The Brain Fog Fix Quotes

“study that showed that even people without diabetes who had high blood sugar performed worse on memory tests. What’s more, the same study found that people with higher blood-sugar levels had a shrunken hippocampus, which is the part of the brain involved in learning.7 And”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“We spend so much time “doing” that we have forgotten how important simply “being,” or “nondoing,” is for the brain. Before”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“stevia.”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“#5: Red wine. As we’ll see later in this section, for those without a history of alcoholism or problem drinking, a glass of red wine with dinner may lessen blood-sugar spikes by preventing intestinal glucose absorption and reducing your liver’s production of glucose”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“nearly one out of ten Americans takes antidepressants, yet a recent large-scale study showed that nearly two-thirds of these people did not fit the clinical definition of “depressed,” making these medications a questionable choice at best.”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“The short answer is that our brains are simply not getting the support they need to produce the essential brain chemicals that keep us energized, calm, focused, and inspired”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

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― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“High-GI carbs like those in white potatoes and fruit juice act a bit like cocaine on your brain: a spike, followed by a crash.”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“By not getting the right amounts of vitamin B in your diet—or folate, or vitamin D, or EPA, or DHA, or tryptophan, or tyrosine—you are basically guaranteeing that your brain chemistry will be imbalanced and that you will feel anxious, stressed out, uninspired, and depressed, probably with some sleep problems thrown in.”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“Albacore tuna, troll or pole caught, fresh or canned, U.S. or British Columbia Arctic char, farmed Barramundi, farmed, U.S. Coho salmon, farmed, U.S. Dungeness crab, wild, California, Oregon, or Washington Longfin squid, wild, Atlantic Mussels, farmed Oysters, farmed Pacific sardines, wild Pink shrimp, wild, Oregon Rainbow trout, farmed Salmon, wild, Alaska Spot prawns, wild, British Columbia”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“If you want to lead a fulfilling and inspiring life, you have to begin by restoring your normal levels of serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol, the three hormones that are most essential to thinking and feeling your best. Making some remarkably simple changes will allow you to rebalance your brain chemistry and tap into your inner reserves of power, joy, and purpose.”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“Even if you think you’re eating a super-healthy diet of grilled chicken breast, egg whites, “fresh” (but farm-raised) salmon, and nonfat Greek yogurt, your brain is being undermined by the invisible changes in your food supply. Just a few generations ago, almost all farms were family owned and operated. They’re now predominantly gigantic factory farms that pump their cows and chickens full of cheap feed that doesn’t just change the animals’ health—it changes yours as well. Environmental pollutants like mercury and BPAs can also affect the health of our brains, and fundamental changes in our lifestyle and environment play a vital role as well.”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“recent groundbreaking research has shown that physical, psychological, social, and spiritual health are even more intricately connected than we previously imagined. Take our diet: we now know that keeping blood sugar low isn’t just good for weight loss; it also makes the brain work faster and prevents brain fog. Meditation or prayer isn’t just for monks or for people who want to find God; it also improves memory, mood, and attention span. Depression isn’t just about low serotonin or dopamine that can be corrected only with prescription medication; it’s also about our brains needing more anti-inflammatory foods and experiences that promote neurogenesis, or the growth of new brain cells and connections. What’s good for the body is also good for the brain—and the soul, too. Unfortunately,”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

“The way we eat, sleep, work, and live is flooding, starving, clogging, and disrupting our brains by destabilizing the levels of three crucial brain chemicals: serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol. We experience these biological problems as brain fog, scatterbrain, memory loss, fatigue, anxiety, and the blues. Over time, they turn into chronic insomnia, significant depression, persistent anxiety, and, potentially, dementia. To”
― Mike Dow, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks