Covid brain and “brain food”


#41

Beta-hydroxtbutyrate is fuel for the fat adapted brain. Eat foods that put you in nutritional ketosis. Carnivore is not automatically ketotic due to variations in protein and insulin effect. So, it’s worth checking blood ketones.

People eating Low Carb Healthy Fats that at various times in the day put the body into nutritional ketosis, especially combined with limited feeding windows, can probably get away with eating walnuts and blueberries in measured amounts (calculating carbohydrate dosage). It doesn’t make them brain foods. There may be some micronutrients in them that have been shown by reductionist biochemists to have cellular effects if we ignore the complexities of human biology and human physiology.

There will even be people preaching that the brain needs glucose and base their brain food ideas on that misconception (we know that blood glucose that becomes brain glucose need not be dietary carbohydrates).

Then to go for a therapeutic effect, i.e. resolve brain fog, treat it like a treatment and aim for a blood glucose:ketone index of 1:1 (GKI) trialling something like the Paleolithic Ketogenic Diet (PKD) and compare it against what you are doing now.

A thing that looks like brains (like walnut kernels do) that might help your nutritional ketosis experiments is actually brains. People say lambs brains are nice to eat.


#42

How did you fare with this, @robintemplin?


(Robin) #43

@Septimius Oh thanks for the reminder. I hate when folks share their troubles and then don’t report back!

I am good. The covid brain lasted for 6 months. Got worse and worse. Felt pretty sure I had slid on into Alzheimer’s/Dementia.

Then one morning I woke up and it was as if someone had opened a window and aired out my brain. Just like that.

Interestingly, I don’t remember much from that time!

Now I just have the usual moments of forgetfulness that most 68 year olds have. I have definitely learned to be very present and mindful even in the mundane moments.
Thanks for asking.


#44

I’m so pleased to hear that it’s resolved; that’s great news.

Interestingly, this description:

…matches perfectly with a couple of things that happened to me with Covid. I shall hold out hope for the remaining problems I’m experiencing to fix in a similar fashion!


#45

I have a question regarding the use of creatine. High amounts of creatine in the urine indicates kidney damage. Is that true? Does taking creatine increase the level in the urine? Ok, so two questions.


(Laurie) #46

Robin, I’m glad you’re seeing some improvement. You too, @Septimius ! Some people are so cavalier about Covid, but I sure don’t want it.

It’s gratifying to know I’m not the only person who doesn’t like blueberries.


(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #47

You are thinking of creatinine, similarly named, but different. Creatine is an amino acid that the body can use. Creatinine level in the blood indicates the quality of kidney function.

(And don’t get me started on the difference between insulin and inulin, or between linoleic acid and linolenic acid! What were they thinking??!!??)


#48

Thank you. Duh!