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> Sorry to say, that is absolute bollocks. Prove it. There is no scientific data that would establish a link between sugar intake and worsening symptoms of ADH
by seba_dos1 4y ago
> Sorry to say, that is absolute bollocks.
Prove it. There is no scientific data that would establish a link between sugar intake and worsening symptoms of ADHD. Systematic review of ADHD-related studies[0] concluded that the current evidence is weak and that what's there may very well describe correlation instead of causation, or even inverse causation.
> Please provide some sources because your comment goes against all professional and scientific advice.
You're commenting under a website that's literally all about one of such sources[1]. I even quoted it in my previous comment already - that wasn't my idea, that was my reaction to actual scientific data that was, for some reason, being described as "surprising".
> the professional advice from my psychiatrist is to stay as far away from sugar as possible
As I've already noted earlier, it's a good advice - just not because consuming sugar makes ADHD worse.
> Personally, as a diagnosed ADHD sufferer, the lower the amount of carbs I ingest, the better my executive centre functions.
That's perfectly possible, for the same reason why stimulant-based treatment works for some people with ADHD and does the opposite for others, and also for multitude of other non-ADHD related reasons. This doesn't mean that what you're experiencing is in any way universal though, and my personal anecdata disagrees with your anecdata anyway.
[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30986731/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30986731/
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549739/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549739/