I had some recent experiences involving my son that I would like to share with you all. I recently took my son to a clinic called the Pfeiffer Treatment Center. It's a clinic that specializes in the treatment of most mental illness, autism, and ADHD with vitamin and nutrient therapy. They've been doing it for about 30 years and boast very high success rates. My son has ADHD the inattentive type. It's pretty severe and while he's on Ritalin (and we have had great success with it) he also continues to have some problems. He remains forgetful and still struggles a little in school.
The clinic did a gamut of blood work and also tested his urine. They were very thorough. The results showed the following: elevated copper, zinc deficiency, low histamine, pyrrole disorder, and a suboptimal level of vitamin D.
Pyrrole disorder (pyroluria) is characterized by an excess of kryptopyrrole molecules. Kryptopyrole is a byproduct of hemoglobin synthesis. It binds with Vitamin B6 and with available zinc, thus causing a depletion of both. Zinc and B6 are essential in supporting neurotransmitters.
It's not often recognized by the traditional medical community. But it is also not argued. They just choose to ignore it. I don't think they can argue it, since there is a specific lab test to diagnose it. I guess there's no money in supplements?
. Many people might be getting missed who have this diagnosis. People usually get better if following a good treatment protocol of specific vitamins. The lab test this clinic uses is a urine test. Only 5% of the population will test with higher than normal kryptopyrroles, but up to 40% of alcoholics will test positive for pyroluria. One of the main symptoms of this disorder is a lifetime of severe and pervasive anxiety. Many alcoholics self medicate this anxiety with booze. Other disorders can be present too (ADHD or even schizophrenia).
My son's kryptopyrrole levels were quite high, and it is a genetic disorder, so I am quite certain where it came from. I plan to be seen at the clinic myself in the near future. In the meantime, I have upped my B6 and zinc. They had me do a lengthy health questionaire, in which part of it was conditions in the family tree. I could see right down the line in my family the people who likely had it. They all turned into alcoholics.
They've given me a print out of exactly what they recommend him to take. They will compound his supplements in their pharmacy (if I so choose. I could do it on my own as well.) There will be an am and pm formula along with some other supplements they think he should take separately. It's quite a list, so I'm grateful they make it in one pill. He could never swallow all of these things separately.
They say it can take up to 3-4 months to see results of this vitamin therapy, some say even up to a year for full effectiveness depending on how bad ones deficiencies are. I am hopeful I'll be able to go down on his Ritalin eventually, or even stop it altogether when we get his imbalances corrected (they will continue to measure his levels as he will be taking a lot of zinc.) They've also recommended a gluten free/casein free diet, and we are well on our way there. Casein is out and he's pretty much off gluten now too (we all are!).
I just thought I would share our experience. Just in case it could help someone else.
Redhead
The clinic did a gamut of blood work and also tested his urine. They were very thorough. The results showed the following: elevated copper, zinc deficiency, low histamine, pyrrole disorder, and a suboptimal level of vitamin D.
Pyrrole disorder (pyroluria) is characterized by an excess of kryptopyrrole molecules. Kryptopyrole is a byproduct of hemoglobin synthesis. It binds with Vitamin B6 and with available zinc, thus causing a depletion of both. Zinc and B6 are essential in supporting neurotransmitters.
It's not often recognized by the traditional medical community. But it is also not argued. They just choose to ignore it. I don't think they can argue it, since there is a specific lab test to diagnose it. I guess there's no money in supplements?
. Many people might be getting missed who have this diagnosis. People usually get better if following a good treatment protocol of specific vitamins. The lab test this clinic uses is a urine test. Only 5% of the population will test with higher than normal kryptopyrroles, but up to 40% of alcoholics will test positive for pyroluria. One of the main symptoms of this disorder is a lifetime of severe and pervasive anxiety. Many alcoholics self medicate this anxiety with booze. Other disorders can be present too (ADHD or even schizophrenia).My son's kryptopyrrole levels were quite high, and it is a genetic disorder, so I am quite certain where it came from. I plan to be seen at the clinic myself in the near future. In the meantime, I have upped my B6 and zinc. They had me do a lengthy health questionaire, in which part of it was conditions in the family tree. I could see right down the line in my family the people who likely had it. They all turned into alcoholics.
They've given me a print out of exactly what they recommend him to take. They will compound his supplements in their pharmacy (if I so choose. I could do it on my own as well.) There will be an am and pm formula along with some other supplements they think he should take separately. It's quite a list, so I'm grateful they make it in one pill. He could never swallow all of these things separately.
They say it can take up to 3-4 months to see results of this vitamin therapy, some say even up to a year for full effectiveness depending on how bad ones deficiencies are. I am hopeful I'll be able to go down on his Ritalin eventually, or even stop it altogether when we get his imbalances corrected (they will continue to measure his levels as he will be taking a lot of zinc.) They've also recommended a gluten free/casein free diet, and we are well on our way there. Casein is out and he's pretty much off gluten now too (we all are!).
I just thought I would share our experience. Just in case it could help someone else.
Redhead
). Sometimes he doesn't want to swallow them. He'd already been on some of these supplements (what they call their primer-it's lower doses of zinc and B6 and a few other things, the GABA, and the Evening Primrose Oil. We can tell a difference in his behavior after the last 6 weeks or so. 
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