Dr. Mark D'Esposito

This mental fogginess that they're describing is just this inability to...

to get things get things done.

They don't lose knowledge of who they they don't forget their name or, you know, forget where they live or lose memories from the past or anything like that.

But they just they don't officially get things done as well as they used to.

It only takes a little bit of a drop, right?

You people think you have to have a big drop in performance to have it have a real life impact, just a 1% drop.

And you're you're having a hard time doing your podcast or teaching a lecture or whatever you might do.

I do think so.

I do think that, yeah, that it is significant, a poor night's sleep.

And we all notice that.

I mean, it's very obvious.

I mean, and, you know, it's hard to sort of quantify.

I'm a baseball fan, so I can quantify it like if you think about it in a pitcher and how fast they throw, you know.

A small drop for them, someone who's throwing 100 miles an hour, just a small drop turns them from really elite to someone mediocre.

Maybe it's more of a 10% drop, but a still relatively small drop can have a huge impact.

I think people think that just because you're a little bit off, that's not a big deal.

You kind of work through it.

And that's what most doctors say.

Just plow through it.

Just work your way through it.