Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Understanding Brain Fog: Insights from Thousands of Patients

25 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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This YouTube interview features Robert Whitfield MD reflecting on patients' descriptions of "brain fog," how clinical understanding evolved over time (he first found the term confusing in 2016), and linking anecdotal reports from several thousand patient consultations to emerging research. He references a published paper reporting explant data from 700 patients and states that bacterial contamination was found in almost one-third of those explants.

Questions this video answers

2016.

Several thousand patients.

700 patients (explant cases).

Almost one-third.

Some of them didn't make sense to me. Like this with brain fog in 2016 was super confusing to me. And I was like, what does that mean? So if I would ask you, I said, danica, what? What does brain fog mean to you? And they would tell me, well, I can't remember where I put my keys or sometimes I forget my kids names. And I was like, okay, well that's short term memory loss.
Yeah, that sounds a lot worse than brain fog.
But I didn't understand it. Like I didn't have the slang to communicate with the patients about that. And now obviously just came out of consultation and now it's all like several thousand patients. Later, several stories along the same line, several thousand stories, it all becomes very kind of clear. And now there's research. Like, I just published a paper about a small amount of our experience. 700 patients explants and how many patients have bacterial contamination? It's almost a third. So I.
Mean, there's so much that we can go into about my own experience about all this.