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[Young Paul]

a new discovery says that ghrelin levels affect ADHD.  Ghrelin is released when we are hungry, so eating often may help to lower levels. Ghrelin causes more impulsivity.

I also find that magnesium, calcium, D3, zinc, resveratrol, fish oil,  rooibos tea, ginkgo, cold showers.

Gym, Sleep, Sunshine, avoid screens/tv/laptops/phones,  and avoid videogames/cartoons

 

Play a lot of chess, brain training.

 

People often talk about dopamine/serotonin but that's not really the case. In fact most ADHD have plenty of dopamine, but the "door" is closed, it's not getting released, so using stimulants to mimick dopamine is not helpful in the end. Eating broad beans (fava) is also useless (even though they contain very high amounts of l-dopa)

 

three foods that seem to help are eggs,  peanuts,  blueberries, and plenty of fish, meat protein

 

and to avoid all cereals (glyphosate pesticide) gluten, milk,  and artificial colours/additives, alcohol. Nicotine seems to make everything very bad/much worse.

 

[Mind]

Some good options for managing ADHD. Thanks for sharing.

 

Whatever you can do to avoid taking the pharma-drugs - do it.

[Young Paul]

366 million cases of Adhd worldwide while bigpharma are making huge profits. This enormous acceleration cant be just genetic, and I blame pesticides, food additives, vaccines. It seems like Adhd/ADD/ODD are very intolerant to processed foods.

A new study shows the histamine connection.
Children and adults with ADHD may have lower DAO enzyme activity, leading to histamine accumulation.
Dr. Hilario Blasco-Fontecilla study shows that Adhd have 77% reduction of the activity of the DAO enzyme.
DAO supplements are readily available.
Since histamine is largely metabolized in the gut, probiotics, digestive enzymes, and a balanced microbiome may be able to help.
Best prebiotics are artichokes leeks onions garlic and avoiding sugars.
I have always suspected leaky gut and high pyrolines to be guilty. The proposed mechanisms for pyrrole formation and accumulation in the body include: intake from dietary sources, heme breakdown, and/or altered heme biosynthesis. All of these most likely occur with the aid of gut flora. Therefore, increases in pyrrole levels and excretion may occur as a result of stress-induced changes in intestinal permeability, or leaky gut, which in turn leads to increased pyrrole absorption.

[JMorgan]

In fact most ADHD have plenty of dopamine, but the "door" is closed, it's not getting released, so using stimulants to mimick dopamine is not helpful in the end.

 

 

Please elaborate. What is happening on a biological level and what are some ways to counteract this?

[Young Paul]

studies have shown that they may be low in dopamine but high in something called dopamine transporters. That's because their low dopamine may actually result from having too many of the transporters that take dopamine out of their brain cells.

[Young Paul]

if adhd had low dopamine then they could be treated as similar to parkinsons and take a pill such as levadopa..but its not the case, even though big pharma tries to blame dopamine for adhd to push their addictive drugs ( amphetamine/speed) its far more complicated. Its not easy to count levels of dopamine anyway. There maybe many factors such as genes, measles vaccine, rhesus negative, traumas, lack of vitamin D, or vit A or magnesium, stress, etc