Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD

by Daniel G. Amen

www.saveonlabs.com. 1. Vitamin D, zinc, and ferritin (blood test). ADD is thought of as a lack of dopamine being released from brain cells to help nerve cell communication. Inadequate amounts of or poor messages from dopamine are felt to lead to the difficulties with inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. Many of the medications for ADD are thought to slow the body’s recycling of dopamine between neurons, and make more dopamine available for use. One step that limits the amount of dopamine that is made by cells is controlled by a protein (called an enzyme) called tyrosine hydroxylase. One thing tyrosine hydroxylase needs to function well is enough iron. Approximately 80 percent of the global population is iron deficient. Another thing needed to encourage DNA to make the tyrosine hydroxylase protein is vitamin D. In northern climates, vitamin D deficiency is being considered an epidemic. In addition, zinc is needed to help vitamin D bind to DNA and prompt production of the tyrosine hydroxylase