Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Natural Way to Treat ADHD [Paperback]

Does your child have poor concentration and an inability to relax? Does your child do crazily reckless things that can't be explained afterwards? Has your child been diagnosed with ADHD? * Are you caring for or teaching children with ADHD? Or do you have these problems yourself? Increasing numbers of children are being diagnosed as having Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. As the best available treatment for many years, they are prescribed powerful drugs that help to control (but not cure) the worst of the symptoms. However, the potential side-effects of these drugs are worrying and the long-term consequences unknown, facing doctors, parents and adult sufferers with a terrible dilemma. In Professor Puri's groundbreaking new book, you will discover a very different way of looking at ADHD. His starting point is the basis of behaviour in the chemistry of the brain and the many factors that influence this. By understanding behaviour at this level, it is possible to see how hyperactivity can be reduced and concentration improved in a natural way that is in tune with the needs of the individual. He presents the results of two major studies, with which he has been involved, that demonstrate the effectiveness of a completely natural way to treat ADHD. Read how and why EPA ('eicosapentaenoic acid') will be essential to recovery; how to take it; what dietary changes will enhance its effects; and what lifestyle changes will help you and your child to overcome the complex of symptoms that make up ADHD.

This is a book for ADHD sufferers, children and adults, who will have been battling with the condition all their lives. It is also for their families and close friends, their teachers and doctors, nursery nurses and (should an organisation be very person-focused) employers.

Professor Puri's starting point is the basis of behaviour in the chemistry of the brain and the many factors which influence this. By understanding behaviour at this level it is possible to see how hyperactivity can be reduced and concetration improved in a natural way that is in tune with the needs of the individual. He presents the results of two major studies, with which he has been involved, that demonstrate the effectiveness of a completely natural way to treat ADHD.

As a result of a recent major breakthrough in research there is now, at long last, excellent news for people whose lives are devastated by ADHD. This is good news not just for those who suffer from this debilitating illness and their immediate carers, but also their wider families, friends, teachers and schoolmates or workmates. Starting around the year 2000 an international group of medical researchers and neuroscientists, including myself and Dr Alex Richardson, have produced a significant body of research that at last heralds a major advance in the treatment of ADHD.

In this ground-breaking new book you will discover a very different way of looking at ADHD.
With a striking overlap between ADHD and dyslexia and dyspraxia (30% to 50% of children with ADHD also have dyspraxia) you will also discover a different way of looking at these two conditions and gain an understanding of how and why the natural, diet-based treatment of ADHD can also help sufferes from dyslexia and dyspraxia.

Professor Basant K Puri
MA(Cantab), PhD, MB, BChir, BSc(Hons), MathSci, MRCPsych, DipStat, MMath
Consultant/Professor MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London and Head of the Lipid Neuroscience Group, Imperial College, London UK
There have been two major studies to date which have been based on the groundbreaking use of fatty acids to treat ADHD in children. The author has been involved in both of them. He also has several years of experience of successfully treating ADHD patients on an individual basis without the use of powerful stimulant medication.

A SIGNIFICANT MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH
Eighteen-year-old Henrietta was referred to me in 2004. The symptoms she described were the classic symptoms of ADHD. She complained that she could not concentrate. 'I couldn't play with my toys when I was younger. Now I can't even watch a movie all the way through. I get bored. I fidget and start playing with my 'phone. So I get up and go and get some food.'
...It was time for me to make my recommendations...
I saw Henrietta and her parents three months later. She was a transformed person. Her face looked much healthier. Indeed, she was very pleased with her much improved appearance...She could now concentrate better than she had in many years. She was performing really well in her job. Now, not only could she watch a film all the way through to the end, without losing track of the main plot and subplots, but she had found that she had just started to enjoy reading. The arguments with her parents and the moodiness were now no longer a feature of her life. Her father was very proud of his daughter.