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Magnesium and vitamin B6 combination mitigates ADHD
Study
On top of this, the methodology used doesn't win any prizes either. To start with, the researchers didn't have a control group that was given a placebo, and it's not clear exactly how the researchers measured the reported change in behaviour of the ADHD children.
Whatever.
The researchers gave 40 children, average age 6, 6 mg magnesium and 0.6 mg vitamin B6 per kg bodyweight every day for a minimum of eight weeks. The idea behind the supplementation is the theory that ADHD is the result of oversensitive receptors for – or too high production of – the neurotransmitter N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) in the brain. NMDA activates brain cells, and makes the more sensitive to other neurotransmitters, but in too high concentrations can kill brain cells.
Results
The researchers believe that the cells of people with ADHA take up magnesium less easily than the cells of healthy people. To test this theory the researchers measured the concentration of magnesium ions [Mg2+] in the red blood cells of healthy children [Controls] and in the ADHD children that they studied.
The figure below shows that the concentration of magnesium in the cells of the ADHD children before supplementation [ADHD/Before] was indeed lower than in the cells of the healthy children, and that the supplementation increased the concentration [ADHD/After].
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