I want to share what I have learned about brain fog. With me it has seemed to come & go. Over the past year I've been very careful what I eat & paying close attention to how different foods make me feel. These past couple of weeks I've had brain fog. It came on slowly & was full throttle by Sunday evening. I checked over my food intake & realized I had been eating more refined sugar & starches than usual. Sunday morning we celebrated a 50th wedding anniversary in our Sunday school class. I rarely eat sweets in the morning but I did that day on an empty stomach. Then for Sunday dinner I made pork chops, potatoes & gravy. Then later in the evening I had a cup of pudding. By bed time I was feeling like I was having a drunken hangover only without the booze. Monday I couldn't think straight. I couldn't even put my clothes on correctly. It was Monday evening when I realized what may have caused all these problem. Sugar & starches. Today, I haven't had any refined sugar or starches such as breads or starchy vegetables & I feel 90% better. I still have some fog but nothing like yesterday. So those of you with brain fog try keeping a diary of what you eat & how you feel that day. You might be amazed at what you might find out.
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I can relate, but also have gut issues that go along with it 😞
I now have gut issues with dairy & wheats. I'm not gluten intolerant but try to stay as gluten free as possible & try to eat only local meat that I know is grass fed or free range. I also get fresh double yolk eggs from the chicken farms around here. They aren't free range but much better than store bought.🤗
I had read several years ago about grass fed beef being better for people with auto immune disease. I found Butcher Box that delivers grass fed/grass finished beef as well as heritage pork and good chicken. My friend has Hashimotos and her doctor actually recommended Butcher Box to her. I love that it gets delivered. Keep up with the grass fed beef, I think it helps 😊
Yes grass fed beef is much better because of the nutrients the cow is getting from the grass rather than just the grain feed that lacks a lot of the vitamins & minerals that we need.
Thanks for sharing; it's an interesting post. Although I was surprised when MS communities reported that diet really doesn't change/alter the course of MS; but recommend eating a healthy diet to avoid other co-morbidities.
I must admit that both fatigue and cognitive dysfunction were the two elements that caused me to seek SSDI when I was only 45, but I had been living & working with MS for over twenty years.
Despite continuing DMTs for more than twenty-five years, MS is a progressive disease without a cure. Sorry to be negative, but of course, my progression has been slowed/altered with tx. I still enjoy my pizza, burgers and tacos in moderation of course. LOL
Be well. 😅🙏🤞
Mona Bostick (author of the article on the link you have provided ) is always good value and is really on the ball with MS and diet without being too extreme in any direction. Here's another really good article from her on the topic - from her own website.
msbites.com/multiple-sclero...
The webinar she did on "Hope for sale - Debunking the Myths" around MS and diet is first rate (see link below), especially when it looks at some of the influences such as social media and "celebrity status" etc that sway people into believing that this special "MS diet" or that special "MS diet" will "heal", "fix", or "overcome" their MS.
youtube.com/watch?v=d2kUg-Y...
The webinar on the next link below is also another really good one based on facts rather than hype and vested self-interests driven by self-appointed "MS diet" gurus. It's also been put together by a dietitian who actually has MS (just as Mona Bostick does).
Changing my diet has helped me with symptoms that I thought were caused by MS when they most likely were good related. I don't have any MS symptoms now except numbness on the bottom of my feet.
Thanks for posting this.
Good idea. Thank you.
"we are what we eat", they say. I had bad brain fog prior to dx and my doctor would put it on menopause.
With DMT treatment and control of food (no sugar), I've not experience brain fog in 5 years. I feel my brain runs like I am 25 (and maybe I've had ms since then, lol).
I don't think I'll be able to cut starch/sugar out of my diet 😬 I have a cup of tea with milk and 2 sugars in the morning to wake me up, biscuits (maybe chocolate biscuits too), toast if I can be bothered making a slice or 2, and then something homemade for the evening meal if I've got time/energy. I'm thinking of doing a one pot chicken pasta tonight for me and my husband 🤔 I've got the calendar on my phone to keep track of appointments, and it's doing me a whole world of good 🤗
Yum!
Your breakfast sounds like me, right down to the tea! I don't eat lunch at all. When I can manage I put together a dinner/supper, but lately that's been rare. I told my husband that I cooked the last two times and it's his turn. He hasn't stepped up to the plate so I have a sandwich and some fruit for the meal at the end. I am exhausted and can't get past it. I guess we're lucky if we eat anything these days.
Very lucky! To be fair, I normally don't eat anything for breakfast or lunch! I grew up with no appetite apart from my evening meal 😅 I'm having to have a breakfast bar now, just because I can't take some of my meds on an empty stomach, and my carers don't understand why I don't want lunch 🤷♀️ my other half's come on leaps and bounds with his cooking, simply because he uses a recipe as he's cooking, and he'll ask for my opinion before finishing it off. He even bought a rice cooker, and so when we have stuff that requires rice, like a curry, he'll put the left over portions of rice into the fridge so he can make egg fried rice the next day 🤗 he does understand that I often don't eat as much as him, and always tries to give me the smaller portio, if he can manage it. I don't get why I don't have a big appetite 🤔 my husband also doesn't get it, but he knows what I'm like.
I've eaten breakfast/granola bars since I was in HS. It's quick and and easy.
I've only recently been regularly eating breakfast bars, simply because I can't have some of my meds on an empty stomach. When I used to work for KFC, on the open shifts, I'd have a hash brown butty, because the shift manager would need to do some hash browns to check that the fryers for fries/hash browns/popcorn chicken were working. I think that was only because my body knew it'd need energy for the rest of the shift 😅 the shift manager would ask the only other person on shift that day, the cook, if they'd like a hash brown too! I think they've had to stop that now though 🤔 I don't know, I've not been with kfc for quite a few years 😕
Aren't we just wonderful eaters....
🤣🤣🤣 when we want to eat!!!
It all sounds so good but just the thought of it is giving me heartburn & wanting to take a nap!🤣
Very good advice.
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