Navigating The Pillars of ADHD 🧠

17 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, the speaker outlines the second of three ADHD support pillars—physical support. He emphasizes four key lifestyle components: nutrition (more vegetables, less sugar and alcohol), sleep (aiming for 8–9 hours, especially crucial for individuals with low executive function who typically get only 5–6 hours), exercise, and meditation. He connects these practices to the neurobiological profile of ADHD, noting that people with ADHD often have reduced executive function, working memory, dopamine, and serotonin. By bolstering these brain chemicals and cognitive capacities through diet, rest, movement, and mindfulness, individuals can experience a markedly positive impact on daily functioning.

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So there's 3 pillars of ADHD support. And today we're going to look at the second one, which is physical. And the aspects of physical support are the things that we hear about and we've read about over and over and over. Food, which means eat more vegetables and less sugar, less alcohol. Sleep, making sure that you get 8 or 9 hours a night. One thing with sleep to think about is when we wake up with our low executive function, we're somebody who gets 5 or 6 hours of sleep every night. So for us, it's even more important. That we're getting those 8 or 9 hours because it's going to hit us doubly hard. And, you know, exercise we know is good for your body. It's good for your brain. Meditation. These are things that are really important for everyone because these are brain boosters. What we're dealing with with the ADHD is low executive function, low working memory, low dopamine, low serotonin, things that are low in our brains. We have an exponentially great response to these that really support us and help us in our lives.