Robert Whitfield MD and Danica discuss what brain fog actually means to patients, from forgetting keys to losing names. Whitfield cites research on 700 patients showing bacterial contamination in nearly one-third of cases, a finding clinicians are still trying to understand.
About 700 explant patients.
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.
