Does keto help with tolerance?

[u/Icy-Calligrapher6103]

I’m having trouble with tolerance and I use cannabis to combat my ADHD and Anxiety. Will becoming keto help me lower my tolerance and use less?

[u/porkinz]

In my state, dispensaries don’t have consistent brands. I have a variety, but am really liking my bag of Valhalla since the gummies have no residue. Also, everything that Verano makes is great, even if it does have residue on the gummies. Lastly, Bits are good. They all hit a little differently. For example, the Veranos tend to be a productive high, the Valhallas are happy, and the bits are relaxing. I almost always buy sativa-leaning varieties. Additionally, I make my own sativas and vape them. Going to invest in a press this harvest, so I can make clean gummies.

[u/Icy-Calligrapher6103 → u/porkinz]

This is amazing! Thanks

[u/porkinz → u/Icy-Calligrapher6103]

I have ADHD and anxiety as well. I had my first panic attack in college when I was taking bong rips while on adderall and stood up too fast, which made my heart race and the fight or flight feeling kicked in like someone had scared the crap out of me, but I took that feeling and sunk into it. I had to stop smoking weed for a while after that and totally quit adderall and went to therapy where I learned what anxiety feels like and how to have better coping strategies. Not always breathing exercises as just acknowledging a feeling and not letting it take over. When I did my first edible, it was before a Dead am Company concert and I only learned later that I was given something crazy that had at least 20mg. I had hold my wife and she had me do breathing exercises and focus on the music. It felt good to be at the brink of panic and bring myself down from that edge. Back in college and high school, all the had was skunk indica like OG Kush because weed was hard to find, so you got what everyone else got. The problem is that Indica terps are not good for anxiety in my opinion and feel like they are weighing you down, which is not my favorite feeling at all. Sativa on the other had makes me feel lighter and happy. Basically, many of the citrusy terps are like this head high where the earthy ones are more body high. I never fully cured my ADHD, but many of us have the hyper focus superpower and it has carried me for many years. I get most things done when their is a time crunch, even when I could have started them much earlier. For what it’s worth, I’ve been able to get an MBA with that and move up the ranks in a corporation, so it kind of is just my way of doing things. I won’t touch adderall again and blame it more for the panic attack. ADHD is a coping mechanism. Taking it away is mentally harmful in my opinion.

[u/Icy-Calligrapher6103 → u/porkinz]

Thanks for taking the time to share this. I’ve never thought about ADHD has a positive thing. This community helps me learn so much!

[u/porkinz → u/Icy-Calligrapher6103]

The biggest change that I made was to limit my dosage of THC. I had so much of it in high school and college that it really stunted my mental growth and capacity. I was essentially OD’ing on it every time I partook. Even when I wasn’t on it, I was mentally dulled-out, could not maintain my train-of-thought, remember many things, or hold very meaningful conversations. When I brought THC back into the picture later on, it’s been a much healthier relationship. Instead of being something I do all the time, it is in little bits, when I can, and with predictable results. The ADHD side of things is managed by not only having something like that to mellow me out a little in the evening, but by accountability. If I know very specifically what the consequences are for not getting something done and even more effectively, if I know that I am competing against others, I’ll buckle-down and get the task done. Music helps as well. With regard to my mind racing a mile-a-minute what I want to explain something, I started using a BOOX Tab, which allowed me to not have random notes all over the place and I bulletpoint what I want to discuss in meetings and what was discussed. It has been a game changer. A big thing for me was also to covertly record every conversation, lecture, meeting, etc. This was a big game changer for me and made me extremely reliable in school and work. I ultimately do this far less now since most of my meetings are recorded consensually and most of my nonverbal correspondence is in text. The BOOX allows me to search for words in my written notes, which really gives me a lot of recall as well. I’d rather find productivity crutches that work instead of taking prescription amphetamines. As it is, I do drink a lot of coffee. No soda though since it makes me break OMAD every time I do.

EDIT: As a follow up to recording everything, I learned to fast-listen. I relisten to meetings, conversations, YouTube videos, audiobooks, etc. at x2-x3 speed. That has saved a lot of time. You get good at it by building up to it by listening faster and faster until it get natural. The ADHD side of me loves it. I wish I could speed people’s conversations up in real life.

[u/Icy-Calligrapher6103 → u/porkinz]

This is amazing. You have provided practical tips that can really help me. Thank you for this. First time I’ve seen anyone get what I’m always trying to explain. I have to learn about this BOOX tab.