ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition, and Gut-Brain Health

· Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Ebook
304
Pages
Eligible
This book will become available on April 21, 2026. You will not be charged until it is released.

About this ebook

An evidence-based exploration of neuroscience, nutrition and the gut-brain connection from a clinical neuroscientist living with ADHD.

This is a book that speaks to both your biology and your belonging. It's a unique, neurodiversity-affirmative resource that:

· Reframes ADHD as a natural neurotype, a different way of living and making sense of the world, rather than a disorder.

· Expands neuroscience beyond the brain and into the whole body. Showing how gut, microbes, breath, heart, hormones and immune system are always in conversation.

· Reimagines nutrition and gut-brain health through a non-diet lens, offering flexible, compassionate tools that nourish body and mind without rules, shame or restriction.

· Extends gentle invitations, not prescriptions, to honour your ADHD as a whole body-mind experience, rather than reducing it to symptoms to be managed.

In a nutshell, ADHD Body and Mind is a companion, offering space to breathe, reflect, and return to yourself, again and again. It will help you reconnect with your body's natural rhythms, release some of the weight of shame and perfectionism, and discover a way of living with ADHD that feels not just manageable, but meaningful.

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About the author

Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas is a clinical neuroscientist, nutritionist, and applied microbiologist with a doctoral degree in Gut Microbiome & Mental Health. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University's School of Psychology and Lecturer in Nutrition at the University of West London. With an extensive background in research and teaching, Miguel bridges neuroscience, lived experience, gut microbes, and non-diet, evidence-based approaches to nutrition. His work is known for translating complex science into deeply human, trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming insight. He is based in Hertfordshire.

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