| Book Reviews for Victory over ADHD |
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Victory Over ADHD is a victory for all parents of children with neurologic and autoimmune conditions. It is a story of how a mother’s love and tenacity resulted in finding natural health solutions to her children’s disabilities after seven years of searching for answers beyond conventional medicine’s Ritalin chorus. This book conveys a powerful message: when a child has difficulties with learning, attention, sitting still, impulse control, etc., the cause can be functional compromise of the brain and nervous system. And function returns to normal automatically when the body’s nutritional needs are met and toxic burdens are decreased.
Deborah Merlin has filled a void in the ADHD literature. Yet the information is not just for ADHD families. She and Larry Cook have created a comprehensive and easy to follow program of holistic living which can be adopted by everyone. Whether you are a health care practitioner, a parent or someone who wants to achieve vibrant health, you will benefit from reading this inspiring and well-researched book.
–Kathleen Lewis, D.C., C.B.T.
Victory Over ADHD is a remarkable and insightful book that will appeal to both practitioners and lay people alike. Deborah Merlin takes us with her through every step of her personal journey. Parents struggling with the realities of bringing up children with these challenges will immediately recognize the similarities and find solace in their new found understanding that help, and real hope, is available. Clinicians who sometimes forget the human saga that is unfolding beyond the confines of the exam room will be reminded that they are not just treating a patient but are, in fact, impacting entire communities. Merlin’s effort will be an invaluable resource for people with all sorts of health problems, not just ADHD.
–Stuart H. Garber, D.C., Ph.D.
For any parent who has suffered through the frustration, anger, and embarrassment of having a child with a learning disability, this insightful book is must reading. It flows with speed, accuracy, and simplicity. It is especially useful for the doctors who are conventionally schooled and lack the training in nutrition.
As a nutritionist and homeopath, I frequently see parents who have become increasingly disillusioned with conventional medicine and are seeking alternative solutions. Many parents who have kids with ADD/ADHD will be able to relate to Deborah Merlin’s deep and emotional experience. The reader will grasp in a couple of hours what took Merlin seven years of a long journey to learn.
There is an easy categorizing into logical sequencing of foods to avoid, foods to incorporate, heavy metals, and amino acid testing, etc. As an excellent resource, this book has the potential to stimulate dialogue between conventional and complementary health care practitioners, to the benefit of both.
–Pamela Healey, Certified Nutritionist, Master of Homeopathic Medicine
Victory Over ADHD: How a Mother's Journey to Natural Medicine Reversed Her Children's Severe Emotional, Mental, and Behavioral Problems is the true story of one mother's struggle to help her children. The medical community continued to advance Ritalin as the only answer at every turn in response to her sons' behavioral and concentration problems; but ultimately, the cause of their hardship was diet-related-they (and she) were obtaining insufficient amino acids, and in need of supplements.
Victory Over ADHD denounces Ritalin for treating the symptoms of ADHD, but not the underlying toxicity that can help create them--toxicity contributed to by too much junk food in the diet, harmful sodium fluoride in drinking water, lack of exercise, and in adults, neglecting to properly cleanse the colon.
Though Victory Over ADHD does not unilaterally denounce vaccinations, it strongly warns against vaccinations for infants and young children with risk factors (such as low birthrate, or relatives who reacted badly to a vaccine) that predispose them to an adverse reaction.
The overall message of Victory Over ADHD is that parents and individuals of today's society need to improve their immediate environment and overall health rather than rely on expensive drugs and antibiotics to fix all their problems, despite what corporate advertising would have us believe. A much-needed counterpoint to the endless drug marketing ads one sees and the drug-focused cultural indoctrination among modern medical professionals.
-Margaret Lane, Oct, 2007 www.entrpreneur.com
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