How do you keep up brain-heavy work at workplace?

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What do you grab, snap and eat up to keep up with brain-heavy work at workplace?

I gobble up my lunch, plus Vit.C at ~10:00am (along with 1 multivitamin tablet, 500mg magnesium citrate, 500mg O3 fish oil caps), then my brain stops working at around 14:00. Should i pack extra 'buckwheat-bread +duck fat' bits and thrive on it, constantly feeding my brain, because heavy creative work is expected here. I remember making tofu+butter sandwiches in 2009 that kept me full in those dark days (diet-wise) and gobbled up a lot of milk-chocolate to try to keep up with the brain-heavy work demand.

What do you eat during the day, when the boss demands complex stuff(difficult contracts, new product designs,etc..), how do you keep up?
 
forge said:
What do you eat during the day, when the boss demands complex stuff(difficult contracts, new product designs,etc..), how do you keep up?

fwiw pipe breathing and taking a break (going for a walk) are the two things that can keep me going. Drinking plenty of water and making sure you have some fresh air (open a window a little even if its cold out) are also important for me when it comes to sustained work.
You may want to look up supplements to support dopamine and serotonin too....the one for dopamine (who's name escapes me at the moment - tryptophan perhaps) helped me keep my focus when I was studying for a test.
 
RedFox said:
forge said:
What do you eat during the day, when the boss demands complex stuff(difficult contracts, new product designs,etc..), how do you keep up?

fwiw pipe breathing and taking a break (going for a walk) are the two things that can keep me going. Drinking plenty of water and making sure you have some fresh air (open a window a little even if its cold out) are also important for me when it comes to sustained work.
You may want to look up supplements to support dopamine and serotonin too....the one for dopamine (who's name escapes me at the moment - tryptophan perhaps) helped me keep my focus when I was studying for a test.

I think GABA is for Dopamine and 5HTP for Serotonin. But I may be wrong.
 
I make sure I take enough smoking breaks.

From Wave Chapter XL
Now, nicotine is a most interesting drug. Nicotine mimics one of the body's most significant neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. This is the neurotransmitter most often associated with cognition in the cerebral cortex. Acetylcholine is the primary carrier of thought and memory in the brain. It is essential to have appropriate levels of acetylcholine to have new memories or recall old memories.
 
I will usually eat once before leaving the house, around 730ish, something light but protein heavy like eggs on GF toast with some jam. Then I eat again around 10am, this is almost always a sandwich on GF bread with lots of turkey/ham and maybe a slice of tomato if I have it and some canola mayo or mustard. I have lunch around 1pm and bring dried fruit or nuts to snack on in between and after lunch.

I supplement pretty infrequently, though that varies depending on how I'm feeling. Typically this keeps me going all day, and I do take smoke breaks every 2-3 hours.
 
Puck said:
I will usually eat once before leaving the house, around 730ish, something light but protein heavy like eggs on GF toast with some jam. Then I eat again around 10am, this is almost always a sandwich on GF bread with lots of turkey/ham and maybe a slice of tomato if I have it and some canola mayo or mustard. I have lunch around 1pm and bring dried fruit or nuts to snack on in between and after lunch.

Usually GF bread has corn... :/ Unless you make it yourself?

Assuming you're sitting most of the time... Can you have cinnamon, forge? If so, have you tried having some organic herbal tea with a little cinnamon in it? Bring your own cup (those plastic cups are evil) and maybe you can take a bottle of filtrated water with you, that you can heat up there.
Be sure to smell your tea with cinnamon nicely before taking a sip :D
Just a thought.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=68
Cinnamon's Scent Boosts Brain Function

Not only does consuming cinnamon improve the body's ability to utilize blood sugar, but just smelling the wonderful odor of this sweet spice boosts brain activity!

Research led by Dr. P. Zoladz and presented April 24, 2004, at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, in Sarasota, FL, found that chewing cinnamon flavored gum or just smelling cinnamon enhanced study participants' cognitive processing. Specifically, cinnamon improved participants' scores on tasks related to attentional processes, virtual recognition memory, working memory, and visual-motor speed while working on a computer-based program. Participants were exposed to four odorant conditions: no odor, peppermint odor, jasmine, and cinnamon, with cinnamon emerging the clear winner in producing positive effects on brain function. Encouraged by the results of these studies, researchers will be evaluating cinnamon's potential for enhancing cognition in the elderly, individuals with test-anxiety, and possibly even patients with diseases that lead to cognitive decline.
 
Many Smoke Breaks to lubricate the brain...
Yep, outside,,, listening to the birds,,, watching the clouds,,, contemplate the navel to clear the cobwebs.
Away from other people...
:cool2: :cool2: :cool2:

edit: and breath...

agni said:
I make sure I take enough smoking breaks.

From Wave Chapter XL
Now, nicotine is a most interesting drug. Nicotine mimics one of the body's most significant neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. This is the neurotransmitter most often associated with cognition in the cerebral cortex. Acetylcholine is the primary carrier of thought and memory in the brain. It is essential to have appropriate levels of acetylcholine to have new memories or recall old memories.
 
Puck said:
I will usually eat once before leaving the house, around 730ish, something light but protein heavy like eggs on GF toast with some jam. Then I eat again around 10am, this is almost always a sandwich on GF bread with lots of turkey/ham and maybe a slice of tomato if I have it and some canola mayo or mustard. I have lunch around 1pm and bring dried fruit or nuts to snack on in between and after lunch.

I supplement pretty infrequently, though that varies depending on how I'm feeling. Typically this keeps me going all day, and I do take smoke breaks every 2-3 hours.

Beware of canola oil Puck.

http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/canola.htm
 
I take some carrots, bacon, and granny smith apples with me to work at various times. I also have some vitamin B3 spray I keep in a drawer at work along with a bag of walnuts.
 
Also if you can, try and have a breakfast high in saterated fats. Bacon, homemade sausage, buckwheat pancakes cooked in lots of fat...mmmm This should help sustain energy levels and focus as well. I've been trying this out and found I need a digestive enzime or two to break down all the fat, but it's pretty amazing in what it does for your energy.
 
Update on brain-enhancing mix used:

("+" = mixed with)

for Blood type A

Chocolate:
1. Heat water until boils, pour in Iranian raisins ~.4kg + 2 tblspoon raw cane sugar + calcium-lactium roughly balancing 1000mg magnesium intake, not counting magnesium content in cocoa
2. leave it until the dry raisins pick up water
3. Put in Cocoa-powder 22% butter content + at least 5 x 20g cinnamon, mix with machine until you get a heavy thick/stiff substance that would be okay for cookie-filling. Not too watered.
4. Put into glass jars for example. If the mix isn't sweet enough for you, experiment with stevia or xilitol or what your idea is: vanilla, ground coconut etc...

Take 1000mg magnesium + fish oil daily.

Take 500mg Acetyl L-carnitine for your big morning-meal. This was Psyche's idea and i found i can concentrate very well - rack my brain - with a surprising force!!
 
Currently investigating:

BRAIN STAR ingredients:

Phosphatidyl Serine 100 mg, DMAE (dimethylaminoethanol) 20 mg, L-5HTP Hydroxytryptophan 100 mg, Bacopa monniera Leaf extract 50 mg, Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract 40 mg, Centella asiatica (Gotu Kola Extract), Vitamin C, Niacinamide reduced form, NADH.

Of above:
- 5-HTP is known.
- Vit C is known, albeit i wish i could use expensive natural form: Acerola Cherry Powder, amla berries, BLUEBERRIES!!! Blueberries fresh are loaded with phytochemicals but are insanely expensive!

Reminder:
- Eggs: are cheap source of phytochemicals needed desperately by the brain.
- Fats are also essential for top brain function.
- Complex sugars must be also very important.
 
Coconut oil.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/224961-Is-coconut-oil-the-secret-cure-for-Alzheimer-s-disease-
Began to eat it may have begun jump-starting benevolent, regenerative, brain-detoxing processes.

I can only approximate, what happened, but my thinking-efficiency is showing surprising improvements like going toward the roof. Here is what i did: EE of course then

1.
- Relaxation to loosen up tightened body muscles (in case of asthmatic, nervous, restless/wired, energetically constricted people) everywhere using the autogenic training technique, similar to EE counting, but instead of counts, you sequentially go through your body in this manner: "My left foot is relaxed... my left leg is relaxed... my left thigh is relaxed... my pelvis is relaxed" etc... Keep the wording simple like you want to say(think) "All muscles in my pelvis area are relaxed" but it is just too long: simplify!

Gurdjieff talked about utmost importance to relax your face muscles first - The Art of Plastics: appear as anybody transform yourself to completely different from man-->prince, etc.

Okay, this body-muscle relaxation became a habit, traveling to work [~1hour10mins] when i got the chance on the bus [4-5 minutes of travel] to sit down i immediately sunk into a relaxed meditative state reciting all body parts and immediately relax muscles belonging to it. Summarizing a whole areas like this: "My whole face is calm, slackened, relaxed. [see autogenic training instructions]
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogenic_training

Immediately after relaxing the whole body i noticed a GREAT ENERGY INFLUX, [beginning the workday-morning tired because of lack of sleep] like my body just waited to be transformed into this state and became a CAPACITOR, i immediately felt begin recharged with energy. Review G.'s remarks about the two small accumulators and the big accumulator in ISOTM. I began actually to gather large amounts of energy on these 4-5 min bus travels for the whole workday! My movement became completely relaxed, strong, energetic, i regained balance, softness of movements, like a puma.

Also i observed my thai-box trainer 16 years ago, that when he showed to me a boxing move: left-right-left punch, his skull-neck-shoulder area became like soft springing apparatus or jack-in-the-box on soft springsystem , immediately relaxed i couldn't imagine, how he did it. My karate trainers also many times reiterated that our muscles must become relaxed, slack in order to work with high energy & efficiently. I couldn't imagine, how the heck they managed that.

Now i understand. This relaxing technique flowed into my bio-energetic life-processes like EE flowed into my psyche. It's amazing, a whole new state of relaxed world-view/perspective is created. :wow:

2.
Taking supplements listed in above posts.

3.
Extreme logical exercises comprised of analyzing and following the flow/redirections of a program debugged in computer machine language (ASM). A task i gave myself to measure how well i can perform after observing this increased thinking-capacity.

4.
Spiritual growth by analyzing programs - I's - in my mind and stopping the energy-leeching functions of negatively oriented I's scheming through negative part of emotional center and re-playing memories for guilt inducement and creating anguish to cook their food in my mind that these negative I's can eat. That 23rd page of Maurice Nicolls 1st commentaries book was a remarkable wrestling match for me.
 
Update on the impossible task i gave myself to measure / proof if these accelerated thinking changes are real or not:

I have achieved complete success!!!!!! :wow:

Minutes before the success: 11 days of very hard, mind-breaking, sleep-deprived struggle
It was/seemed impossible and i finally was driven to despair, started to think i am an obsessed idiot and chased only rainbows like this during all my life. I have to accept total failure, as i am a total idiot, cannot do exceptional deeds, am just a nobody, etc..

Now i hold the 'shining gem' in my hands. It's unbelievable, no big emotional high, just deep calm, because my apple-cart really got shaken mentally in this last hour before the achievement!!!!

:) :D :D ;D :dance: :jawdrop: :clap: :thup:

(you think it was easy? no :))
 
forge said:
Update on the impossible task i gave myself to measure / proof if these accelerated thinking changes are real or not:

I have achieved complete success!!!!!! :wow:

Minutes before the success: 11 days of very hard, mind-breaking, sleep-deprived struggle
It was/seemed impossible and i finally was driven to despair, started to think i am an obsessed idiot and chased only rainbows like this during all my life. I have to accept total failure, as i am a total idiot, cannot do exceptional deeds, am just a nobody, etc..

Now i hold the 'shining gem' in my hands. It's unbelievable, no big emotional high, just deep calm, because my apple-cart really got shaken mentally in this last hour before the achievement!!!!

:) :D :D ;D :dance: :jawdrop: :clap: :thup:

(you think it was easy? no :))

Congratulations forge! :clap:

Could you give us details on how you measured the results of your diet changes?
Did you record some kind of cognitive performance indicator each day? Or just observed the changes happening?
Your success has inspired me to start some diet changes of my own, to combat the sluggishness of my brain.
 
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