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let’s talk about intermittent fasting for  adhd attention deficit hyperactivity disorder  

there’s some really fascinating research on this  that shows that both intermittent fasting and  

prolonged fasting you know as in 72 hours can  greatly affect the frontal lobe of your brain  

and it can create significant improvements  in cognition i’m talking about concentration  

focus memory clarity creativity those are your  cognitive functions but the study relates to  

improving the front part of your brain which is  involved with paying attention making decisions  

helping you organize and plan because they found  if they actually disconnect that part of the  

brain and destroy it you will not be able to pay  attention you won’t be able to decide anything  

you can’t organize and you definitely won’t be  planning now it’s interesting to me that when you  

do research on adhd the experts will say that it’s  the chemical imbalance but it’s never been proven  

or it’s genetics or the brain is somehow rewired  for these symptoms and um they don’t know why they  

don’t know how but we still have to do research to  see if that’s true or not in the meantime we have  

some medications for you well the problem with the  medications is they have side effects okay and the  

side effects sometimes create the exact same  symptoms they’re supposed to get rid of now if  

you’re new to my channel and you’re not familiar  with what fasting can do basically what happens is  

we stop feeding the brain glucose so as a survival  mechanism the body switches over to making  

a preferred source of fuel it’s called ketones  and your neurons love ketones more than glucose in  

fact if the neurons had a choice between glucose  and ketones they would always use the ketones  

now there are certain parts of your brain that  need glucose but your body can make that glucose  

out of fat out of protein out of non-carbohydrate  sources so you don’t need to be consuming glucose  

to feed the brain glucose but when you fast you  give it ketones and ketones do many wonderful  

things for the brain but one of the big things  it will do is improve your cognitive functions  

and so if you haven’t tried it before i highly  recommend you give it a try especially if you  

have any problems in focusing concentrating having  problems with clarity i would also add vitamin b1  

in the form of nutritional yeast i would add  some zinc and i would add omega-3 fatty acids  

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