ADHD Vitamins that do not help ADHD Symptoms

Some vitamins and supplements do not help ADHD symptoms

I would like you to not waste money on vitamins for ADHD  and supplements for ADHD that do not help the symptoms of ADHD so
before I move on to the ADHD Vitamins that perhaps are helpful for ADHD but that need more study I would like to mention some ADHD vitamins and supplements that simply do not help ADHD symptoms. This is the group of vitamins and supplements that has been studied extensively and has been found wanting

According to a survey performed by the National Institutes of Health, the drug that is used by parents and patients the most to treat the symptoms of ADHD Inattentive, Hyperactive, and Combined type is St. John's Word or hypericum. This herb has been found very useful in the treatment of depression but study after study has found it useless in the treatment of the symptoms of ADHD.

Forty percent of patients diagnosed with ADHD also have a co-diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder, the St. John's Wort will only help your ADHD symptoms if these symptoms co-exist with depression. For the sixty percent of people with ADHD symptoms without depression, the St. John's Wort is goint to be a waste of money because it does NOTHING for ADHD symptoms.

Valerian root is used by a great deal of people with ADHD. This is an herb that works fairly well to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety. Some people report that valerian is as good as Valium for anxiety but unless you have ADHD and anxiety symptoms, about 25% percent of patients with ADHD have a co-diagnosis of anxiety disorder, you should stop taking the Valerian. Valerian has been studied extensively and has been found to NOT help the symptoms of ADHD without anxiety.

Homeopathic remedies are not ADHD vitamins but they are ADHD supplements that rarely if ever help ADHD symptoms There are many on the market that are supposed to help ADHD. Homeopathic remedies are supposed to help attention, hyperactivity and to improve cognition but repeated studies have not shown any benefits in treating the symptoms of ADHD. Some badly performed studies have been done where they first determine if a person will benefit from the homeopathic remedy and then include only those subjects in the study of homeopathic remedies and these studies have shown positive results but if you only include people in your study who say the remedy helps them before hand, you are always going to get a positive result.

Tyrosine and all the other amino acid supplements have very mixed results for ADHD. I have posted about amino acids and ADHD in a previous post but the crux of the problem is that these amino acids need to go through a very complicated process that involves a million other connections and unless everything is in place in just the correct amount and order, these amino acids will not help. Many studies have looked at the amino acids and they have mostly shown that they may help in the short term but that they do not seem to provide any lasting benefit.

There are vitamins that seem to help ADHD, vitamins that may help ADHD symptoms and vitamins that have been thoroughly studied and do not help ADHD symptoms. There are probably many other vitamins and supplements that do not help ADHD but many of those have not been included here because they have not been thoroughly studied.