What Fixed/Aided Your Brain Fog?
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My dietician wants me to eat a few seeds and nuts with each meal (I think for the omega-3s). I have also seen recommendations to eat less meat and more fish and shellfish. No one can seem to agree on what foods are and are not good for you. 
It's individual what foods are good (or not) for a person. In general, nuts and seeds are great foods if you aren't allergic or intolerant to them. If you do have a problem with nuts and seeds they can cause headaches and other minor issues or they can kill you. Usually a person knows if they have a major problem with a food because it is life threatening and you end up in the ER. The intolerance symptoms can be less easy to discern......that's where I'm at right now. Even 1 ounce of corn (I've learned to test small amounts) seemed to give me problems. I will retest it again in a couple of weeks. I will test just 1/2 ounce of nuts when I get around to testing them. Sunflower seeds did not seem to go well for me when I tested them......
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Curcumin
Resveratrol
Colostrum
Oxaloaloate (glutamate pump)
I agree. I've been GF/DF for about a year now. Major improvement.
I took fish oil religiously until I read this link:http://howirecovered.com/connections-between-methylation-toxicity-and-liver-function/
Shoot. I'm so brain dead. I don't know how to paste links.
Anyway, it's so confusing.
I took fish oil religiously until I read this link:http://howirecovered.com/connections-between-methylation-toxicity-and-liver-function/
Shoot. I'm so brain dead. I don't know how to paste links.
Anyway, it's so confusing.
Oh, wait it worked.
Lovonox... heparin?!
Interestingly, a lot of us can't do fish oil. There's a discussion somewhere about it; I'm one of them. It makes my exhaustion noticeably worse.
For me... cooling down is the key... more-so than most people... I pretty much require a cooling towel. I also need white noise... (and occasionally melatonin) and light therapy in the morning. Medication will start to cause memory retention issues... so I avoid it like the plague.
Sorry about the Parkinsons.
Based upon how you reacted to anesthesia (I responded the exact same way). You might benefit from LDN. I am not an expert or anything... I just noticed this pattern with others.
Based upon how you reacted to anesthesia (I responded the exact same way). You might benefit from LDN. I am not an expert or anything... I just noticed this pattern with others.
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The only thing that has significantly helped with brain fog in my case is vitamin b12. At work I used to have to take a break every 2 hrs and have a lie down in my car for 20 min. Since I took the b12 I don't need those breaks anymore. When I take the b12 away, the brain fog comes back. Pretty conclusive for me. Pacing and sleep obviously key as well as others have mentioned.
@Timaca,
Forgot to add that when I ran my 23andme results through Promethease, it came up with this snp which apparently means I'm a slow metabolizer of chlorinated swimming pool water, and the drug, DCA. Also of protein. Not sure how accurate it is, but found it interesting. Just mentioning in case you did the 23andme thing too;
https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Gs311
I did experiment with various water filters, including a jug, but they didn't remove 100% of the chlorine. Of course, I still get a dose of chlorine in the shower, unfortunately.
Forgot to add that when I ran my 23andme results through Promethease, it came up with this snp which apparently means I'm a slow metabolizer of chlorinated swimming pool water, and the drug, DCA. Also of protein. Not sure how accurate it is, but found it interesting. Just mentioning in case you did the 23andme thing too;
https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Gs311
I did experiment with various water filters, including a jug, but they didn't remove 100% of the chlorine. Of course, I still get a dose of chlorine in the shower, unfortunately.
I just wanted to say if I can get better from brain fog anybody can. Mine was so extreme that I was afraid the damage was permanent.
I am not sure if my BF was cured by the antiviral (FAMVIR) or the OI meds (florinef+midodrine+propanalol) but I have most of my brain back. The speed processing is still faulty I used to be very snappy, That is not back yet (or might be that I now live on my second language) not sure.
I am not sure if my BF was cured by the antiviral (FAMVIR) or the OI meds (florinef+midodrine+propanalol) but I have most of my brain back. The speed processing is still faulty I used to be very snappy, That is not back yet (or might be that I now live on my second language) not sure.
I'm a little confused, maybe someone with more BioChem understanding than me can explain something. The pH of the small intestine is supposed to go from 6 to 7.4 (from slightly acidic to neutral). So just because Candida can raise the pH from 4 to 7, why would that at all matter? That part of the GI tract shouldn't be acidic anyway.
The intestines are already at the pH level that Candida can produce. The quote says that Candida produces an "alkaline environment" by raising pH from 4 to 7, but 7 isn't alkaline, it's neutral, meaning that Candida actually can't produce an alkaline environment, at best it can neutralize acidity. What am I missing here?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10421978
The intestines are already at the pH level that Candida can produce. The quote says that Candida produces an "alkaline environment" by raising pH from 4 to 7, but 7 isn't alkaline, it's neutral, meaning that Candida actually can't produce an alkaline environment, at best it can neutralize acidity. What am I missing here?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10421978
One thing that provided a slight reduction in brainfog for me was apigenin. It wasn't major, but I could tell the difference between having taken it and not. After several months, the effect became harder to distinguish. I'm presently not taking it for a couple of weeks to see if it's still having an effect. It's not expensive, so worth a try if you're desperate. BTW, luteolin is generally also mentioned as a similar treatment (CD40 blocker) since apigenin converts to luteolin, but luteolin had no effect for me. Apigenin has some other immuosuppressant functions which might be responsible, or maybe it just reaches the appropriate cells more efficiently.
Late to the thread, but I'll add that apigenin has a slight but noticeable and reliable reduction in brain fog for me. I'm presently not taking it for a few days to see if the effect is still noticeable, but so far I've considered it worth the cost (it's cheap). I've tried lots of supplements and foods, but apigenin is the only one I've found worth taking daily. I'll repeat that it's only a slight reduction, but enough to make a difference in trying to think.
Late to thread- I discovered I was reactive to mold 2 years ago.
My cfs lasted about 6 years. I had the usual pem confirmed diagnosis by 2 exercise studies consistent with cfs.
About year 1 into my illness I was diagnosed with add; I had mouth diarrhea and my personality was “ hyper” ;
My brain felt inflamed. This continued and then started getting emotional meltdowns by year 4-5.
At year 6 thought mold might be in play and took a sabbatical in Death Valley. I did an air B and B in Tecopa . Felt too ill to tent camp.
Had a dramatic improvement after Death Valley and cholestyramine.
After selling our home and putting possessions in storage and tent camping for a week I finally feel like myself
again. I have my physical strength and stamina back but the cognition is finally normal again if I remain free of exposures.
My son was diagnosed with add and depression at age 12 . After moving to our apartment after 3 months he went off all of his medications and his grades have improved greatly. He is now 17. His psychiatrist was taking notes from me at his last appointment. He had rages and meltdowns almost had to put him in a psyche ward. He had been a happy loving intelligent child and it seemed to come from nowhere. I am glad I was ill in a way because we never would have though mold exposure would have caused mental illlness symptoms.
This took about a year after my trip to Death Valley. Still get “ hits” but I am slowly moving forward.
Husband was affected too. Took him a year to believe finally believes after seeing the health of me and my son improve after getting away from whatever was contaminating our old home. .
My cfs lasted about 6 years. I had the usual pem confirmed diagnosis by 2 exercise studies consistent with cfs.
About year 1 into my illness I was diagnosed with add; I had mouth diarrhea and my personality was “ hyper” ;
My brain felt inflamed. This continued and then started getting emotional meltdowns by year 4-5.
At year 6 thought mold might be in play and took a sabbatical in Death Valley. I did an air B and B in Tecopa . Felt too ill to tent camp.
Had a dramatic improvement after Death Valley and cholestyramine.
After selling our home and putting possessions in storage and tent camping for a week I finally feel like myself
again. I have my physical strength and stamina back but the cognition is finally normal again if I remain free of exposures.
My son was diagnosed with add and depression at age 12 . After moving to our apartment after 3 months he went off all of his medications and his grades have improved greatly. He is now 17. His psychiatrist was taking notes from me at his last appointment. He had rages and meltdowns almost had to put him in a psyche ward. He had been a happy loving intelligent child and it seemed to come from nowhere. I am glad I was ill in a way because we never would have though mold exposure would have caused mental illlness symptoms.
This took about a year after my trip to Death Valley. Still get “ hits” but I am slowly moving forward.
Husband was affected too. Took him a year to believe finally believes after seeing the health of me and my son improve after getting away from whatever was contaminating our old home. .