The OAKLEY Method is inspired by the principles of the Bredesen 7 from the ReCODE (Reversing Cognitive Decline) Program, which has been proven to optimize brain health and improve cognitive function. This method is designed to address the root causes of brain dysfunction at the cellular level, helping restore mental clarity, focus, and energy.
Just like a strong foundation is essential for a house, a well-supported brain is essential for productivity, memory, and emotional balance.
Rooted in identifying and addressing key imbalances, the OAKLEY Method doesn’t just target cognitive decline—it also tackles chronic fatigue, focus struggles, and mood imbalances. Whether you’ve been dealing with brain fog, memory lapses, ADHD-like symptoms, or anxiety that won’t quit, this approach is designed to help you think clearly, focus deeply, and feel like yourself again.
Let’s take a deeper look into exactly what the OAKLEY Method entails.
Optimize the Gut
At the heart of the OAKLEY Method is the optimization of gut health, which plays a critical role in mental clarity, focus, and emotional balance. If you’ve ever noticed that your brain fog, anxiety, or ability to focus seems to fluctuate with your digestion, that’s no coincidence. The gut isn’t just responsible for breaking down food—it’s a powerful control center for neurotransmitters, inflammation, and brain function.
When gut health is compromised, so is cognitive function. An imbalanced gut microbiome can lead to chronic inflammation, dysregulated blood sugar, and disrupted neurotransmitter production— all of which can contribute to mental fatigue, scattered thinking, emotional highs and lows, and difficulty concentrating. A healthy gut microbiome, on the other hand, helps maintain a strong gut barrier, optimizes nutrient absorption, and regulates inflammation, all of which are essential for sustained energy, mental sharpness, and emotional resilience.
The gut-brain axis—the communication superhighway between your gut and brain—plays a direct role in mood stability, focus, and energy regulation. When this pathway is functioning optimally, dopamine and serotonin production are balanced, inflammation in the brain is minimized, and the ability to think clearly and handle stress improves. Optimizing gut health means supporting digestion, lowering inflammation, and restoring balance to this crucial connection, ultimately allowing the brain to function at its best.
By strategically focusing on gut health, the OAKLEY Method ensures that your brain has the strong, supportive foundation it needs to function at peak capacity. This doesn’t just help alleviate brain fog and fatigue—it gives you back the ability to focus deeply, think clearly, and feel emotionally stable throughout the day.
Activate Brain Food
Nutrition is one of the most powerful tools for improving mental clarity, focus, and emotional stability. The OAKLEY Method incorporates the KetoFlex 12/3 diet, a strategy developed by Dr. Dale Bredesen to optimize brain cell health, support neurotransmitter balance, and provide lasting energy—without the blood sugar rollercoaster that leads to crashes and brain fog.
This approach shifts the brain’s primary fuel source from glucose to ketones, which are produced when the body burns fat for energy. Unlike glucose, which causes fluctuations in energy and focus, ketones provide a steady, efficient energy source for the brain, leading to sharper thinking, better memory, and sustained mental stamina.
Key Nutritional Strategies:
- Intermittent Fasting: Eating within a 12-hour window, with your last meal at least three hours before bedtime, allows the brain to repair and detoxify overnight while supporting balanced circadian rhythms.
- Balanced Nutrition: Prioritizing non-starchy vegetables, healthy fats, and protein provides the brain with the raw materials needed for neurotransmitter production, memory retention, and stress resilience.
- Digestive Health: Incorporating probiotics, prebiotics, and resistant starches nurtures gut health, which (as we just discussed) plays a direct role in mood stability, emotional regulation, and cognitive sharpness.
- Guided Indulgences: Natural sweeteners like honey, maple syrup, and monk fruit, along with red wine, starchy vegetables, legumes, and carefully selected dairy products (organic/raw/A2), can be enjoyed in moderation while maintaining a brain-supportive diet.
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Eating this way not only fuels the brain efficiently but also combats inflammation, regulates metabolism, and stabilizes hormones. By integrating these principles, the OAKLEY Method enhances your body’s ability to repair at the cellular level, reduce fatigue, and support long-term cognitive function—so you can stay sharp, focused, and energized throughout the day.
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Kindle Movement
Physical and mental movement are essential for maintaining cognitive function, emotional balance, and sustained energy. At the core of the OAKLEY Method is the understanding that your brain and body work best when they are in motion. Without movement, neurotransmitter production slows, stress hormones rise, and focus, memory, and energy suffer.
Exercise isn’t just about fitness—it’s a powerful tool for mental clarity, productivity, and mood regulation. Regular movement stimulates the release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a growth factor that helps neurons thrive, improves focus, and protects against mental fatigue.
Incorporating movement into your routine doesn’t have to mean high-intensity workouts. Whether it’s walking, strength training, yoga, hiking, or even gardening, the goal is to find sustainable movement that fits your lifestyle. Movement enhances blood flow to the brain, clears mental fog, and supports dopamine and serotonin production, making it a natural way to sharpen focus, reduce stress, and increase resilience.
But movement isn’t just physical—your brain also needs exercise! Engaging in brain-training activities, learning new skills, or even combining physical movement with mental stimulation keeps neural pathways active and flexible. This could be as simple as using apps like Brain HQ, practicing a hobby that requires coordination (like ballroom dancing), or listening to an educational podcast while walking.
By integrating both physical and mental exercise, the OAKLEY Method supports sharper thinking, improved mood stability, and sustained energy—so you can stay focused, productive, and present in your daily life.
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Lower Stress & Toxin Load
Chronic stress and environmental toxins don’t just make you feel sluggish—they actively disrupt your brain’s ability to focus, regulate emotions, and sustain energy. If you find yourself constantly overwhelmed, anxious, or mentally drained no matter how much sleep you get, your nervous system and detox pathways may be overloaded.
In the OAKLEY Method, we don’t just focus on stress management—we work to fundamentally shift how your body responds to stress so that you can maintain mental clarity, emotional balance, and productivity even in demanding situations.
Developing a daily rhythm that incorporates stress-resilience practices is key. This doesn’t mean overhauling your routine—it means integrating small, consistent habits that help regulate your nervous system. Whether it’s starting your day with breathwork, morning sunlight, or a short walk instead of immediately checking emails, or unwinding at night with a book, gentle stretching, or guided relaxation, these small shifts help reset your body’s stress response over time. Even just a few minutes of intentional downtime each day can significantly reduce cortisol spikes, sensory overload, and emotional reactivity.
Beyond stress, toxins in food, water, and the environment can accumulate and interfere with brain function, hormone balance, and metabolism. Many high-achieving individuals unknowingly experience brain fog, chronic fatigue, and focus issues due to toxin buildup that affects their ability to detox efficiently. The OAKLEY Method helps identify and minimize these exposures by making simple but impactful changes in lifestyle, diet, and home environment.
This might mean switching to cleaner personal care products, choosing filtered water, avoiding inflammatory processed foods, or incorporating detox-supporting nutrients to help your body eliminate what it doesn’t need. Small, consistent changes in your daily environment can have a powerful impact on mental clarity, focus, and long-term brain health.
By addressing both stress resilience and toxin reduction, the OAKLEY Method strengthens your body’s natural ability to detox, improves emotional regulation, and enhances your brain’s ability to function at its best—so you can focus, stay sharp, and sustain your energy without feeling constantly overwhelmed.
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Elevate Sleep Quality
Sleep isn’t just about feeling rested—it’s one of the most powerful tools for mental clarity, focus, and emotional regulation. If you wake up feeling just as exhausted as when you went to bed, it’s a sign that your brain isn’t getting the deep, restorative sleep it needs to function at its best.
During sleep, the brain undergoes critical repair and detoxification processes that allow for memory consolidation, neurotransmitter regulation, and emotional processing. This is when your brain clears out waste products that contribute to brain fog and mental fatigue. Poor sleep disrupts these processes, leading to difficulty concentrating, increased anxiety, and sluggish thinking.
The OAKLEY Method emphasizes treating sleep as a non-negotiable for brain health. A consistent bedtime routineisn’t just about getting more hours of sleep—it’s about optimizing sleep quality so that your body can properly reset. Simple strategies such as avoiding blue light before bed, keeping a consistent sleep schedule, and supporting your circadian rhythm with morning sunlight exposure can dramatically improve how deeply you sleep and how refreshed you feel the next day.
If you struggle with racing thoughts, nighttime anxiety, or waking up in the middle of the night unable to fall back asleep, this is often due to dysregulated cortisol, blood sugar imbalances, or an overstimulated nervous system. The OAKLEY Method helps you identify and correct these underlying factors, ensuring that your brain is able to fully recharge overnight—so you wake up feeling clear, focused, and energized.
By making small but intentional changes to your nighttime routine, you can retrain your body to fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up feeling truly restored—without relying on stimulants to get through the day.
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Your Supplement Support
Supplements in the OAKLEY Method are not a one-size-fits-all approach—they are a targeted tool designed to optimize brain function, reduce fatigue, and enhance mental clarity. While nutrition and lifestyle lay the foundation, supplements help fill in the gaps, ensuring that your brain has the essential nutrients it needs to function at its best. By strategically selecting the right supplements, we can support neurotransmitter production, regulate inflammation, and improve cognitive resilience—helping you feel sharper, more focused, and in control of your mental energy.
This approach is highly personalized, ensuring that supplements align with your unique needs rather than overwhelming you with unnecessary products. By carefully targeting key biochemical pathways, supplementation in the OAKLEY Method works to complement dietary and lifestyle changes, restore balance at the cellular level, and accelerate brain health improvements.
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