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ADHD Medication Axiom: Burn Rate Assessments are Required

Let me make this easy: If you don't know your burn rate, your doc will have significant problems adjusting ADHD Medications. Period.

Your burn rate must be understood and determined by you from the outset, and tweaked during the adjustment of medications for any person at any age. Unconscious medication adjustment, without knowing these details, will provide a mercurial moving target, nearly impossible to correct.

Predictably always beats speculation.

I have been writing about the burn rate, the Therapeutic Window, and the Signature Individuality of biological-metabolic rates for more than two years, lecturing about it for more than 13 years.  This Thursday [3-5], tomorrow [USA]  at 4 PM EST, I will be talking about it on CorePsych Radio: Free

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Tune in here for the details – The handout, the link for the live internet program, and the times: CorePsych Radio

For the Easy Handout: Download PDF Program Notes #3: Meds, Mastery and Metabolic Burn Rates

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Talk soon,

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3 Comments

  1. Joseph Sadlon says:
    March 31, 2009 at 12:56 AM

    How timely a topic,

    I am a TBI survivor (11/05) in town to start what I hope will be my dream job at the USPTO. I recently started trying my luck with Adderall, after a Friday morning Neurosurgeon appointment in Reston, and I can say that my chemicals were very much out of whack for a week. Yikes! Luckily the weather is getting to where I can go have a run and burn off some of that extra “whatever it is” chemical that builds up.

    Doctors should prescribe a strict regimen of exercise and healthy eating to go with any dosage of Adderall.

    • Dr Charles Parker says:
      March 31, 2009 at 11:35 AM

      Joseph
      Totally agree on the exercise, and have posted a review of Spark here in a previous note – a book on the essential findings regarding brain health and exercise.

      Without going into the details: my take on TBI is that the meds are often given in too high a dose to start, encouraging the feeling that the meds are wrong – when it isn’t the med itself, but the dose of the meds. If you are feeling extra, then the dose is very likely too high, and could be dropped in 1/2 by splitting the contents of the Adderall cap.

      Am doing an internal study here at CorePsych on TBI and neurotransmitter precursors, and preliminarily expect some very positive findings as we correct the unseen brain challenges post trauma.
      Tnx
      cp

  2. drcharlesparker (drcharlesparker) says:
    December 31, 1969 at 11:59 PM

    New blog post: Your Signature Burn Rate: ADHD Medication Precision – CorePsych Radio 3 http://tinyurl.com/c9nxac