#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 7.8 hertz these frequencies have  much much higher frequencies and they keep going   up both in frequency and intensity so lately we  have things that are in the five and six gigahertz   range so these new frequencies are a billion times  higher frequency than the frequencies that we're   used to and it's not that this is going to wipe  out our entire nervous system all at once it's not   going to kill us tomorrow but it will distort some  of the communication that we have in our body and   our body has to expend more energy to compensate  to override the the soup of electromagnetism that   we live in so for most people they'll probably  never get to the point or not in many decades   get to the point where they get symptoms of this  or symptoms that they know of but some people who   don't have so much margin they don't have so much  reserves they can actually get symptoms from this   but whether you get symptoms or not it's a stress  on your body because your body has to expend   extra energy to compensate for all of the noise  all the electromagnetic noise that surrounds us   so for every piece of emf that we add to the soup  then there's a little piece of stress added to the   body and that's why i'm not a huge fan of these  wireless charging devices that are popping up   everywhere is just one more piece in that soup  and a lot of people are skeptical they think i   can't feel this so what harm can it do well we  have to understand that emf is real there's even   a medical treatment there's a therapy called tms  or transcranial magnetic stimulation where they   just aim a magnet at the head there's no touching  involved at all and they change the brain function   by imposing an electromagnetic field and if they  can do that in a 10-minute session what do you   think will happen in this electromagnetic soup  24 hours a day year after year another form of   disruption is of our circadian rhythms that's our  sleep cycles so we have little clusters of brain   cells that keep track of what time it is and where  we are in relation to the time zones the magnetic   field zones of the earth and the night and day  cycle the light and dark cycle so one thing   that can cause brain fog is working shifts now  you do what you have to do but if you can avoid   it it would probably be better to not work shifts  because if you're awake at night and sleep during   the day when it's dark then your circadian rhythms  are affected you can never get the full amount   of quality sleep that you would during normal  sleeping hours another kind of disruption is jet   lag and this is kind of interesting because even  if we don't miss any sleep we often feel miserable   simply because we have shifted time zones and it's  not that it's a different time it's that we're in   a different place in the earth's magnetic field  and it takes the body a few days to compensate   to align itself with that new position on the  planet another thing that can disrupt signals   are toxins if we have metals and chemicals and  pesticides and things like that they can occupy   receptor sites that are intended for the body's  own communication and now either the signal is   amplified or it doesn't happen at all depending  on the circumstance and interestingly one cause of   brain fog is depression another cause of brain fog  is antidepressants because again they're chemicals   they can interfere and they take some effort and  energy on the body's part to detoxify so now that   you know how it all works now all you have to do  is this now this is a big long list and i'm not   even going to read it back to you but the really  good news is that once you start understanding   what i talk about on all my videos you understand  that in holistic health from a holistic viewpoint   all of these things are more or less  related so you don't have to fix them   all you start doing things that the body is  looking for you start supporting and taking   care of your body eating right food and  so forth and all of these things connect   the other thing that's really good news  is that i have over 500 videos that cover   all or virtually all of these topics so if one is  missing or if you think that there is one that we   need to do then just let me know if you enjoyed  this video you're going to love that one and if   you truly want to master health by understanding  how the body really works make sure you subscribe   hit that bell and turn on all the notifications  so you never miss a life saving video

Channel: Dr. Sten Ekberg

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Length: 26min 45sec (1605 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 05 2022