Mental Accuity & Focus - Not just a concern for seniors

Phosphatidylserine is used for Alzheimer's disease, age-related decline in mental function, improving thinking skills in young people, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, preventing exercise induced stress, and improving athletic performance.

How does it work?

Phosphatidylserine is an important chemical with widespread functions in the body. It is part of the cell structure and is key in the maintenance of cellular function, especially in the brain. 

 

Mental Accuity & Focus

CogniCare™ provides a comprehensive cognitive support for neurotransmitters, focus, mental acuity and mood. Each capsule contains the following healthy brain complexes:

NeuroTransmitter Complex™

Ultimate Focus Complex™
ProAcuity & Mood Complex™

NeuroTransmitter™ Complex- the key to healthy brain activity. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that enable neurons to pass signals to each other and thus allow the body to function properly. Electrical signals are converted to chemical signals at the synapse. This is known as neurotransmission at a synapse. Healthy neurotransmitter activity is essential in proper brain brain function.

The nutrients included in NeuroTransmitter Complex™, and their respective brain support roles are:

Huperzine A - prevents acetylcholine breakdown, one of the body's essential neurotransmitters. This offers the body healthy cognitive performance support.

L-Glutamine - modulates both excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters. As it is highly concentrated in the brain and balances other transmitters, L-Glutamine allows the brain to perform in a healthy state.

L-Tyrosine - plays important role in the production of neurotransmitters which regulate emotions.

Phosphatidyl Serine - modulates the fluidity of cell membranes --- essential for sending and receiving messages. Increases communication between cell membranes by increasing the number of membrane receptor sites for receiving messages. Promotes a healthy brain supply of and output of acetylcholine.

Ultimate Focus Complex™
Acetyl L-Carnitine - a neuroprotective nutrient that passes through the blood-brain barrier. Its neuroprotection is derived from its ability to stop the passage of harmful substances into the brain. Acetyl L-Carnitine is a natural inflammatory that enhances the effects of antioxidant systems within the body. It advances the body’s ability to fight oxidative stress. It is essential in maintaining healthy mitochondrial activity, and promoting healthy glutathione and CoQ10 levels. Acetyl L-Carnitine also works synergestically with alpha lipoic acid, another powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.

Vinpocetine - promotes healthy blood circulation within the brain.

ProAcuity & Mood Complex™
B-12 (methylcobalamin) - promotes healthy mental acuity and mood function.

B-6 - supports normal memory and verbal function.

30 Day Supply

Testimonials:
"When I told my mom that I was having trouble with concentration and focus in school, my mom recommended CogniCare. I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the best ingredients that I have been able to find through independent research is phosphatidylserine. It is one of the best supplements that you can take in the realm of mental enhancers. Not only was I able to notice an increased ability in the way I manage stress in my daily life, but I was also more and more emotionally stable. In lecture, my ability for taking notes was also enhanced, and I was soon enjoying the perks of a superior short-term memory. Overall, CogniCare is a revolutionary supplement. Its combination of phosphatidylserine with its other ingredients like Vinpocetine, and Huperzine A, enables the supplement to work synergistically for a noticeable improvement in executive function. Thank you for the opportunity to share my experience with others who may be looking for a natural and effective way of clearing the cobwebs from their brains." Fred, Neuroscience Undergraduate Major, UC Berkeley, CA

Suggested Use:
As a dietary supplement, take two capsules twice per day with meals or as directed by your health care professional.

Cautions
If you have low blood pressure, have a history of heart problems, strokes or are using blood-thinning medications, AChE inhibitors, glaucoma or bipolar medications,consult your doctor before using this product. For adult use only. Not for use by pregnant, may become pregnant, or breastfeeding women.

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

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More evidence Alzheimer's and other dementia can be prevented: save your brain by preventing diabetes

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
(NaturalNews) Currently, an estimated 24 million people world-wide are living with Alzheimer's disease or some other type of the mind and personality-robbing affliction known as dementia. And the numbers keep climbing. But why? Mainstream medicine puts the blame on the fact people are living longer and genetics offers little hope to stop dementia unless Big Pharma comes up with some miracle pill - an approach that so far has failed miserably.

However, now there's evidence much dementia could be triggered by another disease that is often preventable and even reversible with natural health strategies.

A new study just published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, reveals diabetes significantly increases the risk of developing dementia. And type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease which has reached epidemic proportions, is due primarily to obesity and inactivity. That suggests that by taking control of your health with good nutrition and exercise, you may be able to not only prevent diabetes but also dementia.

"Our findings emphasize the need to consider diabetes as a potential risk factor for dementia," said study author Yutaka Kiyohara, MD, PhD, of Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, in a media statement. "Diabetes is a common disorder, and the number of people with it has been growing in recent years all over the world. Controlling diabetes is now more important than ever."

The research found people with diabetes were more likely to develop both Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, such as vascular dementia. Vascular dementia results when blood vessels become damaged and interrupt oxygen-rich blood flow to the brain.

In all, the scientists studied 1,017 people age 60 and older who were given a glucose (sugar) tolerance test after fasting overnight in order to test for diabetes. Then, over the course of about 11 years, the research subjects were followed and tested for dementia. During this time, 232 people developed the memory destroying disease. People with diabetes had double the risk for dementia when compared to those with normal blood sugar levels.

These findings remained consistent even after the researchers accounted for other factors such as hypertension, high cholesterol and smoking. The risk of dementia was also higher in people who did not have diabetes, but had impaired glucose tolerance. This "pre-diabetes" condition is also part of a cluster of symptoms (including being overweight, having high cholesterol, high blood pressure and high blood glucose levels) known as metabolic syndrome which has become widespread and is already known to raise the risk for heart disease as well as diabetes - and now dementia can be added to this list.

The new study findings are actually positive because, as NaturalNews as previously covered, there are numerous ways to reduce and sometimes even reverse type 2 diabetes -- by keeping weight under control, exercise and adding specific foods to a healthy diet.

For example, last summer Harvard School of Public Health investigators discovered eating two or more servings of brown rice per week slashed the risk of type 2 diabetes (http://www.naturalnews.com/029143_b...).

In addition, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that adding a daily serving of mixed nuts to the traditional Mediterranean diet (which consists of whole grain cereals, vegetables, fruits and olive oil, a moderate intake of fish and alcohol and a low intake of dairy, meats and sweets) is a delicious, natural and effective way to treat metabolic syndrome (http://www.naturalnews.com/025098_n...).

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Meditation halts age-related degeneration throughout entire brain

Friday, July 15, 2011 by: S. L. Baker, features writer

(NaturalNews) Getting older means you will not be as mentally sharp and, in fact, your brain will shrink. It's just the way life is and there's nothing you can do about it, right? Wrong. Now it appears we can take control of brain changes and even make our brains larger, not smaller, as we age and cause electrical connections to zip along at a faster rate to improve thinking and memory. The key is meditation.
 
Back in 2009, UCLA scientists made an amazing discovery -- they found that the brains of people who had meditated long-term were different than those of non-meditators. To be specific, the researchers found evidence that particular regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger. They also had more gray matter than the brains of people who didn't meditate.

This was startling-- and important -- because brains normally shrink with age, a process they may explain memory and other cognitive problems experienced by elders. More recently, scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) concluded that an eight week mindful meditation practice produced measurable changes in participants' brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress (http://www.naturalnews.com/031228_m...).

Now comes even more proof that meditation does something profound, and beneficial, to the human brain. A follow-up study by the UCLA team just published in the online edition of the journal NeuroImage shows that people who meditate have stronger connections between brain regions. What's more, they have far less age-related brain atrophy.

What's the significance? Stronger connections increase the ability of electrical signals in the brain to work rapidly -- suggesting a whole host of thinking and memory benefits. Also, these effects were not just found here and there but throughout the entire brains of meditators.

The study involved 27 active meditation practitioners with an average age of 52, along with 27 matched control subjects. Both groups consisted of 11 men and 16 women. Over all, the meditators had been practicing various styles of meditation, including Shamatha, Vipassana, Zazen and others, for five years or longer.

Eileen Luders, a visiting assistant professor at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and fellow researchers conducted their research using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a relatively new type of brain imaging that reveals structural connectivity inthe brain.

The investigators found that the differences between the brains of research subjects who were meditators and the brains of non-meditators in the control group weren't limited to a core region of the brain but instead involved large-scale networks of the entire brain, as well as limbic structures and the brain stem.

"Our results suggest that long-term meditators have white-matter fibers that are either more numerous, more dense or more insulated throughout the brain," Dr. Luders said in a statement to the media. "We also found that the normal age-related decline of white-matter tissue is considerably reduced in active meditation practitioners."

"It is possible that actively meditating, especially over a long period of time, can induce changes on a micro-anatomical level," Dr. Luders, herself a meditator, continued. "Meditation appears to be a powerful mental exercise with the potential to change the physical structure of the brain at large."

In other words, there now appears to be a way to take control of changes in the brain which, up to now, have been regarded as an inevitable part of aging. Meditation may keep the brain younger, more fit and make it literally larger and faster working, even as we grow older.

As NaturalNews previously reported, other research has shown additional health benefits of meditation. For example, it beats drugs in treating depression (http://www.naturalnews.com/024986_m...) and has been found to effectively treat bladder control problems (http://www.naturalnews.com/026233_i...).

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