ADD ADHD.pdf - Kanaan Ministries

Child Have ADHD? Stop Feeding Them ThisStory 8 at-a-glance ...• Eating gluten-containing grain may wreak havoc on your gut andmanifest in symptoms related to your brain, including ADHD symptoms• A gluten-free diet may significantly improve ADHD symptoms.• Untreated or undiagnosed celiac disease may predispose you tomental and behavioral disorders such as ADHD (celiac disease istreated with a gluten-free diet).• Avoiding grains (even “healthy” whole and sprouted grains) and sugaris a key strategy to reducing and eliminating ADHD symptomsnaturally.There's evidence suggesting that gluten sensitivity may be at the root of manyneurological and psychiatric conditions, including attention deficit hyperactivitydisorder (ADHD).What is gluten? It's a protein found in wheat grain and part of "gluey" prolineand glutamine rich proteins known as prolamines. Prolamines are found in allcereal grains, even rice, corn and oats, but only wheat, and to a lesser extentrye, spelt and einkorn, are assosiated with the serious neurological andautoimmune reactions often linked to autism spectrum disorder.Gluten is only found in wheat species. Spelt or einhorn gluten hasdramatically lower antigenicity of common wheat (Triticulum aestivum) that isused in bread products. Other cereal grasses have what are known asprolamines (proline-glutamine rich proteins) with rye containing secalin, barleycontaining horedin, etc, but they have very little cross-reactivity with antigensassociated with wheat intolerance. It has long been known that people withceliac disease are also more likely to suffer from ADHD, another condition thatis heavily influenced by dietary habits.However, while the treatment of celiac disease is a completely gluten-freediet, with ADHD the most oft-cited dietary villain is sugar, whereas grains areoften overlooked (even though they act much like sugar in your body). It turnsout, though, that there may be a closer link between the symptoms of celiacdisease and ADHD than was previously recognized, and that connection isgluten.8 Taken from http://www.mercola.com/ 11