Up until recently, country music star Trisha Yearwood was still dealing with the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Yearwood just released her first album in six years, The Mirror, last week. Part of putting out a new project is visiting various media outlets for discussion and promotion, and that’s exactly what the “She’s In Love With The Boy” singer was doing when she stopped by the “Bobbycast” with Bobby Bones.
It was during that interview that Trisha Yearwood revealed that she’s been battling the effects of what’s known as “Long COVID” for the past couple of years. She had tried a number of different treatments to move past it, but the lingering effects – like brain fog – remained. She says it even got to the point where she couldn’t remember the name of a common kitchen item like a rolling pin.
Yearwood was desperate to find some sort of solution, and fortunately for her, the country icon and wife of Garth Brooks got a helpful tip from a friend:
“A friend of mine heard Amy’s interview with Sheri at LENS Therapy and told me about it and I went. I didn’t tell anybody I was going because I was like, ‘I don’t understand what this does.’ But the first thing I noticed was I was sleeping better than I had slept in 10 years.”
For those that aren’t familiar with what LENS therapy is, LENS is actually an acronym that stands for “Low Energy Neurofeedback System.” Basically, the type of therapy utilizes low energy electromagnetic pulses to help stimulate brain activity. It might sound like something out of a sci-fi film, but it’s real… and it’s helping a lot of people like Trisha Yearwood:
“It changed my life. I had a mild case of COVID. But it really messed with my smell and taste. I would say I’m a long COVID person. I had all the brain fog … people were like, ‘You are in menopause,’ and I would be like, ‘Yeah, but this is different because I’m looking at a rolling pin and I can’t name it. So, I either have early-onset Alzheimer’s or something else is wrong.”
As she later figured out, portions of her brain were “asleep,” stuck like a person’s brain is when they first come out of anesthesia. Thanks to the LENS therapy, Yearwood says that she now feels like her brain is how it was in her 30s. It was such a life changing and health-benefiting decision that she’s doing all she can to tell friends about it – and inform podcast audiences on how it works:
“It takes 15 minutes… so they put these little electrodes. It looks like you’re about to get shock therapy, but it’s not that. And they hit little different spots, I think 21 places on your brain. They’ll hit things like retention, motivation, and childhood memory.
So it’s like you’re going to therapy in a way, but you’re not talking about it. Your brain waves are sitting in a rut if you loop or hit a block every time. And there’s this tiny charge, you don’t feel it, it lifts those brain waves and you go, ‘Oh. There’s a better way.'”
Good to know that’s an option for anyone still dealing with long COVID symptoms, or just suffering from brain fog in general.
The Mirror is out everywhere, NOW:
