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Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Post by dinkleberg »

The ultimate "tool" for elevated focus for me is napping. A quick 20 min nap completely resets my mind so I don't have whatever random thoughts floating around.

If you are more disciplined than me, meditation in place of napping could work. But napping is easier and more enjoyable to me.

As for brain fog itself, I think proper nutrition is very important. Our body needs many different micronutrients to operate at optimal capacity and many peoples' diets don't meet these.

Lastly, I don't know how true this is, but a chiropractor told me that poor neck posture can result in reduced blood flow to the brain which can reduce your cognitive capacity (i.e. feeling of brain fog).

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Post by underwater »

Mental fog, for me, is a physical symptom of stress and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with having a clean workspace. This article reads like self-help fluff.

The solutions I've found are get to enough sleep, try not to fill my day with mentally taxing work or meeting and, in a pinch, drink coffee or take paracetamol.

Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Post by mekoka »

Darkphibre wrote: post #7
the_cat_kittles wrote: post #4

exercise, sleep, eat consistently and drink alot of water

Yup! I've also found what I eat is important. Carbohydrates to be a source of brain fog as I get older. I've also found cutting them out to 0g/day seems to increase anxiety for me (studies have shown reducing it below a certain amount... 50g?... definitely increases cortisol, a stress hormone). So finding a good balance in the diet is key.

The temptation is great and common to go cold turkey or gung ho and I don't claim to know anything about your particular protocol, but my own observations lead me to believe that the body can adapt to some unusual regiments quite nicely, if you allow it time and space.

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Post by fourier456 »

anotherhue wrote: post #10

From the same folks: "So you're an Engineer and you think you're burned out?" https://techteam.thriveglobal.com/so-youre-an-engineer-and-y... [am the author]

At the end...“This article was written entirely by GPT-3”...are you also GPT-3?

Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Post by ma2rten »

underwater wrote: post #12

Mental fog, for me, is a physical symptom of stress and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with having a clean workspace. This article reads like self-help fluff. The solutions I've found are get to enough sleep, try not to fill my day with mentally taxing work or meeting and, in a pinch, drink coffee or take paracetamol.

Mental fog, for me, is a physical symptom of stress and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with having a clean workspace.

The first sentence of the article is "mess creates stress". I don't see a contradiction. It could be that article is wrong, but I have heard many people express that sentiment. If you have evidence that it's not true, I would like to see it.

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