Brain fog, unclear thinking, lightheaded, and feeling confused are very common symptoms people experience often. This video will explain why this condition happens, along with simple strategies to help you feel better.
OMGGGG FINALLY SOMEONE WHO CAN EXPLAIN WHAT IM FEELING. I thought I was going CRAZY all of a sudden my eyes felt so weird like my vision just wasn’t RIGHT. I’m gonna cry 😭😭
Me too honey!!! I have burning and stinging and twitching all over especially over the top of my head! Sooo scary! Brain fog and vision problems. I admit I spend HOURS on my phone all day. Also had whiplash injury in my youth . This craps been giving me health anxiety which had been hard to deal with the NOT KNOWING! Thankyou Jesus!
Kathy Myers omg hi yes I had so much health anxiety during this time. Aside from the vision thing I had so many other problems and it was the worst time of my life but I’m safe to say I’m so much better now ❤️❤️ hopefully for you too
I felt very dazed and almost a sleepy state one day last October 2019, and I haven’t recovered. I suffer anxiety daily. Had MRI of my brain and the Neurologist says I’m fine, but I feel far from it. 🤯🤯🤯
This is me exactly along with depression & anxiety so much that its affected jobs. My eyes literally close by themselves and I cant retain info to learn & train for jobs. Its hard becuase others may think your just lazy or intellectual impaired which I have thought. Hoping for better days. Blessings
This makes so much sense! Between working at a drawing board for years and then a computer, my head position definitely shifted. I thought it was because of a car accident/whiplash that I had years ago. Sometimes I would feel as though the areas of the occipital nerves were so tender and hurt. When I told my doctor that it hurt to touch my head back there he said, "don't touch it". Really? I wish I had known this years ago, but will start practicing every day. Dr. Mandell, thank you for all of the information that you give. Have a blessed day as well as those who read this. 🥰
Now I understand what this situation is called brain fog . I was dealing with the issue like I was so stressed why my brain is not working . My thoughts are not clear. Even my sleeping habits are getting weird. I don't get sound sleep. I want my brain to work properly cz it's effecting my daily life .. my office working . Now I will change my habit first . Use the mobile when it is required and sleep on time . Yes I will do it I Will follow it . Fighting ✊
Amazing. Dr. Mandell hits everything right on the head. That explains a lot. When explaining to another physician all they say is get an eye exam and return back or increase fluids when describing the brain fog. This explains a lot. Thank you a lot Dr. Mandell.
In upper cervical chiropractic care for a few weeks now and I’m so happy because I know it’ll help my whole body and brain function. ❤ This year is health, wellness, and happiness!
I have these symptoms EVERY DAY for the last 4 months. I can’t even drive. No one knows why. This is exactly what I’m dealing with. My neck is so tight under my head. I’m also getting migraines and vision problems too. Hope this helps! ❤️ Thanks Doc!
Working on reducing my forward head posture has helped with headaches, backaches and brain fog. Thanks so much for your informative and important videos.
I am nearsighted Duff for our condition, called seesaw and nystagmus, and it is very difficult for me to not lean forward because I’m trying too hard to see things so I appreciate that you are discussing a problem behind another problem, and I hope that I have begun to find a solution.
I have been battling brain for for 3 years. I recently was prescribed Effexor by my stupid doctor. I went online and listened to many people talking about the consequences of that drug. I decided that I would try everything else before taking that evil medecine. I stopped smoking weed. I changed my diet. I exercised. I started to have good days for the first time in years but somedays I would revert back to square one. I decided to eleminate every food that I ate before I felt the fog. It turns out that hydrolized proteins were the culprit. I discovered it because I had been feeling great for a few days. One night I ate chicken and white rice and still felt good. The next day however, I ate the rest of the chicken and rice but added soy sauce to the rice. And it hit me like a ton of bricks. I could barely think. I have repeated the experience 3 times and everytime it's the same. I have since avoided all MSGs and I feel like my old self again. I'm so glad I didn't take that stupid medication. There is hope people.
Soy sauce and Bovril are the biggest culprits. They both list hydrolized soy proteins in the first couple ingredients. I've since discovered that sulphites also hit me pretty hard. Bottles lemon juice makes me feel bad but actual juice from a lemon is fine. With both MSG and Sulphites out of my diet, I feel so much better. like 90% better. Last week I also gave up caffeine and the oher 10% came back. If it wasn't for the headaches I'd be feeling like a million bucks. They are going away now though. It feels so good to be able to read a book again. I just have to cook like my grand parents did. I wonder how many people would feel better by taking out crap from their diets. How many people were prescribed medication for a simple problem with a simple solution.
I have long suffered from mysterious thinking, chronic anxiety, pressure in the head, difficulty concentrating, rapid distraction, difficulty in understanding, study, and rapid nervousness. The doctor has described many medications for anxiety and depression, including Effexor. Note that I have stopped taking all medicines for about a year but the symptoms still exist! This caused me problems and difficulties in family, psychological, social and professional life
Dr Mandell, ThanK you, Thank you... I have had the mri, x ray, test after test because of severe brain fog and sore neck, they though it was a brain tumor, MS but everything turned out negative... for about 10 years now it comes and goes your movement of the neck from this video and a few other of your neck videos has helped...It all started when I took an office job looking at a computer for 8 hours a day....Thank you again you have made a difference in my life...
Dr. Mandell, thank you so very much for taking time to make these extremely helpful videos! Your entire RU-vid channel is Golden ! You are what I consider to be a very rare True Medical Doctor !
Thank you for the valueable information...for a couple of months I have been suffering from brain fog diagnosed with many solutions but none of them cured... But before those months I have been using the mobile phones which have seriously caused my neck to bend forward and have neck pain.. and I don't even know this is the reason for that... really a big thanks♥️
Thank you for the RU-vid videos they are very informative. I was wondering 1. If the natural curve in the neck is restored from military neck, to the natural curvature, can that help anxiety? 2. When someone has “military neck“, does it put a lot of pressure on the atlas? And if the natural curvature is restored, will it take pressure off of the atlas? Thank you very much :-)
Thank you. I have this epiaodes of being confused, lightheaded and so on for years and now i think i know the reason for it. I will try to make my posture right and see if any changes occur
@@rabeehbabu3613 a lot better honestly. I don't rember if he said about any exercising in the video, i just forced myself to be straight and remeberd to stay straight and i feel better.
Hi Doc, this is very helpful! Can this also cause dizziness? I have been struggling with it for 2-3 months now, sometimes getting better, sometimes worse (I think it is also stress related). Also what I almost constantly feel is that my whole body needs a huge stretch, it is almost like my body wants to "yawn" if it makes sense. Can these all related to this posture? I am sitting in front of my laptop all day...
Andrea Trombitas yeah.. all those due to bad head posture...do regular back stretch exercises and for every hour take a little stretch and take more calcium foods
Brain clarity is also directly related to blood sugar levels. When your blood sugar is too high, the precursor for dopamine cannot cross the blood brain barrier. When your blood sugar is too low, your brain lacks oxygen due to not enough sugar to process the oxygen. Some foods should be eaten in small amounts - eg: Choko fruit - they reduce your stomach's ability to absorb sugar and so someone who eats choko fruit might have low sugar levels for a few hours and then a sudden burst of sugar as all the sugar in the stomach becomes usable again. Dopamine is directly related to the feeling of reward you get and that is core to the feeling of motivation because when you imagine achieving something - you feel a taste of the reward and that motivates you. But for someone with low dopamine - they understand what to do but cannot start because it's like they are a Ferrari with no wheels. They know every step of how to do something but they just can't do it. This is because there is no dopamine being released to reward the person and so suddenly there is no reward for something they know they want to do. It's like paralysis of the brain's ability to follow it's own logic.
Question: Could this impact on the spine also be caused by, as a passenger, having too many car accidents at an irresponsible age? I have Epilepsy since birth with Aspergers (or so they tell me) but I was also quite the party animal when I was in my early to mid 20's. made lots of bad choices and ended up in over 20 such accidents. I know that at the base of my skull 1 vertabra sits at a sharp 90 degree angle and at the base of my spine I have one that is also at 90 degrees but the oppose side to the top. (I saw the x-rays from the Chiropractor who was working with me for many years.) I frequently experience brain fog, memory issues (from each seizure I have) and in the past 5 years my vision has seriously deteriorated. Also would you be able to help us understand the impact to the skull and the gray matter when it connects with the hitch of a 5th wheel? It wold go a long way in helping a friend of mine who hit their head 4 months ago. Thanks
First of all, thanks for all the videos you have made my life much better! I would like to know if exercising the back in the gym is good for muscular problems in the neck because of bad ergonomics (I'm a dentist) I just feel it makes pain worst after the gym. What would you recommend?
Hi Doc, usually kicking in the traps with make it worse like shoulder abduction exercises, over the head presses. Work on your chin tucks, strengthening retractors/rhomboids, and stretch the pecs. Good luck!
So if inflammation is the direct cause of the fog and insulin spike from eating too much sugar can cause inflammation therefore there are many reasons besides nerve stress that can cause brain fog the goal then would be to reduce sources of inflammation one of those sources being bad posture
I have long suffered from mysterious thinking, chronic anxiety, pressure in the head, difficulty concentrating, rapid distraction, difficulty in understanding, study, and rapid nervousness. The doctor has described many medications for anxiety and depression, including Effexor. Note that I have stopped taking all medicines for about a year but the symptoms still exist! This caused me problems and difficulties in family, psychological, social and professional life
If I can meet you one day and invite you for the best lunch and dinner and thank you from all my heart for this information that cured me of my 3 weeks of hell that I had to go through! You are so amazing , thanks alot and I wish you all the happiness and health!
I looked this up because I went to sleep early for school. Woke up some time around midnight got dressed for school and waited outside in the dark for 30 minutes.
I suffer foggy mind a lot along with back pain, I only can move with my neck low...I live in morocco I don't know if all Neurologist here knew about this... Your opinion Dr ? THANK YOU
I went to a chiro last month because of my neck issues the past 4 years! Two car accidents and hard labor work! All of a sudden I got huge migraines, then weeks alter beck pain and from there everything changed. Apparently he found a reversed neck curve or military. So far im a month into treatment but cant seem to make the symptoms to away… not sure how much my neck has healed
Hmm, I had brain fog then turned into severe derealization, were I feel totally disconnected, yet I'm not crazy. Its weird but my neurologist gave me a steroid to my occipital nerves and it made EVERYTHING go away within MINUTEs!! Now its got me thinking ... I also have a straight neck and trauma to 4 and 5 or 5 and 6... can't remember which. I have blood circulation issues, adrenal and thyroid etc :(
I’ve been going through derealization for like 6 years. I’m taking homeopathic medicine and CBD at the moment but things are still very tough. I’ve been prescribed SSRI drugs but I deny taking them. It’s been tough because all my tests come back healthy whenever I get bloodwork or urine tests done...
Didn't know about the muscles behind the back and the stress on the body. The very first thing that distress the organs it was a surprise that I am hurting myself in ways that it us mentally and verbally. Contractions and I was worried about pregnancy during labor. If you go low down lower and go high go higher.🎉I know the word inflammation 😅 but that acknowledgment about the pen pointing is funny to me because my favorite thing is anything to do with a pen. Thanks.😊
Today a lady asked me to go get Napkins and for some reason my brain was thinking she needed paper bags and I said aren't they back there? Opposite of where she was pointing and then someone just jumps up and gets them and it took me seeing the Napkins in her hand to realize I was thinking paper bags even though she was saying Napkins. My mind was thinking she needed paper bags. I had decent sleep, hadn't ate yet it was still morning but I had a super b complex with methylfolate and b12 that morning on an empty stomach. My brain was half a sleep and I kept making mistakes from being in such a fog. I was very embarrassed and can't explain how i took the word napkin as paper bags. Is that common?
