Ep 139: Getting Diagnosed in Your 40’s with ADHD with Dr. Daniel Amen
Move With Heart
Melissa Wood-Tepperberg
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Melissa sits down with renowned psychiatrist and brain health expert Daniel Amen for the third time to explore the connection between brain health and overall wellbeing. Following her recent ADHD diagnosis, Melissa shares the changes she’s been making and why understanding the brain itself can transform the way we approach mental health. They discuss the stigma surrounding stimulant medications and the differences between Adderall and Ritalin. Dr. Amen explains how brain scans can reveal the effects of past trauma and why the brain has a remarkable ability to heal. Melissa also shares the tools she’s exploring to support her brain health including hormone balancing, saffron for PMS relief, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy and how these insights have shaped a more mindful, intentional approach to her life and wellness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Move with Heart podcast. I am your host, Melissa Wood-Teperberg, and I am so |
| 0:09.7 | honored to have you here, to have these enlightening conversations to help you see the power |
| 0:18.7 | within yourself, this magnificence that we all hold. |
| 0:23.6 | We just have to stay devoted with our practice and doing the work and open our hearts |
| 0:29.6 | and our minds to the infinite power of possibilities. |
| 0:44.6 | Doc Gaiman, I'm so happy to have you back to deep dive into my brain scan immediately after our last episode. |
| 0:47.1 | I sat down with you after that and I knew this was a priority because I feel like I've been |
| 0:53.6 | teetering for most of my life on the edge |
| 0:56.8 | of just knowing something has been off, but never getting the diagnosis until my 40s, |
| 1:05.8 | which in itself is just so crazy to me because I look back on my life and I'm like, oh my God, |
| 1:13.8 | it's all making so much sense since I got my brain scan and got the results read from you. |
| 1:21.8 | So I really want to deep dive into what you see currently with my brain and the protocol that I'm on and why it's been |
| 1:33.7 | so effective. |
| 1:36.2 | Wow, it's so great to see you again. |
| 1:39.1 | I always love that. |
| 1:40.9 | And, you know, most psychiatrists never look. |
| 1:46.2 | And so they make diagnoses based on what you tell them. |
| 1:51.6 | And I think talking to people is so important. |
| 1:55.5 | But if you don't actually look at the brain, you don't know. |
| 2:00.5 | And it was so clear from your brain that you have ADD, |
| 2:08.1 | but you also had a significant concussion that made it much worse. And the exciting news is it can be better, but for the last 35 years, it's hard to believe. |
| 2:25.3 | I've been looking at people's brains, and it just changed everything for me. |
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