How to improve your memory, concentration and productivity
While your brain would love to comfortably stay in its relaxed holiday mode, your inbox is mercilessly filling up and you start to feel, from somewhere in the back of your mind, the tense push of responsibility creeping up. Instead of thoughtlessly perusing the internet you will have to boost your productivity to the maximum again. How, however, should you go about granting your brain the optimal conditions so that your concentration and productivity can reliably stay at a 100%?
Where the brain wanders?
Do you also sometimes have the feeling that your brain is off somewhere wandering the vast skies among the clouds and your thoughts have turned into a chaotic whirlpool of anarchy that is obscured by a thick fog? Welcome to the 21. Century. According to the latest scientific research, your concentration is affected by a whole slew of elements. Among the common offenders we can place; information overload, which perpetually haunts our lives in the form of emails, social networks, media and so many others. In combination with chronic stress, lack of sleep and junk food, our mind can be enveloped in brain-fog. This modern terminology describes the state which most of us intimately know – your mind is foggy, you cannot concentrate, it’s difficult to maintain a coherent line of thought, you are indecisive. In other words, its as if your brain is working in slow motion. COVID-19 is also often connected to the onset of brain-fog; this is because the immune reaction to COVID infection can cause inflammation in the brain and nervous system. If this state remains long-term as a result of infection, it is called long-term covid which endures for weeks, months or even longer in some cases.
Emotions on a swing
Brain fog and the issues that come along with it can often affect us emotionally as well. If it is taking you an eternity to write an email, you are forgetting important tasks, you are having a hard time concentrating on the work presentation; all of these small things combined lead to frustration, irritability and stress. The fact that you are not feeling comfortable in your own skin has an effect on your confidence or appetite for social interactions which slowly starts to spiral into anxiety and fear.
How to keep your brain fit
If issues with concentration and brain-fog also describe you, we will happily tell you the tricks to getting your life back together. The holy-trinity in this case is made up of; enough quality sleep, a varied and balanced diet, rich in omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals and lastly you need to be getting enough exercise to stimulate healthy blood flow to the brain.
Although this obligatory piece of advice is much easier to say than do but it is important to minimize your stress levels. It can help to include a planning system into your life that will bring a feeling of control and organization into your day-to-day and ideally this will allow you to allocate more time to relaxation. The queen of relaxation is meditation, which, for thousands of years, has been the go to key for a calm mind and better concentration In addition to a calm mind, relaxation brings with it the guarantee that you will be able to cut yourself off from the rest of the world for at least a moment and just focus on yourself.
What else can you do to help your memory and mental health?
If you are going through a difficult time or if the demands of a modern life are getting hard to manage; you can always do more for your mental health. Alongside a well balanced lifestyle, strategically selected dietary supplements can really help you maximize your cognitive potential; get rid of brain fog, improve your memory and concentration.
Abour your FOCUS keeps your brain cells healthy through the patented substance Cognizin, improves your memory and concentration with Ashwaganda KSM-66, while the extract from Bacowize helps to alleviate anxiety and improves the brain’s ability to learn new things. This effective trio are further supported by other clinically proven natural ingredients: ginseng, green tea, rhodiola rosea, ginkgo bilboa and also adaptogenic mushrooms and antioxidants. All together these substances have a progressive and positive effect on the human brain and organism.
