Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Natural Way to Treat ADHD - by Basant K. Puri
 In Professor Puri's groundbreaking new book you will discover a very different way of looking at ADHD which leads logically to a natural approach to treatment.
As an individual who cares for a child, you will be wanting to do your best for that child and help him or her reach their full potential, but sometimes a child's behaviour seems to thwart all your best endeavours. Constant fidgeting, restlessness, failure to pay attention and heedlessness of others can be both exhausting and dispiriting, especially when you know this hides a young person who is intelligent and creative if only you could engage with them.
Many children with these problems are diagnosed as having ADHD (also known as ADD and AD/HD) and are prescribed powerful stimulant drugs that help to control (but not to cure) the worst of the symptoms, but for which the long term causes are unknown.
From the Publisher
This is a book for ADHD sufferers, children and adults, who will have been battling with the condition all their lives. It is also for their families and close friends, their teachers and doctors, nursery nurses and (should an organisation be very person-focused) employers.
Professor Puri's starting point is the basis of behaviour in the chemistry of the brain and the many factors which influence this. By understanding behaviour at this level it is possible to see how hyperactivity can be reduced and concentration improved in a natural way that is in tune with the needs of the individual. He presents the results of two major studies, with which he has been involved, that demonstrate the effectiveness of a completely natural way to treat ADHD.
From the Author
As a result of a recent major breakthrough in research there is now, at long last, excellent news for people whose lives are devastated by ADHD. This is good news not just for those who suffer from this debilitating illness and their immediate carers, but also their wider families, friends, teachers and schoolmates or workmates. Starting around the year 2000 an international group of medical researchers and neuroscientists, including myself and Dr Alex Richardson, have produced a significant body of research that at last heralds a major advance in the treatment of ADHD.
From the Inside Flap
In this ground-breaking new book you will discover a very different way of looking at ADHD.
With a striking overlap between ADHD and dyslexia and dyspraxia (30% to 50% of children with ADHD also have dyspraxia) you will also discover a different way of looking at these two conditions and gain an understanding of how and why the natural, diet-based treatment of ADHD can also help sufferers from dyslexia and dyspraxia.
About the Author - Professor Basant K Puri
MA(Cantab), PhD, MB, BChir, BSc(Hons), MathSci, MRCPsych, DipStat, MMath
Consultant/Professor MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London and Head of the Lipid Neuroscience Group, Imperial College, London UK
There have been two major studies to date which have been based on the groundbreaking use of fatty acids to treat ADHD in children. The author has been involved in both of them. He also has several years of experience of successfully treating ADHD patients on an individual basis without the use of powerful stimulant medication.
Excerpted from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Natural Way to Treat ADHD by Basant K. Puri. Copyright © 2005. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
A SIGNIFICANT MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH
Eighteen-year-old Henrietta was referred to me in 2004. The symptoms she described were the classic symptoms of ADHD. She complained that she could not concentrate. 'I couldn't play with my toys when I was younger. Now I can't even watch a movie all the way through. I get bored. I fidget and start playing with my 'phone. So I get up and go and get some food.'
...It was time for me to make my recommendations..
I saw Henrietta and her parents three months later. She was a transformed person. Her face looked much healthier. Indeed, she was very pleased with her much improved appearance...She could now concentrate better than she had in many years. She was performing really well in her job. Now, not only could she watch a film all the way through to the end, without losing track of the main plot and subplots, but she had found that she had just started to enjoy reading. The arguments with her parents and the moodiness were now no longer a feature of her life. Her father was very proud of his daughter.
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