Understanding COVID brain fog and treating it
Part one of this article described the effects of COVID shots on our doctors and nurses, and the consequences for their patients. This second part will examine the evidence for "brain fog" as well as some of the research going into combating it.
Who had heard of 'sudden dementia' before 2021?
- In 2022 my sibling experienced sudden dementia. Not just decline, but suddenly couldn't perform daily tasks. Went from accomplished CPA to full blown Alzheimer’s-type behavior in a matter of months. He never had Covid, and never experienced a lockdown. He was double jabbed (I'm sure just a coincidence).
- So sorry about your brother. Terrible. My father’s slow-moving dementia took a drastic downturn in April 22, right after a booster. He wound up bedridden and barely in reality, dying in September. He was 93 but always very healthy. As some people say, a big part of the jab agenda is harming/offing the elderly.
- The COVID jabs targeted the vulnerable. Problem is, everyone who trusted their doctor, or the government, was vulnerable. Young or old. Already sick or in the prime of health. And if you wouldn’t get jabbed, you became vulnerable in a different way.
Very soon after the COVID jab campaign began, VAERS, the federal reporting system for vaccine-associated harms, began to collect an extraordinary number of reports related to neurological symptoms, labeled “cognitive disorder.”
It appears from here that the numbers have since dropped. What the VAERS data really mean is, however, debatable. While the number of new reports of cognitive disorder have declined, the number of people continuing to experience a deterioration in mental clarity (“brain fog”), memory problems, trouble concentrating, and the like may well be at an all-time high.
Cognitive disorder is one of the main features of “Long COVID.” While it is also experienced by people who were never jabbed, studies (cited in part one of this article) have convincingly associated the shots with cognitive decline in population-size cohorts. Those treating people who are trying to piece back together their lives following a “vaccine” injury have hundreds if not thousands of stories to tell of the severe impact of “cognitive disorder."
Dr. Pierre Kory writes:
In my practice of treating vaccine injuries, one of the three most common symptoms I see is brain fog. So many of my patients had been in the prime of their lives and can now barely function. They have significant cognitive impairment and need a lot of help from our nurses to carry out their treatment plans.
I never imagined I would see any of this in people far younger than me and instead I see it every day. I bear witness to an immense amount of suffering on a daily basis that is hard to put into words.
Meanwhile, 'The Science' says shots protect your brain
The official narrative persists in its denial that the shots could be causing cognitive decline. In fact, some scientists go beyond denial and actually claim, with scant evidence to back them up, that COVID jabs are good for the brain.
One study, typical of this approach, was published in Science Daily earlier this year. The authors start with the premise that the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not enter the brain and then proceed to look for proof that the shots are not only not harmful to the brain but actually protect the recipients from experiencing the brain fog they might suffer following COVID infection.
In order to inspire maximum confidence in their findings, the researchers first tested their hypothesis on rodents and then on “models” (presumably the computer-driven kind, not human mannequins).
They found a promising correlation between vaccination and reduced cognitive impairments like memory loss.
There are many problems with this study and all those like it. The first is that the premise is faulty.
We had previously shown that the virus [i.e., SARS-CoV-2] could not be detected in human or hamster brains...
If what the researchers mean to say is that the entire virus, intact, does not enter the brain, then they may be correct, although proving that it never does may be impossible. However, viral-like particles have been found within the endothelium of the frontal lobe of the brain and this has been known since 2020 — since COVID became a “thing” and before the shots were developed. (see this study in Modern Pathology).
The study they forgot to censor
Considering some of the symptoms of COVID that were noticed very early on — headaches, loss of the sense of smell, etc. — the notion that SARS-CoV-2 affects the brain was not even especially controversial back in 2020. A pre-print paper published in bioRxiv in June of that year passed peer review without issue and was published in the Neurobiology of Disease journal in October 2020.
The authors of the study, most of them from Temple University of Philadelphia, concluded based on their research that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein not only, in all likelihood, enters the brain but also damages the blood-brain barrier (BBB) which is supposed to protect the brain from pathogens that enter the body.
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces loss of the BBB integrity...
Taken together, our data strongly suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein has the potency to cause a chronic low-grade dysfunction of the BBB that is a function of time and concentration.
The study was based on research involving a single infusion of various forms of the spike protein. It is noteworthy that even a single infusion could result in chronic disorder. The researchers did not investigate what repeated infusions of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins might lead to, because there was no such concept at the time. They (presumably) had no idea that COVID shots would soon cause their recipients’ bodies to churn out spike protein in a possibly never-ending cascade. Perhaps if they had known, they would have sounded the alarm.
As it was, they did warn that their findings could explain the connection between COVID and strokes in young people, for example. They also noted that dysfunction of the blood-brain barrier likely made it possible for the SARS-CoV-2 virus (not just the spike protein) to enter the brain:
Dysfunction of the barrier offers a plausible explanation for the observed neurological complications seen in COVID-19. Lastly, the opening of the BBB hints at the possible means by which the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen could also neuro-invade.
Appeals for research that went unanswered
It is impossible to know whether the developers of the various COVID shots were aware of this research. Even if they were, their insistence that the COVID brew never went anywhere near the brain negated the significance of these findings from Philadelphia.
But it’s been known for years that COVID spike protein brew reaches virtually everywhere in the body. That was known even before the shots were marketed.
And so, sporadically over the years, scientists have been sounding the alarm, in cautiously-worded language, regarding the impact the shots could be having on the brain. In 2022, a study published in Trends in Neuroscience appealed for more research to be done in the area, highlighting how much remains unknown despite the passage of time and the colossal sums invested in COVID research.
... potential differences among SARS-CoV-2 variants in terms of their neuro-invasiveness, neurotropism, or neurovirulence remain to be further investigated...
Furthermore, the risk of developing CNS [central nervous system] diseases after infection with SARS-CoV-2 might change after vaccination or prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection...
Much remains to be learned about the underlying mechanisms leading to SARS-CoV-2-induced neuropathology. In-vitro and in-vivo models, together with analyses in patients, can reveal important insights into the neuro-invasiveness, neurotropism, and neurovirulence of SARS-CoV-2 variants within different environmental settings and host factors.
Are only the Dutch losing their memories?
If extensive research into the impact of the shots on the human brain has been conducted, it has been hidden away very effectively. However, research on the practical, real-world outcomes for those who have been jabbed has emerged, such as one country-wide study from the Netherlands which shows a dramatic rise in brain damage following what the report refers to as “coronavirus measures.”
The study was published last year based on government records. It found that:
In the first quarter of 2023, there was a 24% increase in GP visits related to memory and concentration problems among adults (age 25 years and older) compared to the same period in 2020.
More specifically, the study found that:
- A 31% increase was observed in the 24-44 age bracket
- A 40% increase was observed in the 45-74 age bracket
- A 18% increase was observed in the over-75 age bracket
In adults under the age of 25, no significant increase was detected.
The report concluded:
The increase in memory and concentration problems of adults seems to be a longer-term effect of the coronavirus measures as well as SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Falls...
As for data from the United States, there are no studies comparable to this Dutch one. Nonetheless, reports from various sources suggest that the Netherlands is not an outlier. Dr. Pierre Kory, seeking evidence of neurological harms in the post-COVID-shot period, discovered that the number of people suffering falls in hospitals has surged since 2021 after being relatively stable for the previous decade.
Falls may seem insignificant but they are not for a number of reasons. The first is that around 3 percent of hospital patients who fall die as a result, while a further 30 percent suffer an injury.
Secondly, one has to consider why more patients are suddenly falling. Have medical staff become more careless or less competent? The report Dr. Kory cites linked the increase in falls to inaccurate risk assessment of patients and inadequate transitions between shifts (which may be a coded way of describing staff ineptitude), but did not rule out other reasons for the increase.
Meanwhile, a study published a few weeks ago in JAMA examining falls concluded that falling was linked to a future diagnosis of dementia in a significant number of cases:
Patients with existing dementia diagnoses at the time of injury were excluded [from the study]. Of the patients who experienced a fall, more than 10% were diagnosed with dementia within a year.
... and car crashes
Another possible result of “brain fog” is an increase in traffic accidents. In 2021, the number of per capita traffic fatalities was between 10 and 11 percent higher than in 2020, both in Europe and the United States. This was an exceptional jump in the numbers the like of which has not been seen since the 1940s, and it prompted the deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to sound the alarm:
This crisis on our roads is urgent and preventable. We will redouble our safety efforts, and we need everyone – state and local governments, safety advocates, automakers, and drivers – to join us. All of our lives depend on it.
The NHTSA did not suggest any reason why the crisis was occurring.
Of note is that the increase in traffic deaths was not uniform across the United States, as one website highlighted, though the reasons why that might be are naturally open to conjecture:
Some of the states that saw the greatest increase in traffic deaths from 2019 to 2022 included:
Vermont, a 64% increase
Connecticut, a 54% increase
New Hampshire, a 47% increase
Washington, a 38% increase
Texas, a 24% increase
Idaho, Wyoming, and North Dakota were the only three states that saw a decrease in the number of fatalities in 2022 compared to 2019.
Will cancer drug research provide hope for the vax-injured?
Until very recently, a huge percentage of US government medical research grant money was allocated by none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci. If he allocated any of the vast funds at his disposal to research into neurological harms caused by the COVID shots, he has been remarkably quiet about it.
However, some research currently being conducted does have relevance to the COVID shots, due to similarities noted by Stanford researchers between cognitive issues following COVID infection and so-called “chemo brain.”
Their findings were published in Cell in 2022. The main author of the study, Dr. Monje, noted that after spending two decades studying cognitive impairment after cancer, she was alert to the similarities between some of the side-effects of chemotherapy and those following COVID infection:
When the pandemic started, I started worrying that we would see similar neurological consequences of this profoundly immunogenic virus.
Chemotherapy harms the functioning of the brain’s white matter, slowing down nerve signals. Dr. Monje wondered whether the heightened immune response to COVID with widespread inflammation would have similar results, and her research confirmed her suspicions — around 25 percent of COVID patients had cognitive symptoms for at least 2 months after even mild infections.
The Stanford team also compared the effects of COVID infection to those of H1N1 influenza and discovered that while the short-term cognitive impairments were similar, only COVID led to “brain fog” persisting for 7 weeks (the limit of their research on this point).
The team is now engaged in research into drugs to counteract COVID brain fog/chemo brain. While they did not, apparently, investigate "brain fog" following COVID shots, their research into the role of spike proteins in brain injury may be relevant to those people damaged by the shots as well (if not more so considering the artificial and continous mRNA instructions to create spike proteins).
Other rays of hope
Other research is also being conducted into various drugs and substances that aim to destroy spike proteins, and promising results have been obtained with use of nattokinase, which clinical studies have confirmed. Anecdotal reports of significant improvement in brain function following “alternative” treatments abound, even after cognitive decline had progressed:
My father [had] some mild memory impairment. Then [he got the COVID] booster. Then dramatic decline. Unable to use a mobile phone and other simple tasks. Couldn’t hold a conversation. Disoriented. Paranoia creeping in. It was devastating.
We have been lucky though — we got him onto a strict keto diet, along with some supplements and ivermectin ... and nattokinase. This has reversed most of the decline, and he is functioning well, and back to his usual great conversational skills. We are just hoping we can keep for stable for a while. He is 79.
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