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i know vitamin c basically neutralizes adhd meds but lemonade good (nw-adhd.com)
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https://nw-adhd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ADHD-Medication-Information-Sheet

tumblr user mwg-7:

i know vitamin c basically neutralizes adhd meds but lemonade good

tumblr user mwg-7:

Transcript

[three users express surprise]

Wait for real

Wait really???

vitamin c does WHAT?

Transcript:

Food restrictions: All of the first line medications for the treatment of ADHD are moderately strong bases (pH of 12-13). If they are present in the small bowel at the same time as a weak organic acid (citric acid or ascorbic acid/Vitamin C) the medication forms an insoluble salt and can not be absorbed into the body. You may have swallowed your medication but, [following is underlined in red] if you washed it down with orange juice or a soda, none of the medication actually gets into your blood stream. Therefore, avoid the following foods for an hour before and after your dose. Once you feel the benefits of the medication, you may eat or drink anything you wish.

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[just the bold bits, there's a lot to type otherwise] FOODS TO AVOID WITHIN 1 HOUR BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING MEDICATIONS

1. Natural and artificial juices

2. Soft drinks

3. Poptarts, granola bars, Power Bars -- anything that comes in a foil packet, can sit on your shelf for months without going stale and be eaten without cooking must have high levels of preservatives such as citric acid.

5. Vitamin C

6. Oral suspension medications

yea lol

ADHD Medication information sheet

tumblr user brazenautomaton:

I have been struggling

For a long fucking time

with why my adderall was having such uneven effects and varying efficacy

and the weird pattern of what made it work and not work and if it was building up in my system or not

and fucking nobody told me I shouldn’t drink a glass of Kool-Aid to take the pills with

or eat fucking Pop-Tarts or Life cereal

this is the most useful information I have ever received from tubr and it seems to be confirmed by several other places upon searching

so this actually should be spread like wildfire like actually

tumblr user firebirdscratches:

Me reading this realizing tunglr dawt kom gave me more information about my medication than MYDOCTORRRRRSSSSSS MYYYYYYYY FUCKENNNNN DOCTORSSSSS PLURAL MULTIPLE DOCTORSSSSSSSS

https://firebirdscratches.tumblr.com/post/635053584689545216/brazenautomaton-mwg-7-mwg-7-i-know-vitamin-c

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[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Lithium is kinda wild.

There's at least two population studies that have been done which I know of that looked at places that had elevated levels of lithium in their local water supply. Obviously this is nowhere near the dosage of lithium that, say, a bipolar person might be on because lithium has a really narrow therapeutic window (i.e. to get lithium to a level where it's considered effective as established in psychiatry [at least according to the orthodoxy] is just slightly below the doses that become toxic.)

So anyway, two studies on populations who are essentially microdosing lithium. The results? Lower rates of suicide that which are statistically significant.

Makes you wonder if they should be adding a little bit of lithium in with the fluoride, doesn't it? Lol

Lithium is one of those drugs that has some really neat effects and I think it's overlooked for treatment-resistant depression because it's well known as a mood stabilizer and the first-line treatment for bipolar so it gets a bit pidgeonholed because of that fact. Sometimes I wish that prescribing doctors would try going off the beaten path a little bit with the meds they try on their trickier cases instead of just playing SSRI roulette over and over again.

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