TWO biggest myths in nutritional interventions (and the reason most dietary changes don't work).

Did you know that 10-30% of children with ADHD don't respond to medication, or worse, experience adverse effects to these medications?

It is high time to try easier and more effective strategies such as dietary changes for brain health. If Food is Medicine, there should be nothing that can go wrong when you enter the area of Nutritional Interventions, right?

No, there are two huge areas where people slip up over and over again, and this is the reason "healing" diets don't work for many many people.

MYTH 1: Everything is OK in moderation.

If you are trying to make active change, it is important that the areas that are healing are significantly higher than the areas that are inflammatory. In fact, at least for a short time, you may need to shut off the inflammatory foods.

This is of course hard, because inflammatory food is usually addictive. But taking every food that causes inflammation out of the diet is almost impossible.

That is why, in my signature course offering R.O.A.R [Roadmap to Attention and Regulation] - which is open for enrollment now, I take care to not stress the parent with too many factors to control and remove. R.O.A.R. [Enroll or Waitlist] Psychiatric Times Article

Disclaimer: The information in this Podcast is for educational purposes only. Vaishnavi Sarathy, Ph.D. is an educator, not a doctor, specifically not your child's doctor. Please consult your physician before implementing any supplement or diet recommendations.