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If you complain of brain fog to a medical professional, you’re likely to be told that it isn’t a recognised condition. But if you mention brain fog to your friends, they’ll know exactly what you mean: fuzzy thinking, trouble concentrating, a sense of grasping for the right word, feeling like your brain is somehow slowed down. In truth, brain fog is not a diagnosis in itself, but a sign that things aren’t right in your body.

 There have been over 67 million Google searches for ‘brain fog’ online, but most medical professionals claim there is no such thing. Sufferers are left frustrated and without help or treatment, but there is a way to beat brain fog.

Based on her book, BEATING BRAIN FOG, neuroscientist and health psychologist Dr Sabina Brennan will guide you through the science to explain how our brains work, and why we might experience confusion and anxiety. She gives tools to help identify your own cognitive profile, determining your specific symptoms and potential causes, and offers simple strategies to help you feel like yourself again.

 Dr Brennan addresses the multiple causes of brain fog from that caused by hormonal changes, ageing and chemotherapy, to childbirth, medications, ill health, stress and more. Many women first encounter brain fog after childbirth, and then again when perimenopause begins. As the conversation on hormonal imbalance grows, so does the search for solutions to brain fog. Dr Brennan also shows how clearer thinking starts in the gut and explains the importance of the gut/brain connection: what we eat affects how we think.

 Many brain fog symptoms can be eliminated through simple lifestyle changes addressing sleep, nutrition, exercise and stress.

 Offering simple solutions without any complicated tests or expensive supplements, Dr Brennan's 30-day plan is straightforward and easily adapted to your lifestyle. It helps you to tackle the lifestyle factors that can cause or exacerbate brain fog, helping you think faster, sharper and better in just one month.

 Dr Sabina Brennan is a chartered health psychologist, neuroscientist, award-winning science communicator, host of the critically-acclaimed Super Brain podcast, and author of the international bestseller 100 DAYS TO A YOUNGER BRAIN (Orion Spring).

 Dr Brennan leads a large-scale research study on Brain health, lifestyle, genomics and dementia risk at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s premier university. Dr Brennan has been engaged as an advisor to governments and global businesses influencing policy and practice in the areas of brain health, ageing, dementia, migraine and multiple sclerosis. She also volunteers on scientific advisory boards and advocacy panels supporting charities, non-profits and NGOs.

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Ageism is a prejudice against older people because they are old, and while racism and sexism is now regarded as politically incorrect, ageism seems to slide under the radar. 

While the main thrust of this talk is ageism, Sabina will first explore what ageing is to get people thinking about the factors beyond the number of years since birth that influence how well or how badly we age. Then she will move on to ageism and finally finish with what actions we and others can take to tackle ageism including self-ageism

• Ageism can affect anyone at any age but my talk will focus on ageism towards older adults. 

• Ageism is the most common form of prejudice, more tolerated than racism or sexism.

• Ageism leads to discrimination, inequaity, stereotyping and prejudicial actions and practices.

• Ageism impacts on health, health care and treatment.

• Older people are less likely to be given the same medical treatment as younger adults even when it is likely to be just as effective.

• Ageism is a major barrier to the human rights of older people - Older people don't deserve more or less respect than younger people but they are entitled to the same rights as everyone else