These Areas are Where ADHD Medication Comes to Help…

Medication can reduce ADHD symptoms by helping the brain chemicals pass across the gap more efficiently.

Some ADHD medications stimulate the brain cells to release more brain chemicals. Another slows down the recycling of the brain chemical, so more brain chemical is available to attach to the receptors on the other side of the gap. Both of these actions can increase the number of brain chemicals reaching the landing pad on the receiving brain cells.

The ADHD brain is “Turtle,” and the medication is feeding it daily.

Now guess what happens when you stop the ADHD medication?

The brain’s chemical level drops significantly because there’s nothing to keep its level artificially up. Without ADHD medications, the ADHD brain does not know what to do, and it can’t keep up the dopamine level in the gap by itself. 

After years of being on ADHD medications, your brain may not know what to do when the medication is not there to artificially boost the dopamine level and other brain chemicals.

This is the same reason why many adults with ADHD become addicted to illegal drugs because ADHD medications and amphetamine are almost the same.

Your solution is to boost your brain’s own function naturally, meaning your brain needs to learn to make its own brain chemical with natural resources.

Think of it as rehab for your brain. It’s the same concept as “Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you’ve fed him for a lifetime.”

Now knowing how the brain and ADHD medication works, to stop ADHD medication effectively we have to find ways to naturally boost the ADHD brain’s ability to make dopamine. 

The normal human body makes dopamine. But in the ADHD brain, either the body is not making enough or there are not enough dopamine receptors to activate it or you’re eating food that is messing up the dopamine system (sugar, processed foods, and food additives).

1. Eat protein-rich diet. Dopamine is a protein molecule made from tyrosine, tryptophan and phenylalanine. 
2. Avoid processed foods, high-fats, sugar, caffeine, all of which interfere with brain signaling and causing brain inflammation. 
3. Get enough sleep. Sleep helps all the cells in the body repair and renew. It gives the brain a chance to wash away toxins that build up during the day and helps keep the nerve cell connections and pathways active and constantly self-renewing. Lack of sleep has been shown to reduce concentrations of neurotransmitters, including dopamine, and their receptors.
4. Exercise daily. increases the production of new brain cells, slows down brain cell aging, can increase your levels of dopamine.
5. Meditation increases dopamine leading to improved focus and concentration. 
6. Massage therapy can increase dopamine levels by nearly 30% while decreasing stress hormone, cortisol, levels.
7. Try a natural nootropic supplement, such as DopaPlus.

Your child was started on ADHD medication and was doing fine until it wasn’t.

ADHD medication works at the cost of adverse side effects. It works by artificially keeping the dopamine level high in the synapses. It does not boost the production of dopamine. So, overall time, the remaining dopamine is being used up and the medication has nothing to boost. It’s like playing tennis without tennis balls.

And sometimes a child doesn’t respond to two or three different stimulant medications and continues to do poorly. ADHD is not the correct diagnosis and that something else is causing the ADHD symptoms the child is experiencing.

ADHD medication also does not work if the ADHD symptoms are triggered by hidden food intolerances. The only treatment for this is an elimination diet that eliminates suspected food triggers.

ADHD medication also does not correct nutrient deficiencies, if present.

Therefore, a personalized dietary approach should always be part of your child’s ADHD treatment with or without #adhdmedications

Did I mention adverse side effects such as personality change, tic disorders, sleep disorder, stunt growth, etc?

Remember ADHD medication is always an option, but weigh your pros and cons. There is no good or bad decision, only what is best for your child.

Ok, there you have it…

I hope you find this information helpful. Let me know what you think and comment below.

Remember ADHD does not doom your child to a life of under-achievement. You know your child is bright, full of potential, and deserves the best. In fact, many of the world’s greatest discoveries and inventions were made by people with ADHD.

I helped my crazy wild child who couldn’t read or write when she was little overcome her learning difficulties, and become a merit scholarship student majoring in premed at Loyola Chicago University.

So don’t give up, everything is possible.

If you’re just starting out on this natural ADHD treatment journey and still in the research phase, check out my new book Eat to Focus.

Inside this book, you’ll learn why your ADHD child is always hungry, why he or she seems addicted to milk and bread, the reason why most ADHD treatments do not work, and the exact four strategies I’ve used for my daughter to help her calm down to focus and finally learn normally.