Today, psychiatrist Richard Brown shows us how to use his top four natural therapies for ADHD.

Welcome to the Carlet Psychiatry Podcast, keeping psychiatry honest since 2003.

I'm Chris Aiken, the editor-in-chief of the Carlat Psychiatry Report.

And I'm Kelly Newsom, a psychiatric

MP and a dedicated reader of every issue. Stimulants are first line for ADHD. But as we

learned in our last podcast, around half of people with ADHD have other cognitive problems

that get in the way of full recovery.

Problems like low working memory, slow processing speed, and dyslexia.

Richard Brown has spent 45 years in research and practice trying to understand those problems.

And today, he talks about natural therapies that improve ADHD and these associated problems.

ADHD has many causes on child abuse and neglect, environmental, toxins, etc.

It's not just a genetic disorder.

Do you think any of the varied causes speak to particular CAM treatments that you use for ADHD?

In our book, we summarize a lot of the data on, like certain minerals and vitamins,

and there's much more interest in that in other countries, like in Great Britain, and they're teen offenders.

They supplement them with B vitamins and minerals and fish oils, and it reduces their

aggression and improves their attention.

There's some data from the U.S. on that, too.

I would say certainly Pichnogonal.

So Pichnodginal is a patented extract of the French Maritime Pine Bark Tree.

It's very high in polyphenols.

It works in children.

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