My patients sometimes complain they frequently lose their train of thought or otherwise feel mentally “fuzzy.”
I know this feeling all too well.
For lack of a better word, my brain felt broken!
Lack of focus?
Heavy metals may be to blame.
Eventually, I discovered I suffered from mercury toxicity and was completely exhausted from overworking.
My brain health suffered the most.
I had terrible brain fog and couldn’t focus for long periods of time.
That’s when I discovered functional medicine.
One huge benefit I experienced when I reversed chronic fatigue syndrome was how well my brain improved.
Over the years, I fine-tuned my approach for a sharper, faster, and better brain.
I want you to experience this same transformation.
Whatever your situation might be, optimal brain health creates more opportunities and makes life better.
Learn how to manage your energy without stimulants.
We don’t connect our behaviors and choices with how we feel, and broken brains often result.
Once you make those connections, you could change these and other daily decisions.
We’re exposed to too much poor-quality food, stress, toxins, and allergens.
Here’s your brain-boosting diet strategy:
1.
That means whole, organic, fresh, local, and unprocessed food.
If it has a label or a bar code, you should probably avoid it.
If your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize it, don’t eat it.
Processed junk foods mostly exist in the middle aisles of the grocery stores, so avoid those aisles!
Eat lots of colorful fruits and vegetables.
These colorful superfoods come loaded with brain-boosting stuff like phytonutrients.
Eat plenty of healthy fat.
I provide an excellent, detailedhealthy-fatsplan in my bookEat Fat, Get Thin.
Fat is actually very good for your brain.
When you lose muscle, you age faster and your brain takes a huge hit!
(Lox, anyone?)
Limit exposure to potentially damaging toxins.
For me, mercury toxicity was the issue.
Yours might be bad gut bugs or hidden food allergies.
If you feel like you’ve tried everything, consider working with a functional medicine practitioner to dig deeper.
