Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD.

I'm your host, William Kerp, 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 Skywaterson 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 Association between Attention Deficit

Hyperactivity Disorder and Intestinal Disorders, a systematic review and meta-analysis.

And this was a really interesting one because there was a ton of data here that they went over.

Like they started off with over almost 2,000 papers that they were looking at and then like narrowed it down to 11.

But we'll get into that in a little bit.

Yeah, 100%.

So this paper, pulling this paper, came about because we were talking about the, um,

the associations that we sometimes have with ADHD.

You know, we know about ADHD and dyslexia, ADHD and autism, like those kinds of things.

But there's other very strange connections that we don't always know about.

So we went on a bit of a hunt to find something that was, you know, very well

reviewed. There were other things as well like chronic fatigue syndrome. There was a sleep apnea,

there was conduct disorders, there was hyper-mobility came up a couple of times as well. But

the one that had the most up-to-date

recent data was intestinal disorders, which I thought was fascinating because I don't

struggle personally with this. I know some people who do, who have ADHD. But this, like,

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