How I Cured My Brain Fog (Full Protocol)

Summary

A few years ago, I couldn't focus for more than 10 minutes at a time, I thought processes were not on point and I kept making stupid mistakes in my daily work that compromised my performance. I was, in short, suffering from severe brain fog. Here's what I did to remove it permanently.

Transcript

A few years ago, I couldn't focus for more than 10 minutes at a time, I thought processes were not on point and I kept making stupid mistakes in my daily work that compromise my performance. Since I had already been starting the word of productivity and performance for quite a few years, I was very effective, yet I could not muster the necessary cognitive energy to deliver outstanding results. In my work, what happened, I was suffering from severe brain fog, and here's how to fix it.

[INTRO] Hey, I'm Leon Castillo, founder of Selfmastered, a high performance training company that helps entrepreneurs scale their businesses by solving their solid bottleneck, their own performance, which was formed the unproductive, overwhelming focus entrepreneurs into laser focused business athletes that can achieve in one day, what they previously achieved in one week.

Hello, friends. So today, I want to talk about brain fog, which is a condition that most people in the workforce suffer from on any given year. So before we start, remember that brain fog is not a medical condition, but is how popular culture cause a few symptoms that affect our ability to think straight. And this manifests when you have a string of bad decision making when you cannot put thoughts into words when you cannot focus all of these symptoms is what would normally call brain fog can have a multivariate origin, it can come from different sources, but in my opinion, and in my experience, and this is how I fix it, it essentially boils down to two things.

One is your gut health. And the other thing is your stress management techniques. And in this way, I'm going to share exactly what I did to fix myself when I was under intense pressure because I had had very fast professional development from being an analyst to a private equity research directory about 30 months. And that came with a lot of hustle and at some point, I realized that I may have deviated from the normal nutrition and psychological and physiological protocols that I used to follow in order to be performing at elite.

So the number one thing that I focused on is my gut health because I went into the rabbit hole of learning about prebiotics, probiotics, inflammatory foods, in order to understand if I was following a nutritional advice that was not adapted to what I needed at that time. And what I found out was very interesting, because I found out there's a few key foods that are inflammatory that can prevent you from thinking straight. And the five toxic triggers are sugar, dairy, gluten, alcohol, and coffee.

So what I did is I removed that for one month. And then after one month, I started reintroducing each one of these five foods every three days in order to find how did my body and my brain react to this food. And what I found out is that sugar had a massive impact in my ability to think straight. So the first thing I did is I eliminated sugar from my diet, and I could naturally see a surge in clarity and focus abilities.

But this is not enough, because you need to take care of your gut health analyst of way. And why do I mean by this? Well, as you probably know, by now, there's nine times more bacteria living in your body than cell. So you have a microbiome living within you composed of trillions of bacteria that help you essentially produce neurotransmitters digest food and do a host of function in symbiosis with our body. So the better health those bacteria have, the easier is going to be for you to get the outcome you want. So you need to take care of that. And how do you take care of that? Well, it's a very simple process. There's three parts of it.

One is that you remove bad bacteria. And this is something that is quite extreme, because it implies cleaning your stomach and doing a few things that are only recommended in very extreme cases. So I won't go into that, too, is adding good bacteria into your gut, and three is feeding those good bacteria.

So how do you feed good bacteria by adding probiotics, which are live microorganisms that are present in some food that can help us with the health of our gut, and this essentially can be found in fermented food like kimchi, which is a Korean dish shower crowd, which is a German dish, essentially all foods that are fermented and but still safe for human consumption. That's what a probiotic is, and it is how you feed good bacteria to your microbiome.

And how do you feed it by having prebiotic which are essentially non digestible fibers that we can put into our organism? So those bacteria have their preferred foods in a way and they grow and over time as they did this, at the same time that I was removing coffee, sugar, dairy, alcohol and gluten I found that I started having more energy I started having more focus, and the only thing that I had change is having probiotics and probiotics at night and not eating those five foods. But this is not enough. There's a one crucial final step that made everything clear and really remove that brain fog, which haven't returned since.

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And the last thing is stress management stress can be very good or very bad for you. And in fact, we have a video about this, that I'm going to be linking right now, the idea is that unless you take control of your stress response, it is extremely easy to under perform because you keep rely on the fight or flight response on the sympathetic nervous system.

And before long you end up paper caught unable to pay attention always in reaction mode and not able to design and execute on your plan. So it is absolutely essential that you take control of that stress response and do so in a systematic manner. So this is not something you do once this is something you learn to do you turn into a habit because it becomes your identity. And the fourth thing that I do to control my stress response that ended up really removing all brain fog and it has not returned since is one is meditation once or twice a day.

This is non negotiable, because this gives me the ability to pause and to find solace amid the chaos because entrepreneurship is extremely chaotic, then something else I do in order to trigger acute stress response so that I'm able to sustain longer bouts of stress I'm artificially creating a stress condition in my body is cold showers, Cold Shower last two or three minutes. And it really provide a boost in energy in the body by I won't get into detail but essentially working on your adrenaline system. So the cold can definitely help you tame that stress response. And something that is also along these lines is deep breathing or to more breathing or you may know it as Wim Hof is essentially another way of triggering a short stress response that can up your stress threshold and essentially give you the ability to sustain higher and more intense bouts of stress down the line.

And finally, I gave myself more sleep opportunity. What does that mean? Well, if you've ever used a device to track your sleep cycles, you've noticed that if you go to bed and stay in bed for eight hours, you want to sleep as much as eight hours just sleep seven, even six hours and a half depending on your natural sleep. Blueprint. And this is because you may wake up during the night you may take time to get into sleep, you may wake up before the time.

So in essence, if you want to stay asleep for eight hours, you need to give yourself more sleep opportunity, you need to give yourself nine hours or nine hours and a half so that you can sleep eight hours. And this is really depending on your the efficiency of your sleep. And this is something you can try with an aura that would ban or Fitbit and it depends on your genetic makeup and your lifestyle. If you have a lot of coffee, then you have less asleep you have better worse asleep. In essence, it depends on who you are and what you do. But I highly recommend you buy one of these devices and really work on having more sleep opportunity. So this is how I cured my brain fog.

First I eliminated all inflammatory foods in order to understand which one if any, had an impact on my ability to cognitively perform and I found out that sugar actually had an impact.

Then I went deep into the rabbit hole of probiotics and prebiotics. I started introducing probiotics in my diet and I have them every day ever since. And I also work on giving those probiotic dose live microorganism, the food they prefer, which is a prebiotics.

And finally, I worked on my stress management protocols. I instituted that meditation. Once or twice a day I worked on deep breathing and cold showers and finally, I gave myself more sleep opportunity and I was able to remove these brain fog in probably less than a month. So I was really anal about this I needed to perform. So I radically overhauled how I rested how I manage myself and what I eat and when in order to solve it.

So I hope this was useful please let me know in the comment if you need anything else from my side too. Maybe you're suffering from this maybe your don't let me know Have you learned anything.