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“I'll read the same email three times and still not know what it said.”
This is usually the first thing people notice, and the easiest to put down to a busy inbox.
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“By three o'clock I couldn't tell you what I decided that morning.”
More than half of adults over 40 notice their memory isn't what it was.
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“The word is right there. It just won't come.”
87% of people who complete our Vitality Score experience forgetting words.
If brain fog has arrived in your late 30s, 40s or 50s, it might not be stress, screens or sleep. It might be perimenopause. 60% of women in the transition report cognitive symptoms: memory lapses, word-finding difficulty and slower thinking.
The right blood work can show whether hormones are part of your picture, read against everything else that shapes how you think.
Perimenopause can start in your late 30s and last a decade. Across that window, oestradiol fluctuates rather than simply declining. Your brain is built to feel every fluctuation. Foggy thinking. Broken sleep. Words that won't come. Lower stress tolerance. They arrive together because they share a cause.
The information about perimenopause has changed substantially in the last decade. The cultural memory hasn't caught up. A generation of misinformation about hormone therapy went largely unrevised in public conversation. Most has now been re-examined. Many women have only heard the old version.
Each of these sits inside its reference range, so each one is reported as fine. Three systems out of their optimal zone at once is a different picture entirely, and it isn't one a single test is designed to catch.
That's the gap most people fall into: nothing wrong enough to flag, and nothing right enough to feel like yourself.
Brain fog is a signal from your body. The common drivers respond to change.
Your panel reads the systems that most often drag thinking: how your body fuels the brain, whether inflammation is running in the background, and how it's repairing. Your plan works those levers directly.
MetabolicYour brain runs on a steady feed of fuel. Your panel shows how steady yours is, and your plan works on smoothing it: how you eat, how you move, and where supplements genuinely help.
InflammationYour panel picks up inflammation running quietly in the background. It's linked to slower processing and heavier days, and your plan works on what's driving it, not just the fog it causes.
RepairRepair is where clarity gets rebuilt, and your panel reads how your body is renewing. Your plan works on the inputs repair depends on: sleep, recovery, and the raw materials your body needs.
That's the trap brain fog sets: working out what's wrong takes exactly the clear head you don't have. A VitalYOU plan takes that job off you. It starts by measuring, and where it's clinically appropriate your doctor can prescribe treatment, which may include compounded therapies, alongside precision supplements and practical guidance on the changes that do the most.
The aim of that early lift in clarity isn't the treatment for its own sake. It's being able to trust your head again, because the changes you make from there are the ones that last.
Why we can't name medications here. Australian Therapeutic Goods regulations don't allow prescription medicines to be named publicly. You'll talk through your options with your doctor, once they've seen your results and heard your story.
Before we prescribe anything, essential work has to be done: the blood panel and consultation that make treatment safe, and specific to you. Not a hurdle in front of treatment, the foundation of it. We could make it faster and cheaper by cutting that work. We won't.
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Simon is a consulting doctor and VitalYOU's clinical partner. He created the brain fog programme: the screening, the panel, and the protocol your doctor works from.
Your consult is with one of our AHPRA-registered doctors, who makes their own clinical decisions about your care.
For most people
$195
A 47-marker blood panel, focused on your thinking.
A fifteen-minute video consultation with an AHPRA-registered doctor who arrives prepared.
Your plan: lifestyle, supplements, and prescription treatment where it's clinically appropriate. It lives in your portal.
Medication and supplements are an additional cost.
For deeper answers
$995
A deeper investigation into what's driving your brain fog: 80+ biomarkers across six biological systems, in a single panel.
One doctor reviews everything before an extended telehealth consultation.
A clinical report and plan built on what they find. No hidden fees.
answered honestly.
Brain fog is a symptom, not a diagnosis. It can involve multiple biological systems at once, which is why investigating one marker at a time rarely explains what's going on.
Normal usually means nothing alarming, and that matters. But a standard panel is built to rule out disease, not to explain why you can't think clearly. We look wider, and a doctor reads where you sit within those ranges against how you actually feel. Plenty of people sit in the normal band and still can't hold a thought by 3pm. That gap is exactly what we look for.
Stress is genuinely a factor, but it's rarely the full explanation. In a survey of more than 880,000 adults over 45, those under high stress were about three times more likely to report worsening memory or confusion. Stress often coexists with biological causes rather than replacing them, so the question is whether something else is contributing alongside it.
8 tests reporting 47 biomarkers, read by your doctor before your consultation. If you want the deeper look, the comprehensive service covers 80+ biomarkers across six biological systems. Either way, one doctor reviews everything before you speak, with the clinical tools to act on what they find.
The $195 is a one-off: the blood panel, a fifteen-minute consult with an AHPRA-registered doctor, and a plan when you leave. If you want the deeper look, the comprehensive service is $995, priced the same way: one fee, no hidden costs. Medications, supplements and follow-ups are additional, and you see those costs before you decide anything. No bundles, no subscriptions you didn't ask for.
Your panel includes a full hormonal profile alongside your metabolic, inflammatory, sleep, gut and brain chemistry results. If your doctor identifies a hormonal contribution to what you're experiencing, they discuss what that means and what your options are. Where treatment is clinically appropriate, your doctor can prescribe as part of your plan.
No. Your GP manages disease, acute care and general health. VitalYOU investigates the biological systems that drive how you feel and perform day to day.
VitalYOU is designed for persistent brain fog, not for managing diagnosed neurological conditions. If you have concerns about dementia, we'd recommend speaking with your GP or a neurologist.
Most supplements are chosen based on guesswork, not blood work. A panel tells you which ones are actually doing something, which ones you don't need, and what's missing that supplements alone won't fix.
