Re: alleged “alternatives” for ADHD

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I have never been treated by a homeopath for any medical condition. This nutrionist happens to have a dilpoma as a homeoptah and is on her way to a traditionlal PHD in nutrition – look I don’t care if you think it works or not. I had a posituve experience and I am sharing that, others can decide if they might benefit or not based on your input, mny input and there own sense of how they work.

My initial thread was to start a conversation on an alternative that benefited me personally, not to pick a fight. May be this alternative rings true with someone and they would like to try it, maybe it might even help them signifcantly – but your arrogance to flat out discredit it, when you have no personal experience with it – is well arrogant.

I can undertsand someones apprehension about trying an alternative as I have them myself — and for someone to say “I have heard mixed things or negative things about this alternative – or approach with cautiion and her is why.” – but to call it an outright scam and a fraud with out any personal or physcial knowledge of it is – well is arrogant and closed minded. Is it possible that you don’t actually know everything there is to know about everything?

I do have an open mind and like the idea that health care professionals examine all alternative options, including homepathic and nutritional options – wasn’t your original conversation about alternatives?

So if you look it up on line and see a peer review it is now all of a sudden true? Everyone has their patch of real estate they want to protect. I’m sure the medical and pharmaceutical community are stampeding to do unbiased studies about how nutrition may be able to do what medication does.

I’m sure those peer studies on Prozac and the other horor stories you hear about anti- depressants screwing people up permanently

really make those people feel better. After all the RX “Independent” company study says it is good for you, so sign on.

It worked for me and esentially everyone else I know who followed the nutritional advice – and you say it didn’t work. I just don’t know how you can support that – because you don’t know whether it worked or not. Is that anecdotal? Who cares? I feel great when I apply it and all is right with the world. Call it what you like, you just seem incredibly closed minded. Maybe it does work for a ceratin part of the population or even the majority of the population if there was a main stream “peer study” . Most MD no very little about nutritin and the effects on health – they still use the governtment food pyramid for ctying out loud.

So far the only traditional medical teatment I have received for ADD was a questionnaire and a littany of medication to try, by trial and error. Nothing about increasing excercise, changing diet, mediation, mental excercises – just “Here try this pill and see me in a month.”

Out of curiousity have you found ANY alternative treatments that you have personally tried that have been successful? Have yoiu actually tried any alternative treatments to see how they effect you in your real life?… or do you prefer to rely on studies to draw that conclusion for you.

I have no link to ALCAT or homeopathy – what is your relationship to the traditional medical and pharmaceutical community.

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