How to Reduce Brain Fog Without Restrictive Diets

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When Jeff came into the clinic, his primary symptom was chronic, non-responsive brain fog. The strategies we used to finally clear this fog included improving Jeff’s breathing, modifying his fitness program, and making his diet LESS restrictive by increasing his carb intake.

This case study is a great example of a personalized diet making a huge difference. If you’ve been following a strict low FODMAP or low carb diet and you’re not noticing an improvement in symptoms, you may, like Jeff, be someone who actually feels better with more carbs in your diet.

We also integrated a few key supplements which were NOT “brain supplements,” but which helped to regulate some of the imbalances that were likely leading to Jeff’s brain fog and digestive symptoms.

Watch Jeff’s story and learn exactly how we were able to improve his sleep, energy, digestion, and cognition without restrictive diets or brain boosting supplements.

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0:39.7	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, this is Dr. Rucho.
0:45.7	Today I spoke with Jeff, who is a patient at her office, who came in with a predominant symptom of brain fog.
0:52.9	And his case study, as you'll hear from him in a moment,
0:56.9	was a good example of how much of brain fog actually emanates from the gut. And this is something
1:02.1	I personally learned. But in addition to that, there were a few other lines of support that we
1:08.1	had to integrate into his case to really allow him to resolve his brain fog.
1:13.5	And these were not brain supplements like Lions Main or Ginkgo, what have you.
1:20.8	They were actually to do with breathing and with his fitness program as two fairly primary underlying factors that were needed to be
1:32.3	addressed in addition to actually making some dietary modifications in the opposite direction
1:38.1	of low carb or keto, which you will often hear the neurological merits of the keto diet, which do exist.
1:45.4	But it doesn't mean that everyone's going to do best on a ketogenic diet who's trying to optimize for their brain health.
1:51.3	So a couple of really good examples of how stepwise, personalized care can help resolve, in this case,
1:58.2	this chronic, non-responsive brain brain fog and how there was a few different
2:02.4	things that underlied that. And by identifying those in a precision way and supporting those,
2:07.7	we were able to see not only improvements in brain fog, but also sleep, energy, and digestive
2:12.9	symptoms in general. So, okay, we'll go to the conversation now with Jeff.
2:17.7	Hey, everyone. This is Dr. Rucho. I am here today joined by Jeff, who has had some
2:23.1	struggles similar to my own, mainly with brain fog, which Jeff, man, I feel here,
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