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For others: most people don't need to go full keto. Just reducing sugars in general helps a lot of people. Refined sugars especially. I also have ADHD and caff
by chneu 1y ago
For others: most people don't need to go full keto. Just reducing sugars in general helps a lot of people. Refined sugars especially.
I also have ADHD and caffeine/sugar make my symptoms way worse. If I abstain from caffeine the difference is huge.
Alcohol is also something that really screws with ADHD. One drink can have weeks of effects.
- aeblyve 1y agoI think you might want to look into supplementing vitamin B1. In my personal experience sugar is not in itself the problem, but an impaired ability to process, or utilize, sugar can be. Many caffeinated beverages contain B1-inactivating tannins (tea, coffee), and consuming caffeine on an empty stomach, when blood sugar is already low, can cause mild deprivation of nerve tissues leading to impaired functioning. Alcohol famously disrupts the metabolism of B1, making it ineffective in the body. In the extreme case it causes the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome which is exactly related to B1 metabolism. The "insulinergic" role of potassium and so on in fruit juices also does make them easier to process in this way than something like coca cola.
- chneu 1y agothanks for the advice but I just don't drink alcohol or caffeine anymore. Why supplement when I can just not do the thing in the first place?