Cuerpo y mente TDAH: Neurociencia, nutrición y salud del eje intestino-cerebro para cuidarte con amabilidad

by Miguel Toribio-Mateas

An evidence-based exploration of neuroscience, nutrition and the gut-brain connection from a clinical neuroscientist living with ADHD.

This is a book that speaks to both your biology and your belonging. It's a unique, neurodiversity-affirmative resource that:

· Reframes ADHD as a natural neurotype, a different way of living and making sense of the world, rather than a disorder.

· Expands neuroscience beyond the brain and into the whole body. Showing how gut, microbes, breath, heart, hormones and immune system are always in conversation.

· Reimagines nutrition and gut-brain health through a non-diet lens, offering flexible, compassionate tools that nourish body and mind without rules, shame or restriction.

· Extends gentle invitations, not prescriptions, to honour your ADHD as a whole body-mind experience, rather than reducing it to symptoms to be managed.

In a nutshell, ADHD Body and Mind is a companion, offering space to breathe, reflect, and return to yourself, again and again. It will help you reconnect with your body's natural rhythms, release some of the weight of shame and perfectionism, and discover a way of living with ADHD that feels not just manageable, but meaningful.

Genres: Mental Health

344 pages, Paperback

Published January 14, 2026

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve read a lot of books about ADHD, but very few have made me feel as seen as this one.

What I loved most about ADHD Body and Mind is that it doesn’t separate the science from the human being. Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas writes with real warmth, honesty and vulnerability, but without ever losing the depth of the evidence. The neuroscience, nutrition and gut-brain material is fascinating, but it never feels cold or detached. It feels like science being written about by someone who understands what it means to live inside a sensitive, complicated, brilliant and sometimes exhausted nervous system. That resonated immediately.

I also really appreciated the stories woven through the book, including Miguel’s own lived experience and the experiences of the people featured throughout. Those stories made the science easier to understand, but more importantly, they made it feel real. This is not a book that talks down to people with ADHD. It talks with us.

As a trans woman with ADHD, I found something here that I rarely find in books about neurodivergence: visibility. Not as a token mention, but as part of a wider, kinder understanding of identity, nervous system safety, masking, belonging and the many ways ADHD moulds the lives we have had to live. That mattered to me more than I expected. I felt included in the conversation, rather than added as an afterthought.

There is something incredibly generous about this book. It gave me language for things I had felt in my body for years but had never quite been able to explain. It helped me understand my ADHD with more compassion, and it reminded me that I am not a problem to be fixed.

For all those reasons and more, for anyone looking for a book that combines rigorous science with lived experience, emotional honesty and genuine care, I cannot recommend ADHD Body and Mind highly enough. I absolutely loved it. Thank you Miguel for creating it.

[Claire Pettman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some books inform you. Some books find you exactly when your nervous system can’t keep carrying what it has been carrying alone.

ADHD Body and Mind by Dr. Miguel Toribio-Mateas did that for me.

I have read many ADHD books, but this one felt different — softer, deeper, kinder. It didn’t make me feel like a list of symptoms to manage or a problem to solve. It made me feel understood as a whole human being living inside an overwhelmed body.

Page after page, I felt seen in the exhaustion, the emotional chaos, the constant dysregulation, the years of self-blame, and the silent grief that can come with trying so hard for so long.

What Dr. Miguel offers is more than science — he offers compassion. And for many of us with ADHD, that compassion is medicine.

This book made me cry, not because it was sad, but because it named things my body has known for years and reminded me that healing was never going to come from pushing harder.

It comes from understanding.
From nourishment.
From gentleness.
From finally meeting ourselves without shame.

I am so deeply grateful for this book and for Dr. Miguel’s humanity in writing it.

If you live with ADHD and feel chronically tired from fighting your own mind and body, please read this.

You deserve this kind of understanding. 🤍

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

[Daniel OShaughnessy · Rating 5 out of 5]

He seguido el trabajo de Dr Miguel Mateas desde hace tiempo. De hecho, fue clave para que pudiera reconocer y finalmente recibir mi diagnóstico de TDAH. Me ayudó a entender que mi cerebro simplemente funciona de forma diferente, no que esté roto ni que necesite ser arreglado.

Como explica tan bien este libro, el verdadero cambio ocurre cuando aprendes a trabajar con tu cerebro en lugar de luchar contra él. Recibir este diagnóstico ha sido completamente transformador para mi vida, y gran parte de ese cambio ha venido de aplicar las ideas y el enfoque que se comparten aquí.

Lo que realmente distingue a este libro es su mirada compasiva. Integra neurociencia, nutrición y estrategias de estilo de vida de una forma práctica, sólida y profundamente humana. Sea cual sea el punto en el que te encuentres en tu camino con el TDAH, o incluso si simplemente sientes curiosidad por entenderte mejor, este libro es una herramienta esencial.

Muchas gracias, Dr Miguel.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought ADHD Body and Mind because my partner has ADHD, and I wanted to understand their experience better. I expected useful information, but I didn’t expect the book to change the way I see some of the everyday things that can create tension in our relationship.

The science is clear and accessible, without feeling simplistic. It helped me understand behaviours I had sometimes taken personally, such as overwhelm, inconsistency, sensitivity, impulsivity or needing time to recover. Seeing these through the lens of the nervous system, rather than as character flaws or lack of effort, has made a real difference.

What I appreciated most is that the book is compassionate without being sentimental. It has helped me become more patient, more curious, and kinder in the way I respond to my partner. It’s a rich, thoughtful and very human guide, not only for people with ADHD, but for those of us who love them.

[Ro U]

I picked this up hoping for something that went a little deeper than the usual ADHD self-help fare, and it mostly delivered. The neurodiversity-affirming tone is consistent throughout and genuinely refreshing. It doesn't frame ADHD as a deficit to be managed so much as a different neurotype to understand, and that reframe alone made it feel worth reading.

The one thing worth flagging is that the line between established research and the author's own interpretation gets blurry in places. The book presents itself as evidence-based, and largely it is, but it drifts into personal opinion at times without being fully upfront about that shift. Worth going in aware of.

Overall, if you're looking for something that takes the science seriously while also making you feel like your brain isn't broken, this is a good one.

Thank you Netgalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for the ARC!

[Beverley Horner · Rating 5 out of 5]

For someone with ADHD myself, this book was wonderful. Having someone explain, in such a constructive and compassionate way the nuances of ADHD was life affirming, freeing and, at times, emotional. A must for those with loved ones with ADHD/ neurodiversity too. So much invaluable information. Loved it 👏🏻Thank you Dr Miguel.