Coffee, fasting during mornings, and lowering carbs
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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Another upvote for coffee!
Coffee makes me crash, I don't understand how it works for you guys. I fucking love it still, but boy can it send me back to bed in a jittery mess as soon as I get a strong morning cup of if I haven't eaten breakfast.
Before taking meds, I'd drink it twice a day pushing the crash until after work. Now that I'm taking strattera, it's just too much and I can barely handle one cup without going mad with anxiety.
I make it rather mild, one table spoon (fairly loaded) of light roasted coffee for a liter of water.
Weed helps, in edible form, when taken with ritalin and adderall
I bet, but unfortunately the legality of weed is still by state, and not legal federally. The rest are by script.
Weed has been legal in my country federally for a decade. What are you talking about?
Not everyone lives where you do. There’s plenty of the world where it isn’t federally legal.
Maybe let us know that?
You say states so I assume USA, you can get THC mailed to you totally legally as long as it's below a certain amount per volume.
I just started microdosing THC and CBD (2.5mg each a day) and it's really helping with my productivity! I buy online from a shop called Mr. Moxeys or something like that, they ship mints or gummies to most US states to microdose. Kind of expensive (87 cents a day) but WAY cheaper than Adderall, and less dangerous.
Did you read what I said? I said legality varies by state, and it’s still illegal federally.
That is 100% correct.
Good for you it works.
Did you read what I said? That it's legal federally if it's below a certain volume per weight. And the mints are. I'm not suggesting you get high, I'm saying legally obtained mints to microdose THC from hemp has been very helpful for managing my ADHD.
It kind of reads like you don't want help you just want to confirm there's no way you can get help so you don't feel bad about your ADHD making you unproductive. Well you shouldn't feel bad either way. We're all just out here doing our best, you included. Good luck, man.
Don’t be a dick and make shit up about me. I couldn’t take CBD/THC products no matter what because my job drug tests, so I don’t get a choice despite your blaming me for not “getting help”, and that help in your case has to be CBD/THC based. For the record IDGAF if people use pot/thc/cbd. Whatever works for you. I asked you to provide a source that proves the legality of what you’re saying, but instead you doubled down on asshole. There are still states where ANY concentration of CBD and/or THC is illegal in ANY product, so whatever man. So IT STILL VARIES BY STATE. Any federal DOT job makes any amount of pot in your system illegal, you get fired. Guess you just don’t want to hear that.
Saffron.
What does this do? Do you have any research indicating this has potential benefits?
NOS brand energy drink seems to work better for me than any other brand, so it may be worth looking into its ingredients list for things that potentially have a synergistic effect with caffeine
A quick look at the NOS ingredients shows caffeine, taurine, and l-carnitine. Caffeine is a stimulant, so I’ll add that ✅, taurine isn’t mentioned anywhere to be any specific benefit to concentration or mental ability, and l-carnitine seems to just be used to make the stimulant hit faster.
p.s.: argh, typed this over 12 hours ago and just found this open page. It's clearly not working. But here we go anyway:
- Guarana, for example in a capsule. Effectively a mild stimulant, basically extended release coffee.
- Get out of the slow cycle of: symptom -> doctor -> check for specific deficiency -> supplement. Check for everything proactively. In many countries, you can go directly to a lab and have your blood taken there, if your doctor doesn't play along.
Added guarana as a stimulant
Omega 3-6-9 fatty acids. There's been a fair amount of research done on its role in mitigating ADHD, specifically. I take them and notice a decline in mood and overall presence of mind when I've forgotten to take my pills for a while.
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I mean, chelated magnesium helps take the edge off of Adderall but no, I doubt you'll ever find anything otc that is effective as something prescribed.
I wouldn’t expect any supplements, vitamins, or similar to be as effective, but to use your words, maybe some things that help “take the edge off.”
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Creatine monohydrate helped for me. It's usually taken by athletes and gym-goers but there's a study saying that it may improve short term memory and intelligence/reasoning
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