Diet Coke Hack To Controlling ADHD

Fred Grott
4 min readMay 17, 2023

You probably did not know in all this Adderall shortage that you could temporarily control your ADHD with diet Coke. Let me show you how diet Coke works in terms of your ADHD and how to fine tune it.

Active Ingredients In Diet Coke

There are two active ingredients in Diet Coke that affect ADHD:

-Caffeine

-Phenylalanine

Caffeine competitively binds to adenosine receptors, which then prevents adenosine from down regulating dopamine and norepinephrine. Norepinephrine pertains to alertness, whereas dopamine corresponds to mind focus. While phenylalanine is the building block to synthesize dopamine and norepinephrine.

The result when trying this when you do not have any Adderall is a feeling of focus. And at the same time a push-pulled feeling and of course the other effects of consuming 2 liters of diet coke in 2-days. Namely, high blood pressure and problems sleeping.

Can we refine and tune this to better results? Well, let me show you.

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Fred Grott
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