help the brain to inhibit behaviors. Attend is engineered to naturally address the specific dietary and neurochemical deficiencies which are thought to occur with individuals who have problems with Attention, Impulse Control, and Learning. The product supplies materials which are essential for the proper functioning of the entire nervous system, and works to properly balance the Reticular Activating System.

It also works as "brain fertilizer," so to speak. Attend provides the proper environment, nutritionally, for the brain to develop new neural generation, neural growth, and new neural connections, to help the brain to develop new and better neural pathways, to process information better and faster, and to improve the brain's ability to inhibit behaviors. It sets the stage for the information processing storm drain pipe to grow to a larger diameter so that it can handle more material, and in fact may even allow for the addition of more information processing pipes to the system.

See the complete article on Attend here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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