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This seems like a strong claim, and I've never heard of it before. Can you provide sources?

I’m not backing that comment claim, but from recent research I’ve been doing.

My ADHD brain is lacking non-essential and essential amino acids/minerals,I think that comment stated the brain then rewires to compensate for the lack of nutrients. Thats what I’m taking.

I’ve been taking Spirulina as my booster to help fill in my nutrition deficiencies and then I’ve been feeling better leading me to get past the anxiety and rumination.

Richard Feynman wrote about it, that you can be hypothesized and want to do something and know you can, but you don’t or just can’t.

The article is great. One thing I’ve been doing is trying to make Arts and Crafts again.

I’m starting to incorporate Ai and my family to show what we can do. Then it’s starting to lead to everyone documenting their days with voice notes and more conversations

that's not 'research'

What would you call it?

Trying things.

Anecdote.

Here are some of the studies that I have been reading to back up my 'research', but I realized I didn't include anything after, so you are not wrong.

> Study - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7995246/ > Study - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6309508/

I have some others that I'm reading that I can also share if you are interested.

This is the spirulina I have been taking: https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Chlorella-Spirulina-250-Table...

I started taking it over 8 years ago, took a break for a year, and then restarted by taking 2 doses and another later in the afternoon if I ran earlier. I can sweat heavily and will sweat out amino acids.

The only part of this that rhymed with something I'm aware of is growth in the PFC in practicing meditators and a relation to improvement of ADHD symptoms among other things, though I don't recall whether it was a good study or not. I think I read that more than a decade ago.

That's changes in brain chemistry via lifestyle changes.

Meditation, if practiced at least adequately intense, creates a time interval that is entirely different to anything an ADHD mind is accustomed to. Meditation is not a dream, not the Default Mode Network under control. You are awake, "lucid", not rooted in your imagination or some other cognitive style/process resulting from "hyperlight association" or similar common phenomena.

I'm sorry that I don't have the time to look further. But tangential sources could be

fMRI studies in general but definitely those related to cognitive performance during and after recovery from ischemia.

Also: studies on sexual development, the inhibition of sex hormone metabolisms.

And I'm quite certain that some of Michael Levin's research could provide some bits, too. But I am not sure what keywords I would start with.

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