ADHD people are no different to anybody else. We've got everything we need. But there's a balance.

You've got to balance what you need at the right time. The problem for ADHD is we can do all of that. We just can't regulate it. So we don't find that balance. Lots of different subtypes of ADHD. And I think we should be careful of that. We can't just say that because somebody's just a bit over vigilance and a bit of a bit of a worry that they've got ADHD. We've got success with cognition, the brain, how clever we are, et cetera,

is that we've forgotten that we are an embodied brain.

Dr. Nick Potter. the warrior that they've got ADHD. We've got so obsessed with cognition, the brain, how clever we

are, et cetera, is that we've forgotten that we are an embodied brain. Dr. Nick Potter is an ADHD

and hypermobility specialist. World renowned author with three decades of medical experience. Nick is

behind pioneering research into how our ADHD mind can drastically impact our physical body.

So there's a dissonance, a mismatch between what your vision's telling you and what your body's telling you. That's what we call prediction error. If you're on the planes, which is where our brain's really manufactured to be, that meant you got eaten. So we've still got that mechanism and it sets off fear and it sets us to move. That's why we fidget. it means also that we're constantly very often being drawn into the periphery to know what things could take us at.

We just don't know we're doing it. Quick one before I get distracted. I just wanted to say a very brief thank you to all of my listeners. Thank you for tuning in and thank you for subscribing and following the podcast. It really, really helps. At ADHD chatter, my mission is to ask the world leading

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Nick, thank you so much for joining us. Absolutely pleasure. It's lovely to be here.

It blew my mind when I learned about hypermobility and the links to ADHD. But just to set the foundation, Nick, what would you say your mission is in the world of ADHD and hypermobility? It's a great question. I think for me it

started with hypermobility and I was saying earlier that the, I worked in primary care down in

Fulham actually, so we were seeing families. It was conspicuous to me

how many of the population were hypermobile, particularly I am myself, and actually also

its connection to other conditions, problems we were seeing. And I did flag it up to the GPs,

who were very receptive, actually, and sort of grew. But I think that, as with so many,

medicines are funny, funny institution. It takes probably 15 years to change consciousness around certain concepts. And I think certainly rheumatologists who were seeing these patients were like, oh, blind me, there's a whole new thing coming and we don't really know what to do with it, you know. And then it was, oh, everybody's hypermobile. And it's actually, well, not really and then then the consciousness developed but I also

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