For anyone diagnosed with ADHD, the use of supplements is a necessary component to support your brain chemistry, which may be underactive or overtly stressed. Supplements can span the course from vitamins and amino acids, to herbal remedies, to homeopathic formulas.

Our brain chemistry consistently changes based on what we eat and drink, the daily pressures we encounter every day, and how we physically care for our bodies. So it’s good to know that there are nutritional ways to manage ADHD to support our brain chemistry, just as personalized strategies for daily living are keys to succeeding with ADHD.

In addition to using supplements to relieve ADHD symptoms, they also help reduce stress and inflammation, which according to the Institute for National Resources, take about one third of our potential life expectancy away. Some of the most influential supplements are Omega 3 fatty acids or fish oils, and antioxidants that wash cortisol, a byproduct of stress, out of the body.

Ensuring the quality of supplements is essential. The most resourceful book I found is Nutritional Supplements Consumer Edition, by Lyle MacWilliam, MSc, FP, which explains the why’s and how’s of using supplements and presents third-party, independent research of what’s the best in the market.

After researching many nutritional products, I now carry a high quality multi-vitamin and supplement pack from Usana, a company listed in the Nutritional Supplements Guide as one of the top three best. What I love about this pack is the flexibility to focus on what will be most beneficial based on a health assessment questionnaire on my USANA website, www.tlec.usana.com.

These supplement packs come in a crinkly-sounding shrink wrap, which put in a pocket or a purse, create a great auditory tactile strategy for remembering to take them. Due to this, and the monthly automatic shipping, I have remained at least 95% consistent in taking these.

I also carry an herbal supplement called ‘Mind Care’ from the Himalaya Herb Company, along with Synaptol, a homeopathic formula specifically devised for ADHD.

The keys to finding the best supplements is to do your research, find a system that will create at least a 95% consistency rate, and then to hold the knowledge you are becoming empowered in another new way to manage your life. And, although the degree of effect will not be a “magic cure all” because ADHD is a genetic, neurological and developmental condition, the support from supplements is highly beneficial to support the chemistry of the brain.