Nutritional Supplements for Attention and Concentration
by Jeff Bradstreet, MD, FAAFP Even as adults, all of us can recall a child from our long ago school days who simply could not pay attention and disrupted the whole class. Maybe this kid was the class clown, or the kid who just couldn’t sit still, or the “Chatty Cathy,” or the constant daydreamer, or even the school bully. Whatever the case, this child often disrupted the whole class’s learning process because of his or her inability to focus and concentrate on school tasks. Looking back at these “problem children,” experts realize that many of them probably had the disorder called attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Chronic hyperactivity and distractibility is frustrating for anyone affected by this behavior. The individuals touched by ADHD include not only the affected...