Thursday, May 12, 2011

ADHD Vitamins 'Help', May Mean Many Different Things.

ADHD Vitamin Help Means Many Things
ADHD Vitamins 'Help' May Mean Many Different Things.


ADHD Vitamins may help ADHD but ADHD Vitamin 'help' can mean different things depending on specific problems and situations.  Let me explain.  There are almost 200 conditions that can look like ADHD, that can worsen ADHD or that can co-occur with ADHD.

An ADHD differential diagnosis post from the Primarily Inattentive ADD website outlines all of these conditions.  ADHD Vitamins may not cure ADHD but these vitamins and supplements 'help' ADHD if they:


  • Remove conditions or problems that worsen ADHD symptoms.
  • Repair faulty brain or bodily processes that bring on or worsen ADHD symptoms.
  • Improve the symptoms of conditions that often co-exist with ADHD .
  • Lessen the behavioral problems seen in ADHD.
ADHD Vitamins may improve medical issues that worsen ADHD
ADHD Vitamins may improve medical issues that worsen ADHD
The posts on this web page will describe the what, when, how and why of ADHD vitamins and supplements that improve or help ADHD as described in the four bullet points above.  It is often too difficult to separate out diagnostically what causes or worsens one specific behavior or symptoms.  

In the case of  ADHD vitamins and supplements, it is often easier to see improvement in the absence of a complete understanding of the biological processes that brought about the improvement.  Where the scientific literature is unclear regarding how an ADHD vitamins helps, I will mention this as well.

As we begin to discuss ADHD vitamins and supplements where fewer studies have been performed and where the scientific data is sketchier, it is important to keep these things in mind.

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