October 6, 2014
by Jamie Heidel
(Health Secrets) Millions of children are placed on psychotropic drugs to “correct” their behavior with little regard to how their ADHD, depression, anxiety, etc. might have developed in the first place. Instead of looking for a root cause, these children are simply doped up to be less of a disruption. With more reports of school shootings being linked to children taking psychotropic drugs or weaning off of them, a more critical-thinking approach is needed…and fast.
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Five Overlooked Causes of Child Behavior Problems
1. Malnutrition
Even if your child is fed three meals a day plus snacks, he may still be severely malnourished. This can be caused by several factors:
Poor Diet
Most parents who feed their children fast food, canned food, microwavable meals, and sugary drinks are completely unaware of negative health effects associated with them. They were served these foods as children and are simply continuing with the status quo.
Food additives such as aspartame, MSG, and certain food dyes have all been shown to be neurotoxic to both children and adults. The insidious brain cell destruction caused by these additives can lead to bad behavior.
Nutritional Deficiencies
Nutritional deficiencies often occur as the result of a poor diet and/or malabsorption of nutrients due to a digestive disorder such as celiac or crohn’s disease. The most common deficiencies associated with child behavior problems are vitamin D3, magnesium, zinc, vitamin E, and omega 3 fatty acids.
Gluten Intolerance
Gluten sensitivity is a real condition often overlooked as a source of behavior problems in children. If it’s not full-blown, diagnosable celiac disease, many physicians pass it over as the culprit. In his book, “Grain Brain”, Dr. David Perlmutter outlines the devastating effects gluten can have on your child’s developing nervous system (even if digestive problems are absent).
2. Bullying
Is your child being bullied at school? She may be too embarrassed to tell you. According to studies, even occasional verbal abuse from peers may cause significant neurocognitive damage that lasts well into adulthood.
Those who reported being bullied in their younger years had observable abnormalities in a part of their brains called the corpus callosum, a thick bundle of fibers connecting the right and left hemispheres of the brain. When this area is damaged, it creates difficulty with visual processing, memory formation and retention, social function, and sleep.
Furthermore, the high stress of bullying causes a malfunction in cortisol production. In boys, this stress hormone seems to be over-produced and in girls, there is a reduction. In either instance, this results in withdrawn, anti-social, or violent behavior depending on individual temperament and circumstance.
3. Misophonia