She also illustrates how giving our brains the essential amino acids and nutrients it needs can help us solve these problems without the potentially harmful side effects of prescription drugs. For all our abundance, ours is an age of unprecedented stress, strain, headaches, and digestive problems.
Information overload causes many stress-related illnesses.
Today we know that our thoughts and emotions, both normal and disturbed, are the results of chemical process going on within the brain. Chemical alteration of the brain is not something new in our history. People with ADD are believed to have a defective gene that makes it difficult for neurons to respond to dopamine, the neurotransmitter that is involved in feelings of pleasure and the regulation of attention. The immediate cause of ADD is that people are afflicted with a defective filtering system. In other words, their brain does not block out irrelevant stimuli.