Dr. Georgia Ede

Can you afford the medication? How hard is lifestyle change for you? One of the most powerful interventions for ADHD, and I think you're probably just maybe one of the most stellar examples I can think of is this. Change your lifestyle to suit your strengths. Play to your strengths and don't try to swim upstream against your weaknesses.

Can you afford the medication? How hard is lifestyle change for you? One of the most powerful interventions for ADHD, and I think you're probably just maybe one of the most stellar examples I can think of is this. Change your lifestyle to suit your strengths. Play to your strengths and don't try to swim upstream against your weaknesses.

People with ADHD often have tremendous talents in certain areas and are tremendously gifted in certain ways because they can make connections, because they don't always think in a straight line, because they often have very diverse interests and they can pull different kinds of information together. And given the right path, they can be hugely successful, right?

People with ADHD often have tremendous talents in certain areas and are tremendously gifted in certain ways because they can make connections, because they don't always think in a straight line, because they often have very diverse interests and they can pull different kinds of information together. And given the right path, they can be hugely successful, right?

But that's not possible for everybody. And for more severe cases of ADHD, it's not possible at all.

But that's not possible for everybody. And for more severe cases of ADHD, it's not possible at all.

So not yet, but I'm very excited to be involved in two brand new studies of the ketogenic diet for ADHD. So one is a ketogenic diet for adults with ADHD and depression that's getting started at Oxford University in 2025. And the other is a study of ketogenic diets for ADHD in adults at the University of Michigan. It's also going to be starting in 2025.

So not yet, but I'm very excited to be involved in two brand new studies of the ketogenic diet for ADHD. So one is a ketogenic diet for adults with ADHD and depression that's getting started at Oxford University in 2025. And the other is a study of ketogenic diets for ADHD in adults at the University of Michigan. It's also going to be starting in 2025.

We have no data on ketogenic diets in ADHD, but we have good reason to believe. The reason we were able to get funding for these studies is because there's reason to believe that it could be useful. Because when you look at ADHD, you see clues to poor metabolic health. So, for example, children with obesity are twice as likely to have ADHD. Obesity is a marker for insulin resistance.

We have no data on ketogenic diets in ADHD, but we have good reason to believe. The reason we were able to get funding for these studies is because there's reason to believe that it could be useful. Because when you look at ADHD, you see clues to poor metabolic health. So, for example, children with obesity are twice as likely to have ADHD. Obesity is a marker for insulin resistance.

Adults with type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to have ADHD. Type 2 diabetes is severe end-stage insulin resistance. And the ketogenic diet is the most effective way to address insulin resistance that we have at our disposal.

Adults with type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to have ADHD. Type 2 diabetes is severe end-stage insulin resistance. And the ketogenic diet is the most effective way to address insulin resistance that we have at our disposal.

I think that would be a very difficult study to design. But I think what I can tell you from my clinical work, because I'm a general psychiatrist, so I see adults of all ages and with all psychiatric conditions from major to minor. And I've worked, as I said, with people with ADHD, hundreds and hundreds of patients with ADHD. What I can tell you is that it's the same with medication.

I think that would be a very difficult study to design. But I think what I can tell you from my clinical work, because I'm a general psychiatrist, so I see adults of all ages and with all psychiatric conditions from major to minor. And I've worked, as I said, with people with ADHD, hundreds and hundreds of patients with ADHD. What I can tell you is that it's the same with medication.

If someone comes in and says to me, I can't tell if this medication is working, so should I keep taking it? And I'll say, well, you know, if you can't feel it working, then it's not working. So when the diet works, it works regardless of what's going on around the person. And this is true for all conditions that I've worked with.

If someone comes in and says to me, I can't tell if this medication is working, so should I keep taking it? And I'll say, well, you know, if you can't feel it working, then it's not working. So when the diet works, it works regardless of what's going on around the person. And this is true for all conditions that I've worked with.

So people with bipolar disorder, people with depression, people with ADHD, people with PTSD, people with anxiety. As you have said, we talked about the ketogenic diet is not easy to stick to, right? People fall off the ketogenic diet all the time, sometimes accidentally, sometimes intentionally, right?

So people with bipolar disorder, people with depression, people with ADHD, people with PTSD, people with anxiety. As you have said, we talked about the ketogenic diet is not easy to stick to, right? People fall off the ketogenic diet all the time, sometimes accidentally, sometimes intentionally, right?

And you can see their symptoms come back within often 24 hours, even though their external factors have not changed. Your life hasn't changed. It's the diet. And when you follow the actual ketone levels daily, you can make that correlation. So what's really exciting about both of these studies is it's not just getting somebody into ketosis.

And you can see their symptoms come back within often 24 hours, even though their external factors have not changed. Your life hasn't changed. It's the diet. And when you follow the actual ketone levels daily, you can make that correlation. So what's really exciting about both of these studies is it's not just getting somebody into ketosis.