Brain fog can sneak up on you… the early signs of brain fog are when your head hits the pillow and you feel tired but wired…
You start having a hard time falling or staying asleep…
Then you wake up and you have difficulty concentrating… you’re not able to focus…
You get that feeling of “I’m not a morning person”…
I need coffee first to fully wake up…
It’s like you wake up and walk like a zombie…
You start to forget things…
You walk into a room and forget what you went in there for…
What exactly is happening?
Best Way to Get Rid of Brain Fog is by Improving Sleep
Before I talk about how to improve sleep or how lack of sleep is the root cause of brain fog, let me start by saying that I hated when doctors would tell me “you need to be getting eight hours of sleep”
No 💩 Sherlock!
It’s not from lack of trying that I wasn’t getting enough sleep. I had a hard time falling asleep… on a good night, I’d get a solid four hours of sleep… I’d then be wide awake around 1 am to 3 am, just tossing and turning… if I managed to fall asleep again, I’d wake up with brain fog so horrible I had to use the walls to make my way to the bathroom and kitchen after waking up…
That’s how I knew I needed to improve my sleep… and I found the reason why I wasn’t getting good sleep was because my vitamin D levels were low…
The lowest I tested for was 22ng/dL…
They tried to give me a vitamin D3 supplement where I would take 3,000 to 5,000 IUs, but I found that type of supplement is not natural vitamin D and can cause toxicity from long term use…
So I went searching for natural ways to boost my vitamin D and found the only food that gives you natural vitamin D is fermented cod liver oil…
I started to incorporate this food into my diet and within a few weeks my sleep improved to where I started getting sleep so deep I started having vivid dreams again. That’s something that I didn’t remember experiencing for years…
When your sleep is that deep, you wake up energized with a clear mind ready to take on the day…
Does brain fog affect cognitive function?
When you understand brain fog, you will also start to understand thyroid fatigue and why you gain weight no matter how hard you try to lose it…
Here’s how it works…
When you eat food, that food should be properly digested and broken down into nutrients and vitamins that give you energy…
That’s what should happen if you were to have healthy gut flora…
… but when you don’t have healthy gut flora, then the food you eat doesn’t get properly digested and you don’t get the nutrients you need to produce energy…
What happens instead is that you get gas, bloating or constipation…
That’s one reason why bad gut flora is considered “bad”…
Another reason why bad gut flora is bad for you is because when they digest food for you they produce toxins… those toxins attack the brain…
If you are feeling brain fog, it’s not because of your thyroid, it’s because of the toxins produced by bad gut flora…
What is bad gut flora?
Bad bacteria, yeast overgrowth (candida), mold, parasites, etc.
You could be eating all the right foods, but if you have bad gut flora, you will produce toxins…
Your body will protect itself by storing toxins in your fat cells…
Your body has a fixed amount of fat cells… as your gut flora produces toxins, your fat cells begin to expand as they get stored…
This took me a while to figure out…
I thought I was just aging…
I was doing everything I was being told to do and eating what I though was a healthy diet at the time…
I was eating lean meats and veggies…
I was going dairy-free, gluten-free… avoiding sugar…
I was taking all the thyroid supplements they told me to… iron, selenium, vitamin D3…
No matter what I did I kept gaining weight continuously…
I gained 40 lbs in about a month… I felt so sad…
I wanted my clothes to fit better…
I wanted to look good and feel good in my body…
Then one day it came to me…
Growing healthy probiotics in your gut is the most effective way to get rid of brain fog, get more energy and lose weight
Probiotics digest food for you and turn it into nutrients for energy without producing the toxins that give you brain fog…
When I started eating better foods and improving my gut health everything changed…
I started sharing this with others and they too started to see an improvement in their energy levels, no more brain fog, and started to lose weight…
Watch this success story with Itza where she shares how she got rid of brain fog with Hashimoto’s…
How to get more energy with Hypothyroidism
The key to get energy is learning how to create an environment in your gut for probiotics to grow… minerals are just one of nine steps I use to create this environment…
Sadly, most doctors don’t have a clue about this… thyroid supplements, and programs that promise to “fix your thyroid” don’t understand this either…
I am not a doctor… I only know about this because I was an avid home brewer and studied fermentation, though not for health purposes… I was not into health back then… I was only growing probiotics (brewer’s yeast) to make beer…
… but when I learned that probiotics are what make hormones… all bets were off… I needed to try making the probiotics in my gut as healthy as I could for myself, even if no one else followed…
If you are…
- Too exhausted to move.
- Struggling to stay awake
- Low energy is affecting your work
- Can’t say yes to active play with your kids (family is frustrated at you)
- You’ve tried the diets
- You’ve tried the supplements
- You’ve adjusted your dose up, down and sideways at this point
… then I’m excited to share with you my Energy Blueprint… I journaled everything I did for over seven years to get rid of thyroid fatigue.
I took out what didn’t work and left only what worked…
I started sharing this with others via my free email newsletter.
When you subscribe to our email newsletter you will learn each step I took to get more energy…
You will start by improving digestion… the first thing you’ll notice is no more gas, bloating or constipation… no more dry skin…
Once you tip that domino, the next step is to improve your sleep… you will learn how to get deep restorative sleep so you wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day…
Your mind will be sharp in the morning… and if your hair is thinning or falling out, you will notice it start to grow thick and strong again.
… and because everything you do is completely natural, the energy you feel will last all day without having to rely on caffeine or thyroid supplements.
So, you’ll notice when you come home after work, you’ll have energy to play with your kids, workout or do whatever activity you feel like because you will have the energy left to do so!
