Hey, Dan here and I want to share something that's made a massive
difference for me in terms of my business and health and just generally
feeling good about myself and that is curing brain fog and before I cured brain
fog or at least massively reduced its presence in my life,
I actually didn't know what brain fog really was. At some point so sometime I
think it was of last year I was listening to a podcast on ADHD and they
talked about brain fog and it's not just something that people with ADHD have but
brain fog is sort of that state where you can't really focus very well like
you're awake and you're operating but you're just like not really able to get
the things done you want and think that clearly and I'm sure if you were to take
some kind of cognitive test at that point you'd do very poorly most commonly
it shows up in the afternoon after that you know big lunch sometime between like
2:00 and 4:00 p.m. that's like eat brain fog time right and what really helped me
actually is knowing there was a term for this it was like oh okay that's a thing
that's just not my bina you know defective or whatever that's a thing and
that helped it initially just having a label for it that's something that
psychology often helps us weigh there's like realizing that there's labels for
things and we're not totally nuts also psychology can help tell us what we
are actually nuts but what ultimately helped me with brain fog and this is
gonna be super disappointing for everyone seriously is a change in diet
and exercise I know you're like if I wanted to die in exercise I'd be you
know doing that instead of what you need to I don't know so I'm not going to
embarrass myself by I'm laughing because on my last take I actually did try to
explain all the science behind what causes brain fog and totally butchered
it so my video editor who's seen that footage as well as probably laughing to
himself hey Paul but I'm not going to try to explain the science of the brain
chemistry but essentially something to do with gaba is involved when you have
too much or too little and that's what causes brain fog so it's
not some devil possessing your soul who doesn't want you to finish your work
it's to do with your neuro chemistry and one of the ways that you can improve
that is definitely diet and exercise as well certain supplements and that can
help you know making sure you're getting enough of your basic vitamins and
minerals and all that definitely has a positive impact but in January I made
the change to go full Kido Kido is this pretty intense diet where you basically
don't eat carbs you can eat meat full fat dairy I have so much butter now oh
my god like just pour butter on everything you can eat very well and I
will start to do some more content on this I think because it's the only like
eating routine that's worked really well for me in terms of sticking to it six
months now I've lost some weight which wasn't really my intention I really went
on this to think better and improve my functioning and it's done that massively
so by eating this way and I think a big part of it was eliminating like carbs
especially sort of starchy carbs and sugar and that kind of thing by
eliminating that it really has improved my brain function combined with cardio
exercise sort of three to six times a week those two things I haven't fully
like tested and just done the diet or just on the exercise but that
combination has had a massive improvement now there's times I don't
know how much you you know know about this keto diet but if you're fully keto
like your get your body gets into the state called ketosis it actually changes
the brain source of energy to ketones in this state you can feel like you're just
fired up like I'll work 13 hours in a day
just because I'm just it's like I'm on adderall or cocaine or something I've
never been on cocaine but I assume it's like that and so that is a supercharged
state but even when I'm sort of I'd say doing like a light version of the diet
like I probably not in full ketosis or that but I've just have eliminated you
know your grains sugars and that kind thing I find my brain works tremendously
better I definitely have a little bit of energy in the afternoon I think that's
normal and I've actually heard a doctor talk about that on a podcast that even
when you eat incredibly well do everything right our bodies naturally
have energy rhythms and and we do have a bit of a dip in the afternoon but I've
pretty much not had brain fog since I've been following this there may be the odd
case that I just like forgotten about cuz it's been six months but it's
basically gone which means I'm getting a ton more done everyday I used to only be
able to trust myself to execute and get things done in the morning and after
lunch it was rolling the dice some days it was awesome if I had coaching or
something like that it always went well because it gets me fired up and that but
in terms of like working for my computer that was always a roll of the dice if I
waited to the afternoon and that's totally not the case anymore
and honestly diet and exercise and I'm sorry I don't have some psychological
tricks or anything else but this changed I made about six months ago and I I
hesitated to share anything on it on this channel for a while because I
wanted to see if I was sticking to it and if the results kind of stayed the
same and all that that change has had the biggest impact on my well-being and
my business then bigger than anything I've done in years in terms of like
supplements or strategies or whatever else so highly recommend that I will
make some more content on it if you'd like more content on it so I kind of
know what to prioritize I can only you know film so many videos let me know in
the comments below let me know your level of expertise right if you've never
heard of any of this that I'm talking about let me know that like hey Dan can
you make some intro videos just explain all this or if you've been trying to
like do a diet like keto and haven't been able to do it let me know that and
that will help me figure out what kind of content that can make to really
support you in this and then we can all ride this train together thanks for
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the future videos thanks for watching ciao