EP.363/ REPLAY: How Hormones Impact ADHD and the Link Between ADHD, EDS, Dysautonomia and Pain Syndromes with Adele Wimsett

Podcast

20 Sept

Following on from last week’s episode about ADHD and menopause, I am resharing my interview with Adele Wimsett, who is talking to us about ADHD and the connection with endometriosis.

So, let’s get to it.

Did you know that ADHD has been linked to patients with joint hypermobility, pain and dysautonomia?

Given that endometriosis is now being associated more and more with hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders, as well as POTS and dysautonomia, that means that there could be a reasonable percentage of people with endo also living with ADHD.

So today on the podcast, I’m joined by Adele Wimsett to discuss this topic further. Adele Wimsett is a Women’s Health Practitioner specialising in cyclical awareness, education, hormone balance and ADHD.

After being diagnosed with ADHD at 41, Adele went onto discover the many ways in which hormones and the stages of the menstrual cycle can affect ADHD traits.

In today’s episode, Adele shares with us her story, the ways in which hormones impact ADHD and how we can work with our cycles to improve our experience of ADHD.

In this episode we discuss:

What ADHD is
Why it presents differently in females and cyclical people and what this means for diagnosis
How hormones affect ADHD traits
What impact hormones have on traits during different hormonal phases of a cyclical person’s life
How we can support our hormones to live an adhd friendly lifestyle.

Show Notes:

Adele’s website

Adele’s Instagram

Research:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.786916/full

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395621004258

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