Posts Tagged ‘sugar-pill’

Dr. David Rabin­er’s Atten­tion Research Update drew my atten­tion to a recent spate of research arti­cles on the poten­tial of omega‑3 fat­ty acid dietary sup­ple­men­ta­tion to help treat ADD/ADHD. Stim­u­lant med­ica­tion for chil­dren with ADD/ADHD has been the pre­dom­i­nant treat­ment for years. Thus far, it has been quite suc­cess­ful, but we have yet to see the long term effects of chron­ic med­ica­tion. Giv­en that, it is worth at least inves­ti­gat­ing alter­na­tive ther­a­pies that can be used either in place of or in con­junc­tion with tra­di­tion­al phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal and behav­ioral treat­ment. As one of the four pil­lars of brain health, nutri­tion has a sig­nif­i­cant impact on both phys­i­cal struc­tures in the body and behav­ior. Nutri­tion­al research though is often dif­fi­cult to con­duct. It is uneth­i­cal to with­hold essen­tial nutri­ents from peo­ple and nutri­ents work syn­er­gis­ti­cal­ly, which makes it dif­fi­cult to dis­cern the effect of one nutri­ent ver­sus another.