ADD & other Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Nutritional Deficiencies and Toxicities
Does the following quote sound like you or your child?
"I felt a cleaving in my mind as if my brain had split. I tried to match it seam by seam, but could not make them fit. The thought behind I strove to join unto the thought before, but sequence raveled out of sound like balls upon a floor." Emily Dickinson (1864)
Do you think Emily Dickinson had a few symptoms of ADD, maybe focus and concentration?? I do!
Toxic Metals
Many children are born toxic as well as nutrient deficient. Toxic metals pass through the placenta from mother to child. All metals have a substantial negative effect on the nervous system. Some toxic metals to test for: mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, and copper. Nutritional Direction uses Hair Analysis and Porphyrin Analysis to check for heavy metals.
Every hair analysis that I have done on a child in the last thirteen years with symptoms of neurodevelopmental disorders has revealed elevated levels of toxic heavy metals.
A newer test which is most conclusive for adult heavy metal testing is porphyrin testing. This test measures metabolites (porphyrins) in the urine which are specific for identifying types and quantities of heavy metals.
Nutrient Deficiencies
One study done in 2004 on autistic children found that liver detoxification pathways were not functioning in these children due to low concentrations of some nutrients and high concentrations of others - in other words, imbalance.
Additionally, hair analysis reveals mineral deficiencies and subsequent adrenal burn-out in a majority of these children. These children (or adults) have successfully followed detoxification programs with Nutritional Direction and lose most, if not all, of their symptoms.
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