EP 29: What If Your Memory Lapses Are Actually Signals?

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Welcome back to Not Alone.

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I'm your host, Melissa Sue Methman.

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What I have on my heart today to talk about is brain fog.

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Because now I can see it clearly when I have some friends that are not thinking clearly or they're having a hard time making logic decisions.

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You know why?

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Because I've been there.

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And then I caught myself doing weird things in a kitchen, like putting, I don't know, the milk back in the cupboard and just simple things like this that I'm going, why can I not think straight?

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So I want you to just kind of observe have you been doing that lately?

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Have you been getting in these random little accidents because you're scattered?

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You're not thinking straight.

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I've seen this happen and now I notice it.

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And I want you to know that this brain fog is a signal, a signal that something, there's a toxic overload.

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Something is causing inflammation in the brain.

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So this is where I advise, just through my own stories, my own uh healing journey with myself, my children, is that that brain fog.

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I notice it now.

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I notice it with my friends, I notice it with myself and my children.

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What I recommend is asking for four major tests: a gut test, heavy metal, mitotoxin, mold mitotoxin test, and as well if you have the MTHFR gene.

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These are all the tests that I've done for myself and my two children.

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And what I've uncovered is just eye-opening.

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It's giving me clarity to all the symptoms that we've had.

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Now we all have the MTHFR gene.

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And if I if you haven't heard of it before, because I hadn't before, it just makes it harder for us to detox, or we have a slower processing system to flush out toxins.

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So when we have an overload of toxins, think of a garbage disposal, you know, we just every day we're exposed to toxins.

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And oftentimes our children are passed down from mother, father.

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The toxins are passed down to them.

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So they're already being born with a toxic load.

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Now think of anything else in their environment that might affect that.

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Number one is nutrition.

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Unfortunately, our nutrition now, by the time we get it to the grocery store, it has less nutrient dense than it would if you had your own garden and you pick it right off the, you know, the tree.

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And then you eat it, you would get that nutrient-dense food.

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So our kids are just not getting the nutrients that they used to when they would just pick it out of their garden.

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Now, I was also being able to see that we had mitotoxin.

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So we had mold toxicity in our bodies.

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Now, I don't know exactly where we got this, either from our old house in Alaska to environments now here in Arizona.

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But it doesn't matter.

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It just shows that we have it.

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And now it just stays in your body until we decide to do a process to remove it.

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Another thing that we we were all high in was heavy metal, mostly my children, actually, they were high in mercury levels.

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And what I've heard and learned is that that could be passed down from generations, that toxic load, as well as vaccines and just their environments.

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So these are all things that I would start looking at and asking your provider, seeing we all see a naturopath, if you want to see a functional medicine, someone that is really rooted in the in treating the root cause in the whole body.

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Now, I could put in the show notes recommendations as to which uh test we took, but you can speak to your providers and ask them for uh gut tests, heavy metals, and mold toxicity.

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And if you have the MTHFR gene.

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Now, unfortunately, most of these tests are not covered by insurance, but this could be life-saving tools because the more we age, the more we accumulate these toxins.

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And if we don't do a process of elimination or titration throughout our week, and that's why I'm a big advocate for exercise, sauna, red light therapy, and also breath work.

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Breath work helps you on a cellular level to give to heal your cells, your mitochondria.

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You can really with your breath bring in that light and healing properties to your cells, even with your thoughts as well.

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So, this is where I feel if you've been feeling like you're being very forgetful, not yourself lately, even if you've been feeling where you've got numbing in your hands, just start asking more questions and get the test to see where you might be deficient in nutrients, where maybe there's a toxic load.

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And that could be your start, your start of your healing journey and bringing that awareness for you and your family.

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I hope this helps you today because I have seen many providers and I've spent a lot of money seeing providers because I keep asking questions to the root cause of our symptoms.

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I've always been on more on the preventive health.

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And what I've uncovered, I'm just sharing with you to guide you, to help you for that first step.

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And also kind of starting a movement, a movement where we ask questions, we want the truth, we want to get to the root cause.

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And keep in mind a lot of it can start in your mouth as well.

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So the inflammation, the brain fog, anything that causes inflammation will cause brain fog and start as well in the gut.

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So if you're starting having signs of acid reflux, brain fog, those are signals.

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So start the movement of asking questions, seeing providers, getting some tests to get to the root cause for you and your family to avoid any chronic illness.

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Thanks so much for joining me today with Not Alone with Melissa Sue Methman.