new friend and brain fog

I am SO VERY excited to have a new friend and also a guest blogger today. Her name is Devan and she’s over at Accustomed Chaos found here: http://www.accustomedchaos.com/. Her site is totally helpful if you wanna eat right or need some gluten free menu ideas!  Devin understands, like i do, the importance of a healthy diet and brain function.  Here she is, let’s give her a big round of applause (who made up that saying anyway?)!

Brain Fog and the Food Connection

Have you ever thought to yourself {or had someone else say to you} that you just don’t seem to be thinking quite clearly? I remember about 3 or 4 years ago feeling like my brain was seriously just not working. I felt slower then normal – had trouble really communicating what I was thinking and didn’t seem to have the words that I was looking for.

 I had always brushed off that feeling as “new mommy brain”. I had just had a child, I wasn’t sleeping as well as I used to and I had always heard of this fog that women can get after they have a child. From what I understand that fog was because of the lack of sleep and the new added responsibility of this child you have in your life.  That is what I thought was going on with me.

After the birth of my second child I was really unhealthy. I had the same “brain fog” that I thought was due to being a mom and it was even more rampant now that I added number 2. When things were not getting better – and with the other symptoms I was having – I knew something wasn’t right.

 I had been diagnosed as having Celiac Disease – and autoimmune disorder that is triggered by eating gluten – found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats.  This was a new lifestyle for me to have to get used to.

Fast forward to about 6 months on a gluten free diet and I felt like a totally new person. Not only did my physical symptoms improve {or go away completely} I felt like myself again – my brain was mine again.

New studies are coming out of the woodwork showing just how important food and nutrition is. Not only for the obvious heath reasons, but because it seems to affect our brain power- our ability to think, reason, compute and decision make.  If you think about it – it makes sense. I am not going to get into the medical terms and studies behind it but I encourage you to read up on it.

 When we think about food and it’s affect on our bodies we are often hung up on the digestive system – I mean that is the most logical way to think about it – it goes right to our intestines.  Our brain is SO connected to our body and what we put into it has a huge effect on our brains.  Think about it in terms of drugs – have you ever taken something like cold medicine or allergy medication and just felt ‘fuzzy’ and tired? Food can react the same way as drugs – especially if it is against what your body is telling you to eat. 

Main culprits for brain fog are gluten, casein, sugar and yeast.  If you find that your brain power just isn’t what you think it should be and you are tired, cranky, bloated and overall miserable I encourage you to find yourself a great doctor and talk it over with them. Eating without these foods may seem near impossible but what you will gain back in life is so much more important!

 Devan is SO right! I am discovering that casein (found in dairy and sometimes soy), sugar, and yeast are not my friends.

Please visit her she’s very friendly and helpful and my new BFF (poor thing)!

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