Natural Treatment for Hyperactivity

Hyperactivity and tourettes are associated with a deficient level of neurotransmitters in the brain - namely dopamine. Neurotransmitters are proteins (which get built in the digestive tract when we eat nutritional food) that carry signals across nerve endings (suggested reading). There are three (out of five) neurotransmitters which work together in our mood thought processes:

norepinephrine- fear and worry messages (anxiety, phobia, panic, obsessing when deficient)

epinephrine- panic messages (depression when deficient)

dopamine- excitement and enthusiasm messages (hyperactivity or tourettes when deficient)

Gaba regulates these three neurotransmitters. Hyperactivity medicine stifles the dopamine transmitters. All pharmaceutical drugs have side affects. Dopamine problems are associated with lead toxicity, which overstimulates dopamine. Most neurological problems have a heavy metal associated with them.

These three neurotransmitters are also stimulated by thyroid hormone. Deficiency of iodine and inflammation from leaky gut syndrome are the two main causes of low thyroid.

One immediate solution to hyperactivity and tourettes is to build more gaba protein by flooding your body with B vitamins and the amino acids gaba and/or theanine. These may work just as well as prescription medication. There are many nutrient combinations that will build the gaba protein, plus herbs which will calm the brain. Plus it will probably cost less per month than the co-payment on a pharmaceutical product. Go to iherb.com and do a search for "hyperactivity", "tourettes", "adhd", "calm", etc. and check out the products that come up.

IODINE

Iodine was removed from bread supplementation throughout the 60s and 70s. One of the roles of iodine is to bind with heavy metals which neutralizes them and allows the body to expel them.

Iodine and tyrosine amino acid are the two main ingredients in thyroid T4 hormone. Proteins don't do anything until a hormone binds with them and stimulates them into action, so low hormone means low protein. See myblog about iodineand the many jobs it does in our bodies and how we have been deficient since the 1970s. All neurological problems increased when we became deficient in iodine.

Iodine fulfillment therapy with Iodoral Iodine (not the wimpy stuff at the drug stores) will saturate the thyroid and all other tissues with potassium iodine and iodine, respectively. This was the main treatment for low thyroid until synthetic hormones were invented in the 40s and 50s. There is one precaution, it clashes with a heart medicine (caused by low thyroid). There are many websites which outline this history of iodine and therapy with iodine. Iodoral 50mg iodine is required for about three months to saturate all iodine receptor sites in the body.

You can also search for heavy metal detox on iherb.com and choose a different chelator. Advice from a holistic or natural health care provider is best to save you time in research, get your products and benefit from their education.

YEAST OVERGROWTH - LEAKY GUT SYNDROME

Correcting your chemistry at the root cause produces the best results in eliminating neurological problems by allowing your body to build more proteins in the intestines when you eat. Also, eating healthy foods with nutrients and staying away from junk food will make a difference in the amounts of proteins you build. The more nutrients (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, oils, water and oxygen) you have sloshing around in your intestines, the better.

Every living organism has amino acids. Humans have 22 amino acids all of which you get from meat, some we produce and some we get from plants. When you digest proteins into amino acids, they start the protein building process. Each amino acid binds with enzymes and other nutrients in order to form a complete protein.

Most people who suffer from neurological problems have a defiency of B vitamins, and probably essential minerals. Those B vitamins will help your body to produce more GABA and other proteins. A lack of proteins can lead to many other physical problems as well, which is why some depressed people also have physical problems.

B vitamins come from the beneficial bacteria in the digestive track. Therefore, if you are deficient in beneficial bacteria, you will not build as many proteins as you should. This is the root cause of all neurological disorders (other than physical injury). If you did have a head injury, you need to consider how the use of antibiotics or other medicines at the time may have left you with yeast overgrowth.

The main reason people are deficient in their beneficial bacteria is that they have too many pathogens in the digestive track, mainly candida yeast which is a fungus. ALL SYMPTOMS AND ALL DISEASES ARE CAUSED BY PATHOGENS according to holistic health care. Plus ALL DISEASE STARTS IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACK according to western medicine.

Yeast overgrowth causes damage to the intestinal lining which allows junk to leak out of the intestines. These particles become foreign bodies and have to be handled by the rest of the body's immune system enzymes and proteins. Some of these particles cannot be stopped and they will get into the blood stream and find a weak organ and impact themselves causing inflammation.

The protein deficiency from yeast overgrowth and lack of beneficial bacteria causes over 600 symptoms. The inflammation from leaky gut syndrome causes over 5,000 symptoms and 80 serious diseases.

All industrialized nations have had a yeast epidemic since the mid 1970s. This is our health epidemic. There are plenty of books on Amazon about yeast overgrowth. The yeast epidemic started when iodine was removed from our diets in the 60s and 70s (see my other blog about iodine) and high fructose corn syrup, superfood for yeast, was added.

WHERE TO START

First make sure you aren't doing something which irritates the intestinal lining and kills the beneficial bacteria, therefore causing yeast to overpopulate. Many things can irritate the lining: hormones during hormone change, stress, food allergy, anti-inflammatory medicines (including OTC), steroids, birth control pills, street drugs, colic, alcohol, etc. It takes anywhere from 1 day to 3 months to get enough yeast overgrowth to cause symptoms depending on your age, dosage of meds, etc. Broad spectrum antibiotics will kill beneficial bacteria and cause yeast overgrowth faster than anything else. Babies under 3 months should not be given broad spectrum antibiotics for any non-emergency reason.

The main thing to do is to purchase a yeast cleansing product which will be a combination of herbs such as grapefruit seed extract, oregano oil, olive leaf extract, garlic, pao d'arco. Take these for 3 to 6 weeks along with a probiotic with at least 1 billion live organisms. The goal is to kill the pathogens and restore beneficial bacteria levels to normal. This is a cleanse which everyone should do periodically.

After killing the pathogens, continue the beneficial bacteria but increase the dosage to 20 billion live organisms for a couple of weeks. This is when you will feel the difference in how many proteins you are building and therefore, how many neurotransmitters you have in your brain.

You can continue taking a probiotic every day for the rest of your life to help maintain high levels if you want to. Also, to maintain a health intestinal flora, stay away from sugar and fermented drinks which are high in sugar as this will feed the yeast and encourage overgrowth again. Wheat also turns into sugar after it is digested.

The pathogens will build up a resistance to an herb after a couple of weeks which is why several herbs are used together in a yeast killing product. The exception to this is garlic. Garlic kills fungus (yeast and mold), bacteria and virus. You can take a garlic pill every day for life for pathogen control (and the sulpher) along with a probiotic for good intestinal health.

LEAKY GUT SYNDROME

Leaky gut syndrome can also be a part of the root cause of your symptoms, especially if you have any symptoms which are chronic.Leaky gut syndromeISauto-immune disorder. Pathogens damage the intestinal lining which allows junk to leak out and become foreign bodies which will get into the blood and find a weak organ in your body and impact themselves causing inflammation.

The factors that determine which organ will be targeted include: age, sex, vitamin or mineral deficiency or toxicity, heavy metal toxicity, genetic weaknesses, chromosome abnormalities, injury, etc. Lack of iodine in the thyroid gland makes it the weakest for 30 percent of the population (only 10 percent are diagnosed with low thyroid). 5,000 people can have yeast overgrowth and each one can have a different symptom.

To heal the leaky gut after completing the yeast cleanse, you need to stay away from carbohydrates as much as possible and avoid red meats and coffee. L-glutamine is an amino acid that will help the enzymes do their repair work to the intestinal lining. Vitamin B-2 also helps repair the intestinal lining. Any symptoms caused by inflammation will not go away until your intestinal lining is completely healed, which will take 3 to 6 months if you stay on the diet. Otherwise it can take up to 18 months. There are digestive enzymes (which iherb sells) for gluten, peptides and casein proteins which are the most inflammatory particles that leak out of the gut. Take those for immediate relief of symptoms until the lining is healed.

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This information is not to be mistaken for medical advice. Please be proactive in your quest for good health and research this information for a well rounded education before you take action. Also, consider paying a holistic practitioner for advise and guidance. Good luck.