My son is thirteen and has a mild form of ADD. I want to try alternative products before trying prescription meds.

I am interested in (Attend) but after doing so much research I am skeptical bout trying anything. I one thing that i keep running across for safety is the processing. Does this product have the usp approval seal?

On mind (one) reference (sic) i did a check on this product and this site only stated they do (not) recommend any supplement that does not disclose all of the ingredients. What ingredients are in this product that is not listed on the site? This is the supplement that i am the most interested in but now i am curious as to the ingredients?

Thanks for writing. I think I have the answers to your questions for you.

First, if your son just has a “mild form of ADD” I would recommend that you try either
our recommended eating program or an ADD diet that is similar. Our eating program can be
found at http://newideas.net/adhd/adhd-diet Sometimes people with “mild” ADHD can be
successfully treated with higher protein, lower carbohydrate diets, and a bit of caffeine
once in a while.

If an eating program does not do enough, then add to the eating program a product like Attend. Not knowing what “type” of ADD your son has, I cannot recommend whether he only needs Attend, or if he would also need a related product like Extress, Memorin, or Deprex. Please see our discussion on the different types of ADHD at
http://newideas.net/adhd/different-types-adhd

You asked about the ingredients in Attend – if they are all listed on my website? I believe that they are all listed, but I may have overlooked one or two on my website. But I know that they are all listed at the VAXA site for you to see if you’d like to.

Here are web pages with the ingredients to Attend for you to visit:

http://newideas.net/adhd/attend-alternative/attend-formula
http://newideas.net/table.htm
http://www.vaxa.com/26462/index.cfm?page=636.cfm and then click on the “List
Ingredients” button on the middle of the page.

Your question regarding the safety in processing is an excellent question too. Here is
the information from the VAXA web site on manufacturing standards. It can be found online
at http://www.vaxa.com/manufacturing-standards.cfm For convenience, I have copied it below.

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The Växa top 1% Manufacturing Standard

There Are 1037 Nutritional Manufacturing Facilities in The U.S….

One Passed Our Rigorous 7 Step Examination

Less than ½ of 1% of the nutritional manufacturing facilities in the country match the
exacting standards followed in the Växa facility. Our products are manufactured in a lab
that follows standards beyond those suggested under Good Manufacturing Procedure (GMP)
guidelines.

Clinical Lab Conditions:

No Contamination The manufacturing lab is a clinical environment with all stainless steel
construction. To clean the lab we utilize UV sterilization, carbon filtration, reverse
osmosis, ozone injection, mix bed de-ionization and boiler kettle our own water. This
procedure is above kosher requirements.

Precise Environmental Standards:

No Contamination Each room has its own air handler that completely exchanges the air 50
times per hour. Pure, clean air is a critical element in manufacturing a pure product.
There are so many contaminants in the air that a state of the art air scrubbing system is
a necessity. Many facilities just have a dust handler and rely on the air conditioning
system to fight to replace the air. You might as well make the product in the parking
lot. The temperature is at a constant 71 degrees and the humidity is less than 35%.

Particle Sizing Means Greater Absorbency:

Every Capsule Has the Same Ingredient Mix The key element of our manufacturing process is
particle sizing. Simply put, all of the elements come in different particle sizes.
Picture BBs, ping-pong balls, golfballs, baseballs, softballs, and basketballs. Improper
mixing yields batches that have all of the basketballs balls at the top and the BBs at
the bottom. This would mean that each capsule has a different mix of ingredients (those
early in the loading process - too many basketballs). We use cold process pulverization
to take all particles to the same size - everything is a BB. Smaller particle size means
that the body assimilates the elements more readily.

Blending Process Reduces Oxidation:

Capsules Have Longer Lasting Potency The product is weighed and blended in a static and
gravity free environment. This incorporates 100% batch involvement in the mixing process
with no dead spots. While in the blending process, the ambient air has been removed and
replaced with stable nitrogen, which is heavier than air and reduces oxidation and
process contamination. The bulk material is weight validated to assure batch size
compliance, then formulation and quality control verified for batch uniformity. The lab
signs off on weight sheets to make sure that everything that was supposed to go in went
in.

Capsules are Loaded One at A Time In the encapsulation department, pharmaceutical
standard, GMP certified machines employ the dose tamping method. Powder goes into the
machine then is tamped with pins into the capsule to the milligram of accuracy. This
process is done one capsule at a time. During this process, at 5- minute intervals, a
person will test to validate quantities. The capsules are polished, dust is removed, and
they are hand inspected to see that they are not dented, scratched, or broken. The
finished product is analyzed using high-pressure liquid chromatography, which creates a
quantitative analysis of a compound. Then a mass spectrometer is used to create a
qualitative analysis. This creates the blue print that all future capsules must match.

Every Capsule We Make is Within a 1% Weight Tolerance:

No Short Cuts At the end of the production process, checks are run to insure that the
product weighs what it should. Industry standards allow +/- 5% failure tolerances. We
insist on a tolerance of +/- 1%. Many manufacturers cut corners here. It is in their
interest to do so as 5% less material in each capsule adds up to serious costs saved over
time.

Acceptable Contamination Levels are 1/10th of Industry Standards

Finally, a macro-biological test is done to make sure that the lab did not contaminate
the product.

Växa's standards are 1,000% higher than what the industry allows.

In the end, each batch comes with a certificate of analysis and has a National Drug
Control number. Once it is manufactured and packaged, the product is then tested by lot
to ensure quality control, stability, consistency, weight, and content. Time series and
dating analysis are performed twice on all lots, first at the lab and then when received
as a finished product by Växa. Strict controls of inventory dating and ongoing computer
evaluations are performed daily, while total rechecks of inventory are performed each
month.
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I hope this all helps in your research on Attend. Let me know if you have any other
questions.

Thanks

Doug Cowan