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Fog sits where several things overlap: dissociation, anxiety, poor sleep, thyroid and iron problems, infections, medication. Because it belongs neatly to no one specialty, people get passed along and eventually stop mentioning it. Say it anyway, and say how long it has been going on for. Being told it is real is worth something in itself if you have been quietly assuming you were making it up.
Watch their fruits as they grow and ripen (Quran 6:99). The attention asked for is the kind willing to take its time, which is the opposite of a quick verdict.
الأنعام
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِيٓ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءࣰ فَأَخۡرَجۡنَا بِهِۦ نَبَاتَ كُلِّ شَيۡءࣲ فَأَخۡرَجۡنَا مِنۡهُ خَضِرࣰ ا نُّخۡرِجُ مِنۡهُ حَبࣰّ ا مُّتَرَاكِبࣰ ا وَمِنَ ٱلنَّخۡلِ مِن طَلۡعِهَا قِنۡوَانࣱ دَانِيَةࣱ وَجَنَّٰتࣲ مِّنۡ أَعۡنَابࣲ وَٱلزَّيۡتُونَ وَٱلرُّمَّانَ مُشۡتَبِهࣰ ا وَغَيۡرَ مُتَشَٰبِهٍۗ ٱنظُرُوٓاْ إِلَىٰ ثَمَرِهِۦٓ إِذَآ أَثۡمَرَ وَيَنۡعِهِۦٓۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكُمۡ لَأٓيَٰتࣲ لِّقَوۡمࣲ يُؤۡمِنُونَ
It is He who sends down water from the sky. With it We produce the shoots of each plant, then bring greenery from it, and from that We bring out grains, one riding on the other in close-packed rows. From the date palm come clusters of low-hanging dates, and there are gardens of vines, olives, and pomegranates, alike yet different. Watch their fruits as they grow and ripen! In all this there are signs for those who would believe
Qur’an 6:99read it in the library
Translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Be wary of tidy dietary explanations for fog. A review of intermittent fasting and cognition is candid that most of the mechanistic work comes from animal studies and the human findings so far are preliminary. That is roughly the state of diet and thinking research generally. It does not mean food is irrelevant to how clear your head feels, only that confident claims are running well ahead of what has been shown.
Gudden J, Arias Vasquez A, Bloemendaal M. (2021). The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Brain and Cognitive Function.. Nutrients doi
Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.
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If a health habit keeps sliding, attach something immediate to it. The apps where you put real money on hitting a step target work for a reason: the payoff arrives now instead of in twenty years.