I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback and insights on what could improve The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast in this short poll - it takes 2 minutes, and as a thank you, we'll send you a little gift!How many times have you walked into a doctor's appointment knowing something is wrong, and walked out feeling dismissed, unheard, or handed an explanation that just doesn't fit?For women with ADHD, the intersection of hormones and neurodivergence has been one of medicine's most neglected areas. Not because it...
I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback and insights on what could improve The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast in this short poll - it takes 2 minutes, and as a thank you, we'll send you a little gift!
How many times have you walked into a doctor's appointment knowing something is wrong, and walked out feeling dismissed, unheard, or handed an explanation that just doesn't fit?
For women with ADHD, the intersection of hormones and neurodivergence has been one of medicine's most neglected areas. Not because it isn't important, but because for too long, women have been considered too complex, too variable, too messy to study properly. And the cost of that has been devastating.
This week on The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm welcoming back Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund, a psychiatrist, researcher, and Associate Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. Lotta has spent years investigating how hormonal fluctuations shape ADHD across women's entire reproductive lives — and her new book, Female Hormones and ADHD: The Impact on Brain and Body, is out in the UK on 4th June.
What Lotta shares in this episode is not just fascinating; it is information that women deserve to have, and that could genuinely change their long-term health.
In this episode, we explore:
- Why women have historically been excluded from research, and what that has cost us clinically
- Lotta's new research on ADHD medication during pregnancy, lactation, and across the menstrual cycle
- Why neurodivergent women may experience perimenopause symptoms earlier, and why this so often goes unrecognised
- The critical window of opportunity for hormone therapy
- Why a hormonal assessment should come before receiving ADHD medication
- The link between postmenopausal oestrogen loss and heart attacks in women
- The connections between ADHD and endometriosis, PCOS, burnout, pain and sick leave
- Why every doctor (regardless of specialism) needs to be asking about hormones
- How we can use the predictable hormonal risk windows across a woman's reproductive life to support her
- Testosterone, perimenopause, and what the research does and doesn't yet tell us
- How Lotta's new book can help you advocate for yourself in the doctor's office
This episode is for every woman who has ever felt that her hormonal health and her neurodivergence were being treated as two completely separate problems by two completely separate systems.
Lotta's work is quietly changing what is possible for us, and this conversation is essential listening.
You can also listen to our previous conversations with Lotta here:
E120 Connecting Hormones and Psychiatry to help more ADHD women
E174: Breaking down ADHD Neuroscience, Menstrual Cycles, Hormones and Anxiety
This week’s episode is sponsored by Understood.org, the leading nonprofit dedicated to empowering the millions of people with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia.
If you’re parenting a neurodivergent child, I’d recommend listening to their podcast, Everybody Gets a Juicebox, as it’s full of relatable stories and practical tools to help your family thrive while protecting your own wellbeing, too!
The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Live Event Recording is here!
My first-ever ADHD Women's Wellbeing Live event sold out, and now the full experience is available to you wherever you are, whenever it feels right.
Alongside three neuro-affirming experts, we spent four hours exploring the questions that matter most to late-diagnosed women. Get lifetime access here!
Inside the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Live Recording, you'll find:
- Kate Moryoussef on post-diagnosis growth and her gentle framework for what comes next
- Dr Hannah Cullen on the neuroscience of ADHD and why your brain works the way it does
- Hannah Miller on reconnecting with purpose through a neurodivergent lens
- Adele Wimsett myth-busting on hormones, HRT, progesterone and perimenopause
Understand yourself more deeply, feel less alone, and finally access the expert knowledge you deserve. Because every woman with ADHD deserves access to the knowledge, expertise and understanding that for too long simply hasn't been available to us.
To get lifetime access for £44, click here.
Links and Resources:
- Find my popular ADHD workshops and resources on my website [here].
- Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod
- Visit Lotta's website (lottaborgskoglund.com) for more information
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.
