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28th Aug 2025

The Gut-Brain Connection: Mindful Mood & Nutrition Tips for ADHD

Your gut health could be shaping your mood, focus, and emotions more than you think.

On this week's Summer ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit Episode, we dive into the fascinating gut-brain connection with IBS specialist, Cara Wheatley-McGrain, to talk about the small, everyday changes that can transform your mood, focus, and emotional wellbeing.

This episode is packed with insights on the gut-microbiome and practical strategies to help you eat in a way that nourishes both your brain and your gut, with tips on the three stars of the show: fibre, prebiotics and probiotics.

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here!

What You’ll Learn:

  • How what you eat impacts your gut, mood and overall health
  • The link between gut health, immune system, stress, and anxiety
  • How processed foods and additives affect the microbiome
  • The role of fibre and fermented foods in reducing stress
  • Why inflammation and malabsorption matter for ADHD
  • Simple strategies to improve your gut health
  • The role of prebiotics and probiotics, and where to find them
  • How to make small, sustainable changes to protect your gut

Timestamps

  • 02:00 – The Role of Nutrition in Brain and Gut Health
  • 03:30 – Understanding the Gut Microbiome
  • 05:16 – ADHD Bloods: Ferritin, Iron, and Absorption
  • 08:30 – Tracking Symptoms and Responses to Food
  • 11:55 – Healthy Gut Microbiome and Serotonin
  • 17:49 – Modern Diets vs Evolutionary Gut Needs
  • 18:29 – Eating Tips to Optimise Your Gut Microbiome
  • 21:27 – The Role of Prebiotics and Probiotics in Gut Health

Stress can have a huge impact on your gut microbiome, so while it’s brilliant to eat in ways that support your gut, your diet doesn't need to be "perfect"! It’s about finding what works for you and your lifestyle so your body and mind can thrive.

Links and Resources:

  • Join the Waitlist for my new ADHD community-first membership launching in September! Get exclusive founding offers [here].
  • Find my popular ADHD workshops and resources on my website [here].
  • Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod
  • Connect with Cara via her website or find her on Instagram. 

Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. 

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ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast
Newly diagnosed with ADHD or curious about your own neurodivergence? Join me for empowering mindset, wellbeing and lifestyle conversations to help you understand your ADHD brain and nervous system better and finally thrive at life.
Are you struggling with the challenges of life as a woman with ADHD? Perhaps you need support with your mental and physical wellbeing, so you can feel calmer, happier and more balanced? Perhaps you’re newly diagnosed with ADHD – or just ADHD curious – and don’t know where to turn for support. Or perhaps you’re wondering how neurodivergence impacts your hormones or relationships?

If so, The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast is for you. This award-winning podcast is hosted by Kate Moryoussef, an ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach, author, EFT practitioner, mum of four, and late-in-life diagnosed with ADHD herself.

Each week, thousands of women just like you tune in to hear Kate chat with top ADHD experts, thought leaders, professionals and authors. Their powerful insights will help you harness your health and enhance your life as a woman with ADHD.

From tips on nutrition, sleep and motivation to guidance on regulating your nervous system, dealing with anxiety and living a calmer and more balanced life, you’ll find it all here.

The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast will help you live alongside your ADHD with more awareness, self-compassion and acceptance. It’s time to put an end to self-criticism, judgement and blame – and get ready to live a kinder and more authentic life.

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In The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, coach and podcaster, Kate Moryoussef shares the psychology and science behind the challenges faced by women with ADHD and lays out a roadmap for you to uncover your authentic self.

With practical lifestyle tools on how to manage mental, emotional, physical, and hormonal burnout and lean into your unique strengths to create more energy, joy, and creativity, this book will help you (re)learn to not only live with this brain difference but also thrive with it.
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Kate Moryoussef

Host of the award-nominated ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, wellbeing and lifestyle coach, and EFT practitioner guiding and supporting late-diagnosed (or curious!) ADHD women.
www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk