Everyone’s had it before. Maybe you lost your glasses a few too many times one day, forgot an important meeting, or just felt plain foggy and unable to think clearly. We’re talking about brain fog.

You might be experiencing confusion, memory loss, trouble thinking and concentrating, unintentional negligence, or just feel plain spacey. You may just be having a day of brain fog here and there or it might be a chronic issue that’s disrupting your life.

On average over a 7-9 hour night of sleep, we go through 4-6 cycles of sleep.

During these cycles there are two different kinds of sleep, NREM (non-REM) and REM (Rapid Eye Movement). Deep sleep consists of both NREM sleep and REM sleep, taking place in stages 3 and 4 of the sleep cycle.

Deep sleep is important because these are the stages where your mind and body recharge from the day. Stage 3 of the sleep cycle allows your body to recharge while stage 4 helps with your cognitive functions too. Without these stages of sleep, our thinking would suffer along with our mental and physical health.