Ever read “Brain Matters” by Dr. Perlmutter? Interesting stuff in it on ADHD..
Probably. Over the years, lots of folks who were weirded out by, or otherwise wary of, the “mainstream” method of treating ADD have suggested reading up on nutritional or alternative-medicine (herbal, meditation, etc) methods of treatment. Early on, I read through the ones that at least tried to be logical, and actually tried some of the ones that didn’t involve obvious quackery. Unfortunately none of those methods ever showed any kind of positive result.
The main reason for failure is that most of the proponents of those methods didn’t actually understand the mechanism behind ADD, and as I learned more about ADD it became easier to weed out the methods that had no chance of working because they didn’t address the root of the problem. Unfortunately, most of those alternate treatments were nothing more than money-making ideas aimed at people who likewise didn’t really understand the science behind ADD, who tended to be medical reactionaries and were therefore eager to try anything that didn’t involve “big pharma” or unfamiliar drugs.