3 Steps to Conquering ADD ADHD & How Women Can Regain Those Shapely Curves

After my analysis of the Total Transformation Program® I decided to revisit the concept of “miracle cures for ADHD.” I googled “3 step cure adhd” and found some very interesting things. What follows is a result of some of those findings.

1. Cure ADHD with Laughter: That’s not really what this particular website article was promoting as a cure for ADHD. However, when the cure is composed of three simple things – stop drinking milk; learn to meditate; get a good night’s sleep – I had assumed laughter must be the real cure that is being promoted. After all, I read this article and laughed for fifteen minutes and for that brief time I did not feel like I had ADHD. I’m hoping this researcher can find a cure that lasts longer than fifteen minutes.

2. 3Steps to Conquering ADD-ADHD: This website is really part of a constellation of websites¹ all meant to point you in the same direction, namely, in the direction of online marketing genius Jon Bennett. I had examined his “cure” in an earlier post and was a bit surprised when I stumbled across this particular website.² This website (marketing campaign, really) plays on the “I have a secret to share with you” sales strategy. My recommendation is caveat emptor.

3. Cure ADHD with Sleep: I will quote from the website and allow the self-parody to take its effect. This website notes that:

Children who suffer from conditions such as autism, ADD and ADHD, have experienced some sort of loss, and or, shock, which causes sufficient mental anguish to prevent their minds from relaxing to experience regular R.E.M. sleep…. The only way to counteract this effect is to slow the mind of an ADHD child down during sleep so that the R.E.M. healing stage of sleep eventuates and encourage them to improve self-confidence by helping them to develop their individual talents to stimulate their excitement for life.³

There’s more!

Many medical studies have proven, motivating children to develop self-confidence, giving them close companionship “and improving their R.E.M. sleep” in the early stages of autism, asthma, ADD and ADHD can overcome these disorders completely. Most medical doctors…are dispensing drugs and telling parents, these disorders are incurable thus destroying any incentive to try to overcome it. [Emphasis added]

A good night’s sleep and close companionship⁴ is the cure for, not only ADHD but autism, asthma and probably our trade deficit too.

4. A Natural Cure for ADHD:⁵ At this website Dr. Saunders announces in BIG BOLD LETTERS that he has the miracle cure. The website – and the good doctor – will tell you:

“How You Can Banish Hyperactivity, Stop Inattention And End The ADHD Nightmare For Good. . . Safely, Naturally And Without The Use Of Harmful ADHD Drugs…”

Dr. Saunders goes on to note that the pharmaceutical companies have falsely claimed that:

ADHD Is A Disease And You Can Only Cure It With Drugs

I’m not familiar with any pharmaceutical website that claims that ADHD is a disease. At the website for Strattera they only refer to ADHD as a disorder (this is on their home page). At the website for Concerta they say that “ADHD is thought to be a biological condition that affects certain types of brain functioning.” They don’t mention the word “disease.” If anyone is aware of a pharmaceutical website that claims ADHD is a disease, please post a link in the Comments section of this post.

There is also a reference to the Multimodal Study. The website notes:

On November 12, 2007, a team of American scientists conducting the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD released findings that showed that while pharmaceutical drugs such as Ritalan and Concerta can work well in the short term, over a 3 year period they brought about no demonstrable improvement in a child’s behavior. [Emphasis is in the original]

This is an interesting claim and there is nearly a modicum of truth. However, the complete truth is a bit more complex. The initial results, as summarized in a PBS special (the following is a quote from the study itself), notes that:

For ADHD symptoms, our carefully crafted medication management program was superior to behavioral treatment and to routine community care that included medication. Our combined treatment [medical and behavioral interventions] did not yield significantly greater benefits than medication management for core ADHD symptoms, but may have provided modest advantages for non-ADHD symptom and positive functioning outcomes.

The study further notes that

…findings indicate that children with other accompanying problems, such as co-occurring anxiety or high levels of family stressors, may do best with approaches that combine both treatment components (i.e., medication management and behavioral therapy). [This quote is from the NIMH findings and is quoted on the PBS website.]

The real question posed by Dr. Saunders has to do with the results of a followup study conducted in 2007. He notes that after three years of medication there is “no demonstrable improvement in a child’s behavior.” Once again, the picture is much more complex. The NIMH press release notes that:

Initial advantages of medication management alone or in combination with behavioral treatment over purely behavioral or routine community care waned in the years after 14 months of controlled treatment ended.

This clearly states that the advantages conferred by the medication did not have a long lasting effect which is what Dr. Saunders claims. That’s one point for the doctor. There is, of course, an “however.”

However, Peter Jensen, M.D., Columbia University, and colleagues emphasized that “it would be incorrect to conclude from these results that treatment makes no difference or is not worth pursuing.”

What Dr. Saunders does not mention is that “[A]fter the 14 months of assigned treatments ended, families were free to choose from treatments available in their communities.” In other words, after the 14 month study, families could do as they please. Interestingly it was found that those who were in the behavioral treatment group began to take medication while those in the medication treatment group were likely to stop taking the medication. Therefore, there is no basis for the claim that after three years there is no improvement in a child’s behavior since the group that took the medication for 14 months is NOT the same group that is currently taking medication. So now we take away Dr. Saunders one point and he is now down to zero.⁶

Let’s reexamine the scorecard.

It is up to you if you still want to spend $39.97 for his miracle cure.

Conclusion:

For the right amount of money there is someone who is willing to sell you a cure for anything that ails you. Whether the cure works is quite another story. However, from a financial standpoint, the cure works very well for the person who is selling it.

Here are some other cures you might be interested in.

1. How to reshape your unsightly proboscis

2. How women can regain those shapely curves

1. For example: http://3stepsadd.com/7adhdtruths.html; http://sites.google.com/site/adhd3steps/adhd; http://www-add.net/3steps.php ↩
2. A WhoIs search verified that the website is owned by J Bennett Management.↩
3. Jeff’s Snarky Comment: I STILL regret the loss of my Lionel trains but I’m not sure if that particular loss is the cause of my ADHD.↩
4. Jeff’s Snarky Comment: I wonder what is meant by “close companionship”? I assume it is not pedophilia.↩
5. Jeff’s Snarky Comment: I have yet to find a website that claims to provide UNnatural cures.↩
6. You  can find an interesting overview of the 2007 and 2009 results here.↩

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