May 24, 2025 • 54 mins
7 million children have been diagnosed with ADHD, with over half of those children taking prescription medications. But Dr. Prather says that the Structure-Function approach gets to the actual root cause of the symptoms instead of just masking the symptoms with prescriptions. In this episode, we talk about:
—How ADHD is caused by a neurotransmitter abnormality that's going on, where the brain does not work as it should.
—Why Dr. Prather believes there is an actual increase in ADHD, not just more cases due to heightened awareness.
—The diagnostics Dr. Prather recommends to get to the root cause of ADHD symptoms, including a Hair Analysis and a G.I. Stool Kit. And the Neurotransmitter and Neural Zoomer Tests that reveal exactly what is going on in the brain and how to correct it.
—The role of parasites in causing mental health issues. And the amazing story of how Dr. Prather helped a boy go from being recommended for Special Education class to being accepted into a Gifted program after his parasites were cleared up.
—How boys are more likely to be affected by Heavy Metal Toxicities, which are well-known to change the brain chemistry. And how girls are more likely to have Copper toxicities and Iron deficiencies that will result in changes in personality and academic performance.
—Why the diet is a huge factor in ADHD and the dietary recommendations for the best results.
—The list of Vitamins, Minerals, Natural Supplements and Homeopathics that improve focus and attention. And how Chiropractic and Acupuncture are important treatments that "make an immediate, quick, and long-term change in a child's performance".
—The well-known evidence for how taking ADHD medication as children can lead to drug addiction when they become adults. And why researchers said that ADHD drugs were more for the benefit of parents and teachers, not the children.
—The dangerous side-effects of ADHD medications, including: weight loss, loss of appetite, stunted growth, difficulty sleeping, drowsiness, anxiety, abdominal problems, fatigue, heart problems, hypertension, skin issues, involuntary tics, and psychosis.
—Plus, learn how you can get 20% off our Neurotransmitter and Neural Zoomer Test that measures brain chemicals and imbalances by attending our upcoming free educational seminar with Dr. Prather this Wednesday, May 28th at 6:30 p.m.
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—How ADHD is caused by a neurotransmitter abnormality that's going on, where the brain does not work as it should.
—Why Dr. Prather believes there is an actual increase in ADHD, not just more cases due to heightened awareness.
—The diagnostics Dr. Prather recommends to get to the root cause of ADHD symptoms, including a Hair Analysis and a G.I. Stool Kit. And the Neurotransmitter and Neural Zoomer Tests that reveal exactly what is going on in the brain and how to correct it.
—The role of parasites in causing mental health issues. And the amazing story of how Dr. Prather helped a boy go from being recommended for Special Education class to being accepted into a Gifted program after his parasites were cleared up.
—How boys are more likely to be affected by Heavy Metal Toxicities, which are well-known to change the brain chemistry. And how girls are more likely to have Copper toxicities and Iron deficiencies that will result in changes in personality and academic performance.
—Why the diet is a huge factor in ADHD and the dietary recommendations for the best results.
—The list of Vitamins, Minerals, Natural Supplements and Homeopathics that improve focus and attention. And how Chiropractic and Acupuncture are important treatments that "make an immediate, quick, and long-term change in a child's performance".
—The well-known evidence for how taking ADHD medication as children can lead to drug addiction when they become adults. And why researchers said that ADHD drugs were more for the benefit of parents and teachers, not the children.
—The dangerous side-effects of ADHD medications, including: weight loss, loss of appetite, stunted growth, difficulty sleeping, drowsiness, anxiety, abdominal problems, fatigue, heart problems, hypertension, skin issues, involuntary tics, and psychosis.
—Plus, learn how you can get 20% off our Neurotransmitter and Neural Zoomer Test that measures brain chemicals and imbalances by attending our upcoming free educational seminar with Dr. Prather this Wednesday, May 28th at 6:30 p.m.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hi, I'm Lisa Prather and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Praither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. Today we're talking about ADHD and the natural path,
and sometimes that path isn't always straight well be all
(00:35):
over the place.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it can be, you know. I mean it's just
basically what we're looking at with ADHD is not being
able to use your frontel lobe quite as well. Where
you can't inhibit you know, the thought process comes up,
and before the thought process actually hits your mind, you're
(01:00):
doing it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's not even process, it's not even a process.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So you know, there's this just acting up that's inappropriate,
can be even some violence you know that's involved, and
the kids like, I don't know why I did that,
So it makes them lose self esteem, which actually adds
to the problem, and then you've got a spiraling type
(01:25):
of thing where you know, it loses them friends, you know,
problems in school, and then more and more issues that
can occur. But it's basically, you know, if you're really
looking at it, there is definitely usually there is actually
a neurotransmitter abnormality going on and the brain's not completely
(01:47):
working as it should. Now, there is of course a
natural impulsivity among kids, you know, and you know you
can usually find some ADHD activity in three year olds,
almost all of them would be classified that way. You know,
as you grow older that inhibition should start kicking in, right,
(02:09):
you know where the frontal lobe starts taking over, and
until they become teenagers and then of course they lose
their funnel or kind of drops out somewhere. So there
is the process that goes on. So really understanding the
process along those lines and the neuro transmitters and all
(02:29):
the things that go on in there actually plays a
big role.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now you're talking about neural transmitters. Sure you know you
don't have to get a whole anatomy lesson, but simply
what are neural transmitters.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, they're the chemicals that allow the nerve impulses to
travel from one nerve to another. The main ones that
have a big effect for ADHD, you know, usually is
considered as dopamine and serotonin. I mean, there's a whole
list of them, right, Keva and how they interplay is
(03:03):
something that's very very important.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, and we're able to test those at holistic integration.
We're going to talk about that diagnosing. But before we
do that, let's talk about statistics with ADHD. It's pretty alarming.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, So right now we have on diagnosed. That was
in twenty twenty two. We have seven million children who
are diagnosed with ADHD. Now, in nineteen ninety seven it
was much less. And so you're talking about eleven point
four percent of all children right now between the ages
(03:39):
of three and seventeen. Back in nineteen ninety seven it
was less than six percent. So and back when I
was killed.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's almost doubled since nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Right, Wow, So there is And you know, one of
the things that people ask is, well, is that just
a The question is is that just more it's being
more diagnosed or is it something that's actually more prevalent.
And I've known teachers and people who are involved in this,
(04:10):
and it's like, no, this is just more prevalent. You know,
that was always you know, rambuctious boys and kids and
stuff like that, But it is actually something that is
more evident. Just like there's more autism, there's more ADHD,
there's more childhood allergies, there's more childhood obesity. In other words,
(04:32):
you know, we have a health problem that's actually occurring
and we need to get to the bottom of it.
I think that's one thing Robert Kennedy has been saying. Yes,
he's been. I saw him recently in a congressional earring
where they were grilling him, and the person who was
growing him had been on the oversight for Health Human
(04:56):
Services in the United States, and he said, you know,
you have been on this panel for twenty five years,
and you've watched the health and deterioration of the American
population and American kids over that time. Why haven't you
been doing your job?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Wow? Kennedy said that, yes.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because she says, I'm here to hold you accountable. And
he says, who's holding you accountable? Because I'm trying to
change this. You know, I'm being grilled almost I can't
even do my job because you stupid senators and congressmen
are constantly grilling me. Yeah, and preventing me from actually
(05:40):
fixing this problem that you were supposed to oversee. So
she was like, just answer my question, you know. So
there is some frustration there, but you know, as we're
looking at this, this is more commonly within boys fifteen
percent as opposed to eight percent of girls. Black and
(06:01):
white kids are at twelve percent. Asians are diagnosed at
four percent, American, Indian and Alaska natives are ten percent.
So there's an interesting thing that's going on along those lines,
you know, as far as why there are different types
of issues. Now, an interesting thing is those kids who
(06:23):
have been diagnosed with ADHD, over fifty percent are taking
medications for it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You know, from sort of those seven million children, right.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Over half of them are on meds and about forty
four percent are getting some behavioral treatment, you know, with
some crossover along those lines. But it's interesting is it's
not consistent from state to state. Oh, Okay, Mississippi is
the highest at fourteen point five percent.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
What are you saying that are on medication.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That are diagnosed with EIGHTHD? And then California is five
point three percent, so a much less percentage of kids
are diagnosed with ADHD in California.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
What about Indiana?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Indiana is ten point two percent. It's pretty high, so
you know, it's not at the eleven point four percent
which is the national average.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, but it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But it's high. Yeah. And then the kids who are
diagnosed in Indiana, sixty four point four percent are on meds.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Wow, here in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So it's a higher percentage of encouragement to get on
medications here in Indiana than in other states. So those
are interesting statistics, and you know, with some ideas of
you know, why is that and why is there inconsistency?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You know, do you believe ADHD is over diagnosed in
the United States? I have a question, I know.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But yeah, actually I don't. It's something that we're seeing
more and more in kids. There is a definite change
in the number of children who have what I would
consider brain disease chemistry, you know, whether chemistry isn't working right.
(08:20):
So understanding that, I mean, it's just like the rise
in autism. You know, autism is something that's much more
easily diagnosed and less controversial on the diagnosis, but that
is increased too. So we're also seeing an increase in
brain cancers and children all sorts of different types of things.
(08:41):
So we do have an issue. It's what do we
do about it? Is basically probably where I diverge.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, and we're going to talk about that. Let's define again,
what ADHD is and how it's typically diagnosed.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, it's typically diagnosed with a questionnaire, you know, there's
sort of a standard one that's been accepted and pretty accurate.
So that is a good way to actually determine it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That mommy and daddy do or.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, actually professionals, health professionals can do it and actually
come up with a diagnosis along those lines. Do I
think that's accurate? Yes, but there are actually better ways
to actually look at the causes, you know, so we actually,
of course in our office, diagnostics are extremely important, you know,
(09:31):
finding out the underlying issues and what's going on so
you determine that the child has it. Now, the difference
between structure function care and integration disease care is disease
care is then you come up with a pharmaceutical to
suppress the symptoms, you know, to help with that. What
(09:54):
we're looking at is actually find the underlying problems and
fix them. With structure function care, what you're doing is
you're not treating the disease, which is ADHD. What you're
doing is finding out where's the chemistry off, what is
actually things that you can do to bring the body
back into homeostasis. And then as you have it into homeostasis,
(10:18):
then you have a normal functioning child.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Mm hm. That makes sense. Well, when we come back,
we're going to talk more on ADHD and the natural path.
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and the natural path and we ended the first segment
talking about diagnostics and diagnosing ADHD and did your prey
(15:17):
through it holistic integration. What diagnostics do you use when
looking into ADHD.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well Probably a very basic one is the hair analysis.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
About that last.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Week, right, just how important that is because if you
have heavy metal toxicity in there, which we find in
most cases of ADHD is that there's some heavy metals,
you're not going to accomplish anything until you get rid
of those. And you're talking about quite a variety. Aluminum
(15:51):
is one that's the most common, but you can also
have mercury, lead, nickel, cadmium. Other words, there's a whole
host of heavy metals that could be involved. Because what
they do is they change. They're very well known to
change the brain chemistry, yes, you know, and cause issues
even in adults, but even more so for children. And
(16:15):
one of the things is that children are in a
growth pattern, so their physiology is different, so their ability
to absorb heavy metals is much much higher than adults.
So we can have the same exposure and an adult
may not even absorb the heavy metals and a child
gets a ton of it. And interestingly enough, boys are
(16:40):
more likely to get to absorb heavy metals than girls
because of the higher testosterone level. It actually brings that
to the brain because the brain has a bigger The
testosterone has a big effect on the brain. I don't
know if you've ever noticed that. We've had. Of course,
(17:01):
we had our boy and other boys, you know, and
mothers who are mothers to daughters are like, what the
heck is wrong with Yeah, he's a boy. That's actually normal.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I know my best friend and we had kids around
the same age. She had three girls. Yeah, I had
no idea what to do with a boy. Yeah, right,
right much. You just get them outside outside. I do
that with my grandson. We're outside as much as we can.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yes, so, and that actually will balance out the neuro transmitters,
which is an interesting thing. But boys are much more
likely to absorb by a measure of about sixty percent
more as far as on the absorption, and that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Goes along with what they're seeing or what they're.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Seen with the stats. That's why the boys are more likely.
That's one of the things that affects that. But also
along that you can actually have minimal imbalances too that
show up. So if there's a calcium magnesium imbalanced or
a deficiency in one of those that can affect it.
Copper has a huge effect. So it's very well known
that high copper will cause a higher transmission of nerve.
(18:09):
It will change the nerve transmission to an excitatory state
that is not being able to control, or if it
goes too low, can also cause problems with inhibition. So
the copper, zinc, manganese going too high is also something
that can kick off ADHD. So looking at the hair
(18:31):
analysis is a very easy, inexpensive way to start the
whole process and oftentimes will fix the issue. You know,
it's an interesting type of thing, but hair analysis is
a great way to start. And then the next thing
that I would say as far as importance is gistoolkit.
(18:55):
God has such a huge effect on mental health. I
had an interesting case where I had a child come
in who was they were going to put him in
special ed education and had already tried medications, but they said,
you know, he just wasn't able to learn, and so
we did the hair analysis, We did the GI steelkit,
(19:18):
and we found parasites. And one of the things is
that parasites are known to produce chemicals to change behavior,
so that's something that's been very proven and there are
certain parasites that will actually kick off risky behavior on
(19:39):
both differently for males and females. So what we did
was we got rid of the parasites and the kid
went from looking to go into special ad but actually
going into a gifted class. Wow, that much of a
difference in the behavior I had a young I've had
several girls who had high copper, which is more common
(20:01):
in females because it's more of a It's something that
is actually more common in females than in males. A
lot of that high copper that's because of the higher
progesterone seems to attract that. But she was they were
actually had her on medication for ADHD, and we found
the mom wanted to take her off because she didn't
(20:23):
like the effects on her. She was no longer the
bubbly little girl who had all these friends. She would
just kind of sit alone and was very depressed. So
it wasn't working for her, and so we took a
look at it, saw very high copper got her on
zinc copper detox and it just turned her around and
(20:44):
around wow, And she actually stopped coming for a little
while and then came back in and said, ah, we've
got some behavior issues again. So we got the copper
back under control. But she said, you know, I can
tell when that copper goes high on this little girl.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
So looking at the gut parasites are one thing. There's
something that we also look at is the level of
beta glucuronidase, which is something that at certain levels is
normal and actually helps to prevent cancer in the gut,
but if it gets too high, it actually goes up
to the brain and will cause abnormal neurotransmitters.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And how do we test that's steel kit.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, that's one of the standard things that we do,
and we have products that actually are almost one hundred
percent guaranteed to bring it down. Also, they do the flora,
and there are certain combinations of flora that are abnormal
gut in our gut that will actually lead to ADHD symptoms,
which they already know at this point, so we can
(21:44):
just change the gut flora. So there are infections. It
can be viral, it can be bacterial, it can be
parasitic that can actually kick that off. There is chemistry
in the gut that goes up to the brain that
kicks it off. And then there's also a long with
that the gut flora itself, and getting that changed makes
all the difference in the world. So those are a
(22:06):
few along those lines, but not only that. One of
the things that we recommend is a spect brain scan.
If you know, those things just don't kind of get
things solved. There could be injuries to the brain or
other different types of things. You can also do an
MRI sometimes that will show up. We actually were involved
(22:28):
in like a brain mapping and you can actually see
anatomical changes in the brain and actually documenting that that
this is not something that is a behavioral problem, but
is actually a brain problem. So the SPEC scanning is something.
We also do neurotransmitter tests find out what the shift
(22:50):
is and then what's going to work to get that
back to normal.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Is that a blood test.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's a blood test, so we can do the neurotransmitter
and then we can also do something called a neurozoomer
and what that does is it's a urine test, and
what we're looking at is are there antigens or different
types of things, because it will show up if there's
a virus that's actually affecting the brain, or is it food,
(23:16):
or is it some type of chemical. There's a whole
list of them that are well known to actually affect
the brain. So we can get pretty deep into the
diagnosis to really find out what's happening.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, Yeah, which is very important.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
If you know, right, And that's why we do it
much more than again, the medical answer is some pharmaceuticals
which might be helpful, but you know, if you really
want to yeah, and it doesn't, you're not fixing the
underlying issue. So that could be something that they oftentimes recommend,
(23:54):
even into adult Yeah, that you stay on that and
as we'll get into it, there's problems with them, all right.
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we're talking today about ADHD and the natural path and
doctor Pray, let's talk about some of the natural or
holistic treatment that we do at Holistic Integration for managing ADHD.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
First, I was talking about diet, which is a basic
type of thing. You need to eliminate all food sensitivities.
So what we do is you can do different types
to test to find out what those food sensitivities are.
So it's a very specific type of thing, but just
as a general thing, a high protein, low carbohydrate, and
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sugar free diet also and also a you know, like
a die free diet, so as many things that you
can make it as a natural diet instead of a
chemical diet like most people actually get.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And when you say like sugar free, are you talking
about refined sugars.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Refined sugar media oka or Yeah, Stevia actually works pretty well,
even like a maple syrup honey, so they can you know,
kids are going to crave sweets, Yeah, and a certain
amount is good, but one of the things is increasing fibers.
So one of the things that I talk about is
how there was a huge difference in our ancestors and
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our diet. Yeah, so our ancestors would eat for an
adult about seventy five grams of fiber and about fifteen
grams of sugar. As an American, we eat about seventy
five grams of a healthy diet actually is about seventy
five grams of sugar and fifteen grams of fiber. So
of course kids aren't going to eat as much because
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you know that much because on either of those, because
they don't consume that much. But really increasing the fiber
and a lot of protein actually helps within neurotransmitter. So
you want to increase both of those, and then cutting
down on the refined sugars and the refined carbohydrates are
the way to go because whole grains, as long as
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you don't have an allergy to those or sensitivity, they
have a lot of fiber in them. Beans too, So
the diet plays a very big role, and most people
see a big change just by working with.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That, and they're starting to take those dyes out of
the or the red dye right.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
That's one of the things that has been the amount
of Like I was talking to a patient of mine
who is actually from Canada, and they were saying, you know,
we were real big And as far as I'm reading,
the ingredients and oreos up in Canada has about four ingredients.
The oreos here in the United States has about twenty
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twenty five.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Interesting, So they add a whole bunch of chemicals into
the American diet that they don't have in the They're
not allowed to have that those chemicals.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Canada in Canada.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Interesting, So you know there is a very big difference
in America has many, many more chemicals in our food
than in Europe or other developed countries, and it shows
up in our children. Yeah, so diet is a huge area.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Now, are there specific supplements or herbs known to help
with focus and attention?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
There are, of course.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
The biggest thing that everybody talks about is B vitamins,
and understanding those is a very important type of thing.
And we actually can do a blood test or other
different types of tests to find out exactly which ones
are deficient because you want to get the mix just right,
because oftentimes they can be antagonistic to one another. So
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getting the B vitamins, you know, nyosin, panathetic acid, diamond,
vitamin B six, fullic acid B twelve, all of those
play a very big important role in the ability of
the brain to think. But Vitamin A, vitamin K, vitamin E,
vitamin D, all of those plays a big role too.
You know, if they go deficient and vitamin D, the
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whole system doesn't work very well.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yeah, and we can just assume yeah, vitamin in right,
everybody's low in vitamin D.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
That's why being outside is such a big thing. Minerals
of course is as we talked about before, you know,
a very important type of thing, making sure that the
calcium magnesium. An interesting thing is iron deficiency. So I
was talking to a women's cross country coach and I said,
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because I was dealing with her daughter, and I said,
you know, she can't think. They hadn't put her on
any type of meds for it. But ninety percent of
all the girls on the cross country team were on
something for concentration.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
And I said, well, iron deficiency, I said, teenage girls
who are active. It was all in concerto And I said, well,
they're iron deficient, you know, like your daughter here, I said,
it's almost one hundred percent. So she was like, oh,
how do you do that? And that was with you know,
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a blood test, and so brought it up, you know,
to the parents and they said, well, we don't want to,
you know, we don't understand why a chiropractor would be
doing that, which chiropractors were involved in that type of
thing long before the medical profession got interested. So I mean,
we actually have a longer history and more training in
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this type of stuff. But beside the point. They took
them to a doctor who they kind of checked and
she said sure, and so they checked them and they
all had low iron low iron and they put iron.
You know, she gave them med iron. There was better forms,
but that's besides the point, you know, and got them
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on the iron and they actually then won the state
championship where they were not they were kind of like
a you know, everybody was talking about, well, where did
they come from? You know, how did they just physiology?
You know, were they taking steroids or something like that?
What happened? You know, because all of a sudden, you know,
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and they all went off medication. Their concentration went up.
So that's one thing that girls are more likely to
have a deficiency on, but it will cause ADHD types,
not ADHD because it's ADD they can't focus, so they
were diagnosed with ADD not ADHD. Fatty acids fatty acids
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is absolutely critical because the brain is made up of
fatty acids and it's one of the most important things
as far as on neurotransmitters, and we can do tests
for fatty acids, find out where the deficiencies are and
get those back up. So you know, basically, when somebody
calls you a fat head, that's a compliment because the
brain's made up of fat and very important that that's
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up to part and most kids are shifted in an
abnormal way. In other words, we've added so many kind
of like false seed oils that we were never exposed
to before, so it's not the natural fatty acids that
we had gotten before, and it throws off the brain.
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So having that into line, you really need to look
at that a magnesium manganese their antagonisty to each other.
Manganese goes high, magnesium will go low, and that will
be something that will cause ADHD symptoms. So looking at
the whole minerals along those lines, phosphorus is important, and
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then the amino acids. You know, as you're looking at those,
tyrosine is something along those lines. You're looking at tryp
to fan phenol, analine, all those types of things make
a real big difference along those lines. But it's not
just the nutritional chiropractic Yeah, getting that atlas set.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Their nervous system.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, especially the atlas, getting that nervous system correct, getting
the spine lined up, getting the structure back in. Too
many kids have their head forwards and whenever the head
goes forward, your neural transmitters are going to be off.
So getting the posture, getting the alignment in there, it
can make an immediate, quick, long term change in a
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child's performance. Yeah, So looking at the nervous systems for
chiropractic acupuncture actually will change. Is something that is well
known to actually lower cortisol levels, raise up oxytocin, and.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Now it can change.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
The needle thing could be a problem, but we do
non needle we can do.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
We can do a laser, we can do electrical, we
can do a powder. Yeah, there's a lot of ways
to get that under control.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
And one thing too that we added on a year
ago is the cranial sacral work sure, which is you know,
moving the cerebral spinal fluid within that the spinal cord
has been really helpful.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Sure TMJ makes a big difference along those lines if
they have problems, and especially you know a lot of
kids develop TMJ once they have braces. Doing grace work
is something that can have a big effect on the
nervous system, and you have to correct the jaw and
the skull in those types of instances to get that
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under control. We had a patient recently who had eight
months of migraines and really wasn't probably going to be
able to complete school, and of course we put the
outlass back in those types of things, but once we
did some cranial work on it, the headache went away,
just like.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
That, Yeah he's out playing pickleball, right, it's in with
this big smile. But after four weeks of treatment, sure
that he had been suffering eight months eight months.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
But that also occurs with ADHD, So those types of things.
We also have a urricular which is like a acupuncture
for the ears, only we use like seeds where we
take your line seeds. So and then we have all
types of physiotherapy. We have diathermy which helps to clear
out the toxins. We have electrical stem in other words,
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there's a lot of ways to work with that.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah yeah, and homeopogya.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
We do homeopathy. Oh yeah, How could I forget that?
That's absolutely essential because that can make a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
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Speaker 2 (40:19):
If you stimulate different ear points, which is like an
upside down fetus, and it actually corresponds very well to
the areas of the brain, then you can actually see
on MRI the different portions of the brain being stimulated
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something that's really debatable on whether it works or not.
One of the things that really caught the government its
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eighty five percent present on the first responders, which is
understandable to gain a very traumatic type of incident. The
people who got treated with acupuncture and mainly what they
were doing was hitting earpoints, there was only a fifteen
percent PTSD.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Interesting, so really we're doing aurcular therapy.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, auricular therapy, and that was something that was very
evident and they're like, wow, that made a big difference.
So medics out in the field now do auricular and
they found that there was eighty five percent less use
of opiates. This is standard protocol now within the army
and military.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Why is chiropractic so helpful in PTSD?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
First off, chiropractic is one of the ways that you
can deal with pain. PTSD is like a trauma to
the nervous system and is a form of pain. One
of the things that we're finding there's a brain injury
that's involved with a very severe neurological symptoms and that
can be caused through emotional trauma as well as physical trauma,
and chiropractic, especially in the upper cervical area, has been
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restoring hope to our patients. We're talking today about ADHD
and the natural path and Dutch Braither. I want to
go back to the statistics. You know, seven million children
in the United States between the ages of three and
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seventeen years have been diagnosed with ADHD. Fifteen percent of
those are boys, eight percent girls. The statistics on the
medication fifty three point six. It's almost fifty four over
half of them are taking meds that have side effects.
And we're going to go over that. And then in
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Indiana we have ten percent that are diagnosed correct.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
And then in Indiana it's almost sixty five percent on meds.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Okay, sixty five percent of children in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
We are diagnosed with.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
ADHD are on medication. And yeah, so let's talk about medications,
because there's always when you take a pharmaceutical, there's going
to be side effects. Sure, right, Sure, and that's why
we're talking about the natural path. So let's talk about
the medications for ADHD.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Sure. So the biggest one, I mean, there's a lot
of different meds that you can use. There are antidepressants,
other things, but the most common one that kids are given,
probably ninety percent of them are basically stimulants.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Now you sit there and go, well, why would you
give a stimulant for some hyperactive kid? It's like, hmm, Well,
an interesting thing about stimulants is that they have an
opposite effect on kids that they do in adults because
kid's physiology is different. So what it does is it
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helps them to focus better, to be able to function better.
So the stimulants are something that has been shown to
actually improve. Now one of the things that you sit
there and talk about as a stimulant, well, there's two
basic kinds. There's the amphetamines and then the methyl phenodates.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Okay, so they're broke. Those stimulants are broken.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Those are the two different well known stimulants, and so
as you're looking at those, that's sort of how that's
you know, divided up. The thing about the methyl finidates
is basically they have the same receptor sites as cocaine.
So basically all the stimulants are they know that people
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would kind of balk at giving cocaine to their kids,
but these are and.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
That includes Redlin's under there, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Ritalin is actually a methyl phenidate. So that's one of those,
and then the others are involved with the amphetamines. And
probably if I was going to put a kid on
and I would probably go with the amphetamines. They seem
to have a better results. And one of the things
that is better about that than the cocaine is that
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it's a slower acting so it kind of builds up
more gradually, so you don't get as much of a
high as you do with cocaine, but you have the
same physiological action on the brain as you do with cocaine.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
So you're talking about Riddlin was under so you have
to methylfinitate, okay, which is cocaine based, and I really.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Well it's not cocaine, but it actually acts almost exactly
like cocaine, but it builds up in the body gradually. Yeah,
so that's why you don't have some of the effects
on that.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
But I don't think it's being used as much.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah, most of the time, amphetamines is mainly where people
have really gone. A common one is vivance. After all,
those are some of the ones pro CenTra in other words,
there's a lot of different types of names for each
of those, but they have found that probably most of
them has actually shifted to amphetamines over the methyl finidates,
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which is like Riddlin and the other ones along those lines,
So you actually get better effects on that. And just
to let you know, the the amphetamines actually do work,
so you know, they do see a difference as far
as on behavior those types of things. So that is
something that is you know, to get things under control.
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That can be something that works. And I really can't
argue with that. Pharmaceutically they work well. Basically what it
does is it works along the dopamine and ore epinephrine pathways.
But what is true about it is it's not really
dealing with the underlying problem. And so you know you
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can get some good effects on that. Whether there's more focus.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Well in school, Yeah, and got effects in school right there.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Behavior is better, it's easier for mom, so there's a teacher,
those types of things. But like one of the things
I did was I read some go to PubMed and
you bring up and there's a long term types of
effects haven't really been studied, so we don't really know
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whether this is something that long term ter how that
actually will affect the child. And one of the things
is that they were saying is behavioral changes and working
along with a natural method is much much better. You know,
do you is this for the child or is this
for the adult? The pharmaceuticals you know, who is it
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actually benefiting and is in a long term type of effect.
Is that actually benefiting that child for their long term
health And they haven't really found you know that by
taking that that you have a better outcome as an adult.
Matter of fact, one of the things that is of
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major concern that they the drug companies always try to
reassure us that it doesn't result in drug abuse later
on in life. However, there's quite a bit of evidence
that shows that it can. That that's a major your concern.
Does that kind of set the child up for possible
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drug abuse which is very well known to occur in adults.
Speaker 5 (50:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
No, My brother grew up with him back then. They
called it hyperactivity. You know, this is in the seventies.
They put him on retelin and he ended up being
addicted to cocaine later on in life. You know, So
that's you know, something to be aware of.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah, and it's just like, you know, they sit there
and said that opiates weren't addictive, you know, all those
types of things, So that doesn't work real well. Now,
there's a lot of other things that they were talking
about that you have weight loss. Eighty percent of all
kids on amphetamines.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
These are the side effects.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Side effects eighty percent are going to have weight loss
because of them.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
This is during the time they're growing.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Yes, it also stops growth, you know, so there's weight loss,
there's growth. So there's a huge amount of physiological changes
taking place on that difficulty, sleeping, drowsiness, decrease, appetite of course,
because they use it as a weight loss drug. Anxiety
is something that oftentimes occurs and kids can actually then
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wind up on anti anxiety medications. Also, there is all
sorts of abdominal problems. You know, there's stomach pains, there's nausea,
there's fatigue, there's actually heart problems, so you can actually
develop heart disease because of that hypertension. As a matter
of fact, they say you should do an AKG on
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a child before you start it and then actually check
it later on because there can be damage to the heart.
There's also with that you can develop you know, permanent changes.
Athib is something that can occur from that, so they
can start it at a very young life. So all
sorts of techycardia, skin problems, skin discolorations, that's something that
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you need to be aware of. And if there is
some major types of skin problems that start to occur
you need to solve that medication immediately. Ticks can actually occur,
and even psychosis, it can actually lead to a permanent
change in the brain chemistry where the child is no
longer functioning as a normal person. So looking at all
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those different types of side effects every time that you
take a pharmaceutical, you know, there's the laws of pharmaceuticals
that you need to understand, is that all pharmaceuticals, if
they didn't have negati effects on the body, they wouldn't
be called pharmaceuticals first off. Second, the more that you take,
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the more likely you are to have a problem. The
longer you take them, the more likely there is to
be an issue. So like taking a break, you know
during the summer, if you do need that for school,
taking a break during the summer is actually critical to
make sure that the drug is going to still work
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when they go into school again, because oftentimes the body
will actually get used to a drug and then you
need more of it to be able to get the
same effect or have to switch it. Yeah, so the
effectiveness of the drug is actually good to be able
to shift.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
And the other thing is, you know, really am I
doing this for me? Is the parent or is the
best thing to child and the teacher.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
And that's what they said in this study.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
Yeah, they said.
Speaker 2 (53:27):
Their conclusion was it is not in the best interest
of the child, it's in the best interest of the
adult and the teacher. Yeah, to make life easier.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
So we have just a little bit of time, about
thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Sure, Now we're not trying to put a guilt trip
on parents.
Speaker 3 (53:41):
Here, yeah, or people, but be aware, be aware and
actually look for alternatives. Yes, right, you know, actually fixing
the problem instead of just covering up the problem with an.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Amphetamy and fixing it for long term.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Right, long term effect, because that it goes into the adult.
It's harder, it's harder to fix an adult than it
is a child. Yeah, so that's the best place to start, all.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Right, Well, thank you doctor pray there, thank you listen.
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Hi, I'm Lisa Prather and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Praither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. Today we're talking about ADHD and the natural path,
and sometimes that path isn't always straight well be all
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over the place.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it can be, you know. I mean it's just
basically what we're looking at with ADHD is not being
able to use your frontel lobe quite as well. Where
you can't inhibit you know, the thought process comes up,
and before the thought process actually hits your mind, you're
(01:00):
doing it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's not even process, it's not even a process.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So you know, there's this just acting up that's inappropriate,
can be even some violence you know that's involved, and
the kids like, I don't know why I did that,
So it makes them lose self esteem, which actually adds
to the problem, and then you've got a spiraling type
(01:25):
of thing where you know, it loses them friends, you know,
problems in school, and then more and more issues that
can occur. But it's basically, you know, if you're really
looking at it, there is definitely usually there is actually
a neurotransmitter abnormality going on and the brain's not completely
(01:47):
working as it should. Now, there is of course a
natural impulsivity among kids, you know, and you know you
can usually find some ADHD activity in three year olds,
almost all of them would be classified that way. You know,
as you grow older that inhibition should start kicking in, right,
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you know where the frontal lobe starts taking over, and
until they become teenagers and then of course they lose
their funnel or kind of drops out somewhere. So there
is the process that goes on. So really understanding the
process along those lines and the neuro transmitters and all
(02:29):
the things that go on in there actually plays a
big role.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now you're talking about neural transmitters. Sure you know you
don't have to get a whole anatomy lesson, but simply
what are neural transmitters.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, they're the chemicals that allow the nerve impulses to
travel from one nerve to another. The main ones that
have a big effect for ADHD, you know, usually is
considered as dopamine and serotonin. I mean, there's a whole
list of them, right, Keva and how they interplay is
(03:03):
something that's very very important.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, and we're able to test those at holistic integration.
We're going to talk about that diagnosing. But before we
do that, let's talk about statistics with ADHD. It's pretty alarming.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, So right now we have on diagnosed. That was
in twenty twenty two. We have seven million children who
are diagnosed with ADHD. Now, in nineteen ninety seven it
was much less. And so you're talking about eleven point
four percent of all children right now between the ages
(03:39):
of three and seventeen. Back in nineteen ninety seven it
was less than six percent. So and back when I
was killed.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's almost doubled since nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Right, Wow, So there is And you know, one of
the things that people ask is, well, is that just
a The question is is that just more it's being
more diagnosed or is it something that's actually more prevalent.
And I've known teachers and people who are involved in this,
(04:10):
and it's like, no, this is just more prevalent. You know,
that was always you know, rambuctious boys and kids and
stuff like that, But it is actually something that is
more evident. Just like there's more autism, there's more ADHD,
there's more childhood allergies, there's more childhood obesity. In other words,
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you know, we have a health problem that's actually occurring
and we need to get to the bottom of it.
I think that's one thing Robert Kennedy has been saying. Yes,
he's been. I saw him recently in a congressional earring
where they were grilling him, and the person who was
growing him had been on the oversight for Health Human
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Services in the United States, and he said, you know,
you have been on this panel for twenty five years,
and you've watched the health and deterioration of the American
population and American kids over that time. Why haven't you
been doing your job?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Wow? Kennedy said that, yes.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because she says, I'm here to hold you accountable. And
he says, who's holding you accountable? Because I'm trying to
change this. You know, I'm being grilled almost I can't
even do my job because you stupid senators and congressmen
are constantly grilling me. Yeah, and preventing me from actually
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fixing this problem that you were supposed to oversee. So
she was like, just answer my question, you know. So
there is some frustration there, but you know, as we're
looking at this, this is more commonly within boys fifteen
percent as opposed to eight percent of girls. Black and
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white kids are at twelve percent. Asians are diagnosed at
four percent, American, Indian and Alaska natives are ten percent.
So there's an interesting thing that's going on along those lines,
you know, as far as why there are different types
of issues. Now, an interesting thing is those kids who
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have been diagnosed with ADHD, over fifty percent are taking
medications for it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You know, from sort of those seven million children, right.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Over half of them are on meds and about forty
four percent are getting some behavioral treatment, you know, with
some crossover along those lines. But it's interesting is it's
not consistent from state to state. Oh, Okay, Mississippi is
the highest at fourteen point five percent.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
What are you saying that are on medication.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That are diagnosed with EIGHTHD? And then California is five
point three percent, so a much less percentage of kids
are diagnosed with ADHD in California.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
What about Indiana?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Indiana is ten point two percent. It's pretty high, so
you know, it's not at the eleven point four percent
which is the national average.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, but it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But it's high. Yeah. And then the kids who are
diagnosed in Indiana, sixty four point four percent are on meds.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Wow, here in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So it's a higher percentage of encouragement to get on
medications here in Indiana than in other states. So those
are interesting statistics, and you know, with some ideas of
you know, why is that and why is there inconsistency?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You know, do you believe ADHD is over diagnosed in
the United States? I have a question, I know.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But yeah, actually I don't. It's something that we're seeing
more and more in kids. There is a definite change
in the number of children who have what I would
consider brain disease chemistry, you know, whether chemistry isn't working right.
(08:20):
So understanding that, I mean, it's just like the rise
in autism. You know, autism is something that's much more
easily diagnosed and less controversial on the diagnosis, but that
is increased too. So we're also seeing an increase in
brain cancers and children all sorts of different types of things.
(08:41):
So we do have an issue. It's what do we
do about it? Is basically probably where I diverge.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, and we're going to talk about that. Let's define again,
what ADHD is and how it's typically diagnosed.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, it's typically diagnosed with a questionnaire, you know, there's
sort of a standard one that's been accepted and pretty accurate.
So that is a good way to actually determine it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That mommy and daddy do or.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, actually professionals, health professionals can do it and actually
come up with a diagnosis along those lines. Do I
think that's accurate? Yes, but there are actually better ways
to actually look at the causes, you know, so we actually,
of course in our office, diagnostics are extremely important, you know,
(09:31):
finding out the underlying issues and what's going on so
you determine that the child has it. Now, the difference
between structure function care and integration disease care is disease
care is then you come up with a pharmaceutical to
suppress the symptoms, you know, to help with that. What
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we're looking at is actually find the underlying problems and
fix them. With structure function care, what you're doing is
you're not treating the disease, which is ADHD. What you're
doing is finding out where's the chemistry off, what is
actually things that you can do to bring the body
back into homeostasis. And then as you have it into homeostasis,
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then you have a normal functioning child.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Mm hm. That makes sense. Well, when we come back,
we're going to talk more on ADHD and the natural path.
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talking about diagnostics and diagnosing ADHD and did your prey
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through it holistic integration. What diagnostics do you use when
looking into ADHD.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well Probably a very basic one is the hair analysis.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
About that last.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Week, right, just how important that is because if you
have heavy metal toxicity in there, which we find in
most cases of ADHD is that there's some heavy metals,
you're not going to accomplish anything until you get rid
of those. And you're talking about quite a variety. Aluminum
(15:51):
is one that's the most common, but you can also
have mercury, lead, nickel, cadmium. Other words, there's a whole
host of heavy metals that could be involved. Because what
they do is they change. They're very well known to
change the brain chemistry, yes, you know, and cause issues
even in adults, but even more so for children. And
(16:15):
one of the things is that children are in a
growth pattern, so their physiology is different, so their ability
to absorb heavy metals is much much higher than adults.
So we can have the same exposure and an adult
may not even absorb the heavy metals and a child
gets a ton of it. And interestingly enough, boys are
(16:40):
more likely to get to absorb heavy metals than girls
because of the higher testosterone level. It actually brings that
to the brain because the brain has a bigger The
testosterone has a big effect on the brain. I don't
know if you've ever noticed that. We've had. Of course,
(17:01):
we had our boy and other boys, you know, and
mothers who are mothers to daughters are like, what the
heck is wrong with Yeah, he's a boy. That's actually normal.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I know my best friend and we had kids around
the same age. She had three girls. Yeah, I had
no idea what to do with a boy. Yeah, right,
right much. You just get them outside outside. I do
that with my grandson. We're outside as much as we can.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yes, so, and that actually will balance out the neuro transmitters,
which is an interesting thing. But boys are much more
likely to absorb by a measure of about sixty percent
more as far as on the absorption, and that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Goes along with what they're seeing or what they're.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Seen with the stats. That's why the boys are more likely.
That's one of the things that affects that. But also
along that you can actually have minimal imbalances too that
show up. So if there's a calcium magnesium imbalanced or
a deficiency in one of those that can affect it.
Copper has a huge effect. So it's very well known
that high copper will cause a higher transmission of nerve.
(18:09):
It will change the nerve transmission to an excitatory state
that is not being able to control, or if it
goes too low, can also cause problems with inhibition. So
the copper, zinc, manganese going too high is also something
that can kick off ADHD. So looking at the hair
(18:31):
analysis is a very easy, inexpensive way to start the
whole process and oftentimes will fix the issue. You know,
it's an interesting type of thing, but hair analysis is
a great way to start. And then the next thing
that I would say as far as importance is gistoolkit.
(18:55):
God has such a huge effect on mental health. I
had an interesting case where I had a child come
in who was they were going to put him in
special ed education and had already tried medications, but they said,
you know, he just wasn't able to learn, and so
we did the hair analysis, We did the GI steelkit,
(19:18):
and we found parasites. And one of the things is
that parasites are known to produce chemicals to change behavior,
so that's something that's been very proven and there are
certain parasites that will actually kick off risky behavior on
(19:39):
both differently for males and females. So what we did
was we got rid of the parasites and the kid
went from looking to go into special ad but actually
going into a gifted class. Wow, that much of a
difference in the behavior I had a young I've had
several girls who had high copper, which is more common
(20:01):
in females because it's more of a It's something that
is actually more common in females than in males. A
lot of that high copper that's because of the higher
progesterone seems to attract that. But she was they were
actually had her on medication for ADHD, and we found
the mom wanted to take her off because she didn't
(20:23):
like the effects on her. She was no longer the
bubbly little girl who had all these friends. She would
just kind of sit alone and was very depressed. So
it wasn't working for her, and so we took a
look at it, saw very high copper got her on
zinc copper detox and it just turned her around and
(20:44):
around wow, And she actually stopped coming for a little
while and then came back in and said, ah, we've
got some behavior issues again. So we got the copper
back under control. But she said, you know, I can
tell when that copper goes high on this little girl.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
So looking at the gut parasites are one thing. There's
something that we also look at is the level of
beta glucuronidase, which is something that at certain levels is
normal and actually helps to prevent cancer in the gut,
but if it gets too high, it actually goes up
to the brain and will cause abnormal neurotransmitters.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And how do we test that's steel kit.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, that's one of the standard things that we do,
and we have products that actually are almost one hundred
percent guaranteed to bring it down. Also, they do the flora,
and there are certain combinations of flora that are abnormal
gut in our gut that will actually lead to ADHD symptoms,
which they already know at this point, so we can
(21:44):
just change the gut flora. So there are infections. It
can be viral, it can be bacterial, it can be
parasitic that can actually kick that off. There is chemistry
in the gut that goes up to the brain that
kicks it off. And then there's also a long with
that the gut flora itself, and getting that changed makes
all the difference in the world. So those are a
(22:06):
few along those lines, but not only that. One of
the things that we recommend is a spect brain scan.
If you know, those things just don't kind of get
things solved. There could be injuries to the brain or
other different types of things. You can also do an
MRI sometimes that will show up. We actually were involved
(22:28):
in like a brain mapping and you can actually see
anatomical changes in the brain and actually documenting that that
this is not something that is a behavioral problem, but
is actually a brain problem. So the SPEC scanning is something.
We also do neurotransmitter tests find out what the shift
(22:50):
is and then what's going to work to get that
back to normal.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Is that a blood test.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's a blood test, so we can do the neurotransmitter
and then we can also do something called a neurozoomer
and what that does is it's a urine test, and
what we're looking at is are there antigens or different
types of things, because it will show up if there's
a virus that's actually affecting the brain, or is it food,
(23:16):
or is it some type of chemical. There's a whole
list of them that are well known to actually affect
the brain. So we can get pretty deep into the
diagnosis to really find out what's happening.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, Yeah, which is very important.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
If you know, right, And that's why we do it
much more than again, the medical answer is some pharmaceuticals
which might be helpful, but you know, if you really
want to yeah, and it doesn't, you're not fixing the
underlying issue. So that could be something that they oftentimes recommend,
(23:54):
even into adult Yeah, that you stay on that and
as we'll get into it, there's problems with them, all right.
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where we get to the root cause of your health issue. Well,
we're talking today about ADHD and the natural path and
doctor Pray, let's talk about some of the natural or
holistic treatment that we do at Holistic Integration for managing ADHD.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
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Speaker 2 (28:49):
First, I was talking about diet, which is a basic
type of thing. You need to eliminate all food sensitivities.
So what we do is you can do different types
to test to find out what those food sensitivities are.
So it's a very specific type of thing, but just
as a general thing, a high protein, low carbohydrate, and
(29:11):
sugar free diet also and also a you know, like
a die free diet, so as many things that you
can make it as a natural diet instead of a
chemical diet like most people actually get.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And when you say like sugar free, are you talking
about refined sugars.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Refined sugar media oka or Yeah, Stevia actually works pretty well,
even like a maple syrup honey, so they can you know,
kids are going to crave sweets, Yeah, and a certain
amount is good, but one of the things is increasing fibers.
So one of the things that I talk about is
how there was a huge difference in our ancestors and
(29:54):
our diet. Yeah, so our ancestors would eat for an
adult about seventy five grams of fiber and about fifteen
grams of sugar. As an American, we eat about seventy
five grams of a healthy diet actually is about seventy
five grams of sugar and fifteen grams of fiber. So
of course kids aren't going to eat as much because
(30:16):
you know that much because on either of those, because
they don't consume that much. But really increasing the fiber
and a lot of protein actually helps within neurotransmitter. So
you want to increase both of those, and then cutting
down on the refined sugars and the refined carbohydrates are
the way to go because whole grains, as long as
(30:39):
you don't have an allergy to those or sensitivity, they
have a lot of fiber in them. Beans too, So
the diet plays a very big role, and most people
see a big change just by working with.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That, and they're starting to take those dyes out of
the or the red dye right.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
That's one of the things that has been the amount
of Like I was talking to a patient of mine
who is actually from Canada, and they were saying, you know,
we were real big And as far as I'm reading,
the ingredients and oreos up in Canada has about four ingredients.
The oreos here in the United States has about twenty
(31:18):
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Interesting, So they add a whole bunch of chemicals into
the American diet that they don't have in the They're
not allowed to have that those chemicals.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Canada in Canada.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Interesting, So you know there is a very big difference
in America has many, many more chemicals in our food
than in Europe or other developed countries, and it shows
up in our children. Yeah, so diet is a huge area.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Now, are there specific supplements or herbs known to help
with focus and attention?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
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Speaker 2 (31:55):
The biggest thing that everybody talks about is B vitamins,
and understanding those is a very important type of thing.
And we actually can do a blood test or other
different types of tests to find out exactly which ones
are deficient because you want to get the mix just right,
because oftentimes they can be antagonistic to one another. So
(32:15):
getting the B vitamins, you know, nyosin, panathetic acid, diamond,
vitamin B six, fullic acid B twelve, all of those
play a very big important role in the ability of
the brain to think. But Vitamin A, vitamin K, vitamin E,
vitamin D, all of those plays a big role too.
You know, if they go deficient and vitamin D, the
(32:37):
whole system doesn't work very well.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yeah, and we can just assume yeah, vitamin in right,
everybody's low in vitamin D.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
That's why being outside is such a big thing. Minerals
of course is as we talked about before, you know,
a very important type of thing, making sure that the
calcium magnesium. An interesting thing is iron deficiency. So I
was talking to a women's cross country coach and I said,
(33:08):
because I was dealing with her daughter, and I said,
you know, she can't think. They hadn't put her on
any type of meds for it. But ninety percent of
all the girls on the cross country team were on
something for concentration.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
And I said, well, iron deficiency, I said, teenage girls
who are active. It was all in concerto And I said, well,
they're iron deficient, you know, like your daughter here, I said,
it's almost one hundred percent. So she was like, oh,
how do you do that? And that was with you know,
(33:46):
a blood test, and so brought it up, you know,
to the parents and they said, well, we don't want to,
you know, we don't understand why a chiropractor would be
doing that, which chiropractors were involved in that type of
thing long before the medical profession got interested. So I mean,
we actually have a longer history and more training in
(34:08):
this type of stuff. But beside the point. They took
them to a doctor who they kind of checked and
she said sure, and so they checked them and they
all had low iron low iron and they put iron.
You know, she gave them med iron. There was better forms,
but that's besides the point, you know, and got them
(34:29):
on the iron and they actually then won the state
championship where they were not they were kind of like
a you know, everybody was talking about, well, where did
they come from? You know, how did they just physiology?
You know, were they taking steroids or something like that?
What happened? You know, because all of a sudden, you know,
(34:49):
and they all went off medication. Their concentration went up.
So that's one thing that girls are more likely to
have a deficiency on, but it will cause ADHD types,
not ADHD because it's ADD they can't focus, so they
were diagnosed with ADD not ADHD. Fatty acids fatty acids
(35:13):
is absolutely critical because the brain is made up of
fatty acids and it's one of the most important things
as far as on neurotransmitters, and we can do tests
for fatty acids, find out where the deficiencies are and
get those back up. So you know, basically, when somebody
calls you a fat head, that's a compliment because the
brain's made up of fat and very important that that's
(35:36):
up to part and most kids are shifted in an
abnormal way. In other words, we've added so many kind
of like false seed oils that we were never exposed
to before, so it's not the natural fatty acids that
we had gotten before, and it throws off the brain.
(35:57):
So having that into line, you really need to look
at that a magnesium manganese their antagonisty to each other.
Manganese goes high, magnesium will go low, and that will
be something that will cause ADHD symptoms. So looking at
the whole minerals along those lines, phosphorus is important, and
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then the amino acids. You know, as you're looking at those,
tyrosine is something along those lines. You're looking at tryp
to fan phenol, analine, all those types of things make
a real big difference along those lines. But it's not
just the nutritional chiropractic Yeah, getting that atlas set.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Their nervous system.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, especially the atlas, getting that nervous system correct, getting
the spine lined up, getting the structure back in. Too
many kids have their head forwards and whenever the head
goes forward, your neural transmitters are going to be off.
So getting the posture, getting the alignment in there, it
can make an immediate, quick, long term change in a
(37:01):
child's performance. Yeah, So looking at the nervous systems for
chiropractic acupuncture actually will change. Is something that is well
known to actually lower cortisol levels, raise up oxytocin, and.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Now it can change.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
The needle thing could be a problem, but we do
non needle we can do.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
We can do a laser, we can do electrical, we
can do a powder. Yeah, there's a lot of ways
to get that under control.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
And one thing too that we added on a year
ago is the cranial sacral work sure, which is you know,
moving the cerebral spinal fluid within that the spinal cord
has been really helpful.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Sure TMJ makes a big difference along those lines if
they have problems, and especially you know a lot of
kids develop TMJ once they have braces. Doing grace work
is something that can have a big effect on the
nervous system, and you have to correct the jaw and
the skull in those types of instances to get that
(38:03):
under control. We had a patient recently who had eight
months of migraines and really wasn't probably going to be
able to complete school, and of course we put the
outlass back in those types of things, but once we
did some cranial work on it, the headache went away,
just like.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
That, Yeah he's out playing pickleball, right, it's in with
this big smile. But after four weeks of treatment, sure
that he had been suffering eight months eight months.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
But that also occurs with ADHD, So those types of things.
We also have a urricular which is like a acupuncture
for the ears, only we use like seeds where we
take your line seeds. So and then we have all
types of physiotherapy. We have diathermy which helps to clear
out the toxins. We have electrical stem in other words,
(38:52):
there's a lot of ways to work with that.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah yeah, and homeopogya.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
We do homeopathy. Oh yeah, How could I forget that?
That's absolutely essential because that can make a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
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Let's talk about auricular therapy.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
If you stimulate different ear points, which is like an
upside down fetus, and it actually corresponds very well to
the areas of the brain, then you can actually see
on MRI the different portions of the brain being stimulated
that have to do with different areas. So the ear
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something that's really debatable on whether it works or not.
One of the things that really caught the government its
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(41:04):
and treat people. They found that PTSD was eighty to
eighty five percent present on the first responders, which is
understandable to gain a very traumatic type of incident. The
people who got treated with acupuncture and mainly what they
were doing was hitting earpoints, there was only a fifteen
percent PTSD.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Interesting, so really we're doing aurcular therapy.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, auricular therapy, and that was something that was very
evident and they're like, wow, that made a big difference.
So medics out in the field now do auricular and
they found that there was eighty five percent less use
of opiates. This is standard protocol now within the army
and military.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Why is chiropractic so helpful in PTSD?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
First off, chiropractic is one of the ways that you
can deal with pain. PTSD is like a trauma to
the nervous system and is a form of pain. One
of the things that we're finding there's a brain injury
that's involved with a very severe neurological symptoms and that
can be caused through emotional trauma as well as physical trauma,
and chiropractic, especially in the upper cervical area, has been
(42:11):
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of research that's going on with traumatic brain injuries with
football players, which is a type of PTSD. We're getting
amazing results. We have a specialty on that Atlaserthogon one
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doctor Robert Crather of Holistic Integration, where our mission is
restoring hope to our patients. We're talking today about ADHD
and the natural path and Dutch Braither. I want to
go back to the statistics. You know, seven million children
in the United States between the ages of three and
(43:44):
seventeen years have been diagnosed with ADHD. Fifteen percent of
those are boys, eight percent girls. The statistics on the
medication fifty three point six. It's almost fifty four over
half of them are taking meds that have side effects.
And we're going to go over that. And then in
(44:05):
Indiana we have ten percent that are diagnosed correct.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
And then in Indiana it's almost sixty five percent on meds.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Okay, sixty five percent of children in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
We are diagnosed with.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
ADHD are on medication. And yeah, so let's talk about medications,
because there's always when you take a pharmaceutical, there's going
to be side effects. Sure, right, Sure, and that's why
we're talking about the natural path. So let's talk about
the medications for ADHD.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Sure. So the biggest one, I mean, there's a lot
of different meds that you can use. There are antidepressants,
other things, but the most common one that kids are given,
probably ninety percent of them are basically stimulants.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Now you sit there and go, well, why would you
give a stimulant for some hyperactive kid? It's like, hmm, Well,
an interesting thing about stimulants is that they have an
opposite effect on kids that they do in adults because
kid's physiology is different. So what it does is it
(45:23):
helps them to focus better, to be able to function better.
So the stimulants are something that has been shown to
actually improve. Now one of the things that you sit
there and talk about as a stimulant, well, there's two
basic kinds. There's the amphetamines and then the methyl phenodates.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Okay, so they're broke. Those stimulants are broken.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Those are the two different well known stimulants, and so
as you're looking at those, that's sort of how that's
you know, divided up. The thing about the methyl finidates
is basically they have the same receptor sites as cocaine.
So basically all the stimulants are they know that people
(46:14):
would kind of balk at giving cocaine to their kids,
but these are and.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
That includes Redlin's under there, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Ritalin is actually a methyl phenidate. So that's one of those,
and then the others are involved with the amphetamines. And
probably if I was going to put a kid on
and I would probably go with the amphetamines. They seem
to have a better results. And one of the things
that is better about that than the cocaine is that
(46:48):
it's a slower acting so it kind of builds up
more gradually, so you don't get as much of a
high as you do with cocaine, but you have the
same physiological action on the brain as you do with cocaine.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
So you're talking about Riddlin was under so you have
to methylfinitate, okay, which is cocaine based, and I really.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Well it's not cocaine, but it actually acts almost exactly
like cocaine, but it builds up in the body gradually. Yeah,
so that's why you don't have some of the effects
on that.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
But I don't think it's being used as much.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah, most of the time, amphetamines is mainly where people
have really gone. A common one is vivance. After all,
those are some of the ones pro CenTra in other words,
there's a lot of different types of names for each
of those, but they have found that probably most of
them has actually shifted to amphetamines over the methyl finidates,
(47:48):
which is like Riddlin and the other ones along those lines,
So you actually get better effects on that. And just
to let you know, the the amphetamines actually do work,
so you know, they do see a difference as far
as on behavior those types of things. So that is
something that is you know, to get things under control.
(48:09):
That can be something that works. And I really can't
argue with that. Pharmaceutically they work well. Basically what it
does is it works along the dopamine and ore epinephrine pathways.
But what is true about it is it's not really
dealing with the underlying problem. And so you know you
(48:29):
can get some good effects on that. Whether there's more focus.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Well in school, Yeah, and got effects in school right there.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Behavior is better, it's easier for mom, so there's a teacher,
those types of things. But like one of the things
I did was I read some go to PubMed and
you bring up and there's a long term types of
effects haven't really been studied, so we don't really know
(48:57):
whether this is something that long term ter how that
actually will affect the child. And one of the things
is that they were saying is behavioral changes and working
along with a natural method is much much better. You know,
do you is this for the child or is this
for the adult? The pharmaceuticals you know, who is it
(49:22):
actually benefiting and is in a long term type of effect.
Is that actually benefiting that child for their long term
health And they haven't really found you know that by
taking that that you have a better outcome as an adult.
Matter of fact, one of the things that is of
(49:43):
major concern that they the drug companies always try to
reassure us that it doesn't result in drug abuse later
on in life. However, there's quite a bit of evidence
that shows that it can. That that's a major your concern.
Does that kind of set the child up for possible
(50:04):
drug abuse which is very well known to occur in adults.
Speaker 5 (50:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
No, My brother grew up with him back then. They
called it hyperactivity. You know, this is in the seventies.
They put him on retelin and he ended up being
addicted to cocaine later on in life. You know, So
that's you know, something to be aware of.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah, and it's just like, you know, they sit there
and said that opiates weren't addictive, you know, all those
types of things, So that doesn't work real well. Now,
there's a lot of other things that they were talking
about that you have weight loss. Eighty percent of all
kids on amphetamines.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
These are the side effects.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Side effects eighty percent are going to have weight loss
because of them.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
This is during the time they're growing.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Yes, it also stops growth, you know, so there's weight loss,
there's growth. So there's a huge amount of physiological changes
taking place on that difficulty, sleeping, drowsiness, decrease, appetite of course,
because they use it as a weight loss drug. Anxiety
is something that oftentimes occurs and kids can actually then
(51:10):
wind up on anti anxiety medications. Also, there is all
sorts of abdominal problems. You know, there's stomach pains, there's nausea,
there's fatigue, there's actually heart problems, so you can actually
develop heart disease because of that hypertension. As a matter
of fact, they say you should do an AKG on
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a child before you start it and then actually check
it later on because there can be damage to the heart.
There's also with that you can develop you know, permanent changes.
Athib is something that can occur from that, so they
can start it at a very young life. So all
sorts of techycardia, skin problems, skin discolorations, that's something that
(51:53):
you need to be aware of. And if there is
some major types of skin problems that start to occur
you need to solve that medication immediately. Ticks can actually occur,
and even psychosis, it can actually lead to a permanent
change in the brain chemistry where the child is no
longer functioning as a normal person. So looking at all
(52:16):
those different types of side effects every time that you
take a pharmaceutical, you know, there's the laws of pharmaceuticals
that you need to understand, is that all pharmaceuticals, if
they didn't have negati effects on the body, they wouldn't
be called pharmaceuticals first off. Second, the more that you take,
(52:37):
the more likely you are to have a problem. The
longer you take them, the more likely there is to
be an issue. So like taking a break, you know
during the summer, if you do need that for school,
taking a break during the summer is actually critical to
make sure that the drug is going to still work
(52:58):
when they go into school again, because oftentimes the body
will actually get used to a drug and then you
need more of it to be able to get the
same effect or have to switch it. Yeah, so the
effectiveness of the drug is actually good to be able
to shift.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
And the other thing is, you know, really am I
doing this for me? Is the parent or is the
best thing to child and the teacher.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
And that's what they said in this study.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
Yeah, they said.
Speaker 2 (53:27):
Their conclusion was it is not in the best interest
of the child, it's in the best interest of the
adult and the teacher. Yeah, to make life easier.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
So we have just a little bit of time, about
thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Sure, Now we're not trying to put a guilt trip
on parents.
Speaker 3 (53:41):
Here, yeah, or people, but be aware, be aware and
actually look for alternatives. Yes, right, you know, actually fixing
the problem instead of just covering up the problem with an.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Amphetamy and fixing it for long term.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Right, long term effect, because that it goes into the adult.
It's harder, it's harder to fix an adult than it
is a child. Yeah, so that's the best place to start, all.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Right, Well, thank you doctor pray there, thank you listen.
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