Here is a short article about brain fog and brain inflammation. So you may know that I've been experiencing covid, definitely not a fun diagnosis. It's been a slow burn of a virus and an infection.
https://sites.google.com/view/brain-fog-what-is-brain-fog/covid-19-and-Clouding-of-consciousness
Here is what my friend David had to say about his experience with brain fog. from when I first presented with my first symptom, I'm considering today day four of no symptoms, although I still have a hard time breathing. So it's very vague on like when does the no symptom kind of start, knowing that I'm probably going to have a hard time breathing it for probably a month moving forward, and I have to use the steroid inhalers for a month moving forward. But one of those other residual symptoms that you actually don't find a lot on the internet that I experienced and then, when you search it the right way, you'll actually start to hear people talking about it or certain articles about it is the brain fog and the Confusion and really the brain symptoms that go with coronavirus.
This is actually with all viruses and all infections, so it's actually not limited or specific or very unique, to covet or coronavirus, but just know that it is one of the symptoms. So if you are or were or know, someone or you know are curious of the more subtle symptoms of coronavirus is yes, there's gi? Yes, there is headaches and sore throat and coughing in respiratory. Yes, there's like weakness in your arms and you feel fatigued and kind of a generalized malaise, but brain fog is a huge symptom of it as well, and it's one of the residual symptoms that I'm experiencing.
So maybe you can't even say that I'm safe or of no symptoms, because my brain fog is, I just feel like I am like out of it man. So I want to speak a little bit about brain inflammation, to educate you and then you can use this information in any way you want to maybe help some people so brain inflammation. Obviously this is a marker of aging. Just in general, you actually see higher brain inflammation in those that our risk of Alzheimer's some mental health depression, anxiety, dementia risk.
So if you just think of in general, we age when we're inflamed, so you want to keep your overall inflammation low. You want to have your gut inflammation low, you want to have joint inflammation low and then you of course, want to have brain inflammation, low brain inflammation, equals brain fog and decreased cognitive function. It also means impaired or less functional or flexible emotional processing, and then of course, that translates to movement as well that maybe you feel a little bit clumsy and awkward, and things like that, so it translates in a highway.
So now these are some of the most common causes of brain inflammation across the board: stress poor diet, autoimmune conditions which are inflammatory in general, poor gut health. Please remember the gut brain access, so if your gut is inflamed generally, your brain can get inflamed high sugar diets. So if you love to have all your sugary foods, that of course, is throwing your body into an inflammatory process.
But then your brain is well and then trauma can increase inflammation and here's the big one infections, bacterial fungal and viral infections, which of course includes kovin. So if you've had a high inflammatory process or really this cytokine storm, that everyone is talking about that cytokine storm, interleukin 6 is going straight up here and giving you that brain fog. So if you're thinking now I'm past it I'm past the worst, maybe still have a little bit of residual breathing or respiratory symptoms like I have.
But how can you now get your brain recovered moving forward and it's not going to be overnight, but it's going to be this process as well. Now, let's get our inflammation down systemic ly and in the brain to optimize our performance and to really take away some of that residual impact of being diagnosed with corona virus. So now what you want to think about is what anti-inflammatory supplements cross the blood-brain barrier.
That's really what you want to ask for yourself. So there's all these amazing on my table is full of anti-inflammatory supplements that I'm taking, but not all of them cross the blood-brain barrier. The same way now from a pharmaceutical one, NSAIDs now that you're past the Copa diagnosis. Now that you're kind of in the clear you are cleared to start taking NSAIDs ibuprofen advil Aleve things like that that when, when you're in the peak of copán, I'm sure you've read some of the the media around suspicions of how coalbed reacts to and says NSAIDs Do cross the blood-brain barrier so now, perhaps now you want to explore the benefit of taking advil, Aleve, motrin, etc, for reducing brain inflammation.
Some other big players that cross the blood-brain barrier are resveratrol. So that's an important one. Alpha lipoic acid! Please remember that I did a pre or prior post on our lipoic acid, so our lipoic back our lipoic acid. So this is my brain fog. Our lipoic acid is has a higher efficacy and a higher bioavailability than alpha lipoic acid. So our lipoic acid resveratrol. I already mentioned that now: curcumin tumeric has low low blood brain barrier crossings.
So it's a great anti-inflammatory, but just know that some of the research is a little bit skewed on how much it actually crosses the blood-brain barrier. Huge one probiotics. So please make sure that you're taking those probiotics your gut, is that access to your brain so make sure that you are optimizing. Your brain inflammation levels through your gut, your gut biome, so taking probiotics. That is going to help to level out that brain inflammation and then a big one when it comes to omegas is krill oil, so krill oil here there's a lot of research around krill oil being one of the best omegas that you could take the variation of The Omega, because it has the best blood brain barrier permeability so optimizing through those the ones that I'm taking our oil probiotics are lipoic acid.
I am taking the curcumin again. I mentioned that that's kind of a lower blood-brain barrier across scene and then resveratrol. I'r sure that there's others it's just a matter of how many vitamins do you want to take. These are kind of the biggest ones. When you do some of the searches, yes, you can get them from diet. Yes, continue an anti-inflammatory diet, but the level of of the vitamin or the supplement that you need it's very hard to get from food, because you're then going to have to increase sugar intake or calorie intake.
So I'm a huge proponent of supplements. I've always been now. The last thing that you want to do is well, in addition to reducing the inflammation, is that you want to increase then some of the the neurotransmitters that target focus brain optimization memory. Things like that, there you go to neurotransmitter that you want to increase in your brain, is acetylcholine so ACH or choline. Anything that's considered.
Cholinergic is going to up regulate that neurotransmitter, so the new topics that are particularly cholinergic is, of course choline because it's in the name - I don't know if I have my choline here, but the choline so there's different variations of choline choline was one of my favorite Prenatal supplements that I took, I think, that's why irelia is such a super baby. So choline is really important and, like I said, brain optimization in acetone choline formation that neurotransmitters you're either up regulating acetylcholine formation or you're blocking assets, your colon breakdown, so those are anticholinergic medications, so the cholinergic are you're blocking anticholinergic.
Now choline there's different types. This is super important, please is you want to make sure that you're taking the right type of supplement for choline one? You can do choline in eggs, but you have to eat a butt ton of eggs to get it. There is what's called choline bitartrate. This one has the lowest absorption and the lowest efficacy when it comes to upregulating choline. So actually don't want to take that one there's what's called choline GDP and had it here it is brain fog, okay, so here this is sorry alpha GPC.
Can you see this? This is a coaling supplement. This would be your second option. It has middle level as far as absorption and up regulation of choline, the best choline supplement that you actually want to take. I have it in New York and not in Connecticut where I'm isolating, but it is CDP choline that has the highest efficacy. When it comes to up regulating of acetylcholine. You actually want to take CDP choline with l-theanine is an example of another one.
I take that one as well. Of course it's in New York, so I'm going to start those again, but I do have a new pet new pet is a neutral pick. That is also for increasing memory, function, cognition reducing brain fog. So all of this, this class of neutral pics, if you're new to it the ones that are kind of in the safest or the most mainstream new pepped, is one new peps doing a choline. You could just stay there.
Caffeine is, of course, a neutral pick. Nicotine that does not mean smoke do not smoke, do not smoke. Nicotine is a neutral pick as well and then, of course, there's rasa Tam's modafinil different things that are kind of a higher level biohack in the brain, but from a brain fog, status, post, kovat diagnosis or other infection. I would look at the choline. I would look at the nootropic or the new pet and then looking at these anti-inflammatories that I had sorry my husband's calling with my baby.
Just as we recap, real quick is taking anti-inflammatories that cross the blood-brain barrier. Thinking a bug-out about your gut in the gut brain access thinking about nootropics and how that can increase it, getting your sleep and then, of course, trying to reduce that inflammation as much as possible. Keep your stress down! If you do this, then it will help you offset this symptom of Cova that there's not a lot of conversation around.
So let's bring some attention to the effects of brain fog after ordering, or maybe one of the first presenting symptoms of kovin. So it brings attention to what's happening and maybe you're experiencing and you're one of the mild symptoms. That's totally confusing and skewing some of the numbers that the media is putting across. As always, please, please stay safe, wear your mask! My mask is over there.
Please wear your mask when you leave your home together, we will get through this. We will flatten that curve and we will be back to doing what we love and hanging out with our friends and family. Thank you. So much have an amazing day.