Brain Fog Cure – Exercise Your Brain!

Posted on 17 November 2010.

It all makes sense if you think about it. Your brain is a muscle – use it or lose it!

As the Franklin Institute state “your brain is a thinking organ that learns and grows by interacting with the world through perception and action. Mental stimulation improves brain function and actually protects against cognitive decline, as does physical exercise.”

If I sit in a chair all day, my legs atrophy. If the heaviest thing I lift all day is a beer, we know what happens to my body.

How about the brain? Scientific research shows that the brain works exactly the same way. To stay in optimal condition, your brain needs to be challenged and stimulated. Many of us look for brain fog cures through medicine, nutritional supplements or other hocus pocus, but the truth is that the best way to clear an inability to concentrate is by practicing concentrating! This is especially true if you don’t find your own life particularly engaging – if you spend most days just ‘coasting on auto-pilot’, your brain will start to disengage.

My recommendations:

- Mindfulness exercises and meditation (Google it, there are lost of good articles).

- Interacting with people and practicing being as engaged as possible, even if you don’t feel like it.

- There is also lots of research on the usefulness of ‘brain exercises‘ These work well for me, and have some sound science behind them.

Give them an honest try – results don’t happen overnight, but try to stick with a program of ‘practicing concentration’ for at least one week, and you may be surprised at what you see.

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