Yes, and lots of people in lower income countries do so using a Bluetooth keyboard.

Never had a chance with that necklace. And ceramics are hard. Nice game though, I enjoyed it!

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Bless you for trying anyway. They're truly precious, and I appreciate holding tiny sleeping babies takes absolute priority over photos.

I'm going to need more of these. Many more.

It's a recap. I'm glad they're still reporting on it at all but for anyone else who kept up with the previous coverage, you won't find anything here you haven't seen.

I got the opportunity to rescue some baby plovers years ago when I was at work. They'd fallen down a storm water drain and just needed someone to lift the very heavy grate and scoop them out (and cover the drain a little to prevent it happening again later).

They looked like cotton balls, were not much larger than a couple of them, and they didn't weigh much more than that either. I knew birds were light but it gave me even more of an appreciation for just how light they are.

I'm pleased to say that brood made it to adulthood. Thanks for reminding me of that experience!

I don't think you're wrong about the inflammation, because naphthoquinones are anti-oxidants, and anti-oxidants are anti-inflammatory.

So, when dopamine or whatever else oxidizes into quinone form, they go and cause damage. This is "oxidative stress", a term frequently co-opted by snake oil merchants, but it's a real thing. When your body experiences oxidative stress, it triggers inflammation. Anti-oxidants help prevent oxidative stress by converting things like dopamine quinone back to catechol form, so they aren't wreaking havoc. Converting it back to catechol also means it can do what dopamine is supposed to be doing for you. So you get both less inflammation, and the usable dopamine you need, which helps your ADHD.

Inflammation and oxidative stress is also a self-perpetuating cycle - inflammation will cause oxidative stress and vice versa. So how much of your experience might be from reducing inflammation and how much is from having higher concentration of usable dopamine is not easy to determine - if it is any of this at all.

There are some very benign experiments you can try with your diet if you're interested. Natto is one of them, increasing the amount of leafy greens you eat like spinach (with a source of fat at the same time) is another, ideally alongside other colourful fruit and veg. If those also make you feel better, it may well be the quinones. If they don't, it could still be the quinones, but something else might be contributing from the lapacho or your body. I do know from my own experience that when my diet has a lot of diverse fruit and veg that my symptoms also reduce, but... It's hard to keep that up, for obvious reasons, so I'm actually interested in trying this tea myself.

Just don't accidentally take your ADHD meds within 30mins to an hour of eating fruit high in Vitamins C, especially citrus. It won't kill you or anything, but there is undesirable interaction.

science is not that interested in it after they made “cure for cancer” claims

I wouldn't be so sure about that. It seems β-Lapachone is still being very actively studied for its anti-cancer properties. It's clearly not a silver bullet, but almost nothing ever is.

ADHD studies are just not as attractive a research topic, especially compared to cancer, so despite the link between ADHD and oxidative stress / inflammation being relatively established, I doubt lapacho will be studied for this anytime soon.

The theobromine another person speculated might be part of it, but then you might experience similar from dark chocolate.

My speculation is the quinones and ortho-quinones; they're anti oxidants. Dopamine and serotonin both oxidize into quinone forms. In the quinone form, it seems they inhibit dopamine transport and slow cellular energy production, along with damaging some other stuff along the way.

But by introducing quinones from dietary sources, those steal the oxygen back from the dopamine quinone form to revert it back to its original catechol form.

Plant quinones aren't hugely bioavailable though, and are not water soluble (they are absorbed in the small intestine), so it might not be this at all, especially because tea, or maybe it's only partly this.

Given that you have a "temperamental" gut though, it could be affecting absorption of the other many quinones in lots of different foods. Perhaps have a look at how many different kinds of Vitamin K there are in foods and how much you get in your diet of each. (Ever tried natto? It's an acquired taste though...)

but my trust in the scientific method is very strong

There's trust in the scientific method, and then there's actively dismissing what your body is signalling. If you want to get hardcore, try ruling out your water intake hypothesis by brewing a different kind of tea for a few weeks. Try ruling out your good mood hypothesis by actively forcing yourself to make the tea when you're feeling shitty. Or asking your partner (if available) to brew it for you. Don't get dangerous with the experiments, of course.

Science is the best we've got, but it's not all-knowing or infallible.