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Top Paper of the Year—Integrative Management of ADHD: What the Evidence Suggests

By Richard Balon, MD | January 6, 2011

The use of complementary and alternative medicine treatments by children and adults with ADHD is the rule rather than the exception…more than half of parents who have children with ADHD treat their child’s symptoms with vitamins, dietary changes, and expressive therapies—but only a small minority tell their doctor. And roughly 8 out of 10 patients who use these treatments regard them as their primary therapy.

That’s the premise of an article by Dr James Lake recently published in Psychiatric Times. And it’s that article that that editorial board member, Dr Richard Balon, has nominated as his “Top Paper” of the year.

Listen to Dr Balon discuss why he thinks this article is important to psychiatrists—and hear him summarize the teaching points he thinks could affect the way patients with ADHD are treated.

Dr Balon is Professor, Associate Residency Training Director, and Director of the Master of Science in Psychiatry Program at Wayne State University School of Medicine.  He has served as Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and is a Graduate Faculty member at Wayne State University. Dr Balon has published and lectured widely in the areas of psychiatric education, sexual dysfunction, mood and anxiety disorders, and clinical psychopharmacology. 

Dr Balon's Top Paper of the Year: Integrative Management of ADHD

Dr Balon's Top Paper of the Year: Integrative Management of ADHD

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by enayat darwish | January 07, 2011 6:23 AM EST

i realy helped too much by your papers thank you v. much and i want details about generalized anxiety disorder (all about it)plz

by Robert Peers | January 14, 2011 11:42 PM EST

Like Alzheimer's disease, ADHD is fundamentally caused by lipid membrane peroxidation in the brain, due to dietary exposure to refined, vitamin E-depleted seed oils. In the case of ADHD, the peroxidative damage strikes during gestation, impairing foetal brain growth, and destroying Omega-3 fatty acids needed for neural branching, growth cone expansion and synapse development; fish oil supplementation in pregnancy reduces ADHD risk (C Gale). Further refined oil exposure post-natally aggravates the ADHD child, by imposing an added peroxidative burden, that can be detected as worse behaviour, plus expired ethane gas (B M Ross, Nutr Neurosci, 2003). Most mothers of ADHD children suffer a pre-Alzheimer "Seed Oil Syndrome"--memory faults, glare sensitivity and night blindness, due to peroxidation in brain and retina. Those who switch to olive oil soon enjoy improved memory, but still need to carry sunglasses everywhere. Mothers who continue to ingest refined seed oils report worsening memory by age 45-50, and are at risk of later Alzheimer's. Proper alternative management consists of converting the whole family to olive oil (or any health store cold-pressed seed oil), and treating the child with fish oil, choline [eggs, wheatgerm] and uridine [beets, broccoli], to promote synaptic recovery and neuroplasticity. A short course of vitamin E will correct any current brain peroxidation, as the child or parent comes off refined seed oils. In 15 years clinical experience, no ADHD child treated in this way at my clinic has ever needed drug therapy: I always succeed. Incident cases of ADHD and Alzheimer's will decline and disappear, once refined seed oils are corrected for low vitamin E levels (approx. 30% deficiency), or once our current polyunsaturated salad and cooking oils are replaced by the new high-mono canola and soybean oils, which are low in "polys", and so have little brain-oxidizing potential, even when refined.

by Frank Rubino | January 16, 2011 1:56 PM EST

Sounds like you will be getting a Nobel Prize any day now.

by Laura Tomarchio | January 17, 2011 7:20 PM EST

51 year old women has serve clinicl case of ADD?ADHD with major learning disabilty and is having memory loss. Cat scan showed negitive on brain shrinkage.  comments please

by Amanda Naso | January 22, 2011 2:23 AM EST

This is very interesting to me because I work in a school that specializes in teaching children diagnosed with ADHD, Asperger's, Autism (milder cases), etc.  I see students with ADHD every day, and the staff, including myself, gets frustrated at times with parents who will not treat their child's ADHD.  We have several students with very high IQ scores and they are falling behind because of their off-task behaviors.  This also explains why there is a strong familial factor, seeing that families tend to fall into the same eating patterns time and time again.  We also had one student whose mother was a doctor, and she made the daughter take fish oil every morning.  Do you know how long it takes for the effects to start to take place?  This student no longer attends my school, but I am now curious if she has reversed some of her symptoms.  Lastly, I do not get the sunglasses comment.






 
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