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ADHD/ADD Protocol
🕑 Added 2022-01-26 03:24:49 +0000 UTCFundamentally, both ADHD and ADD have similar biophysical and biochemical pathology. It is not a "psychiatric disorder" that you must live with for the rest of your life, shoveling down amphetamines and phenidates that age you and dig you into a deeper and deeper hole. ANYONE feels better and more functional on these drugs with the correct dosage, there is NOTHING unique about your biochemistry that absolves inherent harm from powerful stimulant drugs. You are damaging yourself each day, each week, each month, each year you are consuming these deuterium-loaded drugs and many have done so since childhood. Now, with that out of the way, there is hope to recovery. I've now helped at least one hundred people totally resolve all symptoms of ADHD/ADD long-term and repair their brain and nervous systems from harmful deuterium-loaded drugs. There's a hint for you right there.
What I mean by this is most pharmaceuticals are loaded with deuterium. Deuterium is a heavy isotope of hydrogen that the body is largely unable to utilize, this weighs down the mitochondria and electron chain transport, crashing redox status and dopamine function as a result. It can also be very inflammatory, of which chronic inflammation also dampens dopaminergic transmission. The secondary factor is any stimulant consumption will further downregulate the dopaminergic and adrenergic receptor systems, as well as endogenous production. You can see what I mean by a deeper hole.
Here's one example right here for you all that he only began to implement the bare minimum of the advice I share:
"Best thing is - improved vision is not the coolest part. Me and my wife are ADHD diagnosed, CPTSD and so on, constant anxiety. She couldn’t start meds bc of breastfeeding, I didn’t like the comedown and other side effects. Mag, zinc, L-teanine “cured” us in such a short time it’s Hard to believe. I wrote “cured” in brackets because we probably weren’t really sick, just depleted, stressed with the baby and some changes in our lives. I don’t know how to thank you @Grimhood, it’s really hard to explain how much you helped me fix so many important things"
Allow me to pull up a couple of infamous Grimhood quotes and I'll expand from there for you all...
"Many adults likely do not have ADHD/ADD, but rather dopamine dysregulation from chronic inflammation, circadian dysregulation, dopaminergic downregulation (alcohol, caffeine, other stimulants and drugs), and high blue light exposure (social media/video games) for extended periods.
Then they shovel down more and more stimulants because their doctors told them to, digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole. There are safer and more sustainable ways to increase dopamine."
"Stimulant dependency/addiction and ADHD/ADD tells me one of three things:
1) The individual doesn’t spend nearly enough time outside in the sun for their biology, where dopamine is primarily produced. Way too much time inside under an alien sun that destroys dopamine.
2) They eat nothing but garbage, like a child. Malnourished on multiple levels.
3) They’re drugs addicts with other drugs as well, keeping themselves in a self-induced cycle. Usually all of the above.
4) More rare, but heavy metal toxicity and/or mold exposure."
From these quotes, we can gather the underlying pathology involves:
- Circadian dysregulation (excessive artificial blue light/nnEMF especially past sunset, lack of sunlight)
- Deuterium accumulation
- Low redox/detox status (cellular dehydration/hypoxia)
- Chronic inflammation/oxidative stress (dietary, environmental, lifestyle = epigenetics)
- Malnutrition
- Stimulant/drug dependency or addiction (stimulants, empathogens, opioids, benzodiazepines, cannabis, alcohol, nicotine/tobacco, caffeine, etc.)
- Dopamine, GABA/glutamate, noradrenaline/epinephrine, cortisol/melatonin, dynorphin/endorphin, and cholinergic dysfunction (everything I discuss will help to reset this underlying biochemistry, but I'll include some potentially helpful stacks as well)
- Circadian dysregulation - little to no sunlight exposure, especially at key periods being sunrise, the time between sunrise and midday (where UVA is present, UVA is required to react with the aromatic amino acids in your diet (tyrosine and phenylalanine) to produce dopamine and norepinephrine, as well as all other hormones), midday, and sunset.
- AM and midday sunlight are crucial to dopamine and norepinephrine production as mentioned above, but along with little to ZERO artificial blue light after sunset during nighttime, leptin and melanopsin function become restored. With a poor light environment, anyone will experience dopamine dysfunction. See the solar exposure protocol and the mitigation of blue light protocol for more. I also expanded a bit more on correcting leptin and melanopsin function here on this recent healthy bulk protocol if you didn't catch that one. Aside from the light environment, meal and exercise timing is also important. Fixing your circadian rhythm is crucial to this recovery process. John Ott wrote a book called "Health and Light" where he ran a study in a schoolroom, where he experimented with keeping the blinds closed and the children under fluorescent lights for the duration of their school day. ALL of them began to display ADHD/ADD symptoms. He opened the blinds again and turned off the fluorescent lights, ALL of them reverted back to normal. Think about the implications of this for a moment. Now, pair this with the deuterium-loaded artificial refined foods shown to produce similar symptoms (refined sucrose, iron and bromine-laden grains, artificial colorings, etc.) and it starts making a bit more sense of what we're observing here.
- To summarize: Drink spring/reverse osmosis water before any sun exposure so it's utilized in cellular hydration and restoration of redox status. Magnesium chloride is helpful in this purpose. Sunrise for red/infrared, blue, and UVA light spectrum, 30-60 minutes preferably but 5-10 minutes minimum. Try to ensure you are grounding your bare feet to the direct Earth, hands too if possible to allow sufficient electron transfer from the Earth into the body, as well as reduction of inflammation. Sunrise is crucial to steroidal and thyroid hormone/neurotransmitter production, resetting leptin and melanopsin, and resetting the peripheral circadian CLOCK genes within the brain and other organs in the body. Midday for UVB, vitamin D is highly implicated in ADHD and dopamine function. Ensure you don't burn, so start with 5-15 minutes as mentioned in the article linked above until solar callus is established. Sunset while grounded for red/IR light and to begin melatonin secretion (melatonin is produced by all light, but sunset is very notable at setting the circadian rhythm and the urge to sleep at a decent time. Try to ensure your bedtime includes the 10 PM - 2 AM golden hours where most detox and repair (as well as deuterium depletion) occurs.
- Do not wear glasses, contacts, or sunglasses while outside, as the glass/plastic blocks 40% of infared light and a good deal of UV light, in essence making one blue light toxic inherently. If you are literally blind, keep them on you while you're outside. Please wear them while driving, I always get some random person saying "but I can't drive!". Wear them while driving. Ensure you have a fat/protein-heavy breakfast within 30-60 minutes of your sunrise exposure preferably, if not as close as possible. Try to have dinner at least 2-4 hrs before you go to sleep each night. Meal timing is also important to circadian rhythm. Try to minimize artificial blue light and nnEMF exposure to the greatest extent possible, wear blue light blockers or use the device outside in the shade, or red/IR light device if inside to offset some of the effect of blue light. Sunlight, grounding, cellular hydration, and swimming in natural bodies of water like the ocean act as Faraday cages against nnEMF. I also like keeping geodes around me as well when I'm using the laptop. If you work a tech job, you especially must heed this advice and try to swap your schedule so you're seeing the SUNRISE most importantly, sunset if possible, then take 5-15 min. breaks periodically throughout the day to offset the blue light/nnEMF detriment. Pick up a portable red/IR light device if you can afford to do so, it will be of amazing help. Try to shut off artificial blue light after sunset, or replace your bulbs with red/amber bulbs or use candles/oil lamps if no small children or rambunctious pets around. Use for 2-3 hours maximum.
- Diet, deuterium, and malnutrition - Eating imported fruits, grains, and vegetables out of season loads the mitochondria and cells with deuterium, essentially all refined foods are loaded with deuterium. Essentially anything grown with deuterium-rich water will contain deuterium on some level, animal fats and to a lesser extent, proteins being the exception. This is one reason why many people who implement a low carbohydrate/deuterium diet notice improvements in their symptoms, as a means of deuterium depletion. Fasting also has a similar role, but in most cases, it's most optimal to simply eat with seasons and focus on fruits and vegetables that grow within your latitude (farms/farmers markets are the easiest way to go about this) for the duration of winter until the UV light spectrum in sunlight begins to show up again (respective of latitude). Sunlight, grounding, cold exposure, low carb diet, seafood/shellfish, animal fats/proteins, fasting, seasonal eating, drinking spring/RO water, and exercise are the means to deplete yourself of deuterium. The zero-tolerance dietary framework comes into play here yet again, as it eliminates the hyperdopaminergic inflammatory dietary triggers that are common in so many diets.
- There are also micronutrients that are implicated in ADHD/ADD symptomatology, and these range from minerals like magnesium, zinc, copper (1:1 serum zinc/copper balance in bloodwork is an important balance marker), iron, iodine, selenium, lithium, amino acids such as glycine, taurine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, vitamins such as vitamin A/C/D/K2, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, biotin, folate, B12, and miscellaneous micronutrients such as choline, DHA/EPA, and inositol. Just as a general summary for foods to cover these bases, your diet should consist of quality red/white meats, eggs, seafood/bivalves, organ meats, and properly prepared seasonal leafy greens/tubers, sprouts, seeds/nuts, fruits and rice, latter two only if metabolic disease isn’t present in which case low carb for a period would be a wise approach. Ensure you have a serving of seafood or shellfish at least once daily, twice if you work a high blue light tech job or in a hospital setting, for example. That DHA in the eyes, brain, cell membranes, etc. MUST be replenished for proper mitochondrial function, cellular hydration, and thus dopamine function. Eggs are essentially a multivitamin, including choline for important cholinergic function.
- The gut microbiome is important here as dysbiosis contributes to chronic inflammation and in a healthy gut, it is also responsible for dopamine production to some extent (paired with red/IR and UV light shone on the gut area). Please see the gut repair protocol and the addition to article.
- Stimulants and other recreational drugs keep you in a cycle of chronic inflammation, chronic stress, cellular dehydration, nutritional depletion, and dopamine dysfunction. They must be eliminated for a period with a focus on everything discussed and neurogenesis induction to restore dopaminergic receptor system function, three to six months minimum. Caffeine should be avoided if you live a highly stressful life or in a high nnEMF environment, it will contribute to inflammation and cellular dehydration if these two factors apply to you. It is fine otherwise. Give yourself this period and then it's ultimately up to you whether or not you consume them, but just be aware it can potentially make your symptoms return. Consuming these drugs in a highly neurogenic state will contribute to potential addiction, so that is another reason to avoid them altogether. The zero-tolerance dietary framework mentioned above applies here as well, as most all inflammation is rooted in the gut. Aside from inflammatory artificial blue light and nnEMF that have been covered above, heavy metals and mold can also be other contributing factors, although they will not necessarily affect you with a healthy redox status. For heavy metals, get a hair tissue mineral analysis (get your water tested if your home is connected to a well, etc.) and hire a mold assessment specialist if you suspect mold is present. Of course, red/IR light from sunlights/devices, magnesium (topical and oral), and black seed oil are easy anti-inflammatory tools.
- Cold and heat exposure help to innervate dopaminergic and noradrenergic activity. Cold/hot showers, ice baths, saunas (preferably red/IR light), sunlight, simply being outside if it's snowing, and swimming in natural bodies of water (oceans, rivers, lakes, pools).
- Implement dopamine fasts once or twice a week. Cease all addictive behaviors for an entire day, two if possible. Social media, masturbation/sex/porn, video games, television, caffeine/cannabis/alcohol/tobacco/nicotine/any drugs whatsoever, gambling, etc. Spend the day outside to reset the dopamine receptor system.
For a basic herbal stack to also aid in regenerating the dopaminergic receptor system:
- L-tyrosine or L/DL-phenylalanine (dopamine precursor)
- Mucuna pruriens (extract) with green tea or ECGC
- Blue lotus
- Polygala tenuifolia
- Lion's mane extract
- Oat straw
- Catuaba bark
- Muira puama
- White/red Panax ginseng
- Gingko biloba
- Inositol
- Sulbutiamine
- Uridine, Alpha-GPC (choline), DHA
Important blood work to observe and correct for:
- BUN/Creatinine ratio
- Vitamin D
- Serum copper/zinc
- Serum ferritin
- Homocysteine
- SAM/SAH ratio
- Full hormone profile
- Full thyroid profile
More information on cognitive function and performance.
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Love, truth, wisdom...
Grimhood
