Kylie Smart - ADHD & Women's Health Naturopath

Kylie Smart - ADHD & Women's Health Naturopath ♾️ AuDHD
✨Personalised Wellness Support for ADHD, Hormones and Anxiety
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27/08/2026

Just doing my bit to retrain their algorithm 😂

“ADHD. Autism. Hormones. Perimenopause. Protein for breakfast. EMDR. Rhodiola. L-theanine. Saffron.”

Client leaves the room for 30 seconds and I’m straight onto their phone trying to fix their feed.

If their algorithm isn’t elite after this, I’ve got nothing.

25/08/2026

🚫 Not every ADHD supplement is worth adding to your routine. Some may do very little for your child, while others may not be appropriate alongside certain medications.
👩‍⚕️ I see this all the time — families trying one recommendation after another from social media, only to feel even more confused and overwhelmed.

So, what should you actually look out for? 👇

⚠️ Things I’d think twice about:
❌ 5-HTP — may interact with certain medications
❌ “Parasite cleanses” — often unnecessary and potentially harsh
❌ Low-quality multivitamins — check the forms and doses of key nutrients
❌ Omega-3 gummies — may not provide enough EPA/DHA
❌ Artificial colours & flavours — some children may be sensitive to them

✅ Nutrients worth discussing with your practitioner:
💊 High-EPA Omega-3 — may support mood, attention and overall brain health
💊 Magnesium — commonly used to support relaxation and nervous-system function
💊 Active B vitamins — B6, B12 and folate play important roles in neurotransmitter pathways
💊 Tyrosine — involved in dopamine production, but isn’t right for everyone

💡 The goal isn’t to take more supplements — it’s choosing the right ones, in the right form, for the right person.

👇 Comment SUPPLEMENTS and I’ll send you my free ADHD supplement guide!

25/08/2026

For most of my life, I thought I just needed to try a little harder.

At school, I felt like the weird kid on the outside — like everyone else had somehow figured out the rules and I’d missed the memo.

So I worked harder.

And for a long time, it worked.

I did well at school, studied engineering and landed my dream job. I was good at the difficult projects — the ones that needed thinking outside the box, problem solving, managing people and, occasionally, being a little bit abrasive 😂

Until eventually, working harder stopped working.

I started making mistakes.
I was having anxiety attacks.
The coping mechanisms I’d relied on for years weren’t helping anymore.

And in a very ADHD move, I quit engineering and started studying naturopathy.

Turns out, constantly wanting to learn something new was a bit of a clue too.

As I moved into mental health and women’s health, I became increasingly fascinated by ADHD. And the more I listened to my clients, the more I kept thinking…

Hang on. That sounds a lot like me.

My clients were actually what eventually led me to seek my own ADHD diagnosis.

And now I get to work with women who have spent years thinking they just need to **try harder** too.

Women struggling with their focus, moods, hormones, gut health, overwhelm and coping strategies that just aren’t working anymore.

I know that feeling incredibly well.

And this is exactly why I do what I do. 💚

24/08/2026

Hey, I’m Kylie — your go-to ADHD naturopath 👋💁‍♀️ I help women understand their ADHD + hormones so they can feel more like themselves again. 💫

I see it all the time — brain fog, exhaustion, meds not quite cutting it… and often, low iron is part of the picture.

🧪 Low iron = low dopamine = more fatigue, fog, and focus struggles.
📉 Research shows many ADHDers have low ferritin levels.
🩸 And if you have a period? You’re losing iron every month — especially with heavy bleeding.

💡 Studies even show symptoms improve when iron levels go up.

This is why I always look at blood tests with my ADHD clients. There’s often more going on under the surface.

📩 Want my full list of the blood tests I recommend?
👇 Comment “Blood Tests” and I’ll send it to you!

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23/08/2026

Histamine isn’t just an allergy thing 👀

It’s also a **neurotransmitter** — which means when histamine is running high, it may show up as much more than itchy skin, hay fever or a runny nose.

Think:
⚡ Anxiety or feeling wired
😴 Trouble falling or staying asleep
🧠 Brain fog, focus and attention issues
😵‍💫 Headaches or migraines
🔥 Hormonal symptoms that seem to flare with your cycle
💩 Gut symptoms, bloating or food reactions

And this is why I don’t love looking at histamine in isolation.

Sometimes genetics may influence how efficiently you produce, break down and clear histamine. Sometimes the gut is contributing — including changes in the microbiome and certain histamine-producing bacteria. And quite often, there are multiple things happening at once.

A low-histamine diet can sometimes be useful **temporarily** to reduce the overall load.

But I don’t want someone living on an increasingly tiny list of “safe foods” forever.

The better question is:

**Why is histamine becoming a problem for you in the first place?**

That’s the part we investigate.

If you’re wondering whether histamine could be contributing to your symptoms, **comment CHECKLIST below and I’ll send you my free Histamine Checklist** so you can see what signs to look out for. 🌿

20/08/2026

Creatine isn’t just for gym bros 👀

It’s actually one of the most underrated supplements I use when thinking about ADHD, brain energy and mental health.

Your brain uses a LOT of energy every day, and creatine helps support the production of ATP — basically the energy currency your cells use.

It can also help conserve SAMe, which is important for methylation and plays a role in things like dopamine production and histamine clearance.

And for women, creatine may be especially useful across different hormonal stages where energy demands and creatine metabolism can shift.

Plus, yes — you still get the benefits the gym bros love too:
better muscle energy, recovery and reduced fatigue.

A typical daily dose is around **3–5 g per day**.

And no, it’s not suddenly going to turn you into a bodybuilder 😂

If you want to know more about the supplements I recommend for ADHD, comment **SUPPLEMENTS** and I’ll send you my free guide.

18/08/2026

If you have ADHD, your blood tests came back “normal”, but you’re still exhausted, overwhelmed, foggy or struggling with your mood… go back and look at your B12.

A B12 result in the 200s may still fall within the lab reference range, but that doesn’t always mean we ignore it — especially when symptoms are telling us something isn’t quite right.

B12 is involved in:
* energy production
* red blood cell formation and oxygen transport
* methylation
* neurotransmitter pathways
* hormone metabolism
* mood, concentration and cognitive function

And if B12 is sitting low, I want to know why.

Are you getting enough from food?

Are you absorbing it properly?

Are gut issues getting in the way?

Are there genetic factors affecting how you utilise different forms of B12?

This is exactly why I don’t just look for whether a blood result has a little red flag next to it — I look at the result alongside the person sitting in front of me.

Want my free guide to the blood tests I commonly look at with my ADHD clients?

Comment BLOOD TEST and I’ll send it through. 🩸

16/08/2026

Perimenopause is **not just hot flushes and changing periods**.

For a lot of women, the biggest changes are happening in their **mood, anxiety, sleep and brain function**.

Research suggests that around **1 in 3 women may experience a significant depressive episode during the menopause transition**, while anxiety can also increase substantially.

Now add ADHD into the mix.

Many ADHD women already have a history of anxiety, low mood, emotional dysregulation or overwhelm — and then perimenopause brings fluctuating oestrogen, which can influence dopamine, serotonin and the way the brain regulates mood.

Suddenly you might feel:

• More anxious than you’ve ever been
• Depressed seemingly out of nowhere
• Emotionally overwhelmed
• Unable to cope with things you previously managed
• Like your ADHD has become significantly harder

And yet nobody has mentioned perimenopause because you’re not having hot flushes.

If this is happening to you, **please talk to someone**. Your GP, psychologist, naturopath, or someone you trust. You deserve proper support through this transition.

And if you want to understand more about the overlap between **ADHD + perimenopause**, comment **PERI** and I’ll send you my free download 💛

15/08/2026

Histamine is not just about allergies.

It is also a brain chemical, and a new study published in Nature Mental Health has mapped histamine-related pathways in the human brain.

This matters for ADHD research because the study found histamine-related gene expression in brain regions linked with emotional regulation, anxiety, sleep, impulsivity, cognition, reward and attention.

Sound familiar?

The really interesting part is that these histamine patterns overlapped with brain regions previously linked with structural differences in ADHD brains.

This does not mean histamine “causes” ADHD.

But it does add another important piece to the puzzle and supports what many of us are seeing clinically: ADHD is not just dopamine.

It is neurotransmitters, inflammation, hormones, sleep, genetics, gut health and the way these systems interact.

If you’re curious about how histamine might be impacting your ADHD, comment CHECKLIST and I’ll send you the download.

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