How Your Gut Can Affect Your Mind
The microbes that live in your body might just be influencing your behavior. You might be tempted to think that the skin we use to touch and feel is the largest interface we have with our surroundings. But you would be wrong; our gut is much bigger. And how it behaves may have a significant.. read more →
“Adults with ADD–The Problem Doesn’t Automatically Go Away”
Adults with ADD generally present with the same symptoms as children. However, the stakes tend to be higher and the ramifications of the problems are much broader. There is a long-held misconception, even among some professionals, that children will “grow out” of their ADD, thereby becoming “normal” adults. In reality, ADD does not always.. read more →
Too Much Sun Isn’t Just Bad for Your Skin.
Direct Heat To Your Head Could Impair Cognitive Performance There are plenty of benefits of direct sunlight: Vitamin D serves many important functions, and has been shown to reduce your risk of dying from coronavirus. And sunlight can also naturally boost your mood if you’ve been suffering from anxiety and depression. But we all know.. read more →
ADD in Children and Adults
“There are many different problems that present to us as ADD, and these must be teased out before treatment begins. Due to all the attention on ADD, many individuals label normal childhood development stages as ADD. As Dr. Budd has pointed out, many bright, active children inappropriately get negative labels that can follow them for.. read more →
“Refining the Distinctions: All is Not ADD”
Not everything that looks like ADD is ADD. Normal children and adults can have behavioral characteristics that can resemble ADD. We can all have bad days or even bad weeks. In our offices, if we juice up on a lot of coffee, our staff threatens to treat us for ADD. Frequently, we will get on.. read more →
How To Tell If You Have A Concussion or Brain Injury
Brain injuries are more common than most people realize. even something as simple as banging your head on a door can disrupt brainwaves and rhythms. But when do you know for sure you have a concussion or brain injury that requires help? Here are some warning signs: 1. Can’t think clearly or remember important information… read more →
Effective Help For Depression?
A huge number of people in America (and the world) suffer from some sort of depression. Even more go undiagnosed. For those who have been diagnosed, the #1 method of treatment is prescription medications. While they do offer relief, consider this: Medications won’t cure the problem or make it go away permanently. They can be.. read more →
How COVID-19 Affects The Brain
From Johns Hopkins: Patients with COVID-19 are experiencing an array of effects on the brain, ranging in severity from confusion to loss of smell and taste to life-threatening strokes. Younger patients in their 30s and 40s are suffering possibly life-changing neurological issues due to strokes. Although researchers don’t have answers yet as to why the.. read more →
Understanding Brain Fog
While Brain fog may not be a medical term, but it’s something many people with chronic illness know well. Brain fog can mean a lack of mental clarity, poor concentration, and more. Living with brain fog is hard…it affects everything you do throughout the day, every interaction you have. Here are 7 things to know:.. read more →
ADD Similarities
“These are examples of how ADD presents with uniquely different behaviors in a given child. Although different, each behavior is caused by the same type of brain dysregulation. By the way, not every case that presents with symptoms like these three examples is ADD. There are many other disorders that must be ruled out before.. read more →