Do you suffer from a chronic condition? 🤷♀️ Then you maybe have subtle, moderate or severe brain inflammation.
👉 Some factors that can cause your brain to become inflamed include: a brain injury, unmanaged autoimmune disease, high blood sugar, eating inflammatory foods, undiagnosed food intolerances, excess alcohol consumption, a chronic viral or bacterial infection, leaky gut, leaky blood-brain barrier, hormonal imbalances or deficiencies, or other chronic health conditions and imbalances.
Subtle brain inflammation symptoms include:
- Slower mental speed 🤦♀️
- Reduced brain endurance (can’t read, work, or drive as long as you used to) 📚
- Brain fog and/or brain fatigue after exposure to specific foods or chemicals
- Comes and goes with exposure to triggers
Moderate brain inflammation symptoms:
- Fatigue or depression
- Loss of appetite 🍍🥑
- Lack of motivation and/or unable to be physically active
- Inability to focus and concentrate for long periods
- Sleepiness, and/or need to sleep more than 8 hours 💤
- Lethargy
Severe brain inflammation:
- Disorientation or confusion
- Dementia
- Delirium
- Coma
- Seizures 😢
- Difficulty speaking
- Tremors or trembling
- Involuntary twitching
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Do you have any of the following symptoms? 🔥 If so, you may be suffering from "burnout."
- Fatigue or exhaustion
- Hives and rashes
- Increased mental distance from one's job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job
- Digestive problems
- Reduced professional efficacy
- Aches and pains including headaches
- Sleepless nights
- An increase in cortisol which causes weight gain — especially around your middle
- Imbalanced hormones which can lead to low libido
- Chronic signs of inflammation, like joint aches and pains
- Decreased willpower and decision-making ability
- Getting sick more often than you should with colds, UTIs, yeast infections, and cold-sore outbreaks.
🔥 Burnout is now a medical diagnosis, according to the International Classification of Diseases, or the ICD-11 (W.H.O.) handbook that guides medical providers in diagnosing diseases. 👉 Before making this diagnosis, the document says doctors should first rule out adjustment disorder, anxiety, and mood disorders. The diagnosis is limited to work environments and shouldn't be applied to other life situations. ⏰ Burnout happens when you’ve pushed your stress response system past its limit of resilience. You’ve been ‘stretched’ for so long that you’ve actually started to put strain on your body’s stress system – the circuit between your brain and your adrenals — and the downstream effects show up in your body, mind, and mood.
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A "bad" job could potentially lead to bad health. 😞
👉 Here are five ways that disliking your job can cause physical and mental health consequences:
1. By inducing sedentary behavior. 🤷♀️ Sitting all day is not going to be good for your health. Your job should allow you to take short breaks through the day to move around. 🏃♀️🏃♂️ Researchers have found that even a five-minute walk on an hourly basis can help counter these damaging effects. Furthermore, you may also consider performing desk exercises. 💻
2. By following you back home. ❌ In a recent study, researchers found that the expectation of having to keep checking work-related emails during non-office hours could contribute to higher levels of stress and anxiety. This can also affect family members who may feel they are not able to spend enough quality time together. ✔ Consider turning off your notifications to create a healthy work-life balance!
3. By interfering with sleep, social life. 😴 Poor sleep can also make you less sociable and more irritable, increasing feelings of isolation. Unpredictable shifts and irregular timings can reduce sleep quality which, over time, has been linked to a higher risk of chronic diseases. For those who work in the law enforcement or at hospitals, inadequate sleep can have concerning effects on work performance. 🔥
4. By grouping you with toxic co-workers. Being around a boss or coworker you don't get along with can be damaging for your mental health in the long run. 😲 Many employees have reported that their immediate supervisor is a significant source of stress.
5. By affecting your eating habits. 🍬🥤 Studies have shown that many workplaces offer unhealthy and processed food options such as donuts, pizza, soda, bagels, brownies, cake, and candy. We know that stress can make some people crave sugar — all the more hard to resist when snacks are offered for free. 🆓
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