Brain fog can completely wreck your productivity throughout the day. Whether it's not sleeping enough, struggling with your nutrition, or all kinds of other factors, you want to be on your a-game from the morning on. 

What Is Brain Fog?

It isn't a cloud that forms around your head or brains raining out of the sky. This is actually just a way to describe feeling out of focus, confused and distracted when you're working on something, keeping you from giving your best efforts and executing well. That lack of focus, clarity, and concentration can be detrimental to your daily routine, as well as creating lasting fatigue.

That translates to:

• Poor multitasking
• Struggles recalling things
• Awareness in your environment
• Feeling mentally prepared for work, school, and home

The worst part about it? You rarely are going to even acknowledge its there. It's a subtle debilitator that's going to ware you down without you even realizing it.

What Causes Brain Fog?

Diet/Medication

Any significant changes to your diet or medication can have a direct impact on how often brain fog pops up in your daily life. If you're getting the nutrients your body needs regularly, you probably won't see this be much of a factor. However, everyone knows how they get when they're hangry.

Hangriness is a perfect example of what brain fog is like. Your mind gets completely fixated on something that distracts you from the task at hand, and makes it so much harder to get anything done.

Sleep

Sleep changes everything. You have to be getting good sleep if you're going to have a productive, healthy, and efficient day. The more time you're able to dedicate to your body, the better you're going to feel, especially when it comes to brain fog.

The trick to getting enough sleep to avoid brain fog is consistency. Consistency is more powerful than just getting more sleep. If you get eight hours one night, four hours the next and six the night after, it could be much better for your body to get seven hours every single night. Then you can get on more of an internal clock and create expectations for the nutrients your body is going to get.

Sure, there will be days things don't work out and you get home late. No worries! Just aim to get the same amount of sleep as many nights a week as you can.

Medical Conditions and Health Effects

Migraines, anemia, depression, you'll have to be mindful of conditions like these and how they're impacting/creating brain fog.

Avoiding Brain Fog

Exercising

Exercise creates strong natural habits for you stay consistent with your daily routine. For example, if you're used to spending an hour every morning do weights and cardio, getting on track with sleep and focusing in when you're working is far easier.

Meal Planning

Meal planning is an extremely healthy habit to stay on track with. You can get your proteins, veggies, and starches in every meal with ease, while also spending less money. This is a great habit to reduce brain fog immensely if its tied to your diet. You start getting those fatty and sugary foods out of your diet more often, which greatly benefits your mood and how your brain stays active through the day.

If you wanna learn more about how you can get started, take a look at our in-depth guide here on creating the perfect meal plan.

Stretches, Meditation, and Calming Relaxation

These can be great for the soul, and even better for avoiding brain fog. Keep your body and mind at peace with ease when you find meditation techniques that work for you. This can be doing stretches with music, hiking up a trail around your neighborhood, or finding soothing supplements in your day that can help you wind down. Particularly, nootropics and functional mushrooms.

Nootropics and Functional Mushrooms

Functional mushrooms have been on the rise as a perfect pairing with your daily routine to seek out calm and relaxation, while also giving your body other strong support. This includes:

• Daily nutrients in vitamins and minerals
• Lasting energy
• Brain health boosts
• Restful, longer sleep
• Exercise support
• Antibodies
• Autoimmune support

On top of these core elements, you can use each species of functional mushroom to target a different area of your daily routine and havre a higher-functioning, more productive day.

Leading Functional Mushrooms: Lion's Mane

Lion's mane is a top functional mushroom that's become wildly popular today in both the corporate and fitness worlds. On top of those target areas, they're used for personal support as well.

They primarily are used to target:

• Anti-Inflammatory Support
• Increasing Focus
• Improving Productivity
• Elevated Mood
• Preventing Disease
• Reducing Anxiety, Depression Symptoms

What Properties Make These Results Possible for Lion's Mane?

These functional mushrooms use vitamins like thiamine, niacin, and riboflavin that are paired with minerals like zinc and potassium. Since they're so concentrated, they activate the brain and body in unique ways that can entirely eliminate brain fog, keep your body resistant to sickness, and more. This allows you to function at a higher level for longer with increased focus, getting your work done faster and feeling better while doing it as well.

Are They Hallucinogenic?

These are NOT the mushrooms that'll make you trip out, don't worry. You're just going to feel more productive and focused, not start seeing purple walls everywhere.

Are They Dangerous?

No! You can fully expect safe and reliable use of functional mushrooms as a supplement or piece of your meal prep. Of course, everything in moderation is best, there's always a limit to what you should intake. Just be mindful of the amount of vitamins you're getting and how they compare to your daily values, as well as what you're pairing with the mushrooms.

Take gummies, for example. Mushroom gummies are a popular new way to get the same support as having the mushrooms in your meal planning, just in a consolidated, refined little gummy-form.

In fact, there's a ton of other pros they have over the average functional mushroom as well.

Lion's Mane Mushrooms Crafted Into Gummies to Fight Brain Fog

Lion's Mane in gummies is easier and more accessible than ever. You can just grab a gummy and get started with your day. no mixing, no meal prepping.

Zero Caffeine

Lion's Mane mushrooms can be a route for you to eliminate caffeine from your diet as well. If you drink coffee in the morning usually and want a strong boost without the crash, Lion's Mane's the perfect alternative.

Plant-Based Blends

Vegan varieties are what you should be looking for if you're going for a mushroom-gummy blend. This limits your calorie intake and natural sugars to keep the mushroom blend you decide on as a maximum brain health booster.

Get Started with Troomy Nootropics Today!

Overall, brain fog can be a productivity crusher that goes unaddressed constantly. You need to protect your brain health and keep yourself feeling at your best if you're going to have habits that allow you to be productive, stay healthy, and maintain a good mood. Lion's Mane mushrooms are a great, natural first step to making that happen. 

At Troomy, we've spent the past year crafting a Lion's Mane mushroom gummy called Focus that's an all-natural blend for getting those exact values. Additonally, the focus support it offers is perfect for virtually any lifestyle, and can be paired with any one of our other mushroom gummy blends for peak performance.

Take a look at our starting-five lineup of mushroom nootropics here, and find which one's best for you and any needs you have beyond brain fog. We're looking forward to helping you find your "True Me" together! See you in the shop, Team Troomy!