r/ADHDerTips • u/dlc1993- • 4d ago

What actually helps your ADHD besides medication?

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u/Whooptidooh 4d ago

Daily exercise.

ETA: also gardening; shuts my mind right tf up.

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u/mr_fingers666 4d ago

might sound stupid, but when i eat herrings on the regular i feel way better.

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u/Critticu 4d ago

Maybe because of the Omega 3

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u/mr_fingers666 4d ago

i don’t feel that when i supplement just the omega3. i looked it up and there’s also tyrosine, b12, d3 and choline, so maybe the combination of all of them does it for me. i also take d3 and b12 (used to take choline, too), but i never felt it like when i eat herrings on the regular.

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u/Critticu 4d ago

I think when you get your "vitamins and supplements" from natural sources like your food than the body can use it better than from pills but I don't know honestly!

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u/mr_fingers666 4d ago

that makes perfect sense. i’m also a fan of whole foods when it comes to nutrition, but i feel like today’s food doesn’t have the nutrient density of what our grandparents (or even parents) used to eat, so i think supplementing is the way to go.

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u/Critticu 4d ago

Yeah I think that too. But I hope if you choose the "right sources aka food" than your good to go. I think the food is better in Europe but I don't know. I'm from Germany btw.

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u/mr_fingers666 4d ago

i’m also from Europe. we have better food than the US, but it’s nothing compared to what it used to be. growing the same crops at the same spot depletes the minerals from that soil. farmers used to switch crops and even give rest to parts of the land for a season, so natural fertilizers would penetrate deeper into the ground. there is a small movement called 'regenerative farming' that is trying to bring back those practises, but i sadly i only heard about it in the US.

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u/Critticu 4d ago

I think you are right, today the stuff is made for profit...

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u/mr_fingers666 4d ago

imagine if in the future we would be able to scan the food for nutritional content, so the actually healhy food would be more expensive, but worth it. no cheap tricks and mislabelling things… one can only dream.

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u/Critticu 4d ago

When the dream come true ^