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 SkyWatterson 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 Effects of Physical Exercise on Anxiety, Depression, and Emotion Regulation, and Children with Attention, Hyperactivity, disorder, systematic review, and Mennon analysis. Yep, lots in there, but we're going to get into all of it, so don't worry. Before we get started, I do want to mention that this is still a new series, so we're going to be figuring out what works and what doesn't, and I'd love to hear what you think of it. So, if you have any thoughts, head on over to Hacking Your ADHD.com slash contact and let me know. I appreciate all the feedback I've already gotten, and we've definitely gotten to work on some things to make sure they're a little bit more organized, and so we'll see how that goes. We've been already implementing some of that, and I'm sure you're going to love it. New episodes of Research Recap come out every other Friday. All right, let's get into it. Okay. I am super, super excited about this paper because this paper is a systematic review

and a meta-analysis of randomized control trials. I will tell you what all of that means,

but what it essentially means is in the academic world, there's no such thing as proof.

You can't prove anything.

It's the first thing we learn.

This paper is as close to proof as possible within this particular area,

which means that the results of this paper are as close to take it to the man, use it.

This is exactly what they found as possible, which I love.

So yeah, do you have any other thoughts before we dive in, Will?

Exercise is always ever written about exercise being a great thing for ADHD.

So based on probably studies that were included in this meta-analysis.

And it's something that I always am preaching to have people try and include more of, including to myself, because it can be hard some days.

I'm not saying this is an easy thing to do, but there is science behind it that says,

yeah, you probably should.

And particularly for your mood, which I think is really interesting because we talk about

it for your ADHD.

There's papers on working memory and exercise and things like that.

And this one was particularly looking at anxiety, depression and emotional regulation.

It's from 2025, so this is hot off the press.

So how did they do this? I want to just dive a little bit into

what a meta-analysis, systematic review is.

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