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How hormones can directly impact our ADHD

ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

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The Effects of Progesterone on ADHD

In neurotypical women, progesterone then comes up and progesterone is known as the keep calm and carry on hormone. But this is challenging for ADHD women because we're loving estrogen making our neurotransmitters work really well. And of course, then progesterone kicks in and kind of dampens the party. So a big role of it is to keep estrogen in check. We don't want that. You know, we need estrogen to be taking that role to help with our neurotransmitter and help with our executive functioning. Does that explain it? Yeah, it does.

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