Are Names Slipping Your Mind? Here's Why

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Great post Chris! I think carbohydrates, flouride, and levothyroxine should enter the investigation.

From a Social Media standpoint: I am and have been pushing everyone I know to … (i do not work for these guys) Gab.com. It is not ‘antisemitic’ it is the free and open town square. It is labelled ‘antisemitic’ in the same way and for the same way we are called ‘conspiracy theorists’.

My suggestion is to post where ever or everywhere but drive all dialog to Gab.com where interaction is free from manipulation or as you do to your website or to locals or Substack. Community interaction is then ‘safe’ in there for the members but dialog on Gab could be free for newbies as well as amoebas.

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Oh wow, had no idea you’ve had Lyme Disease. There’s a really good film called “Under Your Skin” you may want to watch. As for the docs, if they don’t follow the Lyme “protocols” they face losing their medical licenses.

One of our neighbors who was primarily in charge of our back yard gardens got really sick and is still in healing modality. A young woman in her mid 30’s walking around like she’s suffered a stroke. She tested herself and has Lyme too. The 7th Day Adventist Reformers treat Lyme with fever baths - an old remedy that kills off bacteria, virus’, fungi, etc.

Oh and another neighbor had suffered with Lyme for years, and found relief in Ivermectin and foot ionization treatments.

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DMSO was brought up on peak prosperity earlier this year .funny , it triggered a memory of my mom coming home from the beauty parlor and telling my dad about the new wonder drug all the women were talking about .that was late 70s .it was DMSO.
Anyway I’ve struggled with tendinitis on both elbows for years ( both tennis and golfers elbow) I’m a bit of a gym rat , been going to the gym for 40 years.
For the tendinitis I’ve tried pretty much everything . Ice, advil,stretches,etc .
I tried dmso ( maybe march)
Tendinitis is gone. Just gone .
Seen 3 different guys at the gym , holding their elbow looking like they’re in pain.
Tendinitis I ask? Yep. Try dmso I say .
When they try it ,They all come back saying within days they feel better , within a week the pain is gone.
Got tendinitis? Try it !!!
I will give a warning, it causes the skin to itch , goes away in 10 minutes or so , but that itch is to be expected ( I had one guy who freaked out , thought he was having a bad reaction)
Good luck
H

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Absolutely, and it’s frustratingly self-perpetuating, in all it gets its hooks into. I send no-strings-attached, no-expectations, all-encompassing support to you and those in your circle.

More broadly, and less-intensely, brain fog and task “toggling” (thanks @spiritualwarrior! ) are an indication that the brain/body is vacillating between “Ready” and “Set”, but never quite makes it to “Go”. The idea of just not playing that game anymore never occurs.

Sympathetic nervous system activation without the parasympathetic resolution. Stuck in a high idle, gobbling up resources. Dropping into Fight/Flight (Freeze Fawn Fmate) mode, but not actually DOING any of those.

Your brain’s signalled for the release of cortisol and adrenaline, but they didn’t get used and are just lingering in your system, ready to be used, but not getting used, and not getting sucked back into your glands or flushed out as waste. Squirrelly attention, “Hangry” (it messes with your insulin as well), disturbed sleep, physiological signs of anxiety without actually “feeling” it (elevated resting heart rate, clammy but not sweaty skin), increased susceptibility to communicable diseases or over-active immune system (sudden hives and food sensitivities), blurring of the distinction between FEELING safe and BEING safe.

The first step in getting your brain back is to give it what it expects: either do a full circuit of “Ready, Set, GO!”, or stop playing that game altogether.

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How to burp yourself into an artificial “Go”:
-Jump-scare, intense adventure, espionage, or other movies that get your heart pounding. Avoid cliffhanger endings!
-brief bursts of all-out, 95-100% output sudden exercise (like being stalked through the woods by something and then magically finding yourself 40’ away when your brain sees it’s a skunk)
-controlled sparring with someone who is better than you at it, but you trust their control – I find the noisy sharp impact of sticks and swords to be particularly helpful
-Vigorous, athletic romp in the sack – may be a challenge if your stress is rubbing off on anyone else.
-calculated physical risk with a definite ending- skydiving or bungee jumping

How to stand-down (stop playing ready-set-go, back down to below “ready”):
-Physical caregiving contact (massage, haircut, cuddles from a loved one, closeness with a pet)
-Watch relaxed animals just doing their thing
-Predictable, scripted fiction that you can get fully immersed in– TV, movie, book with a conflict about 60% of the way in, struggle for resolution, and eventual happy ending.
-Abdominal self-massage and/or loud n proud singing (vagus nerve stimulation)
-Stretch and shake like a dog waking up, or like you’re throwing off heebiejeebies; alternatively, dance to whatever music is around.
-Havening (hugging yourself, slowly “knocking” a loose fist against arms or chest)
-Wholesome lingering in the sack – again, work with others’ moods.
-the act of scheduling and looking forward to, a regular stand-down exercise. Keep that appointment!
-Belly laughter – in the examples of inducing a “Go”, in real life, I’d be grinning and belly-laughing after I’d accomplished those anyway!

When doing any of the passive things, like watching a movie or resting with a pet or getting a haircut, be sure you have decent posture. Relieve tension on your abdomen and ribs, unbutton your pants, mind that you’re not slouching your ribcage into your liver and diaphragm. Stretch your shoulders and chest like you just woke up from the best night’s rest you had in years.

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Ah…the old wife’s tale.

Ticks do not drop from trees. They only crawl up from ground animal-relevant heights. After all, that’s where their food lives.

Presumably, if there were ever mega fauna-adapted ticks that lived way up in trees waiting for an enormous animal to wander by they died out with the last giant sloth.

From an adaptive strategy, dropping from trees would be a poor method for ticks, which have slow-moving appendages, while springing or dropping/latching requires fast-motor reflexes.

Myth No. 2: Ticks jump out of trees to land on their hosts.

Many people believe ticks jump out of trees and land on them, but it turns out they are physically unable to do that.

“I always say ‘Don’t ruin a good story with the truth,’ but they’re not raining out of trees on us,” Dryden said.

Ticks undergo questing — an ambush strategy — to find their next victim. When questing, they crawl up low shrubs, bushes or blades of grass, for example, anchor themselves with the hind legs, reach their front legs out in front of them and wave those legs in the air to detect a host.

“Those front legs contain Haller’s organs, which are heat and carbon dioxide receptors,” he said. “They wave them around in the air and try to detect an animal or human going by. As you brush up against them, they grab on.”

“They can’t leap. They can’t jump. They have no physical mechanism to do that. There’s no evidence that ticks climb way up into trees,” he added. “Some of these ticks, like the ones that transmit Lyme disease, have no photo receptors. They can’t see. They live their entire life in the dark.”

Most ticks like shaded areas, such as tree canopies, Dryden said. The lone star tick is one species that needs a deciduous forest canopy to survive hot summers and cold winters. Tick numbers increase dramatically under the tree canopy. Also, large whitetail deer populations tend to drive high numbers of ticks to a specific area.

“The ticks get on you, and they often crawl up the back of your pants and shirts,” he said. “The first piece of bare skin they hit is right on the back of the neck. We reach around, feel them and look up. The reaction and why we think they fall from trees is perfectly normal.”
(Source)

To drop from a tree would be an ambush method requiring the tick to be able to detect an animal is right below them, either by CO2 emission(?) or heat signature detection (?), and then let go and drop straight down on it. Wind would interfere, as would planing/drifting due to their flat body shape (poor design for a drop strategist) and moving targets are a low percentage attack vector that usually requires speed and precision (think snake strike, or jumping spider).

Conversely, simply climbing up a stem or a stalk and then hanging one’s arms out in the air now relies only on something brushing by, which is how ticks operate. Ticks are slow-moving creatures.

To my knowledge they don’t go crawling about seeking prey (that would burn up a lot of energy) they instead crawl up to a reasonable height and then wait. This is very energy efficient.

Is it possible that some ticks accidentally head up a tree and then keep going while they seek a branch to crawl to the tip of? Sure. But I don’t think this is their main strategy.

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We’re 98% sure my wife’s Fibromyalgia is actually Lyme disease. They won’t run the expensive tests, and the cheap test showed positive on two of three markers.

I reported this in my Melanoma thread, I developed what looked exactly like Melanoma on my forearm. I treated it with Ivermectin and it went away… for 7 weeks. Suddenly, like in 2 days developed a rash in the exact same spot. How do I know it’s the exact same spot, there are two freckles there. Then it got very interesting, I had forgotten about a tick bite two years earlier and had emailed a pic to my primary care. The weren’t concerned with the tick bite, basically dismissing it. IT’S THE EXACT SAME SPOT. I went and saw a dermatologist, and they did a biopsy, and the path report came back as disorganized blood cells with loose red blood cells. I find this to be most interesting and amazing.

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Evie will benefit from rendering her tallow another couple of times. If she’s interested in learning more, we can put her in touch with my wife.

My wife has started down this path of making soaps, lotions, and balms. We are currently setting up a website. EVERYBODY, that tries her products is raving about them. Her first attempt at a neighborhood garage sale, they literally cleaned her completely out. People would show up, try a sample and buy a bottle, and literally 2 hours later, come back and purchase a boat load. Her soaps are amazing. She’s using a minimum amount of chemicals, everything is absolutely as natural as possible. One person had a particular skin condition. They were paying $60 for 8 oz for a prescription medication. They said my wife’s product was far superior to the pharma product and literally clearing up their skin condition.

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This is weird timing, just yesterday I was struggling to remember the names of columbines that the hummingbirds were sipping. I remembered they started with “c” – hmm, chrysanthemums? 4 times throughout the day I tried to remember. It comes back after a minute.

Some days I’m quick on Jeopardy, others not. I have noticed it lately, I am assuming there’s only so much space in my brain for information lol. But I haven’t forgotten the word; I just can’t access it fast enough.

I had bad Covid brain fog in Nov 2020, and caught it 2 or 3 times since. I have used it as a reason to really improve my health through diet, exercise and fasting. At 51 I now feel better than I ever have.

But I still have this issue with recalling words. My job is fast paced and challenging and I have no problem keeping up in that respect. Otherwise I have regained 100% of my health, including sense of smell which I would lose for months at a time.

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Hi Chris, what is the daily dose of Doxy that you use? I have seen a range of recommended daily doses (if I remember correctly, from 100 mg/day to 200 mg/day). I’ve been going with the high end of the range to err on the safe side. But If the lower end of the range is sufficient, that would be preferable as it would use up a lot less of your Doxy supply over the course of a 7 or 21 day treatment.

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Good advice. She renders in water 4x to 5x (when the animal smell dies down, she’s done with that step), then she strains it through fine pore filters, then puts a vanilla bean in there, and then renders it ‘dry.’

Final step is whipping it so it’s light and fluffy.

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I was doing 120 mg 2x/day.

So 240.

Some docs say you can up that to 400 mg/day.

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Do you know if she’s using salt in the initial steps? I’m pretty sure my wife is only doing 5x. We have the fat ground like hamburger, which makes the clearing of the solids easier. I believe she does two dry renders and closely monitors the temperature. In one of the final steps, she runs it through a coffee filter. The biggest trick is not rushing the process.

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My neice was hospitalized following all three of her job-mandated shots. She was a emerg nurse. She now can’t even work reliably in a cardiac testing ward. They refinished a table on the floor and she was off sick for a month. They have been trying to fire her but couldn’t do it for cause and none of the other reasons worked. I think they were trying to bully her into leaving but she is kinda a badass.

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I read the mid western docs as you recommended and this is a product I definitely can benefit from as I have several conditions. Searched out web stores, found one in Sweden, ordered and about to pay, nope, they don’t deliver to Norway. Found another one, this time in Germany, nope, same thing there. F%&#ing communist country Norway! I will take a day’s trip to Sweden when I take my vacation, hopefully I can find it in a pharmacy there. Same thing with ivermectin, you can’t buy it in Norway, and if you order it from outside Norway, it gets stopped in customs. Bloody communist, totalitarian country! Sorry for venting…

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Lol there seem to be tons of capsule options suddenly. When I was getting into this a year or two ago I couldn’t seem to find any. Thanks

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The first time I tried lithium orotate I woke up the next morning with a “peaceful easy feeling”

I took that to be an indication that I was low on the stuff. Since then I try to take a 5 mg pill once a week or so I don’t really notice anything but I just think that we’re all low on our trace minerals generally so it’s probably not a bad idea.

I wish I could find a mineral supplement that had that plus other Trace minerals so I could get my pill count down

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Though I agree this is true: (I have an extensive trauma history.) There’s more going on in the past 5 or so years than just trauma!

I’m diagnosed with “dissociative PTSD” and “moderate depressive disorder”. That’s the current diagnosis and I’m medically and psychologically stable. Have been for at least 2 decades now. My trauma history includes childhood sexual abuse, participated in clean up after a war (Desert Storm), was in a catastrophic car accident (2011), husband committed suicide (2017)

I also have a 23 year old disabled son with intractable epilepsy, which has caused what I think I’d call “developmental lag” at this point.

I’ve had extensive long term mental health treatment. I’m currently in a… (kind of) “long term day treatment program” at the VA. I go to program Monday through Friday.

So, I know what “traumatic brain fog” is.

But what I’ve gone through in the past 6 or so months is demonstrably and categorically DIFFERENT! This is the first time in my life I “can’t find words”. This is the first time in my life I have to “think about thinking”. It’s like my brain “went off line”.

The VA did all sorts of testing on me for this. (Blood work, MRI’s vascular ultrasound, cardiac tests) Found I was anemic and vitamin B-12 deficient. So been working on rectifying those health issues. Beyond this though, blood pressure is good, arteries are clear, heart is fine, no problems with digestive track. All other “health maintenance screenings” are “clean”.

So yes, I’ve been through “trauma induced brain fog”, “Gulf War Syndrome brain fog”, “pregnancy and birth brain fog”, recovery from “physical trauma brain fog” (car accident), and “menopause brain fog”.

But this time around; it’s DIFFERENT! (And I’m relieved to know now that I’m not alone and it’s not “just getting older”. Albite shocked to know 20 year olds are having this problem too.)

:thinking:… my son… beyond the epilepsy?

Something additionally environmentally has to be going on. And the only “personal biological factor” that’s happened since, that I can’t “account for” in my own life, is Covid. Like Chris, I’ve had it twice. (Alpha - February 2020 and Omicron - July 2022). My son also had it twice; but also had “post Covid multi system inflammatory disorder”. Neither of us have had any of the Covid shots; and have been taking vitamin D, C, Quercetin, zinc and NAC since the beginning of the pandemic.

Starting about 2023 added broad spectrum magnesium (started with my son who was having minor psychotic episodes) The magnesium stopped the psychosis; (my father’s side of the family has a history of schizophrenia). Also added omega 3 and 6, (but also do eat tested low mercury tuna).

My “current brain symptoms”: which are markedly consistent with “frontal / temporal lobe dementia” symptoms; started about 6 months ago. I’d order things (like coffee at a restaurant) and get something other than what I thought I ordered. And my son would laugh at me: “No mom, that is what you ordered.” And it started to really scare me because I didn’t even remember! I’d think I was ordering hot coffee and got iced coffee. Thought I ordered hot coffee and would get tea.

Besides “not finding words” I’d “get lost” while driving to places that I knew where they were. I had to “think about thinking”. It took a lot of energy just to get my brain to “boot up”; and it didn’t seem to be “working right”. I knew something was cognitively wrong. And since my father’s mom developed dementia; I feared that’s what was happening to me.

Now all my other “types of brain fog” would be more along the lines of… “my brain is too full of thoughts; now… what am I doing again”? Or “interruptions of emotional events” (PTSD flashbacks) which made the depression of “I’ll never get better” worse. (Which back in the late 90’s actually led me to be suicidal, in which I was hospitalized for and went through a partial hospitalization program for about a month and a half. (From there I went to a civilian day treatment program for 3 months.) That “brain fog” was the punctuation of going in and out of severe cycles of grief. (I cried a lot.)

Through any of those though, I NEVER lost linguistic abilities, or the ability to “think” (reason and problem solve) and organize. Currently I’ve struggled with all these things (less with the intensity of the previous emotional stuff) but added to the linguistic, reasoning and problem solving issues; I’m also struggling with organizational abilities.

So… I went to YouTube and started researching “early onset Alzheimer’s” and “early onset dementia”. Another medical factor in this for me; is that I also had a traumatic brain injury from the accident in 2011. But even the TBI didn’t affect my language, processing information, organization and orientation to time and place. Whereas “Gulf War brain fog” just made me really tired/achey joints and anxious over my hyper-vigilance and exaggerated startle response.

Now… I’ve never been an alcoholic, but for the sake of my brain’s health, I have given up drinking alcohol. (I do drink de-alcoholized wine and beer still though.) Never smoked, never did street drugs. Got off of morphine and codeine about 6 months after the accident. (Had a lot of broken bones.) Haven’t taken psychiatric medication in 2 decades and am currently not on any pharmaceuticals.

Our diet has been mostly organic food and less processed stuff for about 20 years too. Got rid of all my aluminum pans and plastic food storage containers within the past 5 to 15 years. (The aluminum pans went first.) I cook with only cast iron, stainless steel and glass. I use butter, olive oil and wooden spoons or rubber and stainless steel spatulas. All my tableware (dishes and drinking containers) are either ceramic or stainless steel. And we’ve been using water filters (including non fluoride water / or fluoride filters) for about 20 years too.

I also exercise (walking or bicycling) about 3 times a week. I’ve been on crutches since 2011 so what I can do exercise wise has some limitations. But I joined an adaptive sports group recently. (Building those social networks!)

SO… “Brain fog in 2025” IS a new iteration of… something. Something I have not experienced before; despite having “better than average” diet and health and wellness practices, which have been a part of my life for more than a decade.

Which “in short” this shouldn’t be happening.

This isn’t aging. It’s not the “usual culprits” (poor diet and no exercise). It’s not my immediate environment; (plastic and aluminum). It’s not “past exposure” that I can link to other civilian people that I know were not exposed to bio weapons in combat zones. And it’s not beyond the scope of what we all experienced related to the pandemic. (I actually “weathered” Covid quite well psychologically speaking; by going into “combat mentality”. I got prepared and quickly made the necessary “emotional adjustment shifts”!) I was resilient.

This is different. We’ve either been infected by something new; or “their plan” has morphed into another phase!

P.S.
Diet wise I went “more keto”; cut out all the refined carbs I could recognize and started taking MCT (medium chain triglycerides) and coconut oil. (These were the two things most suggested on YouTube sites for people battling dementia.

They helped! My brain “came back on line”.

I still have trouble finding words; but it’s not as bad as it was.

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Checking for ticks - LOL. A Southern romantic ritual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OctrGD4JW8U&list=RDOctrGD4JW8U&start_radio=1

Rector

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I’m in my 60s, had bad COVID Delta early on and a couple bad mystery diseases since. But no change mentally. But my memory has always been bad as if I were in my late 70s. But I learned to live with it, finding ways to remember things. Forgotten names and words happen often but I trust they will pop into my mind within a day and two and they always seem to. I think one of the problems is info overload nowadays. To recall things easily we first need to encode the data with additional processing. But nowadays we flit so quickly from one piece of data to another that we hardly ever do the needed extra processing for the memory encoding. I have long taken pretty much ALL the supplements you mention and pretty much all the Brain supplements sold. So much that I think my body has now built up a pretty good tolerance to any of them that used to give me a boost. So now when the brain fog is pretty bad the thing that works really well is for me to go lie down for 30-60 minutes and even if I never fall asleep still when I get up I feel totally refreshed as if my brain just needed time to sweep the floor clean. Also, another new practice that seems to be working really well is I started eating about a half dozen dark chocolate covered coffee beans maybe twice a day. Even when coffee and tea don’t seem to do anything for me the coffee beans do seem to do the trick.

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