I saw that Lithium Orotate was listed on the IMA website though not highlighted by Chris. Saw Dr. Nehls on the Tucker Carlson podcast. Find his hypothesis very compelling: “Lithium, the Essential Trace Element The key element against brain fog, long-COVID/post-vac syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, Alzheimer’s – and even indoctrination?” Lithium, the Essential Trace Element
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Here you go.
120 Capsule-Methylene Blue (USP… Amazon.com
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A lot of people have undiagnosed mast cell disease which i think is exacerbated by the covid shot. Because covid activates the cytokine inflammatory mediators of an allergic response, these cytokine mediators are also activated by other allergens in people who are sensitive such as people like me who have MCAS. I also have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome which is associated with MCAS. A long time ago i volunteered for The Mast Cell Society as chair of research. Its very interesting, and Im a nerdy type of PhD nurse anesthetist, so during covid i followed Covid research in mast cell disease patients. So I knew Grok would have a quick answer. I had a severe adverse reaction to the covid shot (optic neuritis) so i got an exemption from my doc to never ever get another covid shot.
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I’ve had brain fog since way before covid. I’m pretty sure it started either during the pregnancy or after the birth of my first child in 2011. We used to joke that he just killed a few too many of my brain cells. I am mildly suspicious of the Rhogam shot I received that pregnancy too.
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Thoughts on hearing loss → My tinnitus story:
Quick background → Been a avid PP follower since 2010, although I tend to allow my subscription lapse every couple of year and re-up under a different user name–this is driven my suspicion the TPTB are monitoring these boards–enough said.
Spring of 2020, maybe around April or May, I woke up extremely nauseated, right ear was ringing like a son of a bitch. Staggered out to the living room, spent the day squirmed in the easy chair with occasional staggering or crawling to the toilet like a drunk sailor on shore leave. Puked my guts out for hours ending in dry heaves. Not a fun time to say the least.
Nausea subsided later that evening, ringing the ear remains to this day. Weird ringing: some times it changes pitch, up-then down, not set to a single pitch. This was 2020 and Covid-crazy-stupid abound, I finally got it checked out later that fall by a VA audiologist. Turned out I lost 50% of the upper 1/2 of typical hearing range in my right ear.
The blessing in disguise:
Since losing my hearing, I prefer silence versus radio or having TV background noise. I no longer go to the movies as the surround sound is really uncomfortable and disorientating. Often when I’m in the car driving I’m sitting there in pure silence, sweet sweet silence, with just the hum of road noise in the background. It’s kind of a moment of nirvana, hard to explain. I typically use this quiet time to ponder the past few days of information I’ve read, and I try to correlate the mis/dis/mal- information into something rational, often pondering the contrary, with the intent of surmising it into something I can plan for, possible events to expect and react to.
I prefer my information in text, not hyper-sensationalize and dramatized TV or Radio newscasts. I no longer watch TV drama shows or typical Hollywood Good-vs-Evil movies. I’ve checked out of the left-right or blue-red narrative, and guard my emotions to the what I might see on the boob tube. I feel I’m in a good position for what war-virus might be brought upon us in the next act. It’s mostly a script, some really good improve, but in the end it’s just a script until we are all corralled in 2030.
Till then: “Happy Hunger Games…And may the odds be in your favor.”
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Its called expressive aphasia… when you cant find the word for something…occurs in brain fog associated with mast cell activation syndrome.
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I have had tinnitus since about 2018 was just about 50 y.o. took it to be just getting older but now more suspicious since a lot of people got it about then.
No jabs and didn’t get Covid until about 2023. It hit me pretty hard for about 3 days and then I had brain fog for about 2 weeks. I really couldn’t work during that time. Just responding to a simple email seemed really difficult and my motivation was low as well. Got over it, ivermectin might have helped and it hasn’t been back since.
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Hey Jan, I come from a long line of lady cussers! It’s part of my conditioning…
Mom was described as having a 90 pound body and a 200 pound mouth.
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@hladini and @westcoastjan I have a magnet on our fridge that says…
The soul of a witch
The fire of a lioness
The heart of a hippie
The mouth of a sailor
Enough said 
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Hmm wasnt lithium slipped to nazi camp prisoners to keep them docile?
Thanks for making this a focus area.
Will check out MB.
I have had a big improvement from using sauna.
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Damn it! Exactly! I thought it was just me. Words like wrench, bolt, gate, rosemary have escaped me. Words I use ALL the time, totally gone. People I’ve known for years, can see their faces, names-gone. Drive to end of our driveway to turn get onto our road, completely forgot why and where I was going. Here’s the frightening thing to me. A few years ago, horrible events in my life from my one deployment, thoughts I’ve been really good at suppressing, not thinking about just show up at the weirdest times. I’ve always had bad dreams now and then about it but never these vivid memories of things I do NOT want to remember just out of the blue, whammo, smells, sounds, people, in brilliant thought color, right there. I hate that and the frequency is increasing. It pisses me off when that old stuff shows up and at the same time, I can’t remember slot head and phillip’s head when I’m looking for a screwdriver.
The social bots thing? It’s one of the reasons I didn’t go back to X last winter when, according to the X police, I wanted everyone to commit suicide.
THANK YOU! I’m slow on the uptake enough without outside things making me yet slower. Answers a ton of “WTF is going on?” even during mundane things.
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Ironically, the herb rosemary is known for helping to boost one’s memory!
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What Dr. Behr suggests is a microdose: 5-10 mg/day . I don’t know what the Nazis did, though 5g/day is ~200x smaller than what is used in a psychological intervention (~1g/day). It’s also interesting that populations that have more natural lithium in drinking water have lower suicide rates. Amazon.com
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Thanks! I use it on roasts and steaks for flavor. We have two big plants now in the garden and I’ll start using it more often.
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What you write is very interesting.
I haven’t particularly looked into MCAS. However, spent a lot of time in my 20’s and early 30’s in brain fog, I assumed linked to my depression, anxiety, and ‘skin rashes’, as I reffered to it back then. Went off anti-depressants about 15 years ago, saw life differently, took some remedies for my leaky gut under the advice of a Naturopath.
Had ‘eczema’ for a number of years, which became hideously widespread and staph infected after a one and only flu-shot I took while working in aged care. Lived on a regime of Telfast, Phenergan, Paracetamol, wet wraps, moisturisers and bleach baths.
I am 99% cured of skin rash problems now, depending on what I eat and cleaning chemicals/hand washes/dish detergents, I expose myself to.
However discovered 10 years ago that one of my topical skin products has given me a food anaphylaxis, so carry epi-pens, and had 3 anaphylaxis before identifying the culprit. Am also suspicious my go to skin moisturiser is creating an allergic response as there are some foods I eat that make me violently ill, and the only common denominator is ‘gums’ (xanthan, guar, etc). which I find both concerning and annoying, because this topical is both effective, and one of the very few available to choose from that does not contain other ingredients I’m confirmed allergic to.
There are odd occasions I get raised welts along my underwear line, so suspect the elastic on underwear is the cause, though it’s not necessarily repeatable with any particular pair of undies. I have identified it occurs at a certain time of month, but not every month, so may be hormonally related. So that’s still a mystery.
I am contact allergic to a number of ingredients in shampoos, body washes, etc. PEG ingredients have not been tested for or identified specifically but my concern was they are in so many of these products that I could be sensitised to them unknowingly, and the ‘lipid nanoparticles’ in the covid vaccines are pretty much PEG’s and their relatives. So I was not going to take the risk.
My allergist recommended I have my covid shots at a large hospital where crash cart and resus was available. This was the antithesis to his previous determination to find my original anaphylactic trigger and keep me safe. I sacked him then and there and still have not taken any covid shots. He’s since retired anyway leaving me without an allergy/immunologist.
I had covid Easter 2022 which was a strange headache for 2 days and a sore throat for a week. Was taking black seed, star anise, NAC, zinc, wormwood tea, and more at the time. My bout of covid was nothing in the scheme of things I have suffered over the years (strep throat, months of staph infected eczema, midnight bouts of allergic projectile vomiting and diarrhoea, flu, food poisoning, HELLP syndrome, etc).
I do note that whenever I am inflamed (post anaphylaxis or when I’ve eaten or been exposed to allergins) I am a little foggy in the brain, and achey in the joints, and sinusy, but there seemed to be no increase in this after my Covid illness. Perhaps because of my supplements.
If anything the last 15 years of my life have been clearer than ever before, brain fog wise, and general health wise.
From what I’m seeing it appears those who are covid vaccinated seem to be having the worst troubles after catching covid, (family and friends as my study group) and I suspect for the unvaccinated there may be some underlying health factor which gives some a vulnerability to brain fog type symptoms.
I would likely fall into the category of people your referenced research recommends to have covid vaccine supported with premedication and hospital setting, but know that anaphylaxis can re-cycle, and know of 2 ‘allergic type’ women who have had severe, life altering, ongoing reactions to their shots.
I am willing to experiment on my own body, and risk my own consequences, but did not appreciate the government overreach here in Victoria, Australia, in which my refusal to take covid jabs lost me both my job, career and career path, and almost 2 years of wage income with absolutely no recompense or even access to unemployment benefits.
I do not take kindly to my bodily autonomy being violated, and although I appreciate science and the interesting and useful information we can garner, I will not be coerced or threatened into becoming a study participant when injectibles are involved. And I have participated in multiple PHD studies over the years.
If it were not for people like Chris, and others on this site, who I believe to eat healthy and respect their bodies, reporting that they have brain fog concerns, I would attribute this symptom simply to poor dietary and lifestyle choices. But some of the people reporting this problem would not fit this category of bodily abuse through bad diet and other bad habits. So there must be more to it.
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Other ways to use rosemary that might help you or someone else here (not medical or any other kind of advice)…
- use a room spray that contains a quality rosemary essential oil
- put some rosemary essential oil in a small aroma therapy diffuser
- simmer some fresh rosemary in a pot of water on the stove
- keep a fresh rosemary plant on your desk (good to rub the leaves on occasion and bring your fingers to your nose to get a good whiff)
My husband (who has always had trouble with memory) swears by keeping a fresh plant on his desk.
There have been clinical studies done about rosemary. Here’s one in Pub Med…
There are other herbs that have also been known to help memory loss or boost cognitive function.
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Brain fog is a trauma symptom secondary to abuse. I am part of a women’s trauma group and the meeting leader makes sure to send out texts before each weekly meeting,which occurs at the same day and time every week, because otherwise we all forget. And you should see us in group, where we regularly lose our train of thought, go off on tangents, become unexpectedly emotional, and forget words all the time.
Unfortunately, I know some things about narcissistic abuse and the effects on the body, mind and soul of those abused. It is my belief that anyone who has even a semblance of a empathy/sensitivity chip has been traumatized over the last few years from experiencing the death and injury of loved ones, loss of freedom, social isolation, massive deception, the loss of what we once thought were foundational truths about our society, healthcare system, government, and social contract. It is narcissistic abuse on an industrial scale. We’ve been lied to, on a massive scale, the value of human life degraded, our institutions have betrayed us, any financial security eroded, our government treats us like sheep to be sheared until the last ounce of wool, then auctioned off for mutton.
For me, when I read about a 60% loss of ovarian follices in mice injected with the gene-altering “therapy” it is like a dagger to the heart. If this effect is also seen in humans, the tragedy of that impact just unfurls in the mind: so many couples with empty cradles and crushed hopes of a family, the effect on our society of just the physical impact, not even counting the psychological effects of being betrayed by doctors and scientists we trusted. And this is just one issue. Yesterday I read that thimerosol was banned from vaccines moving forward, and pharma was kicking up a fuss because now vaccines can only be packaged in single doses, and I felt like my head exploded. The reason for thimerosol, a known neurotoxin, was the pennies saved on multiple dose lots instead of single doses? We have injured and killed our babies over a packaging cost differential amounting to pennies per dose? The obscenity of this is soul crushing.
No wonder we forget the name of that thing, you know the thing that encircles the garden, the deer barrier, that thing that makes good neighbors, you know, the thing.
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I relate to what you say.
I’ve despiked, plus take fulvic humic regularly, and wormwood, etc
I’m not fogged, but my brain has 25 tabs open: the mother and mother in law list of their health and ageing issues tab, the ADHD/Autism teenage son about to leave school and start an apprenticeship tab, school emails, trade paperwork, uniforms to sell off etc, the my new job learning curve tab, the husband working too many extra hours because everyone at his work is off sick or just doing dumb stuff, so how can I ease the load tab, the need to cull and replace some chickens tab, the getting a property ready for Airbnb plus moral conflict over it tab, the I need a new computer and a laptop before something crashes but need to research it tab, the my sister is over from interstate and needs support tab, the my cousin is starting a new business and needs moral support and feedback tab, the garden, continued preps, planning needed tabs, and on it goes.
You can hardly move around our house at the moment for ‘stuff’. And it all needs dealing with.
None of it is 5 minute jobs.
It feels like time is speeding up, and my usual tools are just becoming too slow and obsolete compared to the speed that is now required.
For some people I think covid spike, I am seeing very erratic and poor driving skills with slow decision making or drivers simply oblivious to their surrounds.
Even supermarket cashiers in Aldis who seem to be scanning groceries ooh soo sloow compared to how they used to.
People’s cognitive skills seem to be slowed to the point it is visible to others like me who are not a part of their life.
For others like me I think it is simply too many demands and decision fatigue.
I need a year to catch up.
But I fear this will not be that year…
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Thanks so much! You are so kind and gracious for letting me know this stuff. I’ve got tons of rosemary so now I can grab some every day and do helpful stuff with it.
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