Dr. Miguel Toribio-Mateas

And that would be the trick.

I'm not sure it's completely mind-blowing, but what we keep hearing in really robust research that's coming out about ADHD is the importance of diversity in foods, which is tricky because we've talked about that sometimes you don't feel like diversity, you feel like safety.

But particularly if you take the gut into account and you move away from the whole conversation of ADHD just being about attention and hyperactivity and the brain only, and you include the nervous system, hormones, the gut, sensitivities, and so on.

If you nourish your body, the whole of the body, with the nutrients that come from foods that are colorful, that's always going to be a plus.

Just because of what I mentioned before, colors typically tell you that there is a substance in there that is going to be anti-inflammatory, that's going to be nourishing for your gut microbes.

When it's nourishing for your gut microbes, that tends to be anti-inflammatory as well because they will produce some substances like butyrate that is anti-inflammatory.

So it's like a double whammy when you have colorful food.

So not completely mind-blowing, nobody's heard about this before, but more of a situation that because it keeps repeating itself in good quality research that is being churned out by people that I respect in the field to pay special attention to make sure that you have

a bit of a rainbow going on in your week.

So if it happens to be a bit of a beige day, fine, but if you can make a bit of a space for more colors throughout the week, that's probably something that your body, your whole body is going to thank you for.

Well, I've written a book that's called ADHD, Body and Mind.

And, uh, uh, probably the biggest chapter is on nutrition.

Uh, and it's got hundreds of tips in there.

So not just one tape because we like novelty.

So obviously something novel is always going to be in there, but it, we like variety as well.

So you're going to find loads of different ideas in there.

Um,

The concept is to be compassionate with yourself when you find yourself in that situation.

You're in the supermarket.

You might have all the cognitive power in the world one day, but you might struggle and you might be hungry as well when you're shopping, which tends to be the case.