EP. 84: ADHD and Nutrition with Nicole DeMasi Malcher

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Join Tracy in episode 84 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. introduces you to dietician and nutritionist Nicole DeMasi Malcher. Nicole is the founder of DeMasi Nutrition, a virtual private practice based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist & Certified Diabetes Educator with a Master’s Degree in Nutrition. Nicole spent 10 years working at Los Robles Hospital in the ICU, and as a nutrition coach at UCLA, Kaiser Permanente and DaVita Dialysis. In her practice, she uses nutrition therapy & coaching to help people lose weight, improve their health, and prevent & treat medical conditions through personalized diet & lifestyle changes. Nicole was diagnosed with ADHD (combined type) about a year ago at the age of 32 & since then has been determined to understand how nutrition impacts ADHD symptoms. THIS EPISODE IS NOT FOR WOMEN WITH DISORDERED EATING. Nicole shares: The circumstances surrounding her later in life diagnosis Her ADHD symptoms including those that she always wondered about but now recognizes as clearly ADHD How she always felt different than others How her childhood and teen years were impacted by her ADHD What has changed since you were diagnosed? The relationship between sugar and dopamine The food group that spikes our dopamine naturally What kind of carbohydrates help cognition How she feels about intermittent fasting for the ADHD brain Information on the gut-brain axis and how inflammation affects the brain What the enterac nervous system is and how it affects our brains The one food to get rid of to feel better Her number one ADHD workaround A page that she’s built just for us that’s all about nutrition for the ADHD brain Resources:

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0:00.0	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
0:15.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of vocations.
0:20.8	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
0:25.0	And you know what we hear even less about?
0:29.0	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brokovich, Share. Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD. And that's
0:47.2	exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm your host Tracy Otsuka. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a
0:56.9	lifelong student, now a coach. I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-O-K, a system that helps people like you figure out
1:07.4	what they should do with their life.
1:09.8	And we're here today to talk ADHD. Your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how you proudly
1:16.8	stand out instead of trying to fit in.
1:20.0	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts and you know what? I spy a happier life for you too.
1:29.1	So without further ado, a shiny new episode is starting now.
1:39.0	Hello, I am Tracy Atsuka and I wanted to welcome you to episode 84 of ADHD for smart-ass women.
1:47.0	In this episode I am going to introduce you to Nicole Damassie Malcher. Nicole is the founder of Damasssee Malcher.
1:52.6	Nicole is the founder of Damasi Nutrition,
1:55.7	a virtual private practice based in Los Angeles, California.
1:59.8	She is a registered dietician nutritionist and certified diabetes educator with a master's degree in nutrition and has over 10 years of experience in the health and wellness field in various areas of nutrition. She has worked at
2:14.5	Laos Robles Hospital in the ICU and as a nutrition coach at UCLA, Kaiser
2:20.4	Permanente, and Devita Dialysis. In her practice she uses nutrition therapy and
2:25.5	coaching to help people lose weight, improve their health, and prevent and treat
2:29.7	medical conditions through personalized diet and lifestyle changes.
2:33.6	Nicole was diagnosed with ADHD combined type about a year ago at the age of 32
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