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It's so refreshing, Miguel, to hear a neuroscientist come on and say how... Talk about the shame that is surrounding this conversation.

I think what you're saying is so interesting in talking about specific foods that are potentially...

good for focus and productivity and all of that kind of stuff but to shine a light on i think the bigger picture which is the shame around certain eating habits that many people with adhd or neurodivergent conditions experience and one of the stories that i hear time and time again is that people understand what food is good they understand what food is bad and sometimes they stick to that

that structure and that discipline or diet, and then in the evening they can binge, particularly at nighttime when they're very lonely or the world's gone to sleep, but they're wide awake and they have nothing else to do.

Where does your empathy and understanding for that side of it come from?

Because to hear someone like yourself open up and to share that, does that come from a personal experience?

Firstly, thank you for sharing that story, Miguel.

I'm hesitant to ask you about particular foods that might help with focus, and maybe you'll say blueberries or eggs because they contain particular chemicals that help with dopamine regulation and all of that.

But is there a wider question here of, in order to repair or make a start at stitching together your relationship with food, do you first need to address the trauma that you experienced when you were younger?

So interesting.

I remember last time you mentioned about kefir and blueberries.

And it's always funny to think how bad of an idea it would be to assume that if you just had kefir or just had loads of eggs or blueberries, that would cure RSD and the horrible 20,000 comments you received would be evaporated and finished with.

Is it a risk that you could potentially have a diet that isn't optimal for your brain and therefore potentially emotional dysregulation and RSD could get worse and then as a consequence of RSD you then go into this cycle of eating comfort food to deal with the RSD and therefore the emotional dysregulation gets worse and so on and the cycle could be quite risky.

Is there a risk there?