Giving children drugs to treat ADHD? How did we get here?

Have you ever wondered about the increase of diagnoses of ADD/ADHD among children? More concerning…the fact that children as young as 7(!!!) are being medicated with drugs which are effectively Street Legal Meth (Methamphetamine)? Children’s brains are still developing at that age! They’re harmful enough to adult brains. If you’ve ever taken these medications, you’ll know how disruptive and harmful they are to the brain. I used to really struggle with focus and I’ve tried them -  they’re horrible. My mind goes crazy, and my hands and fingers go jittery. Street Legal Meth. Let that sink in for a moment.

     Sometimes we need to witness absurdity like this – which is representative of our medical system  - to wake us up to what is happening around us. For me, this screams corruption. Can you see it? Can you sense it? We must shine a light on what doesn’t work (Symptom-masking medications used in Western Medicine) to create change. These drugs do not help children. They cause harm. They are not addressing the root cause. Children must not be medicated like this -  and that includes brain-altering antidepressants, which are also a growing concern.

     We must be aware that psychiatrists and doctors and oncologists (and most conventionally-trained medical professionals) are educated according to an outdated and somewhat corrupt medical system that dates back to something monumental that happened 108 years ago.

     Conventional training still given to American and most Western doctors goes back to 1910 when Carnegie And Rockefeller founded the C&F Foundation and commissioned The Flexner Report of 1910. In short, it gave them power to influence the course material taught to doctors. They poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the AMA (American Medical Association) and medical schools throughout the US to steer and influence the course material taught to doctors to make it about prescription drugs – which  that they were manufacturing.

     Prior to The Flexner Report of 1910, and in the late 1800s and early 1900s there was an assortment of natural approaches to medicine. Within 40 years all schools teaching natural medicine were shut down. If a doctor graduated without a Flexner-approved degree, he or she would not be able to get a job anywhere, and it has remained the same ever since. The term “Quackery” was introduced and chiropractors and such were prosecuted for practicing this made up thing.

     That is probably hard to hear if you’re brand new to this knowledge. Isn’t it powerful to know this, though?

     We must know this truth to protect our children  – and us. This is why we live in a disease and symptoms maintenance Western world and not one of healing and self-empowerment in healing-self. It’s why this “war on cancer” is getting completely out of control - the entire pharmaceutical industry is addressing the symptoms of cancer, and not why it develops in the first place.

     Most conventional medical professionals are not trained to help the body to heal. They are not trained in nutrition. They are not trained to determine and reverse the root cause. It’s why dermatologists have no idea about the role of gut health in maintaining healthy skin. They’re skin doctors and they don’t know this basic fact. Gut health is everything.

     Whilst drugs are effective in emergencies (no doubt), they are ineffective in the treatment of common illness and chronic disease. Including ADD/ADHD. They may appear to be working but what they are doing is masking symptoms. They ignore the root causes and allow it to worsen into something more serious down the road. They cause further harm in the body and all come with side effects. Bar none. They are all toxic to the liver.

     Whilst it may sound like I am not giving well deserved respect to medical professionals, I’d like to switch gears and honour them for who they are. I’ve no doubt that they’re awesome people aiming to do good in the world with solid intentions. I have friends who are doctors and friends of my family who are doctors and I love them all. And I also know they are really between a rock and a hard place; if they do not follow protocol, they stand to lose their license. I’ve met people to whom this has happened.

And imagine spending 4 – 6 years at medical school and however many years in your career, to find out your training is outdated and based on corruption.

     Having said all this, I do think it’s necessary that they learn the history of their training and to stop medicating children. We need to understand why children demonstrate the symptoms that have been labelled ADD/ADHD  – as the French are doing in an absorbing recent article I read called “Why Children in France Don’t Have ADHD”.

     There is a shift happening slowly in which conventionally trained doctors are getting retrained in Functional Medicine or Naturopathic Medicine or similar. These disciplines help them reach the root cause and to empower individuals to heal themselves.

     I wholeheartedly feel that we, as the consumer, MUST be aware of their current training. Only then can we take our power back and take it upon ourselves to heal our own bodies. Our bodies are designed to heal. We were born healing. They are immensely powerful self-healing machines. Science has now proven that every organ, every tissue and every part of the human body is designed to heal itself -  given the right environment. It’s just up to us to create the right environment within, to allow the body to do wha it is ultimately designed to do.

     Let’s put an end to this absurdity and cruelty to children.

Neil Cannon

(The author is the man behind the bestselling book The Vitality Secret, a podcast host, health coach, and creator of an award-winning online program to help people reverse inflammatory conditions)