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What are Ketogenic Diets and How they can Reduce Cognitive Decline with Nicole Laurent

10 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube interview, Nicole Laurent recounts her struggle to discontinue long‑term pain medication after a successful surgery. An experimental detox protocol was required because standard tapering methods were unsafe for her. Even before the detox began, she noticed a troubling decline in face‑recognition memory, failing to recall the parents of a client who had visited her counseling office months earlier. The episode left her feeling mortified and ashamed. This personal anecdote serves as a concrete illustration of medication‑induced cognitive impairment, setting the stage for the broader discussion on how ketogenic diets may help mitigate such cognitive decline.

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I had to go through an experimental detoxification protocol because I was one of those people that they could not safely get off the medications that they had originally put me on for my pain disorder. My pain disorder was resolved for several years, had an operation that fixed it, but I was still stuck on these medications. And so, so even before that, I had begun to not recognize faces. So a couple came into my counseling office., and I did not remember them. And they said, Nicole, do you not remember meeting us? We came in a few months ago about our daughter. So this was the parents of one of my clients. Mm-hmm. Wow. And I did not remember them at all. And I was just mortified and shame and all that other stuff. So even before that detoxification protocol, I had started to forget faces.