I was forced out of a scientific career of 15 years, after severe stress-related burnout. I resigned myself to “no-brain work” for the rest of my life. After years of trying different things, one week on CogniTrue restored my brain function to around 95% of where I once was.

I was a data scientist and scientific software developer, also a workaholic. I worked crazy hours and took on all kinds of projects. Self-care was never a priority, I had to learn it the hard way. One morning, after months of extreme stress and overloading my memory, I awoke in a fog. I didn’t know who I was, where I was, and deep inside my skull was a very hot, dense spot. I felt I had literally blown a fuse. In the following days I lost my ability to do math and developed severe memory issues, impaired speech, even impaired walking and driving sometimes. I had to read articles 8 times or more before I could really grasp what they were saying. I started forgetting key steps of workflows I had been doing daily for years, and not even realizing it, until others pointed out my mistakes in meetings. I had to write absolutely everything down, otherwise I couldn’t remember the content of conversations from the day before, or even that conversations had happened. I stopped learning anything new. Eventually I had to leave my job because I simply couldn’t do it anymore.

I visited multiple neurologists and psychiatrists. Stroke, Alzheimer’s and early onset dementia were ruled out.

I tried months of biweekly neurofeedback sessions and found my brain’s frequency distribution was basically backwards, over-enriched for high beta and very deficient in theta/delta in all regions. The sessions produced a lot of interesting experiences, but didn’t really help.

My first ray of hope came when I went to a joint doctor for knee pain and started on a prescription painkiller. Within 24 hours, I had half my mind back. It was shocking and my neurologists didn’t know anything about it. I did find a dozen papers investigating cognitive improvement with this drug, so it is a known side effect. It proved that my problem was, fundamentally, inflammation. Unfortunately, this painkiller isn’t prescribed long-term, due to toxicity.

My second ray of hope came when one neurologist decided against testing and just threw pills at it, prescribing an anti-dementia medication. The benefit was massive — I felt I had 75% of my mind back, and could quit the painkiller. I felt very fortunate, because my other neurologists were surprised that this medication worked, and said they wouldn’t have prescribed it.

I spent several years researching neuroinflammation and trying dozens of supplements and medications. Most had little effect. But all of this together was still not enough.

I started taking CogniTrue after my mother sent me a bottle to try. I ignored it at first because I was already taking a patented, high-powered, turmeric-based supplement. It worked miracles for my body over the years. It also relaxed my mind, but didn’t fix it. I switched to CogniTrue, and in less than a week it drastically improved my short-term memory, focus, ability to absorb information, and hold large, complex ideas in my head. It restored a sense of self I hadn’t realized I’d lost, until it came back.

It didn’t click until my driving habits changed — I was always the one who flies by you at 90 on the highway — but I haven’t driven like that in years, because I lost my situational awareness and ability to process spatial information at speed. It was a shock when it dawned on me in the middle of the road that my old driving habits were back, and for that matter, so was the rest of me. I actually had to pull off the road because I started crying so hard. It was all so sudden and unexpected, not even a week in.

In just two months, I have been able to return to programming, reading scientific literature and understanding it, and even completing online certificates in cybersecurity and technical writing. I still struggle with some things, but the fact I can return to my old expertise is more than I ever thought I would have. I’m still kind of stunned that something like CogniTrue exists. I owe it my life.