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Episode 82 The 'Hunter Gatherer' theory of ADHD

The ADHD Adults Podcast

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The Importance of ADHD Risk Mutations

A relative of yours recently did a DNA test, which came up with an average amount of neanderthal genes. They also looked at 50,000 more than 50,000 modern day folks. And the frequency of these so-called ADHD risk mutations has been reducing evolutionarily over the past 35,000 years. So it might be actually that ADHD people diagnosed aren't really the hunters themselves,. but we are taking one for the team with the ones they are at the extremes with all the traits.

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