6 Tips to Clear Brain Fog - YouTube

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• what is brain fog well most of us have experienced it and it's not a clinical term but in general it refers to a constellation of symptoms that include reduced cognition or difficulty thinking inability to concentrate and multitask as well as a loss of short and or long-term memory you know those days where you just feel like every time you want to say something it's right on the tip of your 00:38 tongue but you can't come up with it or you try to remember something and it just goes in one ear and out the other that may be brain fog brain fog

• our brain is really susceptible to fog let's just put it that way

• tip one for clearing brain fog is to pay 01:22 attention to your circadian rhythms they're important and it's not just about sleep circadian rhythms regulate the flow and and amounts of hormones throughout our system it regulates just about every part of our body one of the things that can happen

• some people when they wake up and they feel kind of foggy they'll drink caffeine and it gives them energy and they feel a little bit better well that's true caffeine can bind to some of those adenosine receptors but the research is repeatedly shown that while it makes us feel a little bit more energetic it actually does nothing caffeine does nothing to improve our cognitive functioning our higher order thinking we just feel a little more energetic

• cortisol and neurotransmitter changes from time changes or being exposed to Too Much blue light too late in the day or a lack of sunlight can also contribute to changes in circadian rhythms

• have a routine generally do the same things at roughly the same time

• try to go to sleep about the same time each night most of the time and get up about the same time each day most of 03:14 the time and try to have a sleep routine so you do the same two or three things each night before going to bed that cues your brain in that hey it's time to start winding down

• blue light blockers can be really helpful you can get non-prescription clear glasses that have blue light blockers in them that can help you can also get filters for your television your computer your mobile devices that start blocking blue light at a certain time of day generally you want to start doing it at least two hours before bed that can really help prevent disruption of your circadian rhythms

• making sure that during the day when it's supposed to be daytime you are in an area that has bright light and pay attention to your sleep hygiene