Brain fog immediately after eating
 

Confused on this front, one of my PCS symptoms that doesn't seem to go away is terrible brain fog after eating (particularly foods high in fat that I thought were good for neurological health: butter, olive oil, coconut oil, etc). Not sure if it is a histamine intolerance. I am not sensitive to normal foods that are high in histamine, I read somewhere that some high fat foods can trigger histamine release. I am at a loss here though because sometimes I get horrible brain fog after eating seemingly normal and enjoyable foods and can't figure out the cause (never had this before TBI). Anyone have any suggestions?

Sounds like certain foods are triggering inflammation and thus brain fog. I had similar problems before going on a strict anti-inflammatory diet. I've been on the diet for about four years now and no longer have this problem. A few times I have tried to expand my diet to include slightly more inflammatory foods (e.g. pork) and have paid the price every time.

"Normal food" means nothing. Hamburgers are about as normal as it gets and are massively inflammatory. The same goes for fried foods, oils, bread, sugar, processed foods, etc. The vast majority of what people the world over eat these days was never intended to enter the human body. Nature did not intend you to eat hamburgers. It seems many folks with PCS have a reduced tolerance these constant dietary insults to the body and brain.

Thank you for the response. Could you send me a link of a good diet?

I have the same issues with food and PCS. Beef fat is awesome and then every other fat is decent to ok for me. Sugar is really bad along with preservatives and highly starchy foods. I can't eat anything with sodium nitrite in it, this includes most bacon. My only suggestion is make sure your eating clean, like no fast food or eating out as you won't know what is in your food. Pay attention to ingredients and start whittling it down.

Strip your diet back to all natural and start eating the same breakfast everyday, do the same with your lunch and dinner for a few days then start adding one thing in at a time and recording. Its way easier to pin point with a clean diet and adding one thing at a time.

I couldn't do chips, candy, fastfood etc. The one thing that I could do was a tuna sub at subway.

I can only second Blueberry PCS's reply. You have to read around, experiment, read some more, experiment some more. Find what works for you. There is no universally optimal diet.

That said, a good place to start would be to google "anti-inflammatory diet" or "whole-food diet."