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Just watch this video.
I can see the reactions in the children I treat, and I sometimes don’t know what they react so strong on.
Time to investigate what exactly it is that makes your child go “wild”.

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Omega 3 fatty acids are a vital building blocks for our brain, and many children suffering from symptoms of ADD and ADHD actually have a shortage of essential building blocks in their body.

Why does the ADD/ADHD brain have an extra need for Omega-3 fatty acids?
The brain has the most active metabolism of all the organs in the body, and it uses enormous amounts of energy; it never is completely at rest. The more active the metabolism, the more free radicals, and the brain thus has one of the highest rates of free radical production. These free radicals destroy the connections between the cells, the cells themselves and the structure of the brain. The brain starts to function less and less effectively, if it has not enough resources to repair itself.

If you are deficient in Omega-3 fatty acids, your brain changes it’s structure already within 2 weeks.

The role of sugar in Omega-3 deficiency
Apart from the role sugar plays in the blood sugar level, it also increases free radical generation. Sugar produces cross linking of the proteins in all cells, which means that the free radicals can do much more damage in a much bigger group of cells. Through the influence of free radicals, your cells age faster; and your braincells are even more prone to this process. Research at the University of Connecticut in 1986 by Dr. Jane Goldman showed that sugar, equal to one Coke, produces a significant decline in mental performance. (Students were making twice as many mistakes on tests.)

Other vitamins and minerals also play a role in the health of our brain, and particularly in children with symptoms of ADD and ADHD, one can often find shortages of essential micro-elements and vitamins. On the other hand, ADHD and ADD symptoms have been linked to an overload of toxic substances suchs as lead in the blood of the affected children. Apart from lead, also aspartame, MSG, pesticides, herbicides in food, aluminum in deodorants, fluoride in the water and mercury in vaccines have been proven to have a major role in brain toxicity and brain function decline.

What does this mean in everyday life?
Make sure your child does not eat refined sugar is the obvious step one, because it is easy to do. Avoid aspartame and other additives, buy and eat organic fruit and vegetables, be very cautious with vaccines and get yourself very well informed about the risks and the benefits of every single vaccination.
Give your kid a healthy balanced diet, and give additional nutrients as needed, but be very aware of food colorings and other additives that hide in vitamin pills and other supplements! They will probably increase the symptoms of ADD and ADHD: the detrimental effect of these substances is manyfold bigger than the beneficial effects of the essential nutrients your child is probably lacking.

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It is getting clearer and clearer, that environmental factors play an important role in the development of symtpoms of ADD and ADHD. Lead is one of the toxic substances which plays a role, together with mothers smoking during pregnancy. Read this article about lead:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203204513.htm

I can imagine that certain (alternative) treatments manage to lower the lead load in the blood; these would most probably aslo give an improvement in the symptoms of ADD and ADHD as they show in the child.
To me it seems certainly a way to investigate more, I will keep you posted on any new findings!

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• How much lead is too much? (cbc.ca)

EFT is a very interesting tool to treat symptoms of ADD and ADHD. The reason why it works is getting clearer and clearer, and it is getting more and more known that our DNA, cells and our brain are not 100% responsible for defining who we are and how we behave. Cells are capable of changing their behaviour completely, based on the input from their environment, and that makes it also easier to understand why a stress relief method like EFT works wonders with so many different ailments and issues.

My friend Maria, the GP, read a book by Dr. Servan-Schreiber, I think it’s some 600 pages thick or so – very scientific and she loved it. What is great, is that it convinced her that EFT is a scientific way to treat stress-related diseases, which, in her words, are almost ALL diseases and ailments!

I’ve read the book “The Biology of Belief” by Dr. Bruce Lipton, a bit easier to digest I think, and just as interesting maybe.. It makes it certainly more easy to explain why EFT works, for those people who will not see without believing .

An interesting article I found is posted below: Dr. Grohol talks about the way our brain is wired, and about the possible ways to influence the actual outcome. Enjoy, comment, share…!

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Everything Has a Neurobiological Correlate (psychcentral.com)