GUEST
Annika Angelo
Director, The Nutrimind Lab
APPEARED IN 1 EPISODE
Biography
Annika Angelo is an ADHD nutrition research scientist, communicator, author, speaker, and founder of NutriMind Lab. With a Master's in health psychology and nearly a decade of experience across mental health and behavioural nutrition, Annika translates complex neuroscience and metabolic research into practical insights for neurodivergent individuals. Her work sits at the intersection of science, self-trust, and helping neurodivergent people reconnect with their physical bodies rather than forcing themselves to follow rigid dietary rules. After a period of severe burnout in 2025, driven by rapid platform growth and unacknowledged cognitive strain, Annika stepped back to re-evaluate her personal relationship with food and interoception. This experience led her to develop the Metabolic Communication Model of ADHD, a framework that explores how disrupted stress and metabolic signalling between the brain and body shape ADHD experiences with food, focus, and executive fatigue. She is also the author of Eat To Focus and the host of the Nutritional Mental Health podcast. Annika actively advocates for removing shame from the ADHD nutrition conversation, helping individuals recognise delayed or distorted interoceptive cues for basic needs such as eating, resting, and sleeping. Through NutriMind Lab, she combines metabolic science with nervous system regulation, teaching neurodivergent professionals to build self-trust and sustainable habits.
