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Mid-life burnout/overwhelm and long term low-level stress can all contribute, in my and my team's. experience. You've not mentioned gender either - menopause in women can cause brain fog etc. You end up feeling like "25 year old me was so much sharper and quicker, wtf?!" Assuming that: you work in tech; you're probably not neuro typical; you've developed so many coping strategies for life's ups and downs you don't ev…
I noticed it's way worse when I don't sleep.
I have serious dust mites allergy, I wonder if that has a great effect (my nose is always partially blocked).
When I code I work well, I seem to remember a lot of details, to the point it surprises me.
OH yeah. Coming up on 40 and I forget so much shit now. I'll forget I watched some movie a year ago, start to re-watch it, and go "wait a minute..." I also make really dumb errors writing that I never, ever used to. Homophone mix-ups and such, even when I know which one's correct, the wrong one goes to my fingers. Omitting words, that kind of thing. Didn't do that ever before 30. I also barely have what they call an…
Isn't this autobiographical memory just another capability of the brain that is simply trained by making use of it? Yes, there are of course medical cases and disorders. But I'd guess a lot of variance just comes from differing individual "training intensity". There must be quite some variance in the average number of times that individual people are triggered/challenged to recall some memories (and process them) in…
Around 35 years old I realized I have a nasty soy sensitivity. And as I have become able to rule it out of my life, my memory is becoming fantastic. It makes me wonder what my life could have been if I knew when I was young, but it's all bonus to me. Sorry to brag but it's one of the best things in my life.
I’d love to know what made you notice this, and able to identify soy as the problem. Presumably it was more than just memory issues that tipped you off?
If I eat less soy, like say eating someone's homemade bread made with soy vegetable oil (which is the most likely one), I'll get brain fog, and about 5 days later eczema.
Multiple times I have deliberately eaten soy and logged the effects. I'm about 90% confident it's soy at this point. I'm a skeptic and still feel it could be some other factor but I am highly confident.
Avoiding soy is difficult. Especially for someone that loves chocolate.
I've been taking Lion's Mane (mushroom) and Omega-3 EHA+DHA as supplements to help with this. Keep in mind that the value of Lion's Mane is the long-term effect from taking it daily, and that one overdose symptom of Omega-3 DHA is insomnia. I'd really would rather not take caffeine, though the few times I do, I notice that thoughts referencing memories are able to connect better.
People around me have started really forgetting things, to the point where I've had to remind a co-worker twice in the space of 5 minutes what they were supposed to be doing, or repeating conversations I had with friends a few weeks ago to remind them what we discussed. Myself, I don't have any issues, my recall is pretty decent for most things, such as counting back the meals I've eaten over the past week and with w…