Solving the Mystery of ADHD: Naturally

By Linda Santini

A vital resource for individuals or families coping with ADHD-like symptoms! irritability allergies & sensitivities moodiness distractability anxiety depression volatile temper constant movement... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097289697X
• ISBN13: 9780972896979
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Acorn Pub
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

With Optimal Nutrition, ADHD Is No Longer A Mystery

"What's he done this time?" How many times have I heard a parent say this after I've commandeered the school phone to call home about their child's behavior. Author Linda Santini, herself a teacher, has been on both ends of such a conversation. While it is no picnic to teach a class populated with ADHD kids, life is infinitely harder for Mom and Dad, the longsuffering people Dr. Abram Hoffer calls "battered parents." And with good reason. Most if not all ADHD kids are stimulation addicts. They are little adrenaline junkies, craving the very rush that poisons their cranium. Adrenaline is the catecholamine neurotransmitter of sturm and drang, of storm and stress. Over stimulation can mean overproduction of adrenaline. Excess adrenaline is oxidized into adrenochrome, an LSD-like bad trip hallucinogen that, to use a 1960's phrase, flips you out. Commonly, such adrenochrome-whacked kids also crave dietary overstimulation, particularly colored and sugared junk food, which further assaults their brain. All the time, day after day. If you have an ADHD child, Santini's new book, Solving the Mystery of ADHD Naturally, will instantly resonate with you. "That's him!" you will say. Behavior is at least as much biochemical as anything else. Unresponsive, uneducated physicians routinely overlook the nutrition connection. That's fine for them; they see the child as a patient for only minutes. Parents cannot escape: they go home at the end of the day to a child that may be hostile, antsy, and out of control. Behavior modification and counseling, while laudable ideas, all too often fail because ADHD kids are unreceptive to behavior counseling because the behavior itself is biochemical. As you cannot implant happy thoughts in a victim of arsenic or cyanide poisoning, so you cannot adequately counsel kids with adrenochrome coursing through their bodies. Linda Santini, an experienced counselor, knows this well, and she communicates it even better. Solving the Mystery of ADHD Naturally is especially well written. The author has a clear and engaging writing style. Her facts are straight and her anecdotes are well paced, to the point, and vivid. The book is well organized and well indexed. The first portion of the book spotlights the problems, as intensely witnessed by the author and her family, while part two accentuates the solution. The combined result is an excellent, easy to follow presentation of orthomolecular (megavitamin) medicine which should required reading for all health professionals. As actress Margot Kidder says, "You can fix your brain. You can fix your brain with nutrition." I highly recommend Solving the Mystery of ADHD Naturally, a book that shows you how, and offers a way out for you and your ADHD child. (This review is reprinted with permission from [...])