Your Lifestyle Determines Your Future
Channel: Help for ADHD
Date: 2021-06-28

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Kathleen Nadeau, PhD
Friday Keynote -  Your Lifestyle Determines Your Future

Over the past decade, we have learned more and more about the crucial impact of lifestyle choices upon chronic diseases - that how much we sit is strongly associated with mortality - in other words, if we want to live a long life we need to get up and move; that what we eat is a strong determinant of whether we develop diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimers; and that addictions of all sorts - food, cigarettes, alcohol and other substances - are linked to a shorter lifespan. Now we have the alarming news from Russell Barkley's research showing that ADHD is linked to a much shorter lifespan - 13 years shorter! This shorter lifespan is related to cigarette addiction, alcoholism, automobile accidents, poor eating habits, poor sleep habits, lack of exercise, and chronic stress. "Treating ADHD" is much more than taking stimulant medication. We have a growing body of research that shows we can improve cognitive functioning through better sleep, exercise, stress management, and healthy eating. My address is meant to be a wake-up call to everyone with ADHD - the choices are ours - to feel better, to function better, and to live longer we need to adopt brain-healthy daily habits. This talk will not only talk about the habits we need to build but how to build those habits in ADD-friendly ways.

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