S5E25 How to Go From Underwater to Thriving With ADHD | Dr. Laura Gouge
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
What does ADHD *really* look and feel like – and does it manifest differently for women and men? Is it truly a lack of attention, or an “interest based nervous system,” where you have the ability to also hyperfocus where you’re truly passionate? Dr. Laura Gouge, a naturopathic physician, dives into both her own lived experience with ADHD and expert insights on how to support ADHD symptoms both physically and emotionally. This episode is a real "put the pieces together" moment for anyone looking to understand their own sensitive nervous system to create a more balanced life. We explore a ton of juicy topics, including ADHD as an adaptation, the pain-pleasure pendulum swing, and why we create chaos in our lives to trigger brain stimulation. Laura beautifully outlines why ADHD can often manifest as a streak of genius and why folks with ADHD can so easily hyperfocus on what they love.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
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How symptoms of ADHD can vary quite a bit between childhood and adulthood
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The TRUE reason why time blindness is such an obstacle for folks with ADHD and identifying tools to help
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Why people with ADHD oscillate between hyper-productivity and struggling to get anything done & how to find the middle ground
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Tangible ways to build up your nervous system
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Why dopamine plays such an essential role in interest-based nervous systems
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The idea that ADHD is actually an adaptation
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How to support ADHD symptoms through diet and managing histamines
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Why the liver plays a key role in ADHD symptoms
Connect with Laura:
IG: @drlauragouge
Website: Laura Gouge
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| 0:00.0 | I'm so glad to finally be talking about ADHD on the podcast. I think it's a |
| 0:09.3 | really important topic. I think that it's very relevant to our world and to many of our listeners and those |
| 0:16.4 | of you in this community. I believe a lot of us have neurodivergent brains and have either |
| 0:21.6 | had a diagnosis in the past or really resonate with the |
| 0:25.4 | picture and struggles of neurod divergence and are seeking support or a |
| 0:30.3 | diagnosis or are looking to learn more about how their brains may be different. |
| 0:33.9 | And I think it's so important to understand those subtle differences between our brains |
| 0:38.9 | and how many of us do not function quote unquote normally and there really is no such thing as normal but when you learn let's say |
| 0:46.3 | the quirks and the workarounds and the genius coping mechanisms of a brain that is a bit different. You can really start to see and embrace the genius |
| 0:55.6 | and live in a bit more harmony with your life knowing some of your shortcomings |
| 1:00.5 | and some of the ways you may need to just get around your brain's tendencies to get lost or caught up in certain things or have these highs and lows that make functioning in everyday tasks a little bit difficult. |
| 1:14.7 | So today we're chatting with Dr. Laura Guj. |
| 1:17.2 | She is a naturopathic physician. |
| 1:19.0 | She actually specializes in MCAS and histamine issues, which I know is a very popular topic on this show. |
| 1:24.7 | So check out her Instagram for a lot more information on that, but she supports a lot of patients |
| 1:29.7 | with ADHD and neurodivergence and it's a passion of hers and she was diagnosed with it in her adult life and it made a lot of things make sense for her. |
| 1:39.0 | Why monotonous tasks felt so painful but when she had 17,000 things on her to-do list and she was |
| 1:45.9 | almost overwhelmed by complex tasks all of a sudden her brain was happy and it just |
| 1:49.9 | kind of gave her a lot of validation and permission as to why it felt like she was walking around in the world |
| 1:55.9 | feeling different from those around her. And the more I listened to her talk and had this beautiful |
| 2:00.7 | conversation with her, the more I began to understand a lot more about my own brain. |
| 2:05.0 | I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was like 14 |
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