most people assume that if you have ADC you're just very hyperactive and you have all this energy but that's not true especially when you're an adult and you have ADHD we end up reaching burnout and I want to explain to you why you actually are tired all the time with your ADHD hi I'm Dr Grant and I have HD and dyslexia and I want to explain to you really why are you experiencing being tired all the time when you have ADHD there are several reasons of why this can be happening one is when it comes to ADHD we have a tendency myself included not doing the best when it comes to our diet and the things that we actually choose to eat and we have that tendency to have a poor diet not only that we are poor at organizing so because we're poor at organizing and actually planning we tend to make poor eating decisions and so therefore having a poor diet will lead into definitely more deficiencies of the right nutrients that we do need and this can lead into fatigue and having low energy which leads into one of the biggest reasons of why people with HD can end up being tired all the time one is that they can have a tendency of having iron deficiency see so having a poor diet can also lead into having iron deficiencies and something very common that we see in research that people with HD can be anemic not having good levels of iron can lead into symptoms such as fatigue brain fog as well as irritability so adults with HD have an increased risk of having low levels of iron something you need to be mindful and something that you probably should test for another contributing factor of why you might be tired all the time with your ADHD is because of having vitamin B12 deficiency something that we see a lot with people with HD a lot of research has shown this because Vine B12 is a critical type of vitamin that not is important for the production of red blood cells but is also very critical for a lot of things in the nervous system especially our neurotransmitters that are very important with ADHD but it also can lead into fatigue because it is such a important type of vitamin for the production of a lot of different cells as well as the nervous system and this is why you might be feeling tired all the time another big components that can contribute to being feeling tired all the time is having magnesium deficiency something we see a lot in research of people with ADHD tend to be more magnesium deficient than the average person and magnesium is an important type of electrolyte that is important for a lot of the cell generation a lot of for also neurotransmitter as well as helping with functioning of muscles in the nervous system this is why you can actually feel more fatigued when you have low levels of magnesium now another big component of why you might be feeling tired all the time with your ADHD is because people with ADHD especially adults with ADHD will have a tendency to have issues with sleeping whether that is having a difficult time falling asleep or staying asleep having that good quality of sleep can really impact not only your ADHD Health but also can contribute to definitely fatigue but also contribute to having your focus throughout the day as well as lack of clarity in mind now if you're someone that actually takes medications for your ADHD this can also be a really big component of causing you being feeling tired all the time there's actually symptoms of some HD medications that can cause fatigue but on top of that medications can also disrupt your sleep and if it's disrupting your sleep that is also going to contribute to you feeling tired all the time something you definitely have to be mindful when you're taking medications if you need further help with your ADHD and really want to find a natural way of helping and treating your HD then you should download my free HD guide in the description below now feeling tired all the time because of our ADHD there's a lot of things that come in place of having the poor sleep lack of you know nutrition organization and this really comes down to having poor time management having poor timing management can contribute to us feeling tired all the time because we're not very good at managing our time which can contribute to having more stress which that also can contribute to having more fatigue and then on top of that having poor time management can contribute us going to bed later and also not getting good quality of sleep and then of course not planning around getting good exercise as well as nutrition the other things that we need to implement now something that's really interesting when people feel tired of time when I'm seeing clients and patients and they're having this issue one of the biggest components is also stress in fact about 50 or plus of people with ADHD will tend to have also anxiety and stress and anxiety definitely can contribute to fatigue something that research actually shown also on top of people with ADHD and feeling tired all the time is they have a higher tendency to have a issues like irol bowel syndrome and a lot of different digestive issues and when you have significant digestive issues guess what you're not getting the proper nutrients from your body and if you're not getting the proper nutrient you're going to feel tired all the time so if you don't address your digestive functionality by looking at what could be contributing to it then this can be the root cause of why you feel tired all the time with ADHD another contributing factor that can cause people to feel tired all the time with their ADHD is people with HD can also have a lot of different food allergies and that can contribute to causing law digestive issues but also inflammation throughout the body one of the symptoms of food allergies is having low energy because there's inflammation going on the body and this also can impact your digestion which then we've talked about before how digestion not working properly it doesn't get you the proper nutrients from your body so you're going to have symptoms such as fatigue one of the biggest components I see of why you might be experiencing feeling tired all the time something that I've definitely experienced is dealing with my cortisol having low cortisol levels where your adrenals are shot you reach burnout and you aren't functioning properly I did some testing on myself I've done this on a lot of different patients clients of mine that have 80 HD where the Corsa levels tend to plummet if they're plummeted that means that you need to be addressing those and having lower cortisol levels can explain a lot of why you feel parallel time with your ADHD now speaking of hormones one of the other big components that can explain why you are feeling tired all the time with your ADHD is maybe your thyroids are off maybe you do have a thyroid problem because what's interesting is a lot of thyroid symptoms can present like ADC symptoms and if you only got diagnosed with ADHD but you never got your thyroids checked something you should probably look at especially if you have a combination of ADHD and also feel entire all the time maybe you're constipated all the time these are also simpler symptoms to having hypothyroidism something you definitely should check out now there is some research that has suggests that insulin resistance tends to be more prevalent with people with ADHD especially adults with ADHD and this can contribute to definitely feeling tired all the time when your blood sugar levels are definitely all over the place and you hit those highs and those lows those scratches especially when you have insulin resistance you hit those crashes with depending on how your diet is you're definitely going to feel more fatigue the title of time when your blood sugar levels are off now if you really want to know how can you actually treat your HD naturally then you should watch this video next so you know exactly what to do when it comes to treating your ADHD