Posts by Bliss Lewis, MD (Page 3)
ADHD in Women: The Hormonal Story No One Told You
If you are a woman who has spent years wondering why you can not seem to get organized, why your brain feels foggy at certain times of ...
Nutritional Deficiencies That Worsen ADHD: Iron, Zinc, Magnesium, and More
This is one of the posts I am most frequently asked about, and for good reason. The idea that something as simple as a nutritional defi...
Inflammation and ADHD: The Hidden Connection
We have talked about blood sugar and gut health. Now we are going to connect a thread that runs through both of those conversations and...
The Gut-Brain Connection in ADHD: What the Microbiome Research Shows
If someone had told me during my psychiatry residency that I would one day spend a significant portion of my clinical work thinking abo...
Blood Sugar, Insulin Resistance, and Your ADHD Brain
This section of the series represents the core of the integrative psychiatry approach I practice. We are moving beyond diagnosis and ne...
The Nervous System in ADHD: Stress, Regulation, and Resilience
If you have ADHD, you already know this: it is not just about attention. The emotions are bigger. The stress hits harder. The criticism...
ADHD Genetics and Epigenetics: Nature, Nurture, and Everything Between
"Is ADHD genetic?" This is one of the most common questions I hear from patients and their families. It usually comes with an undertone...
The Cerebellum, the Connectome, and ADHD
In the previous post, I explored the most established neuroscience of ADHD: dopamine and norepinephrine pathways, the prefrontal cortex...
The ADHD Brain: What Neuroscience Actually Shows
If you or someone you love has ADHD, you have probably heard some version of the brain story: it is a dopamine problem, a frontal lobe ...
The Functional Medicine Approach to ADHD: What Standard Evaluations Miss
In the previous five posts, we have covered what ADHD is, how it is diagnosed, who gets missed, whether it can develop in adulthood, an...