What Causes Your Brain Fog?
25 Jul, 2019
Brain fog feels like
your thoughts are fuzzy and you just can’t focus. You forget things and get
confused easily. It’s not normal and it’s not pleasant.
If you’ve had brain fog once, it’s no big deal. But if you’re having it on a
regular basis, you need to figure out why and do something about it.
One of the biggest causes of brain fog is the food that you’re eating.
5 Foods that Cause Brain Fog
1. Histamines
You may have heard of histamines. They are what cause allergy symptoms. People take antihistamine drugs during allergy season to fight the effects of pollen in the air.
But histamines are in foods too, and if you are sensitive to them, they may be causing your brain fog. Foods high in histamine include shellfish, legumes, and tomatoes.
Instead try: eggs, salmon, other fresh produce.
2. Alcohol
Impaired thinking is obvious when it comes to drinking too much, but it can be true with a little alcohol, too. Alcohol contains lots of brain fog triggers, including gluten and histamines.
Instead try: Switching to sparkling water with a squeeze of lemon or lime. If you want to fancy it up, add some fresh berries.
3. Artificial sweeteners
Those handy little packets of aspartame can give you headaches and brain fog. It stops the production of dopamine and can cause inflammation in the brain that leads to long-term damage.
Instead try: Skipping the sweeteners entirely, or use stevia. It’s a natural plant sweetener that doesn’t have negative side effects.
4. Gluten
We all know about the health problems that gluten can cause. But did you know that the inflammation that gluten causes can have an effect on your brain?
Instead try: An alternative flour like almond flour or flaxseed flour.
5. Coffee and Caffeine
You may find it odd that caffeine could cause brain fog. After all, don’t we drink our coffee to wake us up and clear our heads? The problem with caffeine is that once you get used to having it, you become dependent upon it.
That leads to brain fog hitting any time that you go without caffeine for too long. Plus, there is a greater risk of missing out on sleep because the caffeine is keeping you up.
Instead try: Breaking the caffeine cycle by cutting back slowly. Drink plenty of water and switch to decaf or herbal teas. Turmeric tea may give you the energy you miss from caffeine without the brain fog problem.
Brain fog often comes on slowly, so you don’t always recognize you feel it until you remove the foods that cause it from your diet.
Every few weeks I like to do this gentle 3-5 day detox of whole, healing foods to cleanse my body. It clears up my brain fog every time!
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