Mental fatigue: let’s not take it lightly

Stress, overwork, study: there are times when our ability to focus on the things we do fails. Here are the tips to get back in shape.

Marco is about to face his high school exams, but he feels like a rag and is afraid of not making it. Guilty: the stress and fatigue of the whole school year on the shoulders, but not only.

Even Tommaso, his older brother, is more fatigued than usual and easily loses concentration at work. Of course, the period is also intense for him and, in addition, the high temperatures that contribute to feeding the sense of exhaustion are added.

Micronutrients not to be underestimated

During the changes of season, especially in spring, but especially when the summer heat begins, it is more difficult to cope with stressful situations and the mind is likely to fog up more easily.

So it happens to struggle to memorize even the most trivial things and to have memory gaps; We often lose the thread of the discourse and we just can’t concentrate. And, as if that were not enough, we feel exhausted and without energy, tired even after sleeping the necessary time.

All symptoms that can be linked to a lack of micronutrients, such as magnesium and potassium, and some vitamins. To remedy this, it is necessary to ensure an adequate supply of these substances, with the right diet and with an ad hoc supplementation.

Magnesium, potassium and vitamins

With the summer heat, sweating increases and, consequently, also the loss of mineral salts. If magnesium and potassium levels drop too much, fatigue and exhaustion appear, both physical and mental.

Potassium is essential, as well as for muscle contraction, also for nerve transmission and its deficiency lowers the ability to cope with heat, efforts, fatigue.

Magnesium is used to make energy available and also participates in the correct conduction of the nervous stimulus, but also in the synthesis of serotonin, which acts on mood and melatonin, which increases the quality of sleep.

In all cases of mental fatigue, therefore, the integration of these two mineral salts, especially if associated with B vitamins and vitamin C, which help to effectively use energy and assist nerve cell activity, can give a boost of energy and get back in shape.