I live in a small, middle-class neighborhood with twenty-three houses. I recently counted thirty children who live in this community who are on medication for ADHD. One week ago, my oldest son, who is gifted but dyslexic, had twelve neighborhood friends over for dinner. As I looked around the table, all of these children, but one, had dilated pupils. After two-and-one-half months of taking vitamin A and D in cod-liver oil, my son announced, “I can read now. The letters don’t jump around on the page anymore.” He is able to focus and his handwriting has improved dramatically. In his high school, for college-bound-dyslexic students, 68 of 70 teenagers report seeing headlights with starbursts, a symptom of congenital stationary night blindness! - page 226
There’s a nutritionist in Britain, Jacqueline Stordy, Ph.D., who examined dyslexics and realized that they were night blind, and when she treated them with fish oil, the night blindness went away. A study of dyslexic children with normal IQs found the dyslexic group had a cadmium, hair-level average of 2.6 PPM, 25 times that of the control group, exceeding the maximum of the normal, acceptable range. The dyslexic group also had somewhat higher aluminum and copper levels. This could all be from a zinc deficiency! Zinc controls how much vitamin A the liver will release and influences copper and other metals through its activities in Metallothionein. - page 226