Dr. LeGrand — This $20 Remedy Beats Every ADHD Supplement & Medication
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This remedy, by far, has been the biggest game changer for my ADHD and for hundreds of my ADHD patients. I would say this one definitely out-beats any other kind of ADHD supplement out there, and I’d say in a lot of ways also out-performs a lot of different ADHD medications. And here’s the reason why, because when it comes to ADHD medications, they are just only stimulating dopamine. And so, when you are just stimulating dopamine, that becomes a problem over time. Why? Because dopamine eventually doesn’t produce enough. And usually the problem is not that we need to stimulate dopamine, it’s because our body’s not producing enough dopamine, and so it’s the things that help make dopamine that becomes the big issue for a lot of people with ADHD. But it’s not only that, in fact, when I was first trying to discover this, even at a very young age in my college years, I had to go to a bunch of different other functional medicine doctors to figure out why the ADHD medication was not consistent, why I was still struggling in school and not able to focus and be motivated or driven, and how the different issues a lot of people with ADHD suffer with. It wasn’t until I had a doctor that ran specific tests to see, “Okay, it isn’t just dopamine, there’s other things that also are rely on helping you have motivation and drive.” And that was phenylethylamine, where they were testing these things, and now as something that I use all the time and test for to see, “Okay, is this the problem? Is it a phenylethylamine problem? And how can we tackle both phenylethylamine and also dopamine at the same time? Because both of these are important when it comes to motivation and drive.” And so, this remedy I’m referring to is an amino acid that is so critical that can both support and build dopamine and phenylethylamine at the same time. What I’m referring to is phenylalanine. Now, phenylalanine helps make phenylethylamine. It also helps make tyrosine, which then tyrosine helps make L-dopa, which then L-dopa helps make dopamine. And so, this remedy specifically is responsible for helping most of my patients. In fact, about 90% of the people that I do run these tests for need this support. So, how do you use it effectively? And there’s also a wrong way of using this, and this is where people get this messed up all the time when they’re trying to use something like phenylalanine to help with their ADHD. Now, the very first thing that you have to do is you do need to test for things like phenylethylamine to see if it’s low, and also to see if do you really have low dopamine levels to begin with? Because if you don’t, phenylalanine is not going to solve the problem. It actually can make things worse, especially when we see it too high and too elevated. If this is too high and also dopamine levels are too high, then it can make the situation even worse. But when it’s deficient, then we want to focus on mega-dosing. This is where people get this wrong is they’ll try a supplement and they’ll just usually stick with just the bottle recommended, which is fine. It’s usually a good starting point. In fact, when you are starting with phenylalanine, you want to be doing about 250 mg per day. Now, that is very like the very safest form that you can use is just doing 250 mg a day. But that is just to get started. Generally, usually when you’re deficient in this, this is when you want to do about 500 mg per day. And you wait about a week to see, “Okay, is it making differences? Am I starting to see some more better focus, motivation, and drive?” The thing you have to be careful here, and this is where people make this mistake, is that they will go too high and then they’ll get overstimulated, where they’ll feel more where dopamine levels are starting to go a little too high, phenylethylamine levels are going too high, and you feel a little bit more agitated, irritated, and this is not what we want to have this happen. So, this is why it’s good to kind of start slow where
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