Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD.

I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.

On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

Today, I'm joined by Sky Waterston for our research recap series.

In this series, we take a look at a single research paper and dive into what

the paper says, how it was conducted, and try and find any practical takeaways. In this episode,

we're going to be discussing a paper called Use of cosmetics in pregnancy and neurotoxicity. Can

it increase the risks of congenital enteric neuropathies? So a lot. In this, the authors explore the hypothesis of neurotoxins,

pythylactylates, and metals that can cross the placental barrier and disrupt the development

of fetal nervous system. So yeah, and this may not seem very ADHD-centric when you like hear that.

We're like we're talking about a lot of things here. But there's some really interesting things we can

glean here and there's definitely some connections. Let's get into it. Of course, with the little bit

of a disclaimer, of course, that we're not doctors and that we are not complete experts in this

field. So we'll be trying to do our best.

No, no, we're definitely not complete experts. But I will say, I am a woman with ADHD who

recently had a baby and used cosmetics. So I feel like in this way, it at least was very

interesting to read. So this conversation is about the idea, and this is a review.

This is not an academic sort of experimental article.

But it's a review of research around the idea that taking, you know, having some kind of cosmetics,

so makeup, fragrances, etc., is associated with

certain endocrine disruptors and other things that can, you know, be negative to your baby.

So it's crossing the blood brain, it's crossing the barrier, the placental barrier,

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