Posted on 03/18/2014 10:29:27 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
The child would daydream in class, his elementary-school teachers said. He often just didn’t pay attention the way they would have liked. This was before the age of prevalent ADHD diagnoses and Ritalin, so no remedy was at hand, either. If one had been, though, who knows what he might have been?
Perhaps not co-valedictorian of his school — which he was.
I was that child. And were I attending school today and especially if my behavior had been worse, it’s likely I’d have received that fashionable diagnosis. And why not? It seems everyone now could have ADHD.
This point is made by Dr. Richard Saul, who has been practicing behavioral neurology for 50 years and is the author of the new book ADHD Does Not Exist. In a March 14 Time piece he writes:
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
I agree about supplementing with Magnesium. I homeschooled my children until high school and had the opportunity to notice and work with behaviors as they presented themselves because I was there to see it. I remember vividly watching my calm 4 yr old son turn into a screaming and crying out of control kid one afternoon. I quickly traced back his diet that day and realized a friend had come to play and his mom packed red pouch drinks for both kids. The Red dye #40 literally made him out of control. A couple of months later my brother gave him a sports drink with red dye and it happened all over. Now that he is a teen he always looks for drinks and food without food dyes.
I have been noticing that a huge number of kids are becoming addicted to smoking pot. I wonder if this is just the same kids who have been given drugs looking to self medicate to feel normal?
I think you should concern yourself with reading comprehension before tackling life's greater challenges.
that was the gateway for my untreated undiagnosed ADD son who, having failed at school sports and generally everything that required being able to be part of cooperative group, and having been shunned and left behind by his peers, gave up, dropped out and eventually OD’d after graduating to heroin
the legalization, trivilization and glamorization (by people like obama) of ever more powerful pot will lead other kids down the same path, a sub society of mind-dulled drop outs
No, I pointed out your aggressive intellectual dishonesty.
I addressed no causes with you.
thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate your concern
But I do think I have taken on some great challenges, like voluntarily adopting and now homeschooling a fetal alcohol autistic child
maybe when I retire, I’ll take up reading comprehension
For later . . .
And the magnesium is necessary to aid in the detox of bromine, chlorine and flouride as a result of the add’l iodine intake.
It’s all fine, till you get man boobs. Commercials everywhere looking for cases so they can sue the ritalin companies.
I learned a lot from Spacejunkie....I started taking iodine, magnesium and a whole bunch of other stuff. I have been trying to convince EVERYONE to check their minerals. I have taken epsom salts to relatives and tried to force them to use them. One good source of info about iodine is www.breastcancerchoices.org Interesting stuff there for women!
My daughter wouldn’t listen and finally had to have weekly infusions of vitamins and minerals because she has an auto-immune issue so can’t absorb through intestine. But I think the epsom sales would have helped.
My aggressive intellectual dishonesty? When this is the comment of yours on which I was commenting?
This doesn’t mean that there aren’t kids who exhibit the “symptoms” in question, just that those symptoms are due to parenting, not brain abnormalities.
Maybe I should have used the sentence prior to the one I initially quoted, which was: ADHD is bogus.
Please explain my "aggressive intellectual dishonesty," as I wasn't the one claiming anything other than I found your comments to be nonsense.
My ex went from the business school to communications and then to education.
Friends wondered how she ever got into a major university. I still don’t know. She did spend one semester in a junior college.
She was a junior in college and still couldn’t grasp fractions. And I am not talking multiplication or division. I am talking — 1/2 = .5, 1/4 = .25, etc.
Education was by far the easiest major on campus. This woman even went on to get a masters. Her early childhood education classes made it seem like she was in the 3rd grade again.
heyyyy...wait just a darn minute Peter! You sound like a yahoo iodine site visitor :)
I’ always glad when I see others grasping the truth.
Aria!! So good to hear from you and it’s great to hear you are doing better and pushing the minerals like I do! LOL
Keep up the good work.
And the thing is...I don't feel old either - I go like crazy! I'm into green vegetable juice these days, go light on animal protein but do like fish. Also started Julianne Michaels exercises. So far so good!
What’s the difference between magnesium glycinate and magnesium oxide (which is what I take)? I definitely feel better since starting the magnesium (as an iodine supplement) but I’m intrigued because you sound the way I sound about iodide. I easily feel ten years younger since starting my iodoral supplementation. I will switch to this glycinate if you think it’s worth a try.
awesome!People don’t really realize that its the internal stuff you do that makes you look great, not the external.
I make green shakes every weekday morning too. I love them.
Are you talking about giving them drugs? If so, I'm not convinced.
without a doubt, switch. Oxide is what is in milk of magnesia which doesn’t absorb hence the flushing affect.
Besides Lugol’s, Iodoral is the best iodine to take IMO. Be sure you’re taking selenium, really good salt and vitamin C with bioflavanoids.
check, check, and check. I'll make the switch. I'm not usually so easily swayed by internet posters, but when I say the iodine supplementation has changed my life I'm not exaggerating. I've only been taking the selenium, C, Celtic Grey sea salt, and the magnesium because of it. Swapping out a different form of magnesium is a simple change that I'm willing to try for a bottle or two.
I'll be honest I do sort of like the laxative effect of the mag oxide.
Awhile back, my wife and I switched to mag l-threonate to assist with brain function, but we missed the regularity the mag oxide seems to give us so we switched back when we finished the bottle.
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