Young but having a bad memory

[dmc000]

I'm 21 years old and ever since I had a child, (2 yrs ago) I've been forgetting everything like where i put my purse and even if i brought my purse with me. I thought maybe it was just happening through my pregnancy because thats what everyone says but then its been two years and I still haven't got my good memory back. Is it nutrition??...I'm gonna start a job later and I really need to rely on my memory...could you please tell me what is wrong with me?...I also feel like I have a lazy memory. I tell myself to repeat and repeat things I'm doing so i'll remember later but i feel like my brain and I myself is so lazy to try to store all this into my memory and sometimes I still forget. I really forget that I have something in the oven and things like i have to pick up my sister. I'm still young and I don't think its alzheimers. What can I do to improve my memory? Is it hormones or nutrition?...tell me everything

[Jos69]

Hi everyone,  

after 2 kids, my memory is really bad.  I'm only 35 and my last kid will be 3 next month.  
I read the comment about the fish oil and the omega 3 6 9.
I take 2 capsules of omega a day and it doesn't help.
We don't eat fish that often.
Maybe it doesn't work for everybody

[E_Anxiety]

OMEGA 3, 6 and 9.

Try it.

Fish oils for the brain.

[stefany4]

My husband started taking fish oil tablets and his memeory started to improve.

October 17, 2005 (Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation) -- Eating fish at least once a week may slow memory loss in seniors, a new study reports. The findings, published in the medical journal Archives of Neurology from the American Medical Association, add to a growing body of evidence that fish, particularly those rich in “good” fats called “omega-3s,” may benefit both the heart and brain.

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago found that men and women aged 65 and up who ate fish one or more times a week had, on average, a 10 percent slower rate of cognitive decline as they aged compared to those who rarely ate fish. Over time, the benefits added up to the equivalent of being three to four years younger mentally, the researchers estimate.

"Dietary intake of fish was inversely associated with cognitive decline over six years in this older, biracial community study," the researchers report. "The rate of decline was reduced by 10 percent to 13 percent per year among persons who consumed one or more fish meals per week compared with those with less than weekly consumption. The rate reduction is the equivalent of being three to four years younger in age."

"This study suggests that eating one or more fish meals per week may protect against cognitive decline associated with older age," the authors conclude. "More precise studies of the different dietary constituents of fish should help to understand the nature of the association."
http://www.alzinfo.org/news/NewsArticle10-19-2005-4-06-PM.aspx

[lmroswell]

After having 2 children, my memory is not what it used to be, and I agree with the above answer.  Our brains are not being used the way we used to use them.  Not only do I have a bad memory, I think I have ADD now, too (joking).  It's because I am constantly being interrupted and cannot complete a task without many distractions.  In the early years of raising our babies, I used to call it being in the 'baby bubble'.  I do look forward to the day when I can go to work, a full 8 hours, and just think about work, but for now, I am home full time, raising our kids, and looking for my memory...good luck.  By the way, in just typing this, I have been interrupted 5 times!

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

I can't tell you everything...it would take about a year. Its not like nutrition or alzheimers, or anything like that.  Its most likely the "mothers divided mind" which means that when you are a mother tuning into a wordless child, you are tuned into a feeling zone, and things outside that zone on your to do list have less importance.  As you return to work, you "digital" memory will return because you will be forced to turn part of your attention outward into the world of things and accountability rather than feelings and fuzziness alone.