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> Please inform yourself better - do not careless spread misinformation that can hurt other people.

Please inform yourself on ADHD research. When you downplay the role of genetics in mental illness you're preventing many people from having access to life-changing treatment. The irony of your last statement is quite something. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC161723/

It's wonderful that ketogenic therapy has changed your life. That has absolutely no bearing on people with different a brain structure. Ketogenic diets can be beneficial, meditation is essential, but there are aspects of ADHD that simply cannot be fixed other than introducing more dopamine into your brain.

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Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUAbqXcSAzg&t=24s

It's a Oxford’s Keto for ADHD & Depression Randomized Controlled Trial

My personal story is with psychosis which is as severe a mental illness as there can be - and I'm very thankful there are doctors and researchers out there battling all the misinformation about metabolic therapies.

People have different brain structures, but all brains are composed of cells and cells depend on their normal metabolic pathways to do their job.

I actually took dopamine reducing drugs for more than 20 years and I do know from personal experience how these drugs mess up people's lives.

So, yes I'm following a ketogenic therapy to, via metabolic normalization, regulate my dopamine pathways, and after 20+ year of misery I finally feel like I have a brain and a life.

I hope everyone has the chance to benefit from this research as I am benefiting, because I do know how painful it is to be prescribed these drugs for life.

> I actually took dopamine reducing drugs for more than 20 years and I do know from personal experience how these drugs mess up people's lives.

I mean — and I don't mean to be harsh here — if you have ADHD and Depression, of course dopamine-reducing drugs messed up your life. The issue with ADHD is (generally) insufficient dopamine with unusual dopamine release that leads to peaks and troughs in the dopamine response. Even a cursory amount of knowledge here makes it easy to conclude that dopamine reducing drugs will obviously make things worse.

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