BBC Article: discussing brainfog

[Kiristar]

Brain fog and four easy ways to help fix it

It's common to become forgetful or mentally sluggish but there are easy ways to cut through the haze.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Kiristar]

No mention of ME but of LC and menopause and Lupus.
Struggling to articulate how this made me feel.

 

[Utsikt]

The NHS page they link to in the article is so bad.

Management strategies are presented as treatments, and there’s a heap of unevidenced advice at the bottom that essentially puts all the blame on the patient for living incorrectly.

 

[BrightCandle]

I don't think they have the RCTs to prove that sleeping, drinking water, activity, food and reduction of stress* is going to resolve the brain damage that Covid is causing, infact I know they don't. This is an entire a list of unevidenced patient blame.

 

[rvallee]

One day medicine will understand this junk is just as damaging as whatever people like RFK Jr are doing. One failure led to the other.

Might take a while, they're about the slowest learners I've ever seen. And some of the fastest, too. Odd bunch.

I don't think they have the RCTs to prove that sleeping, drinking water, activity, food and reduction of stress* is going to resolve the brain damage that Covid is causing, infact I know they don't. This is an entire a list of unevidenced patient blame.

Bah. Who needs evidence? This is evidence-based medicine! Literally a replacement system for evidence. You fling your arrow and paint your target as needed.

 

[BrightCandle]

One day medicine will understand this junk is just as damaging as whatever people like RFK Jr are doing. One failure led to the other.

Might take a while, they're about the slowest learners I've ever seen. And some of the fastest, too. Odd bunch.

Bah. Who needs evidence? This is evidence-based medicine! Literally a replacement system for evidence. You fling your arrow and paint your target as needed.

Planck's principle - "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it"

Professors will at some point start teaching med students better and then slowly but surely over many decades these out of date unevidenced views will just die out. I see no evidence in my lifetime that medicine is capable of learning faster than that.

 

[MrMagoo]

I see the usual “are you stressed? don’t get stressed” tm NHS advice is at play here.