03/09/2026
Term-time brain is not a personality flaw.
September hands you roughly forty new pieces of admin in a fortnight, and in most households one person is holding all of them. If you're also in perimenopause, you're running that load on a fluctuating oestrogen supply, and oestrogen is directly involved in how your brain takes up glucose and lays down memory. The forgetting is physiological. It isn't you getting worse at your life.
Clarity was built for this window: Lion's Mane, Cordyceps and Maitake with a B-complex. Vitamin B6 contributes to normal psychological function, B5 to normal mental performance.
What did you forget in week one? I'll start: the swimming kit, twice.