For more information about Jennifer Koretsky, please visit her website.

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Having searched the world over, somewhat in vain, for external solutions to help me with ADHD,  I am not the type of person that jumps on any bandwagon which claims to assist or improve the ADHD mind.

With that said:

When I write I like to have music on in the background and sometimes I like to have the TV and even the radio on, all at the same time. You might think that would be distracting. Not for me. Having so much going on actually helps me calm down and focus. If I can get the right buzz of noise going, then I often zone into hyper-focus mode and I got to tell you, I love it when that happens. However, getting the right buzz going is usually a rarity!

Recently, a newer member on ADDer World, our ADHD interactive social website, promoted his B-Calm audio sedation system on his profile page. Intrigued, I checked out his website and read about the system:

Every b-Calm audio system is preloaded with specially designed AudioSedation tracks.  It is the special acoustic formulation of these tracks that works to calm and protect the mental state of the user.

Two things are at work within the AudioSedation sounds

• Expertly crafted acoustic masking signals work to make typically distracting noises unapparent to the user
• Special  live nature recording work to relax and “reboot” the mind, cleaning out the mental confusion and promoting concentration

 “masking signals work to make typically distracting noises unapparent to the user” This particular sentence caught my attention. On my own I have already come to realize that certain background noise (white noise) helps me; therefore, with that in mind, I went ahead and decided I would try it out. 

The B-Calm audio sedation system came in the mail in less than a week and was packaged with instructions, headphones and a nice little aqua blue MP3 Player. Having ADHD I usually skip instructions and that’s what I did. I took out the headphones and MP3 player, put the headphones on and hit play. The MP3 player comes preloaded with 3 tracks, Summer Forest, Spring Rain and Tropical Beach. I chose Tropical Beach and sat back expecting myself to react somehow. After a while of listening and waiting I went ahead and did the dishes, started the laundry machine and cleaned up around the house a bit. After I did that, I was still waiting and nothing was happening. What was supposed to happen? Yes, I was calm, but, with peaceful rhythms who wouldn’t be? Anyway, I sat down and started to write, I knew exactly what I wanted to write and found my words flowing with no added effort – meaning I didn’t get up ten times for more coffee or pace around the living room. I was not distracted!

I didn’t realize it at first, but, after a few minutes into listening to the tracks I had simply started to act and get involved in the things I wanted to get done. I wasn’t distracted by most of the things I am usually distracted by. This was a very interesting experience. The next day I tried it again and it worked again – I have been using this audio system now for a week and am simply amazed by the results!

The B-Calm audio sedation system seems to be marketed for children with ADHD and from the reviews on the website it seems to do that well. Thing is, I am an adult and look forward to writing more posts while listening to the tracks. This system helps put me in closer contact with my inner-self! The sounds seem to put me into a meditative state of clear focus, hyper-focus, if you will.

I am so impressed with this audio system I have decided to send it to my sister. My nephew has ADHD too and I believe this will probably help him while doing his homework and perhaps in the classroom. I will be sure to let you all know how that goes!

Have any of you tried this out?

~Bryan

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I guess when you are insane famous a little photo can get a lot of attention, especially if you are considered the perfect role model. Truth is, nobody is perfect and nobody should be expected to be perfect. That being said, I read a couple recent blog posts about Michael’s situation and how his actions do, or better yet, do not relate to ADHD. Can you really separate the actions of someone with ADHD from ADHD itself? That’s a very good question. Check out these two articles which take a moment to put this whole shebang in perspective:

Dr. Rory Stern’s take

And another very interesting, no BS article by Jennifer Koretsky

What do you think of Michael’s recent actions concerning smoking marijuana? Related to ADHD? Or just a 23 year old experimenting? Or…

~Bryan

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I blog, I love to blog – I love to share my personal experiences, thoughts and beliefs with you. I think blogging is one of the most important movements in the new world order. Yes, there is a new world order, more and more people are reading blogs and less people are reading printed newspapers! In turn more newspapers are offering their articles online for free. Good idea! However, it’s blogging in the blogosphere which has caught the world by storm and I mean bloggers who are just writing about what they personally care about, not necessarily about what they are being paid to write or being asked to write. Many blogs have more readership than many traditional newspapers. Why? I think one word can sum it up:

Influence.

When something is written on a blog by someone paid or asked to write, there is influence, or perceived influence, from someone else. Newspapers are influenced by bosses, editors and strategies. Personal blogs on the other hand are influenced, for the most part, by an individual’s raw personal opinion. And that’s what readers want! I am a blog reader, not just a blog writer. I write about what I believe in, what I feel – I allow my emotions to play a part and I share information which is unique, because, hey, my thoughts are mine and come from the way my mind works and considers things. As readers we like to read other opinions because we might be looking for someone to have a common connection with, or, someone to disagree with. It’s very difficult to get that from a traditional newspaper or from someone writing for someone else, because, at that point you really don’t know if what you are reading is really that person’s personal opinion or just reaching a target audience with what that audience wants to hear, or, what someone else has influenced the writer to write.

I have countless emails from online sites asking me to blog for them. Thus far I have turned them all down or I haven’t replied. The reason I have not accepted any of those offers is simply because I do not want to come across as influenced by that site. However, I have posted blogs on sites which are open and are basically social networking sites, such as www.adderworld.ning.com . There is a perceived difference and that difference is very important. Blogging on social networks sites is still considered individual opinions which are only influenced by topics and sometimes not even that.

My advice to news sites paying bloggers, if the opinion really is only the opinion of the blog writer make that openly, abundantly clear in a good beneficial way, not simply as a disclaimer – few people actually read the disclaimers anyway. Traditional newspapers are going away, faster than anyone could have predicted only a decade ago. It’s not just because of the internet where news is abundantly available, it’s also because of the blogosphere! This blog alone has more readership than many traditional newspapers! Just my personal thoughts on this, my opinion, which could be wrong (doubt it), but then again, that’s what real blogging is about, isn’t it?

By the way, join us on www.ADDerWorld.ning.com a social networking ADHD community, with personalized Web-Page for each member, forums, picture posting, RSS feeds, BLOGS (over 400 postings already – individual opinions, experiences and ideas from the members), videos and much more.

Bryan

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I highly recommend several books which are written specifically about ADHD. My book, One Boy’s Struggle: A Memoir, is one of those books, – It is about my life growing up with Undiagnosed ADD and how I eventually overcame my struggles to become successful and happy in my own right - my story and the lessons learned from the hindsight of my life thus far. I have had a many ups and downs in my life, twisted roads and seemingly endless loops of taking steps forward only to find myself at the start again, or further behind. In order to get better and overcome many of my struggles I had to give up on certain things and some things I had to remain steadfast with, even when it seemed the worst was still to come.

The Dip by Seth Godin is a book I recommend for ADDers as highly as I do certain books written specifically about ADHD. (Seth doesn’t have ADHD, but he could have fooled me! *Correction: Seth reveals in the comments below that he does indeed have ADHD) The Dip is a motivational and inspiring book about knowing when to give up, yes, give up, let go and when to not give up, – no, do not give up and stick with it, making it through The Dip. ADDers have a tendency to give up and berate themselves for giving up, but what if we should give up on certain things? Giving up isn’t always bad or as terrible as we perceive it, sometimes it is the right thing to do. On the contrary though, there are things which seem difficult and trying, but we don’t want to give up on them, no matter what and we stick with them even when others would tell us to stop, try something else and move on. But, when should we give up, and when should we stick with it? That, my friends and neighbors, is what The Dip is about. It is an extraordinary book, which in of itself seems, and is, simplicity itself, but then again, simplicity always is the most confounding and complex reality… isn’t it?  ~Bryan

A Member of the Interactive ADDer World, our community for those with ADHD and related to ADHD in some way, recently posted a review there about Seth Godin’s book, The Dip. I have copied that review here for you to read and enjoy, if you have not joined and become a member of ADDer World yet, here’s the review:

Godin, Seth. The Dip A LITTLE BOOK THAT TEACHES YOU WHEN TO QUIT (AND WHEN TO STICK). Copyright: Do You Zoom, Inc. 2007. A review by GF (member of ADDer World Community website)

“Quitters never win and winners never quit,” according to the late football coaching great, Vince Lombardi. “Bad advice,” asserts author, founder and CEO of Squidoo, and well-known television and business blog personality, Seth Godin. Furthermore, Godin continues, “Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.”

Being the best in the world at that one thing that matters most to you is seriously important. Our minds, unfortunately, especially our ADDer minds, are capable of infinite distractions and excuse making. Who has not heard of someone described as a ‘Jack of all trades and master of none’? Like Jack, perhaps you prefer to be thought of as well rounded, rather than just an excellent salesperson, house framer, or teacher.

However, ask yourself what qualities you would want in a physician if you were newly diagnosed with liver cancer. Would it comfort you knowing that your doctor always finishes at the top of his age group in the New York Marathon? Can play three musical instruments rather well? Or enjoys his friends’ compliments as a talented sushi chef?

Most likely you would you choose someone ranked by her peers as one of the top three liver cancer specialist in the state. Sure, a music background may make for smoother bedside manners, but what you really want is the physician who will give you the best shot at a long and healthy life.

The reward for being best in the world is exponential. Think about it: being the best is rare. It is scarce. Gold, not manure, is priced in hundreds of dollars an ounce. The world richly rewards scarcity, not abundant mediocrity. Jack is never rewarded. This book is about tough love.

What, then, is the dip? It is the boring, difficult, inconvenient time after the excitement, positive feedback, and the fun of a new relationship or project has worn thin. The dip is drudgery; it is an artifice society creates to KEEP YOU OUT of the inner circle. The dip creates scarcity, and scarcity creates value, says Godin.

By determining which dip is the right challenge to stick with and then leaning into the dip or obstacle, you may succeed from your perseverance, when others find it easier to quit. What was Woody Allen’s secret for success? Just show up (having a talent for comedic writing did not hurt him, either).

Whether it concerns finding a loving mate, gathering power, or building wealth, we live in a competitive society. The system depends upon us, the majority (the average), sticking with the wrong goals and quitting the right goals when we encounter the dip.

If the goal is hollow, Godin believes in quitting early. Most people are afraid to quit. We continue in meaningless jobs and deplorable relationships because we are afraid to take a calculated risk. Instead, we settle for mediocrity and expressing present frustrations.

Here are the author’s “Three Questions To Ask Before Quitting”:

QUESTION 1: AM I PANICKING?
Quitting is not the same as panicking. Panic is never premeditated. Panic attacks us, it grabs us, it is in the moment.

QUESTION 2: WHO AM I TRYING TO INFLUENCE?
If you are considering quitting, it’s almost certainly because you’re not being successful at your current attempt at influence.

QUESTION 3: WHAT SORT OF MEASURABLE PROGRESS AM I MAKING?
If you’re trying to succeed in a job or a relationship or at a task, you’re either moving forward, falling behind, or standing still. There are only three choices.

When the goal is meaningful and worth pursuing, then expect the dip, gather your resources and mentors (ADD coaches, perhaps?), and prepare yourself for a difficult slog. Having a scarce and valued skill – being the best – and taking pride in the effort to be the best will get you noticed and rewarded.

By GF, a member of ADDer World the interactive community for those with ADHD, their families, mentors and friends.

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Central Station Amsterdam

Joan and I spent a wonderful clear day in Amsterdam on Saturday. We had a great time and were relieved to have such splendid weather. The day before, while we were in Utrecht, it had rained the entire day. Saturday started out a little drizzly too, but by the time we reached Amsterdam the weather had cleared and the sun was breaking from the clouds.

Van-Gogh-Museum

Joan is an art history buff and the museums are always on our agenda. We have visited Amsterdam several times in the past because my family, on my mother’s side, is from Holland. This time, though, other than the Van Gogh museum we didn’t really have any other plans and spent the day walking through the city. It was great because we got to see several sites we usually do not come across.

Madame Tussaud Amsterdam

One of those sites was “The American Bookstore”. It was a delight exploring the bookstore and we found two books I was interested in “The Dip” by Seth Godin and “The Disorganized Mind” by Nancy Ratey

The picture below – Nancy’s book on the left and Seth’s on the right – Joan’s holding them in the window. Thanks Joan!

The American Book Store in Amsterdam

It was quite an unexpected delight coming across Nancy’s book because I was just talking to her this last week. Her book is a vital benefit to the ADDer community and I will be reviewing it here in the next couple days for you. I am sure she will be delighted to know I found it in Amsterdam of all places. That was indeed a fortuitous experience finding this book store for the first time and Nancy’s book! In a previous post I mentioned that I had found another one of Seth’s books in Frankfurt Germany, so this might be becoming a fortunate habit.

Here are a few more photos from our enchanting trip:

Joan in front of the Magna Plaza Shopping Center Amsterdam

Canals of Amsterdam

Bike Parking Everyone Rides Bikes in Holland!

Rembrandt's Night Watch

It was a fun day!

~Bryan

P.S. Stay tuned for The Bryan Code for everyone who has dreams, aspirations and hope. Make sure you subscribe to this blog for more information to come. This is a very exciting time – indeed.

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After yesterday’s important post about Milk and Gluten I thought a follow up post is important, considering that there can be withdrawal when one stops eating and drinking these foods. It’s the age old, worse before you get better thing. It sucks, and it is real, therefore must be addressed by anyone attempting such a diet, or a person might stop the diet completely in order to feel better in the short run.

(Edit Side Note: We have a Dietary Group on the ADDer World ADHD Social Network. We further discuss issues with Gluten and food allergies.) 

The following article is by Dr. Charles Parker, a member of the interactive ADDer World, he has given permission to repost:

Celiac Notes: Opiate Withdrawal from Gluten and Casein?

Opiate withdrawal from discontinuing gluten and casein? Cautionary note: sounds absurd until you see it.

You might want to warn gluten sensitive, celiac and casein sensitive patients about this odd and painful clinical phenomenon: Withdrawal after stopping wheat or milk products can be painful, exhausting, and depressing, with weakness, anger, and brain fog.

I have a very interesting and refractory client in Ohio who has struggled for years with a variety of severe reactions to psych meds, suicidal depression, mercury toxicity, and became completely regressed on previous withdrawal of Prozac before I saw him in DC. With autoimmune issues in abundance and at times psychotic like feelings of loosing control we tested him for gluten/casein sensitivity, hit pay dirt with positive findings, and asked him to go on a gluten free/casein free diet [GFCF is the acronym].

He felt remarkably better at first, better than he had in years, then the withdrawal set in. Having had previous experience with addictive opiates prescribed for pain, he recognized signs of withdrawal immediately. First a note on the opiate receptors from Great Plains Laboratory:

The peptides from gluten [gliadorphin] and casein [casomorphin] are important because the react with opiate receptors in the brain, thus mimicking the effects of opiate drugs like heroin and morphine. These compounds have been shown to react with areas of the brain such as the temporal lobes, which are involved in speech and auditory integration.

Children with autism frequently seem addicted to wheat and dairy products. Presumably, people with Autism and schizophrenia incompletely digest wheat and dairy products. These incompletely digested peptides are then absorbed into the body and bind to opiate receptors, altering behavior and other physiological reactions.                                      

And one more reference here:

Below is from the book “Dangerous Grains” by Ron Hoggan

The addictive nature of gluten is often overlooked. For some, the first days and weeks of following a gluten-free diet are characterized by food cravings, disorientation, irritability, sleepiness, depression, mental fogginess, fatigue, and/or shortness of breath.

If you are a member of this group, the very fact that you are experiencing many of these symptoms should reinforce the need to exclude gluten from your diet. These are common symptoms of withdrawal of detoxification from gluten-derived opioid and brain neurochemical imbalances. The evidence suggests that about 70 percent of celiac patients will experience these symptoms when beginning a strict gluten-free diet.

The take-home appears simple: if these symptoms occur, do go more slowly on the GFCF diet, respect the withdrawal process and support other nutritional and physiologic activities.

Be sure to visit Dr. Parker’s blog for more information. Thanks again Dr. Parker!

~Bryan

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Seth Godin

The article that follows is by Seth Godin, the marketing guru of modern times! He has given me his permission to republish it here, for you. Seth constantly talks about doing things different and he has a very common, uncommon sense about him. He makes sense and his ideas work… do you know about the idea virus or the purple cow? Check his blog out and you soon will!

Writing my book was one thing. Do you know how many people want to write a book? Or how many people say they will write a book someday? There are a lot of books out there and a lot of good ideas written in them and yet, the actual number of books which exist is just from a small fraction of the people who ‘want to’ or ‘say’ they will write a book. Writing a book is a major undertaking, it is easy to want to or say you will, but to actually do it? That’s something else entirely. A lot of books, written by first time writers, were not really planned that way. It all starts as an idea, which keeps building and eventually it gets put on a lot of napkins and scraps of paper and before you know it… the book of ages is written.

So, once the book is written, what are you going to do with it? 

1.    Ask a traditional publisher to publish it?

2.    Self publish it?

3.    Or not do anything with it?

There are more options, to be sure. I decided to go with self publishing. I have a lot of reasons for that. I wanted my book out there for you, available to you and I didn’t want to wait several years. I was compelled to publish because my book is about an issue, it’s real, it’s serious and it matters to a great portion of the population – actually, the entire population of mankind. You don’t believe me? Read it and find out why. The success of my book is in the value of the message it conveys. Those that tell me how much my book has meant to them and how many times they have re-read it, is my way of knowing I did the right thing, which is the greatest measure of my success in publishing One Boy’s Struggle!

Then the question came – how the heck am I going to get the word out? Then a lot of other questions came to mind… so I wrote Seth Godin! Hey, if you want good ideas, go to the Idea Virus man himself. He sent me the article below and I am reprinting it here, thanks to his generosity: ”Click the Read More”

Advice for authors by Seth Godin

Always beware free advice. It is worth what it costs!

That said, I get a fair number of notes from well respected, intelligent people who are embarking on their first non-fiction book project. They tend to ask very similar questions, so I thought I’d go ahead and put down my five big ideas in one place to make it easier for everyone. I guarantee you that you won’t agree with all of them, but, as they say, your mileage my vary.

1. Please understand that book publishing is an organized hobby, not a business.
The return on equity and return on time for authors and for publishers is horrendous. If you’re doing it for the money, you’re going to be disappointed.

On the other hand, a book gives you leverage to spread an idea and a brand far and wide. There’s a worldview that’s quite common that says that people who write books know what they are talking about and that a book confers some sort of authority.

2. The timeframe for the launch of books has gone from silly to unrealistic.
When the world moved more slowly, waiting more than a year for a book to come out was not great, but tolerable. Today, even though all other media has accelerated rapidly, books still take a year or more. You need to consider what the shelf life of your idea is.

3. There is no such thing as effective book promotion by a book publisher.

This isn’t true, of course. Harry Potter gets promoted. So did Freakonomics. But out of the 75,000 titles published last year in the US alone, I figure 100 were effectively promoted by the publishers. This leaves a pretty big gap.This gap is either unfilled, in which case the book fails, or it is filled by the author. Here’s the thing: publishing a book is really nothing but a socially acceptable opportunity to promote yourself and your ideas far and wide and often.

If you don’t promote it, no one will. If you don’t have a better strategy than, “Let’s get on Oprah” you should stop now. If you don’t have an asset already–a permission base of thousands or tens of thousands of people, a popular blog, thousands of employees, a personal relationship with Willard Scott… then it’s too late to start building that asset once you start working on a book.

By the way, blurbs don’t sell books. Not really. You can get all the blurbs in the world for your book and it won’t help if you haven’t done everything else (quick aside: the guy who invented the word “blurb” also wrote the poem Purple Cow).

4. Books cost money and require the user to read them for the idea to spread.
Obvious, sure, but real problems. Real problems because the cost of a book introduces friction to your idea. It makes the idea spread much much more slowly than an online meme because in order for it to spread, someone has to buy it. Add to that the growing (and sad) fact that people hate to read. Too often, people have told me, with pride, that they read three chapters of my book. Just three.

5. Publishing is like venture capital, not like printing.
Printing your own book is very very easy and not particularly expensive. You can hire professional copyeditors and designers and end up with a book that looks just like one from Random House. That’s easy stuff.

What Random House and others do is invest. They invest cash in an advance. They invest time in creating the book itself and selling it in and they invest more cash in printing books. Like all VCs, they want a big return.

If you need the advance to live on, then publishers serve an essential function. If, on the other hand, you’re like most non-fiction authors and spreading the idea is worth more than the advance, you may not.

So, what’s my best advice?

Build an asset. Large numbers of influential people who read your blog or read your emails or watch your TV show or love your restaurant or or or…

Then, put your idea into a format where it will spread fast. That could be an ebook (a free one) or a pamphlet (a cheap one–the Joy of Jello sold millions and millions of copies at a dollar or less).

Then, if your idea catches on, you can sell the souvenir edition. The book. The thing people keep on their shelf or lend out or get from the library. Books are wonderful (I own too many!) but they’re not necessarily the best vessel for spreading your idea.

And the punchline, of course, is that if you do all these things, you won’t need a publisher. And that’s exactly when a publisher will want you! That’s the sort of author publishers do the best with.

This article is reprinted with permission from Seth Godin, you can find the original here and please be sure to visit his blog for more grand ideas and free advice.

Thanks Seth!

~Bryan

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Dr. Parker, thanks for joining ADDer World! I have been a reader of your blog for sometime now and have found it very helpful.

C: Thanks for your invite Bryan, you are setting an important theme by starting early to build a community of like minded folks so we can all pull together! It looks like your ADDer World Community site it really taking off, and see that your work is already providing a significantly positive service for the ADD community – Time for the docs and the patients to really have a dialogue about what’s going on in ADDland.

Tell us a bit about yourself: 

C: My story, Bryan, has some easy repetitive themes: Since I was a kid in rural Indiana and Missouri, I learned a farm work ethic early – the cotton crop does not get to the market if you don’t pick it. And if you set out to pick cotton, don’t plan on a morning stroll – this is an all day affair. Even picking cotton I learned to get better by looking at the details of the process.

Most of the ADD folks that I see have complex issues, that can’t be solved by hasty or superficial interventions.  In fact I rarely see a simple garden variety ADD anymore, as most of those are picked up and treated by others. My psychoanalytic training years ago in Philadelphia really helped me understand the importance of perseverance for the long haul, and the importance of digging relentlessly for deeper information.

So, my mission is simple: to become the most informed psychiatric practitioner possible, by accumulating more nuances of new brain and body information, translating and using that new information with patients, and then teaching those deeper understandings to both the public and the medical community. In a word: I love to learn, and love to teach. 

Why did you create your blog and what is its purpose:

C: I started the blog simply because I knew it was up to me to develop, as you are doing over here, a community of like minded folks who may or may not be frustrated or lost with the complex challenges of dealing with ADD/ADHD issues. The blog is actually about more brain and body subjects than ADD, but as I said in a recent post: I can see at least 14 different ADD/ADHD brain patterns from SPECT imaging – and probably, when the full count is in, at least another 20-30 ADD presentation subsets [that can be measured as molecular and cellular physiologic challenges], for example, in the laboratory. Comprehensive evidence always brings a better treatment prognosis. The community needs this information.

You have some very helpful and informative posts about ADD ADHD. Could you tell us a little about your relationship with ADHD:

C: Thanks for your comments and support on my blog, I do hope your readers do join our CorePsychBlog and Podcast group over there for regular email updates on the blog and the podcast for MP3 audio and video programs. I have planned so many interesting topics over there, and also plan very soon to present weekly *free webinars* [you can simply sign up and listen to it on your machine] for one hour a week to better connect personally with my readership. My webinar tools will permit 2000 web participants and 200 callers, so we shouldn’t have a problem accommodating any one interested. So please sign up to stay tuned   through our email blog/newsletters.

My relationship with ADD is simple: many years ago I realized as I was seeing literally thousands of patients [actually saw 1000 new patients in 2003 the year before opening Amen Clinic in DC for SPECT imaging] – and discovered what the pharma companies were telling me I should do with the meds… just didn’t work in predictable ways. I set out in my own practice to redefine “predictable.”

As I began to develop these more comprehensive, more predictable, understandings my patient improvement and compliance rates skyrocketed, and I quickly became the busiest ADD/ADHD psychiatrist in an area of about 2 million people. Following that happy development I then had the opportunity for the last 12 years to teach my medical colleagues nationally, and have lectured all over the USA, Paris, Virgin Islands, Canada, Grand Cayman, with coaching clients as far away as Japan.

It’s been a remarkable tour, there are some very significant problems to overcome, and I just love the opportunity to become a part of the solution process.

Thank you Dr. Parker for taking this time to tell us a bit about yourself and your blog. Do you have any other websites?

C: The CorePsychPodcast site is the only other current site, and there I will be interviewing some of the most important people nationally regarding immune dysfunction, imaging, measurement of medical problems, DAN doctors to better discuss how ADD fits in with Asperger’s and ASD, and most importantly how we can get the mind and body working together. As it stands now, so many are focused only on *mind drugs,* not paying attention to such important variables as simple exercise, and even with that basic *mind emphasis* don’t pay attention to often catastrophic drug interactions. All of these podcasts on this important new information will be available through free subscription and downloading in iTunes – so signing up is the best choice.

Some of the more specific educational programs and topics will have available slide shows that you can rent for your PTA and show through an internet link… lots of cool ideas coming soon. I have a number of educational modules that can be easily used to take out understandings to the next steps.

And thanks for your postings over at the CorePsych sites!

Thanks, Bryan!

Best of luck with ADDer World!

Chuck

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Thanks again Dr. Parker!

It is an honor to have interviewed Dr. Parker and have him as a member of our new ADDer World Interactive Community. Be sure to visit his sites, linked at the top of this posting and feel free to join the new ADDer World Interactive Community, also linked at the top. Dr. Parker is very active on his sites and takes the time to answer reader comments.

 ~~~Bryan

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