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The Dr. Brighten Show

The Dr. Brighten Show

Di: Dr. Jolene Brighten
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Dr. Jolene Brighten, a best-selling author, board certified naturopathic endocrinologist, and women’s health expert, hosts The Dr. Brighten Show—a podcast dedicated to igniting transformative conversations in women’s health. Through candid interviews with leading experts, innovators, and thought-leaders, this show brings you groundbreaking research, personal stories, and practical tools to help you confidently navigate your body and hormones. It’s a fun, engaging, and insightful journey designed to empower you with tangible, science-backed insights, so you can live your best, most vibrant life.DrBrighten.com Disturbo fisico e malattia Igiene e vita sana Medicina alternativa e complementare
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  • ADHD Medication and Your Period: What Women Need to Know About Treatment, PMDD, and Changing Symptoms

    ADHD Medication and Your Period: What Women Need to Know About Treatment, PMDD, and Changing Symptoms
    Oct 20 2026
    ADHD medication can feel different across your menstrual cycle, and a difficult month doesn’t automatically mean your treatment has failed. View the show notes and episode resources at https://drbrighten.com/podcast/adhd-medication-and-your-period/ . 📚 ADHD and Women — If this conversation has you rethinking what ADHD can look like through a woman’s life and cycle, my book ADHD and Women goes deeper. It explores the connection between ADHD, hormones, and the symptoms women are too often told to push through. Learn more: https://drbrighten.com/adhdandwomen 🎧 Podcast: https://drbrighten.com/podcast 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrJoleneBrighten 📝 Show notes: https://drbrighten.com/podcast/adhd-medication-and-your-period/ In this conversation, Dr. Jolene Brighten, board-certified in naturopathic endocrinology, nutrition scientist, and author of ADHD and Women, talks with board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Agnes Kwan Simone, board-certified pediatric psychologist Dr. Anne-Louise Lockhart, and Annika Joya, MS, author of The Eat to Focus Cookbook, about ADHD medication, nutrition, menstrual-cycle changes, and PMDD. ABOUT THE GUESTS 🎓 Annika Joya, MS, is the author of The Eat to Focus Cookbook and shares science communication about ADHD nutrition. Website: https://nutrimindlab.com/ | Links: https://linktr.ee/nutrimindcoach 🧠 Dr. Agnes Kwan Simone is a board-certified psychiatrist with practices in general psychiatry and women’s midlife mental health. Website: https://www.simonepsych.com/ 🌱 Dr. Anne-Louise Lockhart is a pediatric psychologist, board-certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology, and author of Love the Teen You Have. Website: https://drannlouiselockhart.com/ | Links: https://linktr.ee/dr.annlouise.lockhart 🔗 RESOURCES & FOLLOW 🌿 Radiant Mind: https://drbrightenessentials.com/products/radiant-mind 🌐 Dr. Jolene Brighten: https://drbrighten.com 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjolenebrighten 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drjolenebrighten 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrJoleneBrighten 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drjolenebrighten 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolenebrighten 📣 If this conversation helped, please like, share it with someone who may need it, and subscribe for more episodes. Leave a comment with what you’d like us to cover next. This episode is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for individualized medical or mental health care. Discuss diagnosis, medication, and treatment decisions with a qualified clinician. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 5 min
  • Psychiatrists Warning: ADHD Relationships, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and Building a Life That Works

    Psychiatrists Warning: ADHD Relationships, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and Building a Life That Works
    Oct 13 2026
    ADHD rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD), women’s mental load, and the relationship fights that never seem to end—this episode explores how ADHD can affect communication, friendship, intimacy, and the stories we tell ourselves about being “too much.” View the full show notes and resources at DrBrighten.com: https://drbrighten.com/podcast/adhd-and-relationships/ Before we get into today’s episode: ADHD and Women is officially out https://amzn.to/4mPBO2x, and I am so deeply grateful for every person who has bought the book, shared it, posted about it, recommended it to a friend, or simply sent me a note of support. You are helping change the conversation around women, hormones, and ADHD—and I do not take that lightly. And if you are a midlife woman whose brain suddenly feels like it is struggling—more forgetful, scattered, emotionally reactive, exhausted, or unable to focus—this book is for you, too. Perimenopause can look and feel a whole lot like ADHD, and you deserve answers that go deeper than “you’re just stressed.” In episode three of our ADHD in Women series, Dr. Jolene Brighten is joined by, Dr. Agnes Kwon Simone, board-certified psychiatrist, Annika Angelo, MS, and Leann Borneman, LCSW for an honest, practical conversation about building relationships and systems that work with your brain—not against it. You’ll learn why “just tell me what to do” can create more mental load, how to distinguish an ADHD explanation from an excuse, what rejection sensitivity can look like in real life, why friendships can feel so hard to maintain, and how executive function can affect sexual desire and connection. 💛 If this episode helps you feel seen, please like, share, and subscribe. It helps more women find evidence-informed conversations about ADHD, hormones, and mental health. 🎧 In this episode 🧠 Mental load is not just doing the task. It is noticing, remembering, planning, delegating, following up, and ensuring the task is actually complete. 💬 Shared language changes relationships. When both people can name the barrier, they can stop treating each other like the problem and start designing a better system. 💛 You are not a bad friend because you struggle with follow-through. But communication, repair, and choosing friendships that make room for your actual brain matter. ❤️ Desire is not always spontaneous. For many people, stress, task-switching, emotional safety, and executive-function demands can affect their ability to access desire and intimacy. ⚠️ A note on RSD: Rejection sensitive dysphoria is a widely used term to describe intense reactions to perceived rejection or criticism, but it is not a formal psychiatric diagnosis. If mood symptoms, anxiety, trauma responses, or relationship distress are affecting your life, individualized support from a qualified clinician can help. 🔗 Links mentioned in this episode 📚 ADHD and Women by Dr. Jolene Brighten: https://drbrighten.com/adhdandwomen 📝 The Dr. Brighten Show + episode show notes: https://drbrighten.com/podcast 🌐 Dr. Brighten’s website: https://drbrighten.com 👋 Connect with our guests 🩺 Dr. Agnes Kwon Simone | Website: https://www.simonepsych.com📲 Dr. Agnes Kwon Simone | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.agnesksimone 🍓 Annika Angelo, MS | Nutrimind Lab: https://nutrimindlab.com📲 Annika Angelo | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrimindcoach🎙️ Annika Angelo | Linktree: https://linktr.ee/nutrimindcoach 🧠 Dr. Leann Borneman | Website: https://www.bornemancoaching.com📲 Dr. Leann Borneman | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bornemancoaching 💛 Connect with Dr. Jolene Brighten 🌐 Website: https://drbrighten.com 📚 Books: https://drbrighten.com/books 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjolenebrighten 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drjolenebrighten ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrJoleneBrighten 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drjolenebrighten 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolenebrighten This episode is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for individualized medical or mental-health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 11 min
  • ADHD and Hormones in Women: Why Symptoms Change Across Your Cycle and in Perimenopause | Agnes K. Simone & Annika Joya

    ADHD and Hormones in Women: Why Symptoms Change Across Your Cycle and in Perimenopause | Agnes K. Simone & Annika Joya
    Oct 6 2026
    ADHD and hormones are deeply connected, and shifts in estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone may help explain why focus, mood, executive function, and even the experience of ADHD medication can change across the menstrual cycle and during perimenopause. View the full show notes and additional resources at https://drbrighten.com/podcasts/adhd-hormones-in-women/. In this episode of The Dr. Brighten Show, I’m joined by board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Agnes K. Simone, MD and ADHD nutrition researcher Annika Joya, MS, for a conversation about what happens when ADHD meets the menstrual cycle, PMDD, and perimenopause. We talk about why some women feel like they have a completely different brain depending on the week of their cycle, why ADHD medication may feel less effective before a period, how estrogen interacts with dopamine, and why women can reach their 40s and suddenly feel like the systems that worked for decades no longer work. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why the follicular phase may feel easier for some women with ADHD How estrogen and dopamine interact in the ADHD brain Why ADHD medication may feel different during the luteal phase—and why you should not change your dose without speaking with your prescriber What to track for two cycles if your ADHD symptoms or medication response change before your period How sleep, nutrition, stress, and eating consistency can influence how your brain feels What premenstrual exacerbation (PME) is and how it differs from simply having “bad PMS” Why some women describe PMDD as feeling like they become a completely different person before their period Why PMDD isn’t simply a matter of being “low in progesterone” How masking can allow ADHD in women to remain undiagnosed for decades Why ADHD does not suddenly begin at age 45 How perimenopause can affect focus, memory, mood, sleep, and executive function even without classic hot flashes Why a single estrogen or progesterone blood test cannot diagnose perimenopause Why women deserve individualized conversations about hormone therapy, birth control, ADHD medication, and their own symptoms Simple strategies for feeding yourself when executive function is low Practical things you can start doing now when ADHD feels harder during certain parts of your cycle Dr. Simone also explains why an ADHD diagnosis requires looking for symptoms that were present in childhood or adolescence—not simply symptoms that suddenly appeared in midlife. Later, we discuss how masking, life demands, and hormonal changes can collide during perimenopause and make previously effective coping systems stop working. The episode specifically moves from menstrual-cycle changes and medication response into estrogen, dopamine, progesterone sensitivity, PMDD, masking, perimenopause, hormone therapy, and finally a practical “Protocol Playground” for what listeners can start doing now. 🩺 Dr. Jolene BrightenDr. Jolene Brighten is a women’s hormone expert, naturopathic physician, Certified Menopause Society Practitioner, nutrition scientist, certified sex counselor, host of The Dr. Brighten Show, and author of ADHD and Women. 🌐 Dr. Brighten Website: https://drbrighten.com 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjolenebrighten/ 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drjolenebrighten ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrJoleneBrighten 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drjolenebrighten 👩‍⚕️ MEET THE EXPERTS 🧠 Dr. Agnes K. Simone, DO Dr. Simone is a board-certified psychiatrist and founder of Olea Women’s Health, where her work focuses on the intersection of psychiatry, hormones, perimenopause, menopause, cognition, and women’s mental health. Olea Women's Health https://www.oleawomenshealth.com/about-dr-agnes-simone 🌐 Dr. Agnes Simone: https://www.simonepsych.com/ 🌿 Olea Women’s Health: https://www.oleawomenshealth.com/ 🍓 Annika Joya, MS — Nutrimind Lab Annika holds a master’s degree in health psychology and specializes in translating ADHD nutrition research into practical strategies for neurodivergent people. Nutrimind Lab https://nutrimindlab.com/about-annika 🌐 Nutrimind Lab: https://nutrimindlab.com/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenutrimindlab/ 🔗 Annika’s Links: https://linktr.ee/nutrimindlab 📕 ADHD AND WOMEN 🧠 Get ADHD and Women by Dr. Jolene Brighten: https://drbrighten.com/adhd-and-women/ The book dives much deeper into how hormones, the menstrual cycle, perimenopause, nutrition, sleep, stress, and other factors can influence the way ADHD presents in women. 🎁 RETREAT GIFT: If you get ADHD and Women and enter by October 9, one person will receive a gifted spot at my May 2027 retreat. Details and entry are here: https://drbrighten.com/adhd-and-women/ 🌿 SPONSOR + RESOURCES ✨ Dr. Brighten Essentials: https://drbrightenessentials.com/ 📚 Dr. Brighten Books & Resources: https://drbrighten.com/books 🎧 The Dr. Brighten Show: https://drbrighten.com/...
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    52 min
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