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Wonder how many ADHD and depression diagnoses could be flipped with sufficient vitamin D and exercise
by Eumenes 3y ago
Wonder how many ADHD and depression diagnoses could be flipped with sufficient vitamin D and exercise
- BossingAround 3y agoNot that many is my guess. Most people get enough of vitamin D from supplements or foods that are reinforced with the vitamin. Exercise is pretty much the first thing you're told to try when diagnosed with mild depression.
- crtified 3y agoAs many as are entirely caused by the insufficiency of either or both of those factors. That is to say, few. Those factors are aids to alleviate complex, serious conditions - not standalone cures or vaccines.
- sacnoradhq 3y agoThere's a spectrum of executive focus and health. Will help some people, but for some there's no wishing or habituating it away.
- Llamamoe 3y agoSome, definitely not most. Often unhealthy lifestyle is the product of the underlying dysfunction rather than the other way around. People with chronic illness all have broken sleep(sleep disordered breathing), digestion(pathogenic gut microbiome), or other chronic illness(persistent virus presence is recently being associated with neurodegenerative disease, wouldn't surprise me if it caused mental health problems in earlier life)
- car 3y agozero
- joshxyz 3y agoadhd here. can confirm.
- scrum-treats 3y agoSame. Diet (e.g., Vitamin D, fish oil, mackerel + salmon, veggie variety) and (lots of) exercise work quite well. Also, people exhibiting more understanding and compassion towards others who are not exactly like them is quite helpful when moderating executive disfunction. Lower anxiety helps persons with ADHD/ASD successfully develop and maintain routines.