7 Weird Reasons You Can't Focus
Cosmopolitan India|February 2017

Brain fog and monkey mind can be maddening. Here’s why you can’t concentrate and how to clear your head.

Krissy Brady
7 Weird Reasons You Can't Focus

When you have the attention span of a puppy (oooh, squirrel!), the fix isn’t always as obvious as pounding an espresso. Distraction or fuzziness may be your body’s way of signaling something’s off, says Niket Sonpal, DO, Assistant Professor at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York. Keeping your mind trained on a single task requires your brain to be flooded with a complex cocktail of neurotransmitters and hormones, he explains. Read on for the surprising things that interfere with your ability to keep your head in the game.

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