Protein, ADHD, and the Breakfast You Skip
Why do people with ADHD reach for fish oil capsules before they'll try putting protein in their breakfast? The mechanism is real: protein supplies tyrosine, the precursor to dopamine and norepinephrine. The problem is that nobody has ever directly tested whether a high-protein breakfast improves ADHD symptoms — zero studies. This episode walks through the tyrosine transport competition at the blood-brain barrier, the inverted-U dose-response that means more isn't better, the craving study that just went up on bioRxiv, and the three fish oil meta-analyses that seem to contradict each other but…
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