#1 Absolute Best Way to Improve Energy & Brain Fog

Hello Health Champions. When your brain doesn't  work - you don't work. You feel miserable.

You can't get anything done and all the things that you want  out of life go missing. Brain fog affects everybody some of the time but it affects some people almost  all of the time so today we're going to talk about how to clear up brain fog so you can get your  life back now the number one absolute best way to stop brain fog is to understand what the brain  needs and then to provide it so that's what we're going to talk about brain fog is not a precise  term it's just a general description that people use when they have low energy when they have  poor focus when they feel lethargy or fatigue and if you were to go to a medical doctor  and say that you think you have brain fog he may sort of understand what you're talking  about or he may say that no there's no such thing because it's not a specific medical condition but  then when you need to tell him is that you believe you're suffering from diagnostic code r 41. 9 which  involves unspecified symptoms and signs involving cognitive function and awareness and then when  you have enlightened him he can write you a prescription and get reimbursed and you can feel  better for a day or two or you can pay attention to what we're going to talk about in this video  and you can solve the problem naturally step one is to know what the brain does and the short  answer is it processes information a lot of information some of that relates to your basic  five senses which is of course sight sound taste touch and smell but your awareness goes a lot  further than that so indirectly you're also aware of things like gravity pressure temperature  and humidity and for some people it goes even a lot further beyond the purely physical where they  can even sense the mood of someone walking into a room even if they're not looking at the person so  our nervous system processes a lot of information thinking conscious thought is part of that but  it's about one millionth of all the information your brain and nervous system processes and in  order to process all this information the brain uses different modalities and the biggest of  those modalities is electrical current so it has electrical signals that follow fixed pathways  known as your peripheral nerves but your nervous system also uses chemicals like molecules  which involve neurotransmitters and hormones neurotransmitters would be a molecule that crosses  from one synapse to another at the nerve ending whereas hormones or other chemical messengers are  released into the blood to affect wider tissues but your body also has an electromagnetic  system and a system of biophotons so electromagnetics that's part of your acupuncture  system where the chi flows in meridians in the skin that are of electromagnetic nature  and we also have biophotons which are light particles of light in your body and one way  we can think of that is the reason laser works as a therapy the cold laser is that light has certain  frequencies and if we didn't have receptors to process that then that laser wouldn't really do  much of anything and in order to process all these modalities what does the brain need what are the  physical needs of the brain and the first one is energy and i put stable energy because if you have  energy that is high sometimes and low other times then your brain is going to function some of the  time and others not and in order to make energy your body needs fuel that's the calories that's  the fat and the carbohydrate and in the case of the brain also ketones but it doesn't stop  there because it doesn't become a calorie until you can oxidize it it doesn't become energy  until you have oxygen to burn that fuel and you also can't burn that fuel without enzymes that are  dependent on nutrients like vitamins and minerals but when all those three are working now you  can take that fuel substrate and turn it into atp adenosine triphosphate and that word's not  important but you need to understand the fuel is not energy until you can turn it into a usable  form an atp is the energy currency and even though we have trillions and trillions of pieces of atp  it's very short-lived if you were to do a all-out sprint and you stopped making atp altogether  you have about three seconds to live before you completely run out of atp so this is something the  body has to keep up and remanufacture and process all the time the next big thing the brain has to  have is stimulation and why is that so important because the body is in constant  state of breakdown and build up and so often we focus on the build up as something  positive and the breakdown is something negative but both are part of the same cycle it's the  breakdown that allows us to replace old cells with new fresh cells and we break things  down all the time but if we don't stimulate the tissue if we don't use the tissue then why  should the body rebuild that particular tissue so the stimulation is the reason for the buildup  and we're all familiar with the phrase use it or lose it and what that basically means is  the body breaks down but without stimulation there's no reason to rebuild it and then we have  the things that cause problems for the brain that interfere with its activity and makes it hard to  get the job done they're going to fall in three major categories one is obviously the lack of  energy the second is inflammation and the third is signal disruption and we're going to give you some  examples of these so you see exactly how they fit together when it comes to energy we could have a  problem with the production portion of energy so first of all obviously we need a substrate we need  to have something to make energy out of and that's the calories the fuel the fat and the carbohydrate  and they can either be ingested or we can take them off the body it could be a lack of nutrients  if we have the substrate but we don't have the matches so to speak we still can't set fire  to it and that would be vitamins and minerals the next one's kind of funny because as i read a  few other lists of what people thought we should take for brain fog they said we should have more  antioxidants now think about what we just said that we need to oxidize the food to get energy  we have the substrate we can't make energy until we oxidize it the word antioxidant should give  you a clue just because we've heard it a million times and it's in every article on what to eat and  how to get healthy that we need more antioxidants just because you heard it a million times  doesn't make it so so an antioxidant prevents the formation of energy now when we eat real food  we get things in a certain balance and the body figures it out we need some we can't have too  much but when we concentrate antioxidants and we put them in a pill or a capsule and we gobble  them up by the bottle now we're getting too much we're preventing the formation of energy and  they've done lots and lots of research on this a lot of the vitamins antioxidant vitamins  that you think are good for you they actually do absolutely nothing in terms of benefit and they  shorten your life so eat the antioxidants the way they occur in natural food eat foods that  support and supply precursors for your body's own endogenous production of antioxidants  like glutathione and don't take them in a pill next is anemia and why does that matter  because anemia means you don't have enough red blood cells or not enough high quality red  blood cells so now you can't transport the oxygen if you don't have the oxygen you can't burn the  fire you can't make energy and same thing with smoking smoking is a form of self-induced anemia  because when you smoke you breathe in carbon monoxide which blocks around 20 percent of your  oxygen carrying capacity so it's like you're 20 anemic the moment you start smoking and  dehydration is also a common cause of brain fog because your body is mostly water so  most of the chemical processes that take place in your body take place in an aqueous solution in  water so if you're dehydrated then you don't have the playing field for those chemical processes to  take place and of course if you want to rehydrate don't forget the salt because salt follows water  if you lost a bunch of water you probably lost some salt and electrolytes as well and then it  can be that maybe we have enough substrate maybe we have the ability to convert it to energy  but we might have a problem with the delivery and this is something most people don't think  about in terms of insulin resistance that if you're insulin resistant what does that mean  insulin is the thing that's supposed to take the glucose into the cell but if you're insulin  resistant it doesn't work so now the glucose can't get into the cell the fuel can't get into the cell  the way it's supposed to and this happens to brain cells also when you are insulin resistant and your  brain is insulin resistant now your brain can't get the fuel that's another good reason to go  low carb because ketones can get into the brain without the help of insulin so you can get some  energy some fuel in there to turn into energy without the help of insulin and one indication  of how powerful and destructive that mechanism is is that dementia is sometimes called type  3 diabetes energy delivery could also be related to a lack of metabolic flexibility  so if you're metabolically flexible then you eat some carbs your body burns carbs you stop  the carbs your body burns something else primarily fat but if you're not metabolically flexible  then typically that means you are dependent on carbohydrates you burn carbs your carbs diminish  then you have to fill up new ones because that's how you trained your body but when you're doing  it that way when you fill up some carbs you use up some carbs you fill up some carbs and so  on now you get unstable blood sugar unstable blood glucose and now you have energy delivery  some of the time and other times you don't and then we have stress which is also something that  interferes with the delivery or the distribution of blood and of course blood carries the oxygen  and the glucose and all the nutrients and the resources and stress especially chronic  stress is destructive in about a million different ways so i want to show you just  one way as it relates to focus and brain fog so hopefully you can tell this is cross-section  of a person and this here is the brain so normally when we have a balance in flow when  the stress is moderate and under control now we have an even blood flow to the whole  brain and this big thing here is called a cortex this is where we process conscious thought  our focus our creativity all of that is there especially in the frontal lobe which is kind of  the manager of that whole cortex but when we're stressed now we don't have so much need for that  creativity and that focus we just want to get out of there alive so the blood flow in the cortex  gets constricted and it starts pooling so when we constrict it we push it someplace else and we  basically push the blood flow down into the brain stem and this is where our automated responses our  survival instinct so any time that we're stressed the blood leaves partially leaves the cortex to  supply the brain stem for our immediate survival and this is where chronic stress becomes  devastating in acute stress we still have some other stress hormone like adrenaline to get our  attention and focus up but chronic stress now that blood loss is dominant and we lose our  focus we get fatigue we lose creativity etc when we're stressed we could also have a  gradual loss in the ability to make energy so our cellular machinery is downgrading in a sense so 10  years ago maybe the average cell could put out 10 units of energy and today it can only put  out seven or eight that's called degeneration that the cells just don't work as well as they  used to and most of this is blamed on aging which is true to a point it is inevitable so far to  age and with aging these processes do continue but the vast majority of the things that we blame  on aging are actually because of disuse so the loss of muscle the loss of flexibility the loss  of energy production those are almost entirely disused and the number one reason for disuse  is lack of exercise it's not lack of crossword puzzles it's exercise movement provides over  90 percent of the signals of the stimulation of the use it or lose it that we need to keep  the brain alive brain fog can also happen because of lack of sleep because sleep is a form  of regeneration the body recuperates it recharges the batteries it heals a lot of things a lot of  healing takes place during sleep so if we don't get the quantity or the quality of sleep that's  another reason for brain fog depression is also associated with brain fog and even though it is  very multi-factorial there's many many different aspects of depression i'm going to simplify  and give you just two factors that depression at the very most basic level means depressed  activity in the frontal lobe so if we can't make enough energy in the frontal lobe for  all those reasons we talked about then the brain can't balance that thing out the executive  portion of the brain the frontal lobe cannot turn off the depressive and the anxious thoughts cannot  inhibit them the way it's supposed to and another problem of course is if we have low energy in the  frontal lobe then we're also lacking motivation and the frontal lobe is the portion that controls  motivation it's our executive function if you will so if we make less energy there then we also have  less motivation so it's difficult to go and do the exercise and do something about it and that's why  it's so important to understand these mechanisms so that you can make a decision and go and do  that exercise even if you don't feel like it because you can't just wait till you feel like it  you have to understand what's at stake what are the consequences what are the benefits and then  go do it anyway inflammation is another reason for brain fog when we have inflammation hardly  anything works normal it's like a battlefield in that area and one of the most potent forms of  inflammation is infection if we have a viral or bacterial infection that's a very strong potent  acute inflammation we can also get inflamed from food allergies when we react to a food then  your body responds with inflammation and another common cause is a leaky gut if we have a leaky gut  then particles get out into the bloodstream that are too large that trigger an immune response  and that's where food allergies get exacerbated but we also want to keep in mind as far as the  brain goes on brain fog that a lot of the factors that affect a leaky gut also affects a leaky  brain so there are some things the proteins that hold together what's called tight junctions  in both the gut and the brain and these factors that kind of dissolve these they affect both  the gut and the brain so it's very common you can pretty much count on the fact that if you  have a leaky gut you have a leaky brain as well and with that comes neuro inflammation now only  in the last few years as more and more people have experienced covid have had the covet infection  and gotten past it not everyone gets past it the same way some people pretty much fully recover  while others have what's called long covet and out of those people as much as seven percent  or even more depending on how much is reported have brain fog and they don't know exactly all  of the parameters and all the causes here but I'm thinking that this is because of some  proteins that get left behind and trigger some immune reactions and in my clinic we found  that people get a lot of improvements from some enzymes not digestive enzymes but systemic  enzymes that can help break up those proteins and to these enzymes are called lumbrokinase  and serrapeptase and the product we use isn't sold over the counter it's only through  health professionals but if you're interested you can just contact the office brain fog can also  be caused by signal disruption what does that mean the brain processes signals all the time billions  of bits of information every second and the more of those signals that get processed appropriately  and get to the right place at the right time the better the brain can maintain balance or  homeostasis but if something interferes with those signals or distorts them so they don't get where  they're supposed to go or not in the right way then the brain can't do its job it can't properly  balance things and orchestrate everything the way it's supposed to and emf is one thing that  can distort those signals electromagnetic fields and now we're talking about your  electronic smart devices your computer and your cell phone and your tablet and so forth  so electromagnetic fields are nothing new the earth itself has an electromagnetic field and it  has to do with lightning strikes in the atmosphere and it bounces around and so forth and the earth  has a frequency that field has a frequency of 7.

8 hertz it's called schumann's frequency and humans  are tuned to that frequency because we've been on the planet as long as we have been on the  planet the planet has had that frequency we're tuned to it our nervous system is familiar and  kind of synchronized with that but what's new is other forms of electromagnetic  fields and electromagnetic frequencies so recently we have invented cell phones and  transmissions and radio signals and so forth and instead of 7.