now at the end of this presentation your attention is going to be greatly improved if you follow what I'm going to show you there's no doubt that we have a major problem with attention as well as the hyperactivity that can be connected to it so I want to discuss this condition but just be rest assured there is a very simple solution that has very minimal if any side effects and I think the only problem that people will have is how do you come off your medication with help of your doctor of course and how do
you make that transition well you're just going to have to do it gradually with supervision so you could eventually come off but the diagnosis using the diagnostic and statistical Manual of mental disorders which is a little bit outdated but it's almost the same as how they diagnose it now it's just becoming a big problem because you get a label and a prescription okay and then what is the long-term effect do you eventually come off this medication what are the side effects when you come off is it addictive these are all things that are not worked
out now living in an environment with sensory overload you know mainly this thing right here every five seconds you're getting text messages so our society is training us to have less and less attention units with all the different stimuli that are around us so it's how do we get more attention how do we get more done I want to discuss that but let me first Entertain You by going through how they diagnose this it's completely contrary it's there's no blood test it's all subjective here we go the tension deficit disorder hyperactivity disorder there's two sections
one for inattention and the other is for hyperactivity I'm going to go through both so if you have six or more of these um you're diagnosed often fails to give close attention to detail or makes careless mistakes okay I could think I have that uh B often has difficulty sustaining attention and task or playing activities okay see often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly all right next one often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork tours duties in the workplace which one of you have that one all right
next one often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities now for me this is why I hire people to do that part because generally I am not very organized all right next one often avoids dislikes or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort such as school work or home work next one often loses things necessary for tasks or activities toys School assignments pencils books tools you know your dog ate your homework right which is a legitimate excuse all right next one is often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli okay it's often forgetful in
daily activities I mean who does not have virtually all of these now the next one involves hyperactivity often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms and seat I do that all day long often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations often runs about or climbs successfully in situations what if the person has a lot of energy next one often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly I guess if we play we need to be quiet when we're playing I mean that is ridiculous next one is often on the go and often acts
as if driven by a motor wow that's interesting often talks excessively so in other words we should play quietly don't talk too much don't seem to have too much energy make sure you don't climb on anything now I just have to just show you two of the things that are um you know if you want to be entertained today from this book um page 736 it says adverse effects of medication not otherwise specified and I guess the code is 995.2 this category is available for optional use by clinicians to code side effects of medication when
these adverse effects become the main focus of attention so if I understand this correctly if the patient focuses too much on the adverse effects then we can throw this code in there now look at this other one right here this diagnosis is v15-81 non-compliance with treatment okay the reasons for non-compliance may include discomfort resulting from treatment you know like side effects expense of treatment decisions based on personal value judgments or religious or cultural beliefs about the advantages and disadvantages of proposed treatment all right so whether you're diagnosed or not and you want to increase your
attention your attention span realize that add or ADHD has nothing to do with someone's intelligence okay we're talking about attention a lack of attention and hyperactivity in some cases intelligence is something completely different there are people are not intelligent that have this but it's very difficult to even find the definition of intelligence if you try to look it up I guess the medical professionals just don't agree on what it is some people were related to the grades you get in school or how well you memorize things well to me that's not necessarily intelligence I mean
intelligent people might be able to memorize very well but people that can't memorize are also in intelligent so I think if we want to Define intelligence we have to look at the opposite of intelligence which is stupidity okay what is that that's lack of reasoning lack of knowledge unawareness lack of judgment and so intelligence must have logic rationality reason the ability to think the ability to solve problems and the ability to quickly pick things up and understand them but someone's learning ability can also be affected by just not having um the right teacher that can
teach you the basics in school now I know for me in school I had a really good teacher in chemistry in high school that really taught us the basics right so those Basics allowed me to go to the next level and learn more and more about chemistry yet in other subjects I didn't learn these Basics so it was very difficult to learn things over this Missing Foundation like right now I'm studying genetics I'm interested in DNA and a lot of the information the courses assume you remember all the basics and I literally had to find
videos of teaching genetics to kids to really wrap my wits around these basic pieces and this brings up a very important point if a child is in school and they're not really taught these Basics and they're trying to learn high level things you talk about confusion and a lack of attention because you had no foundation so everything is is a confusion so unfortunately I think a lot of kids are just diagnosed with this disorder when in fact what they really need is better study skills they need to learn how to learn now there is a
physical component to this okay in your brain they don't know this for sure but there's some relationship between the frontal cortex and your ability to concentrate there's also a relationship between another part of the brain called hippocampus and your ability to focus and concentrate which is in the category of cognitive functions now what's interesting about the brain is it's only two percent of your body weight but takes up 20 percent of your body's energy and calories it's an energy hog out of all the different organs it Hogs the most energy and out of all the
organs it is the fattiest tissue sixty percent of the brain is composed of fat which is interesting now one important thing you need to know about attention okay is that it takes a lot of energy in the brain to hold your attention because it's not just holding your attention it's filtering out distractions and sensory stimulus things like that and so if your brain is tired okay you're not going to be able to filter out things as much you're not going to be able to concentrate for a long period of time so I think a big
part of this problem relates to energy in the brain you've probably been taught that the brain only runs on glucose and this is the total lie because you can run your body on ketones in fact you can run your body on 75 ketones with only 25 percent glucose and that 25 percent can come from that protein or even ketones in other words you don't need any carbohydrates or glucose for that 25 energy so running your brain on ketones can instantly give you a tremendous amount of energy and on top of that ketones are more efficient
and the way to feed your brain ketones is to just lower your carbohydrates and then your body will start oxidizing fat and then from that you'll get ketones and ketones release less waste in the brain so it's a cleaner more efficient fuel source now since we're on the topic of attention and cognitive function we have to talk about this I mean if you are consuming gluten for example that's going to affect the gut and that's going to affect your brain you're not going to be able to think you're going to be in a constant state
of brain fog like I was for decades it wasn't until I gave up the grains and went on the ketogenic diet I felt like a helmet came off my head I could finally Focus I can finally think I could hold my attention so getting rid of the grains on the diet is going to be important and other things that could be an allergy like casein you can have an allergy that can also affect the brain a lack of sleep is another big factor too much caffeine can affect the brain all of the nutrients okay there's
several nutrients that are vital for brain energy and to counter this lack of attention and the biggest one is vitamin B1 if you don't have enough B1 okay you are going to be in a constant state of restlessness you're not going to have this calmness you're going to have maybe restless leg syndrome you're going to have hyperactivity especially if you're a child and you're definitely not going to be able to think that well but it's going to be mainly related to the brain's energy so vitamin B1 is one of the most important vitamins to counter
this attention deficit okay nutritional yeast is a good source or find enough actual B1 the next most important nutrient is magnesium magnesium is necessary to make energy in the brain or ATP it's also necessary to calm the brain if you have this hyperactivity and you get magnesium from Leafy grains how many kids consume enough vegetables well it's very very few and far in between but in one study over 58 percent of children that had ADHD actually had a magnesium deficiency which is quite interesting because if you have a blood deficiency of magnesium you are very
very deficient most of the Magnesium is not in the blood it's inside the cell and so it will show up as a deficiency in the blood when the cell is severely deficient and the next most important nutrient deficiency to consider is potassium if you were deficient in potassium because of course you're not consuming enough vegetables because vegetables really give you potassium and magnesium you're going to have a difficult time filtering out sensory information or sensory overload that is going to greatly affect your ability to hold your attention and then the other one is omega-3 fatty
acids omega-3 fatty acids DHA EPA are essential for your nerves to conduct electricity and information so unfortunately too many people including kids are consuming so much omega-6 fatty acid soy corn canola oil and not enough of the fish oils like cod liver oil but that can make a big difference when you start introducing someone to cod liver oil or fish oils they're not going to see a change overnight you're going to have to do this over a period of weeks to see the change because it's a slow process now there's another really really good remedy
I would recommend as a substitute for Adderall or Ritalin now I'm not telling you to come off your medication I'm not telling you to substitute I just want to give you this as a really good solution to present with your doctor in case you want to make make a switch it has virtually no sound effects and it's called dmae okay this compound is actually in sardines but I would recommend taking it as a supplement it does several things but it can help rid the brain waste that can interfere with your focus it's very neural protective
okay so it's going to help protect the brain against inflammation and oxidative stress and free radical damage but it increases the receptor's ability to absorb acetylcholine and that's the main neurotransmitter that you need in these Pathways it significantly and potently increases focus and enhances concentration so dmae is what I would recommend as a supplement of choice if you have ADD or ADHD now you're probably also going to notice you're going to sleep a little bit better and your vision might be a little bit better because it actually gets rid of certain wastes that can interfere
with your retina which is an extension of your brain okay number two get on the ketogenic diet do intermittent fasting if you haven't already done that before and then B1 magnesium potassium okay and omega-3 fatty acids you can get your magnesium and your potassium from leafy greens and larger quantities and the next most important video for you to watch would be on how to get started on the healthy version of the ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting I put that video up right here check it out
