About this episode

Linda Roggli discusses the impact of estrogen on women with ADHD, particularly during perimenopause, and shares her insights from years of research and coaching.

--- Register today for our upcoming webinar: Webinar: Stop Starting Over! Why Your Planning Keeps Falling Apart — June 15, 2026, 4 pm PT/7 pm ET https://takecontroladhd.com/gps --- Here’s a story a lot of women know. You’ve been getting by — maybe not perfectly, but you’ve been getting by. And then something shifts. Suddenly the coping strategies that used to work don’t. The brain fog is different. The irritability is new. And nobody around you — including your doctor — seems to have a particularly good answer for why. For women with ADHD, the answer is often estrogen. And for too long, that connection has been wildly undertreated. Linda Roggli has been living this story and researching it and coaching women through it for twenty years. She’s the founder of the ADDiva Network for ADHD Women 40 and Better, and she joins Pete and Nikki to trace the whole arc: what estrogen actually does for the dopamine-depleted ADHD brain, what happens when it starts its perimenopause roller coaster, why the Women’s Health Initiative study scared a generation of women away from hormone therapy that could have helped them, and what the science now says about timing, delivery methods, and who it’s…

People in this episode

Hosts: Pete, Nikki

Guest: Linda Roggli

Topics covered

• ADHD in women
• hormone therapy
• estrogen and ADHD
• perimenopause
• mental health
• coaching

Keywords

• ADHD
• estrogen
• perimenopause
• women's health
• hormone therapy
• brain fog
• dopamine
• coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ADDiva Network

Books & works: Driven to Distraction

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