Interesting news in the media this week  about Fruit flies and ADHD / ADD

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-158612.html

So what are the fruit flies telling us about behaviour problems today?

Well to sum it all up in one word – Dopamine, part of the ongoing debate over ADHD.

Our brains pass information in mapped pathways via brain hormones that do special jobs – the dopamine job for example is involved with rewards. Dopamine is commonly associated with the pleasure system of the brain, providing feelings of enjoyment encouraging us to do certain things in certain ways. When the DNA is altered in receptors which are the little antennae that pick up on this chemical transmission, subtle changes take place which means the dopamine cannot do its job properly anymore. This creates certain symptoms that can be associated with ADHD. For example people can have difficulty concentrating, many have impulsive behaviours and take  risks, seeming to have no fear factor and also  become addicted to these feelings.

This is where a misunderstanding of the symptoms can cause problems because if there is something else causing these emotional and behavioural responses then  drugs like Ritalin that work like cocaine  can cause problems by inappropriately causing imbalance in these delicate brain chemical levels.

So what do the fruit flies have to do with all this?  One of those dopamine receptors is linked with waking up . We have all had that strange feeling when we wake up the morning in that in between place between sleep and the wakening world…  confusion and disorientation. Well scientific research into the fruit flies has compared this kind of disorientation with  the response we experience to  changes in our environment and the effect this can have on us particularly after they have had their DNA  changed.

Dopamine receptors had the DNA or protein base changed, this creates hypersensitive behaviour to changes in the environment. Experiments on the fruit flies blowing puffs of air into their cage  causes them to become very hyperactive and sensitive to the stimulus, in much the same way as hyperactive children behave.

Does ADHD cause the  hypersensitive dopamine reaction OR does the hypersensitive dopamine reaction cause the ADHD?

Is it a chicken or an egg we are looking at here?

HET addresses all of this naturally, by putting in natural homeopathic coded messages into the DNA of what it should look like and be doing? What if we can do this in a safe way with no side effects and then support the new messages with good nutrition for the cells to repair and heal with? And then eliminate toxins like artificial sweeteners which are known to cause DNA damage and deterioration?

After 40 years no one can really explain how Ritalin works or what really causes ADHD and yet we are still prepared to load this into high percentages of children who experience hypersensitive behaviours to their environments

What are fruit flies telling us about natural ways forward?

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