Exercise benefits

Exercise is one of the most important and least expensive components of the therapeutic regiment in treating ADD/ADHD. Yet it is the most neglected adjunct in helping the patient maximized their assortment of therapeutic choices.

The physiological importance and benefits of exercise is well known and well documented throughout the medical literature. Exercises increase perfusion to functional organs.

As the organs of the body receive increase blood flow (perfusion), more nutrients are brought to the working organs. Simultaneously, waste by-products are removed at the cellular level. Thereby, allowing the organs to function at a higher efficiency.

Why don’t the medical professions emphasize exercise?

One simple implication would be that of economics. There’s very little financial incentive (for pharmaceutical companies that manufactures Ritalin) to implement an exercise program. There’s no economic bottom line to promote exercise.

On the contrary, when physician write prescriptions (of Ritalin), the pharmacy fills it, the patient takes it, the patient gets the anticipated outcome, and the pharmaceutical manufactures makes profit.

Total blame is not on the pharmaceutical company. The patient must take some imitative and responsibilities for his or her care. We are being led to a “little patient participation is necessary” paradigm within the medical practice. Unfortunately, this is the standard of care in today’s medical communities.

Exercise not only is a good for ADD/ADHD people, but can improve a whole host of other illnesses.

Next week I will discuss how to involve daily exercise routine into our daily schedule without breaking a sweat (an oxymoron!).