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If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a potential new treatment

for those suffering from brain fog after COVID,

how freemium models of mental health apps might cause you to be more stressed out, and how developments

in creating a vaccine for fungal infections might make them a thing of the past.

Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

I think it's pretty annoying how COVID brain fog is around and people have it and there's no treatment

and it's been just affecting people for months or years.

But fortunately that actually might change soon. Okay I I have heard of brain fog before, but I didn't know it was an actual clinical diagnosis.

So this is a well-known part of COVID-19 symptoms that is related to a lack of function in executive functioning, working memory, and

attention regulation within the prefrontal cortex.

So these neural circuits are remarkably vulnerable to inflammation and stress which creates a perpetual feeling of

fogginess. Okay yeah I've definitely heard of this I think I've experienced it once or twice

but I have never had COVID what is the connection here between the two?

Specifically, this is something that affects people with long COVID, aka the long haulers.

And this is people who have some COVID symptoms for weeks, months, or even years.

And one of the key symptoms is brain fog, which can lead to a lack of mental clarity,

poor focus and concentration, memory problems, difficulty with

multitasking and way more. But some researchers out of Yale might have finally

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