Dr. Andrew Huberman

Okay, so we did two episodes of the Huberman Lab podcast on ADHD.

The first was on behavioral, nutritional, and supplement-based tools.

50% of the comments were like, thank you so much.

This is very helpful.

Can't wait to try some of the stuff.

The other were like, you're evil.

You're trying to persuade people to not take pharmaceuticals, which is not true.

I'm interested in all of it.

I just covered that stuff in the first episode.

And then the second one we did on ADHD was about things like Vyvanse Adderall.

Ritalin, etc., most of which, by the way, are amphetamines.

Are we putting our kids on speed?

Yes.

Yeah, they're amphetamines.

But I don't think that we should walk away from those things in every case.

They do have real clinical value in many cases, and their clinical value comes from the fact that

One, not all, but one of the major effects of amphetamines is that it can increase dopaminergic and noradrenergic, meaning dopamine and norepinephrine release in the brain, which can increase attention and focus, which is actually beneficial in some cases for the brain to learn to focus, to get neuroplasticity of those very circuits.

So it's a consideration that 50% of the comments

that second episode were, why don't you talk about the behavioral tools, the supplement-based tools, and the nutrition tools, and everyone else said thank you for talking about the prescription drugs.

So the point being several fold.