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Aidan Hancock's avatar

I have paroxysmal AF and without really thinking about it I’ve stopped taking decongestants at all, and when I’ve got a cold now just use a saline nasal spray, and when it’s really bad an OTC steroid nasal spray (Beconase). Works pretty well for me.

And I’m also starting to forget names, and could maybe link onset of that to my most recent bout of covid. Who knows.

Thanks for another great piece.

Aidan

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The Skeptical Cardiologist's avatar

Ricardo,

Please don't get me started on brain. health supplements. Such a load of snake oil BS.

I wrote about Prevagen (https://theskepticalcardiologist.com/2019/06/05/jellyfish-memory-supplement-prevagen-is-a-clear-cut-fraud-according-to-the-ftc-stop-buying-this-and-other-useless-brain-supplements/) back in the day but it is still thriving.

After my recent bout of COVID I have noticed for the first time that I am forgetting the names of people or songs or movies that previously I knew very well. Blue Rondo a la Turk started playing and I couldn't come up with Dave Brubeck! Yikes.

If I find something that arrests or reverses our cognitive decline skeptical cardiologist readers will be the first to know.

Dr. P

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