Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

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30 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this short video, Mona Sharma shares her personal experience with chronic brain fog and explains the most common underlying factors. She highlights hormonal changes—particularly estrogen and progesterone fluctuations during perimenopause and menopause—as a primary driver of foggy cognition. Sharma then outlines practical lifestyle strategies to counteract these effects: regular exercise and movement, meditation, and especially optimizing gut health, which she describes as the "second brain." She points out that everyday dietary choices, such as coffee with milk, sourdough bread, or sweet potatoes, can influence gut function and therefore brain clarity. The overall message is that addressing hormonal balance and gut health through simple, consistent habits can dramatically improve mental sharpness.

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Brain fog was a norm for me for so long. But when we think of this through the lens of, you know, your research, what are some of the most common reasons that people are suffering from brain fog? Estrogen and progesterone. When you go through perimenopause or menopause, you're having the same sort of fluctuations, and you have a very, very similar brain fog symptoms that happen. So I think counteracting that with exercise, movement, meditation, nutrit optimizing your gut function, like healing your gut, which is connected to your brain, is going to make all the difference in the world. They do say it's your second brain. A lot of people don't think that their morning coffee with milk or that one piece of sourdough bread or their afternoon sweet potato, like whatever it is, that that could be contributing to their gut health.