What is the best diet or supplement for mental focus that you know ?
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I like lion’s mane but some say there are downsides, so it should probably be cycled.
Magnesium and theanine are my top two.
Sleep
Remove distractions
Remove or reduce sugar and alcohol
Sun exposure in the morning
Caffeine a bit later and none in the afternoon
Meditate to practice getting back to the thing you want to focus on, eg a breath, once you got distracted
And supplements? Maybe D3, and, anything else, likely best only if to know from blood work that you have a deficiency, assuming you eat a balanced diet with all need nutrients
Otherwise, yeah, magnesium, etc.
Or ephedrine for a strong, potentially unsafe and illegal kick, but I'd use it in emergency only, not a sustainable thing
All great suggestions.
The lifestyle changes will have much higher impact than supplements and may prevent the need for supplementation.
One note on testing for deficiency: many people are deficient in magnesium, as levels in food have dropped and most people drink filtered, treated water. Magnesium is a cofactor in more than 300 enzyme systems throughout the body so it’s very important to have enough.
The most common way mg levels are tested for is the RBC test which tests the levels in your red blood cells. However, that test can be misleading. When the levels in your blood get low, cells dump mg into the blood stream so it’s hard to tell whether you’re deficient or not from that teat alone. Getting an EXA test will measure the mg levels in your cells.
Carnivore diet brings tremendous mental clarity. Get your brain running on ketones.