About Clear Brain Daily

Q4 2022. A client I'd billed every quarter for eleven years. I knew his coffee order and his kids' school district. I stood up to close the meeting and his name was gone. Completely gone. I covered it badly. Drove home with no radio on.

Thirty years of making other people's numbers add up, never missed a name. Third time that month.

If you're here, you've probably had your own version of that moment. The name that didn't surface. The word that took three seconds too long. The pause you hoped nobody clocked.

Early retirement came in early 2023. The math worked. The honest version: the mental precision I'd built a thirty-year career on was starting to feel unreliable in ways that bad sleep and a long week didn't fully explain. That winter I started a spreadsheet. One tab per supplement, one column per week, morning notes on what I noticed and what I didn't. My wife says it now has more tabs than our tax returns ever did. She said it as a dig. I logged it as a benchmark.

Clear Brain Daily is that spreadsheet, made public. Fourteen months of testing records, cost-per-day math, and week-by-week observations from someone whose whole career was built on the discipline of noticing when something doesn't add up. No medical degree. No neuroscience background. No commercial relationship with any supplement company. A retired accountant in suburban Dallas who started tracking because it was the only way he knew how to take the problem seriously.

Head to the author page for more on my background, my testing setup, and how each evaluation actually runs.

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