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Aspergers In Adults - 3 Drink Problem (Aspergers Symptoms) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  OK, so autism and the three drink problem, what am I talking
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  about? Let's get into it.
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  OK, so there's this really interesting phenomenon that
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  happens with a neuro division people, right?
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  Mainly between people in the autumn inspection.
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  But I have seen this within ADHD individuals, but it's mainly
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  autistic individuals, right? And I call it the three drink
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  problem. Now, as you can see, I have 3
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  drinks next to me right here and I'm going to get into why this
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  is a thing right now. Before I do, just want to let
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  you know my name is Dan and I am autistic and I have ADHD and I
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  do weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  So if you're new around here, you want to learn more and come
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  along this journey with me because I feel like we're good
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  friends now, right? Hit the subscribe button by
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  click on the notification button down below.
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  OK, so the three drink problem, what is it?
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  Well, earlier this year I realized that I found myself
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  having three drinks on the go at any one time.
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  I have water, some kind of like fruit juice or something like
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  that and a hot cup of tea. Now yes, I'm very British and
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  I'm going to have tea. I mean, it could be coffee if I
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  was American. I have a free autism Wifax PDF
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  book that you can download right now from autismtips.net.
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  It's completely free. You can go there right now and
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  download it. But why?
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  Why is this a thing now? If I've just called you out and
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  you have 3 drinks on the go, you're watching this right now
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  and you have 3 drinks on the go, right, or at least 2 drinks.
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  I'm calling you out. You've got to give me a thumbs
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  up and call me down below. Mcdan I feel I feel called out.
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  And the reason is autism comes comorbidly, which means it comes
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  Co occurring with sensory processing disorder.
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  Now SPD, as it's more commonly said, is a condition where
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  people will either be sensory seeking or sensory averting,
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  which means that like you may be searching for sensory stimuli
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  from like fidget gadgets or kind of like squish mallows or
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  something fun. It could be a texture.
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  It could be a smell that you're trying to smell.
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  Like. I I love the smell of
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  phyoliters. They're really cool and gasoline
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  smells really good. Not very.
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  They're not very healthy for you to smell these things, but I do
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  like the smell of them, but also taste of things.
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  Some things have high food, you know, aversions from smelling
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  and tasting things, but also have high food sensory seeking.
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  So sometimes I like to have like jello or Jelly in my mouth
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  because like it just feels really good in your mouth.
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  And the same with like ice cold water.
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  Ice cold water always, you know, feels really, really good in
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  your mouth. So what happens when you're
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  sensory seeking or you're sensory averting?
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  When you're sensory averting, it's moving away from pain and
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  towards pleasure, right? Because you're going away from
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  the thing that's causing your pain, going towards things
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  'cause you pleasure. This allows you a drip feed of
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  dopamine. Now dopamine is a hormone that
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  gets released into your brain when you, it's kind of like a
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  reward for something that is that you feel happy about.
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  And that dopamine is a great feeling and everyone on the
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  autism spectrum is dopamine deficient, which means we're
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  constantly dopamine hungry. We're constantly searching for
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  dopamine. Hence why autistic and ADHD
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  individuals may get hooked on things like gambling, smoking,
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  drinking alcohol, drugs, sex, pornography, you name it.
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  It goes on for a long time now. All those things because we have
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  addictive behaviors. The only reason we are addicted
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  to these things or have addictive tendencies is because
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  we are seeking dopamine. Now there are many ways to get
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  dopamine. One of the most easy ways to get
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  dopamine, I think for autistic individuals is to surround
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  yourself with the thing that you have, which is your special
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  interest. Now people on the autism
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  spectrum obviously have a special interest like mine is
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  social media marketing and conspiracy theories and all that
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  kind of cool stuff. I just want to interject in this
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  video here to let you know that confidence is one of the main
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  issues that holds autistic individuals back from their full
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  potential. This is why I read a course
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  which is the Chaos to confidence in 90 days blueprint, which
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  means I can take an autistic person from complete chaos to
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  being very confident and acing their life.
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  So if you're an autistic adult and you want access to this
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  program, you can check it out. The link is in description and
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  down below or you can go to the aspyworld.com/C 2C right now,
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  the number 2 and get access to this program.
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  But also it gives me dopamine, right?
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  When I have those, when I sit down and I watch a documentary
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  on aliens or something, like it gives me lots of dopamine and I
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  feel really refreshed. Or if I'm learning, I'm reading
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  a book or listening to a book, because obviously I'm dyslexic.
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  Reading is quite hard. So I'm listening to a book, I'm
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  getting loads of dopamine and I'm like, yes, I'm learning
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  constantly. I have a thirst for learning,
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  right? So we're always moving towards
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  kind of wanting to get more dopamine.
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  So why is this apparent? What is the three drink problem?
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  Well, it's not really a problem. It's not something to solve, but
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  it's something to really understand or just think.
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  Individuals who have sensory processing disorder comorbidly
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  or Co occurring alongside of will want to have three
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  different experiences. Like when I'm sitting down and
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  I'm drinking, I like to have tea because tea is kind of like it's
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  warm and it's cool. It's not cool at all actually.
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  It's very warm, but it's calming to me.
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  It's like I, I, you know, the, the, the warmth of the water is
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  really calming to me and it just is nice to sip on and it kind of
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  gives you a little bit of like brain focus, but also gives me
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  lots of dopamine at the same time.
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  I'm actually seeking something that is fruity, a bit more
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  sugary or something that's just a little bit more kind of going
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  to give you a bit of a punch, right?
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  So I like Gatorade Powerade prime again.
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  Now this is one of the new ones, but it's really, really good and
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  also everyone's favorite water. And why do I have water?
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  Because water gives me it quenches my thirst, right,
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  because I'm trying to I'm drinking all these things and
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  and I need the water to quench like this.
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  Now, what normally happens? I do it in an order the tea will
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  be cooling down, I'll drink all the juice and then I'll sip the
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  tea and then I'll have the water alongside it.
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  So I have like a nice balance of hot to cold.
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  And this happens all the time. So when I go to a bar, if I'm,
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  you know, if we go to the bar to have food or something, we go to
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  a restaurant to have food, which doesn't happen that often
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  because century of visions. But when we do go to places like
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  that, I will always order a tap water.
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  And then I'll always order kind of like some fun drink, like a,
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  a ginger ale or like an orange juice or something like that.
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  And then at the end of the, you know, during the end of the
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  after we've eaten, I'll order some tea because having a hot
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  drink with your like hot food is such a boomer thing to do.
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  Have you guys noticed that? Like if you go to like
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  McDonald's or something, it's always the older generation who
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  are having like coffee with like a Big Mac Like I, I've no idea
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  why that makes sense. Like if you are as equally
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  confused about that as I am, probably comment down below and
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  let me know. So this is the three drink
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  problem, but is it really a problem?
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  I don't think so. I think having three drinks on
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  the go is a good thing because it keeps you hydrated and we all
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  need to be hydrated, but it's also giving you dopamine.
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  So what happens when you get dopamine from all these drinks?
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  Well, the cool thing is that when you have dopamine slow
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  release over a period of time, because all these drinks are
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  going to take you, you know, way over an hour to complete.
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  You know, the water will last you all day.
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  The tea is going to give you, you know, a good 20 minutes
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  drinking this and enjoying it. And the juice could last you all
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  day too. And so you're getting a little
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  spurt of dopamine all the way through.
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  Why is this good? Because the three drink problem
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  actually gives you access to dopamine throughout the day and
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  slow release dopamine, meaning that you're constantly being
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  topped up, meaning that you have the ability to stay focused and
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  really kind of home in on the things that you want to do.
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  And one of the most interesting things is, is say I don't have
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  a, a fruit just drink. I'll have a caffeinated drink or
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  even the tea sometimes is caffeinated.
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  And why is it good for people on the autumn spectrum to have
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  caffeine with within their three drink problem?
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  Well, caffeine actually helps autistic individuals calm down
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  because autistic individuals like ADHD individuals will have
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  lots of stimulant inside their body anyway.
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  They're kind of like quite wound up and like, as you can tell, I
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  talk fast because I've always wound up.
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  They actually treat ADHD with stimulants, right?
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  With amphetamine. Why?
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  Because when you flood your body with more amphetamine, more
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  stimulants, then your body will produce serotonin, which is
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  another hormone that will help regulate the calmness and and
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  the relaxing feeling. So if you're having caffeine and
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  caffeinated drinks within a three drink problem, you're
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  actually doing yourself a good service because you're actually
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  giving your body something that's going to help it.
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  If you're on the autism spectrum of ADHD, you're going to help
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  yourself focus, you're going to give yourself dopamine.
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  That's a good thing. I have rate the three drink
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  problem and I think this is great.
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  Now, if you also agree, pop in a comment down below saying, Dan,
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  I'm part of the three drink problem crew.
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  You're amazing. This is awesome.
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  Now, guys, if you want me to do more information on the most
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  bizarre things like this, drop me a comment down below.
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  I'd love to read all the all the thoughts that you have going on.
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  All right, guys, peace. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  checking out this podcast. Make sure you are subscribed
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  one. Peace.