Epigenetics and ADHD: The Impacts of Environment, Lifestyle, and Stress
ADHD is a genetic disorder, but DNA is not working alone. Stress, foods, and environmental toxins change the brain as well. Here, learn how to reverse their negative effects.
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While nothing works as well for improving my attention as Adderrall, I will say that consistent exercise and sleep have made a tremendous difference in my baseline energy level and functioning. Now that I am retired, and don’t have the daily pressures of a busy legal practice , I can go without Adderall most of the time…until it’s time to do something demanding and tedious like taxes. Then I still need Adderall to get it done!
If its anything but genetic one will have a better chance at combating the condition with OTC methods. Be it genetic , one can have a challenge in confirming that and getting the right medicine.
That explains a lot particularly to someone whose mother had a19 year old son serving aboard a Canadian Frigate on the Mumansk Convoy run in 1944 when She was expecting me. It also explains the stress issue as her 2 1/2 yr old daughter died 6 months to the day before I was born.
What it doesnt explain to many of us is especially my gross ineptitude at judging time passing. Your comments on that would be appreciated.
Wow. This may explain the severity of adhd in my first born child, since I was severely stressed out by my husband’s indifferent and irresponsible behaviour for the entirety of my pregnancy, with a finale of him refusing to support me during labour followed by my feelings of great loneliness in the 12 hours of labour and later: hemorrhaging and emergency surgery. That child screamed bloody murder for the first week of his life. Interestingly, (looking back) his ability to hyperfocus was evident from very early on – as a baby – only at that time, we just assumed that he had a really great attention span. It wasn’t until kindergarten that we began to see his inattentiveness.
donsense, the chronic presence of stress hormones in the bloodstream, reduces blood supply to the self-regulating parts of the brain, meaning that they are both underfunctioning and underdeveloped. The time managing/judging part of our brain is unfortunately included in that group of areas negatively affected by these hormones. Think of it as a lawn that hasn’t been watered.