Ever feel like you are walking around in a haze? Or lack laserlike focus during work hours? Feeling abnormally detached and spaced out affects thousands of people, from adults to children. Symptoms of brain fog vary from: feeling confused, forgetful, fatigued, difficulty in concentrating and focusing. Unfortunately, no medical tests pinpoint such a vague condition and its not recognised as a medical disease. An alarming rate of people live with brain fog, thinking its normal... but it isn't.

Causes of Brain Fog are:

1) Dehydration: water transports key hormones, chemical messengers and nutrients to the brain - make sure you drink plenty.

2) Hypoglycaemia: starves the brain of fuel

3) Candida - otherwise known as excess yeast in the intestine.

4) Chronic fatigue: when energy levels are nil, it has a knock-on effect on the brain

5) Food intolerances: irritate the intestine causing leaky gut syndrome, letting toxins into the bloodstream.

6) Nutrient deficiencies: the brain requires many nutrients, such as amino acids, calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper and B vitamins.

7) Liver/Kidney/Bowel toxicity: when toxins such as mercury or ammonia remain in the blood stream, it can leave you feeling muddled. The brain requires fresh, clean blood flow and is sensitive to toxins. Undigested food putrefies in the intestine causing tocins to be absorbed back into the blood stream. So, instead of producing energy, your body focus on clearing out harmful substances

8) Stress: chronic stress on the brain shut down important neurotransmitters

9) Sluggish thyroid: slows down the pumping of blood and essential nutrients to the brain.

10) Menopause: low levels of estrogens causes fluctations in memory and concentration

AVOID

Refined sugars that fluctuate your blood sugar and play havoc with the adrenal glands

Caffeine

Alcohol

Sweet fruits juices that spike blood sugar levels

Processed foods

Smoking has harmful neurotoxins that affect the brain

Mercury tooth fillings that increase toxicity in the body and disrupt the brain's neurotransmitters.