What are the risks and benefits
• Maintaining a healthy diet. Good neurological function
of ADD/ADHD medications?
begins with the proper digestion of wholesome nutrients.
Every parent of a child with a neuro developmental dis-
• Address bio-medical causes. For instance, intestinal is-
order and every professional prescribing medication for
sues, gut dysbiosis, lead, mercury and other toxic metal
treatment of a neuro developmental disorder should care-
accumulations, allergies and food sensitivities, sleep
fully consider the impact of the long-term risks versus the
disorders, hypo/hyperglycemia, hypo/hyper thyroid, among
temporary gains.
other possible exacerbating factors.
• After three years on ADD/ADHD medications, the child
In conclusion, raising healthy children is ultimately
is on average 0.79 inches shorter and six pounds lighter
the responsibility of the parents and not the professionals.
than children taking no medications, according to the
Each and every child is as unique as a snowflake, and the
Washington Post.
development of that child is shaped and formed by the
environment that surrounds it. The parent of the child must
• ADD/ADHD medications used long term physically alter
become informed on issues that affect the child. Ultimately
the brain and cause brain atrophy and gross malfunctions
the parent must decide what is best for their child and
in the brain of the child, according to multiple sources.
choose the food, medications, academic input and even
• A child that has been on ADD/ADHD medications is im- the surrounding environment that influences the develop-
pacted permanently on career choices. For example, being ment of that child.
disqualified for opportunities as a commercial airline pilot
and certain law enforcement positions, as well as from Craig Stellpflug is a Neuro Develop-
military service and military officer eligibility. ment Consultant at Healing Pathways
New evidence of the long-term effects of medications pre-
Medical Clinic in Tempe where he
scribed for ADD/ADHD is growing quickly as more studies
specializes in ADHD drug alterna-
are being performed and the details emerge.
tives, Autism and other brain disor-
ders and traumatic brain injuries. For
more information, call 480-820-6695
What are ADD/ADHD or visit HealingPathwaysMedical.com.
medication alternatives?
See ad on page 37.
Because ADD/ADHD is classified as a neuro developmen-
tal disorder, the answer lies in restoring order to the brain
and development of the body.
Solutions lie in several areas:
• Identifying and completing developmental levels that
have been skipped. For instance, crawling, creeping and
walking with appropriate arm swing, detail vision, eye
tracking, tactile sensation, auditory functions and many
other developmental levels.
• Organizing the brain receptive avenues to assure proper
storage of academic information and other facts. For in-
stance, completing either an entirely right- hand, foot, ear
and eye dominance in the individual or a left- hand, foot,
ear and eye dominance according to the predisposed brain
hemisphere dominance.
• Raising the processing skills in the brain. For instance,
promoting activities that improve the ability of the brain to
receive, process, store and retrieve information in spe-
cific order given either verbally or auditory. (The average
American should be able to do seven sequences verbal
and auditory.)
• Promoting proper brain maturation. For instance, as the
brain matures it establishes neural pathways with a process
called “myelination” where a protective layer of fatty sub-
stance is formed around the neural pathways. This process
relies on nutrients commonly found in fish oils.
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