THE UNDERLYING CAUSATIVE FACTORS OF ADHD
Getting Down To Root Causes
When You Understand Your Child, You Can Help Your Child
Every Kid Is Unique: What’s Causing Your Child’s Problems?
The Following Factors Have Triggered ADHD Symptoms In Some Children:
- Toxification of the brain and body with heavy metals, particularly mercury
and lead.
- Toxification from childhood vaccinations containing thimerosal, especially
when given to a child who is sick, on antibiotics, or has another risk factor.
- Toxification from various environmental pollutants.
- Nutritional deficits that impede detoxification, and that impair
neurotransmitter function.
- Food allergies, sensitivities and intolerances that harm brain chemistry.
- Inflammation of the brain, including autoimmune reactions that are related
to streptococcal bacteria. This results in a disorder known as PANDAS.
- In-utero stressors, including environmental toxins, inoculations, bacteria,
viruses, nutritional deficiencies, and emotional stress.
- Thyroid disorders -- most commonly low thyroid activity, resulting in
impaired energy and cognitive function. Another problem is autoimmune
thyroid disorder.
- Presence of testosterone in males, which exacerbates toxification.
- Genetic factors that contribute to all of these various assaults upon the
nervous system, immune system, and gastrointestinal system.
These causative factors can result in the single most significant neurological
problem that most ADHD kids have: Their brains are frequently not very good at
sending messages from the lower brain to the upper brain, primarily via a network
of neurons known as the basal ganglia. These children’s thoughts too often stay
down in the lower, limbic area of the brain, which is governed more by emotion,
fear, and instinct than it is by logic.
These classic contributing factors to ADHD create a brain that just can’t take good
care of itself. In particular, it can’t have a good talk with itself, in the same way that
you might have a talk with yourself when you’re trying to make a difficult decision.
The higher brain simply can’t engage in a smart dialogue with the lower brain.
The lower brain hogs the conversation, and thoughts and feelings get bogged in a
mire of fear, anger, and selfish desire. Negativity builds upon negativity, until bad
behavior finally bursts forth with uncontrollable force.
When this unfortunate process occurs, people lose what neurologists call
executive function. Losing executive function means that the upper brain’s frontal
lobes aren’t in charge anymore. When people lose strong executive function, they
can have the best of intentions, but just don’t have the biological means to
harness those intentions, and do the right thing.
The conventional remedy for lack of executive function is Ritalin, and similar
drugs. These drugs usually stimulate the problematic parts of the brain, wake up
the basal ganglia, and help people control themselves.
But short-acting Ritalin doesn’t solve anything. The brain’s problems are still there
four hours later, when the drug wears off.
The Healing Program, however, can often address the root problems that impair
executive function.
