Dwindling Intellect.

October 16th, 2011

I have spent the day troubling myself with the design of a weather compensated central heating thermostat, a relatively simple concept, but for some reason I cannot get my head around it. Designs similar to this used to just fall into place, is this the engineer’s equivelent to writers block? Or have I just been away for too long?

With Phenylketonuria, there is the possibilty that intelligence can fluctuate according to the levels of phenylalanine (Phe) in the brain, I have been on a strict diet for more than a week, I know the Phe levels in the blood follow closely with eating habits, but the concentration within the brain lags somewhat, and as I have been off diet for a considerable long period, maybe I need to wait before the concentration subsides and I become more focused. This is something that has blighted my everyday functioning when it comes to the way I eat. So my relationship with food is stained, knowing I have to eat correctly to function normally is obvious, but functioning normally doesn’t necessarlly correlate with continuing a special diet. All I can do is continue with the diet and hope it improves my cognitive processes, but there is a little part of me that is sceptical, how will I know unless I endure this?

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