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Diet Coke Gave This Developer ADHD

Fred Grott
5 min readAug 18, 2021

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Switched from Coke to Diet Coke and found out I have ADHD. Would it not be nice if Coca-Cola had a warning label?

Do you see such a warning this drink causes ADHD?

o how does one get ADHD by switching from Coca-Cola to Diet Coke?

First, you have to have several decades of self-loathing mixed into decades of life failures such as flunking out of two Universities, including a Molecular Biology program at Purdue University. The mix that in with several decades of boring job failures and not soaring in life.

Then one day I switched from drinking Coca-Cola to Diet Coke and got this very alert and foggy at the same time feeling and could not sleep for 24-hours. And here is the weird thing, I was in-fact overdosing. Who knew!

It’s not exactly how some quacks claim that stimulants in sodas can give someone ADHD. The truth is a bit stranger.

How DOes ADHD Happen

How does ADHD happen? In the past, people thought that ADHD was a deficiency in either dopamine neuron receptor expression or the body being deficient in making dopamine. On top of that, we have a noise

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Fred Grott
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