>My son has tourette syndrome and ADD. But ritalin is the opposite of what he needs. When he was young he used catapris, which suppresses the adrenaline, and that worked. But as he has gotten older the drop in blood pressure makes him feel too bad, so he is not using anything now. Is there anything that will cause a reduction in the norepinephrine and not effect him otherwise? Marshall
Hello! Could you please provide some more information? Off list is fine if you prefer. E-mail address is: [email protected] Normally, norepinephrine is what is deficient. The reason that norepinephrine affects ADD people in an opposite way from normal people, is what is going on in the body. A normal person already has enough norepinephrine. Giving them more can be too much; and can cause anxiety, anger, and other symptoms. That is why a normal person is stimulated by Ritalin. It causes an additional release of norepinephrine. An ADD person is deficient in norepinephrine. Oddly enough, this also causes anxiety, hyper-activity, etc (ie being deficient in norepinephrine, and having too much norepinephrine, can cause many of the SAME symptoms!). Giving an ADD person more norepinephrine brings their norepinephrine up into the normal range, causing them to behave more like a normal person. IE, calmer, no anxiety, no hyperactiveity. If norepinephrine (noradrenaline. epinephrine is adrenaline. These are not the same.) does not help your son, he may not have ADD, and be misdiagnosed (very, very common). He may have something else that mimics the symptioms. If he tried Ritalin, and that did not work, it could also be that he is not producing enough norepinephrine for the drug to work. In that case, the things I mentioned in my last posting to pump up the production of norepinephrine may help. I don't know a huge amount about Tourette's syndrome, but I believe it to be a form of localized epilepsy in that area of the brain. If that is the case, then Vitamin E (get the natural E, (if it says anywhere on the bottle dl-, that is sythetic. Don't get it.) with the added mixed tocopherols of Beta, Delta, and Gamma in addition to the Alpha) in the dose of 800 IU to 1600 IU daily will reduce or eliminate the attacks. Start the dose gradually, say at 200 IU, and work up to the larger doses over a month or two. Have him take it with meals. If this doesn't help, at least he'll be a little healthier. Hope this has helped. Karl Kristianson -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
