Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest
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When COVID-19 first reared its head back in 2019, it brought with it a slew of strange symptoms beyond just respiratory problems.
One of the most puzzling symptoms in those early days was something called “brain fog” — cognitive issues like confusion, forgetfulness, and trouble focusing.
And while other symptoms have changed as the virus mutated, brain fog is still a common complaint of COVID sufferers not only during the initial illness, but extending for months or even years afterwards.
That’s the mental haziness, the inability to remember things, to connect the dots, to really think clearly.
Now the hope is that those effects are not are not long lasting and then the brain with neuroplasticity and other other sort of mechanisms will be able to restore itself back to normal health.
When we went back and started thinking about what happened to people after the Spanish flu, we found historical accounts that sort of resemble, to a large degree, what we described now after SARS-CoV-2 infection, people having increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, headaches, brain fog etcetera.
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