How to Treat ADHD [Without Medication]

the newest and most interesting and promising non-medication treatments uh which i write about in my new book adhd 2.0 uh right at the top of the list is cerebellar stimulation the cerebellum is a part of your brain at the back and base of your brain it's kind of an afterthought in medical training but the fact is the cerebellum contains 70 of the neurons in your brain it's way more important than we used to think and the cerebellum has rich connections to the frontal lobes which is where the action is in adhd and if you do physical exercises that stimulate the cerebellum 10 minutes twice a day for three to six months you will get marked improvement in the symptoms of adhd sounds counterintuitive how can a physical exercise influence attention planning executive function well it does via the cerebellum and the and the the network involving the inner ear these exercises are balancing exercises primarily standing on on one leg standing on one leg with your eyes closed there's a fellow in in england who's developed a whole series of these exercises when for door is his name and he's he calls it the zing method z-i-n-g you can learn about it by by googling that but but physical exercise that stimulates the cerebellum uh is very promising and and really i think will will grow in applicability the more people learn about it and then of course the the standby coaching very helpful non-medication treatment um the two things for adults i recommend to marry the right person find the right job sounds obvious but you'd be amazed how many people don't and and you know you you want to be careful in what you what you sign up for be it a career or a mate and and then uh really trying to embrace the condition learn as much about it as you can because everyone's adhd is different and learn as much as you can about yours particularly through a strength based lens and and then you want to do and i put this right at the top of the list in terms of importance find the right difficult we adhders we need a creative outlet and we need it to be challenging i.e difficult but it's got to be the right difficult when you find the right difficult every day you can you can grapple with it and and deal with it and and we need that we we're it's like we're cows we need to be milked we need to have our creativity milked and for me it's writing that's my right difficult no pun intended but my right difficult is writing i grapple with writing but it's challenging and it matters to me and so whenever i write i get that that creative uh offload if you will yours might be building a business yours might be cooking yours might be gardening um if you're a kid it might be starting a kool-aid stand it might be drawing coloring uh building a model airplane whatever but you need a creative outlet we really need a creative outlet so find your right difficult whether you're five years old or 55 years old or my oldest patient was 86 and with treatment he was able to write the book he'd wanted to write his whole life long so find your right difficult i'd put right at the top of the list

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Length: 3min 45sec (225 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 13 2021