My brain fog is actually what doesn't let me participate here more times. It takes me a lot of time to write something... And this little time is precious. I have to use it for my daily life needs.
There are days that it is so bad that I find myself misspelling, omitting, misplacing words and even switching the name of things and people. I also tend to be very repetitive because of this. Sometimes when I start reading what I've written, only there I realize I am repeating myself over and over again and even using the same words I've used before.
The other day a person asked me what was my age and it took me literally more than 5 seconds to remember it. Then I said it to him and inside my mind I was kind of confirming the math to see if I did it well. I felt so shocked after.
It is the same for me. Usually in the frontal lobe, but also in the top of my head - in the parietal bone, right on the cowlick.
I remember as a kid telling this to my mum a lot, that I felt some pressure on those spots. I would ask her to put some cold water/ice there and massage too. My instincts were very interesting. Probably there is some degree of inflammation. And freezing your brain usually helps with brain fog.
It is interesting that you've mentioned Summer. In the past, when I was having exams at school, my colleagues most of the times would always say to close the windows, because the sun was bothering them. I was immediately like: "Switch places with me, please!". I would always perform better when I had sun shinning on me. Felt warmer also, of course.
Now, I've noticed that light in the form of heat lamps also helps a little sometimes.
It is very weird. I've noticed that even my jaw can start popping like there is some extra bone there all of a sudden. I don't know about muscles though... There could be some tense on them too.
In my opinion, the explanation comes down to the lymphatic system which affects our brain. The lymph nodes expands and then all the fogginess and other symptoms occur. It is normally because you are reacting to something. Usually a food (but the food is usually not the root cause, of course).
It could be also inflammation and mucus plaque.
Minerals imbalance for sure affects our brain performance too.
Also imagine food not being well digested walking down your gut. Surely it is a burden to our bodies to handle it.
And I don't think there is something wrong in your head.
Gut is the main issue.
Have you ever take a dump a felt a relief on those areas?
If not, when I did coffee enemas for the first time, I literally felt popping and relaxation on those places. If you search a little, you will find many people telling they felt a relaxation on their nostrils, jaws, etc while doing coffee enemas. I think here is indeed mucus coming out, not sure though. But surely toxins are being expelled.
Anxiety is about fear of a danger, so whatever toxins or other stuff... when having health issues, it is felt as a danger by the body, so you can indeed have anxiety, but it is a consequence, not the cause.
Exactly! There is that common story that people remove X food or change diet and their depression or other emotional symptoms are gone.
The same may happen if there is something interpreted as foreign by our bodies. Our bodies are in constant stress to detox that.
In my eyes, the symptoms show at a higher rate that something is wrong with our gut and detox level.
As long as you haven't identified and solved your gut issues, you cannot go on.
I would check comprehensively on bacterias, parasites, toxins, pathogens and inflammation parameters like interleukins, interferones, calprotektin, ultra high sensitive crop and so on. This is the base in my eyes - and am absolut sure, you will find a lot.
Yeah, I think all comes down to all forms of pathogens and toxins. I also have to mention EMFs, blue light, etc that, in the end, affect our gut health too.