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Ronessa Das

MScOT/PhD candidate at McMaster University researching brain fog in chronic pain and veterans' health; Research Assistant at VRAIE IDEA.

Jun 23, 2026

5:50
It's not just about who gets it, but about who has the resources to deal with it.
5:57
So in our study, women describe having a harder time managing brain fog along with other competing priorities.
6:03
So things like taking care of children, household responsibilities, going back to work, all while managing their health.
6:10
And men in our study describe offloading a lot of those tasks to the women's spouses.
6:15
And from a traditional gender role perspective, we know that those types of caregiving roles, those are ones that women tend to take on and they often don't have anyone that they can offload those tasks to.
6:24
And in fact, when we asked women which management strategies they use, most didn't describe the use of any and said advocated for the development in future work.
8:41
Dr. Carmi did ask about supplements for brain fog and Ronessa gave a really measured answer that I think is worth hearing directly.
8:49
We did a social media discourse analysis where we actually saw that people were trying to sell things like supplements and vitamins for brain fog.

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