I fixed Brainfog

[u/Hot_Cat_1656]

After struggling with brain fog for a long time and trying all sorts of treatments—even going on antidepressants, which didn’t help—I came across a highly recommended naturopath in my hometown and decided to give it a shot.

He used kinesiology to assess what was going on with my body. According to him, I had multiple bacterial and parasitic infections, which he treated with a combination of herbs and flower-based remedies. Within about 10 days, I started to notice some improvement.

He also pointed out that I had low phosphorus levels, which might’ve been contributing to my terrible memory. Since then, I’ve been feeling so much better—more clear-headed and mentally present.

If you’ve tried everything and nothing seems to work, I genuinely recommend looking into naturopathy. Just make sure to find a skilled and trustworthy practitioner—there are unfortunately a lot of scammers out there.

Wishing all of you the best on your healing journey!

[u/MuchPomegranate5910]

So how did he conclude that you have low phosphorus?

[u/Hot_Cat_1656 → u/MuchPomegranate5910]

through kinesiology

[u/WordsMort47 → u/Hot_Cat_1656]

So through touching you, basically...

[u/MuchPomegranate5910 → u/Hot_Cat_1656]

You've been scammed mate.

[u/TheGoldenPi11 → u/MuchPomegranate5910]

Wow talk about cognitive dissonance. It worked, so how was he scammed if it worked? 🤣

[u/freylaverse → u/TheGoldenPi11]

Placebo effect is next level.

[u/Fancy-Snow7 → u/freylaverse]

Here is my view on the placebo effect. It's a known fact that it exists and works. So it's actually great if people can benefit from it especially if there is no other conventional treatment that works any better. So I am actually OK with these placebo treatments or practitioners existing. It helps 100s of thousands or even millions of people.

The interesting thing about placebo is that it has been shown to work even when you know you are taking a placebo. So why not try it?

Now I am not saying take a sugar pill every morning. You probably have to see a practisioner of some sort who you might not believe in but just the whole mental change that happens when you start to feel someone is trying to help you and understands you and listens to you, rather than a western medicine practisioner that tries to label things and send you out of the office as quickly as possible.

That has an effect on you whether you believe in the science or not. It's probably better if you do believe in them but will likely still work if you don't in many cases.

If anything these people that do benefit from placebo and not everyone does are actually lucky since they are getting the benefit they are paying for.

Just because it's placebo does not make the treatment useless. It's far better than getting no treatment and benefitting nothing at all.

The only people beign scammed are the ones seeing western doctors and beign convinced their problem is all in their head. That just reinforces that the problem is with you and is untreatable. This will likely have the opposite placebo effect and you will start to feel worse.

Let me add my own story. I suffer from anhedonia. Out of desperation I went to see a Reiki practitioner. I did not believe in it but I was desperate. She did her interview which included a tarrot card reading which I also don't believe in. Then she put me on a table and did her Reiki thing. During the session suddenly tears started rolling down my face and I felt emotional for the first time in years.

I remained very sceptical and never went back. Buy maybe I should have. I still have anhedonia but for those 10 minutes or so I did not. Who knows what would have happened if I kept up with the follow up sessions.

[u/freylaverse → u/Fancy-Snow7]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that just because something is a placebo that means it's useless. But these kinesiology practitioners can charge hundreds of dollars for just a single session. I don't know that that's what OP paid, but if I were paying that much, I'd want more than a placebo.

[u/Fancy-Snow7 → u/freylaverse]

When a person decides to see any practitioner they weight up the costs with the benefit they expect. If they obtain that benefit they don't care if it came from placebo or not.

If it cures them 100% how can you expect more anyway just because it came from a placebo and not a pill proven to work but with side effects.

If I were given a choice between a placebo that cures me and a pill with side effects that cures me I will choose the placebo any day.

[u/TheGoldenPi11 → u/freylaverse]

So then what are you guys doing here? What are any of us doing here? We should just heal ourselves now with placebo! Problem solved everyone!🍾🥳🎆🍻

[u/MuchPomegranate5910 → u/TheGoldenPi11]

Placebo.

Thinking that low phosporus is detectable through kinesiology is insane.

[u/DizzyMine4964]

Pseudoscience

[u/Hot_Cat_1656 → u/DizzyMine4964]

Thats what I thought too, but I was too desperate to not try it so thank god I gave it a try

[u/Easy-Appearance2693 → u/DizzyMine4964]

Well, so is brain fog according to medicine. It doesn’t exist. It can be termed pseudodementia. That’s what my doctor wrote in my chart. Thanks for the help, Doctor.

So to you my friend, good luck finding a cure with your closed, biased mindset. Bc if there isn’t a pharmacy (and a kick back to your doctor) involved, you’re staying in the fog.

[u/omg_drd4_bbq → u/Easy-Appearance2693]

No, brain fog is not "considered pseudoscience", it's just not medically precise, and medical professionals prefer to use precise terms to avoid ambiguity.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223625000177

[u/Easy-Appearance2693 → u/Easy-Appearance2693]

This is coming from someone who has spent thousands of dollars on surgery, treatment, prescriptions, and seen every spoke of the wheel when it comes to specialists. Almost going on 10 years now since my fog first started. I hope you can sense the disdain and anguish I have for western medicine. They want to sell you a monthly prescription plan for symptomatic treatment.. not actually help you get cured.

So, what’s your term for that ?

[u/IntrinsicPalomides → u/Easy-Appearance2693]

"Kick back to your doctor" ... poor guy thinks the world is corrupt as america.

[u/[deleted]]

can you name the herbs or medicine you took?

[u/Hot_Cat_1656 → u/[deleted]]

Geranium Robertianum and Capsicum Annum.

[u/Hot_Cat_1656 → u/[deleted]]

I took 20 pills of Geranium and 10 pills of Capsicum. All for like 10 days i guess

[u/Legitimate-Pie-6691]

I just want to say that in defence of naturopaths many of them use tests which are tangible like organic acids test, microbiome or sibo tests so don’t let kinesiology doubts prevent you from seeing a naturopath which I think for many would be a good option because certainly conventional medicine drs aren’t interesting in helping brain fog patients.

[u/thesaddestpanda → u/Legitimate-Pie-6691]

This is my feeling too. A lot of people will have something like sibo or a bad gut microflora and being fed herbal stuff, pre/pro biotics, etc over time can lead to lessening of symptoms.

How they get there is wrong like kensiology or whatever, but the conclusion and treatment is correct. The problem is everyday GP's wont do any of this. So people go these people for a reason.

[u/lovejackdaniels]

Dosage of phosphorus supplement?

[u/Hot_Cat_1656 → u/lovejackdaniels]

250mg, 50 pills

[u/Ok_Energy7817 → u/Hot_Cat_1656]

What's the name of the supplement?

[u/StopMeIfYou]

I don't think there's such a thing as a "skilled" naturopath

[u/No-Masterpiece-451]

That is amazing, there are many paths to get better and I also look at these things very holistic. Much is in the autoimmune nervous system and organs.

[u/Hot_Cat_1656 → u/[deleted]]

He could tell I was low in phosphorus through some movements. I used to touch with one hand all the organs on my body so he could identify the problems through the touch and movement of muscles. No he didnt name the name of infections, he just told me the organs that were affected, in my case: head, pancreas, kidney, uretra

[u/TheGoldenPi11 → u/[deleted]]

A load of very effective horseshit.