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If you have ADD (attention deficit disorder), your cats are asleep. Brain images of people with ADD show very little activity in cat-rich areas of the brain. You should be able to wake those cats up with tyrosine supplements, accompanied by a radical diet cleanup (no sugar, flour, or allergy foods) and the other special supplements I recommend in this chapter, along with the basics from chapter 10. Many of our ADD clients have come to us with low adrenal and thyroid functions that needed extra help too. Remember that the cats can be aroused or put to sleep by your adrenal glands as well as by your thyroid gland and your brain. See chapter 5, “All Stressed Out,” if you are easily or excessively stressed, a sure sign of weakened adrenals.

Both ADD specialist Dr. Daniel Amen, author of Healing ADD, and Dr. Eric Braverman, author of The Healing Nutrients Within, advocate combining cat-stimulating prescription drugs with tyrosine as a second step in ADD treatment, if the aminos alone aren’t enough. If you seem to really need stimulants like coffee, phentermine, or Ritalin, try them with tyrosine to enhance their effectiveness and protect yourself from drug-induced cat depletion.