Blood type & ADHD

I have often wanted to ask if kids on this board were carboholics because my ADD child is. I swear he could live on bread-give the kid rolls and hes in heaven

Interesting.

I am O, but dad isnt. If O is dominant, he would be O

My son too could live on carbs. This woman I spoke with said that the way people process carobs and sugars differ. Proteins are better early in the day anyway. And people with O type blood need more protein. A couple of books on ADD do mention this only briefly. I am going to give this a try for 30 days and report back.

There was a post about this idea on another site I go on. I was skeptical about the idea because it was stated by the ‘authority’ (a naturopath or something) that O blood types have adhd, the problem with that is many replies came back with other blood types but still having adhd. An example in my case is, out of 4 people in my family (me,dad, 2 kids), 3 of us have different types from each other and all with adhd ( 2 a+, 1 a-, 1 b+). No O among us.

As far as the bread thing, my older son goes on jags where he will eat a whole loaf of bread, 2 or 3 pieces at a time. I too go for the carbs. I am not a sweet eater but I like bread and pasta a lot. We are both inattentive adhd.

I did read that one mom changed her son’s breakfast to coffee and eggs in the morning and her son seemed to do better. I guess a little stim. push and some protein in the a.m. I also remember making sure my kids got a protein snack after school, usually a cheese stick and juice. I don’t remember if the doc suggested it or if I read it in Driven to Distraction.

Had a long 4day weekend in Paris, can’t type this morning. My name is not a,yf .
Amy

I have Dr. Amen’s book “Healing ADD” and he discusses a high protein diet as part of a “cure” for ADD. My son too has been a carbo kid and I have had him eating some protein for breakfast along with a vitamin. Hard to say about effects since we did Interactive Metronome about the same time as I changed his diet. But he is def. doing much better this year and I think the protein makes a lot of sense.

Now I have never heard anything about blood type…..

Beth

marycas wrote:

> I am O, but dad isnt. If O is dominant, he would be O

no, “0” is recesive, so with the other parent being different he cannot be “0”

Yes, we saw major differences post IM. He is doing so much better in school in general this year. We had a neurologist diagnose him with ADD-inattentive this summer and had planned a trial of medication after school had been in session for a few weeks (to get a base line). I had both his regular and resource teacher fill out ADHD forms. The difference from last year is just astounding and the resource teacher is the same teacher.

We also contineud doing Neuronet therapy so again a bit hard to attribute it all to one thing. But IM helped us break through some barriers we had hit with Neuronet therapy.

One clear affect of IM is improvement in stamina in writing. We did a pre and post test with this and IM. My son used to just wear out after a couple sentences. Now he is keeping up with regular work in class without any real problems. I had taught him to key board this summer but it has proved to be unnecessary.

Beth