Dr Sarah Warley

ADHD is not one condition.

We'd lump everyone together and say, oh, they've got ADHD, like it's one big amorphous blob, and it isn't.

You've got different people, different types of symptoms, and under every symptom, you've got different underlying drivers.

We just need to find out what they are.

By examining the scientific literature, she suggests three ways to supercharge an ADHD brain.

The Mori reflex.

It's

The little baby's survival reflex, any change to a newborn's environment, they throw out their arms and legs and they inhale and they go, and then they cry and they cling on.

By about three or four months of age, that reflex shouldn't be there anymore.

If it gets stuck, it basically means you are locked in that panicky morrow mode for the rest of your life.

Yeah, it's interesting because zinc and copper, I mean, they're nothing new as far as the brain's concerned.

Okay, so they've both been there.

They're both really important for both synthesis of chemical messengers in the brain and the regulation.

So we've always known that.

I think what's put it on the map is the work of William Walsh.

He's a biochemist living in Chicago, and he runs something called the Walsh Institute.

And what he talks about

is the balance between the two.

He talks about the ratio between the two and how that can have an impact.

Again, for a subset of people with ADHD, that ratio can be what's messing up their biochemistry.