These 9 Natural Ingredients Rounded
Out My Ultimate “Stack” For Healthy
Memory & Focus
The first may surprise you, because a lot of people think it’s just a “sleep hormone.”
But new research shows Melatonin’s role is much bigger than we thought.
In fact it only contributes to helping you fall asleep after the sun goes down.
And the rest of the time it works hard at detoxing and cleansing your brain. So much so that one group of scientists dubbed it the “antioxidant that over delivers.”
Antioxidants help mop up unstable molecules that cause damage in the body. Specifically these molecules can chew up and rip gaps in your Blood Brain Barrier.
So when researchers looked at using melatonin to support the BBB they found promising results. Before exposing little mouse brains to some highly inflammatory molecules, some of the mice were treated with melatonin.
The melatonin mice enjoyed a big reduction in any signs of BBB damage, but the other little guys weren’t so lucky.
You can probably see why scientists can’t do experiments like this on human brains. But since the BBBs of mice and humans are so similar, when the researchers presented their peer-reviewed findings in the prestigious PLOS ONE journal, they recommended melatonin as a potential option for brain injury in humans.
Unfortunately most Americans don’t produce nearly enough melatonin naturally.
That’s because evening exposure to “blue light” from screens and especially LED bulbs shuts down your body’s ability to produce melatonin.
Which means that folks miss out on the powerful detox for the brain.
And it’s also why it’s more important than ever for folks to take the proper amount of pure and absorbable melatonin every evening.
Now I probably could have stopped there, and already we’d have an incredibly powerful solution to fight brain fog.
Yet I couldn’t stop thinking of a powerful little molecule we learn about in medical school, a special antioxidant made in your body called glutathione or GSH for short.
It acts like fly paper, all the bad stuff sticks to it…
Including the free radicals and toxins that poke holes in your blood brain barrier and corrode the mitochondria in your brain.
There are more than 89,000 medical articles on the benefits of Glutathione.
The bad news is that the American diet, pollution, toxins, medications, stress, infections, and radiation from electronics — just to name a few — all deplete your glutathione.
When I looked into the benefits of GSH for a healthy brain it was a treasure trove.
Researchers at the University of Denver demonstrated how glutathione can help the brain repair itself after traumatic injuries like concussions.
And another study published in the Journal Neurochemical Research showed that higher levels of glutathione could support a healthy Blood Brain Barrier.
But there was just one problem with glutathione…
See, it’s almost impossible to absorb the supplement form.
Which is why most doctors don’t know how to increase your GSH.
And the only reason why it wasn’t the very first thing I tried for brain fog.
But in the meantime another group of biologists studied a new form of GSH, and demonstrated it is actually super easy for humans to absorb it.
It’s called S-acetyl-glutathione, or SAG for short.
In a single dose, randomised, cross-over, human bioavailability study they found this new form of glutathione is taken up easily and directly into the cells.
So although authentic SAG supplements are hard to find, I believe everyone over 40 should be taking one daily.
And along with Brazilian bee propolis and just the right amount of melatonin…
My patients reported some pretty astonishing results.
But that’s just the start.
You see my research uncovered an additional 7 ingredients that all show immense promise when it comes to supporting your mitochondria and a healthy blood brain barrier.
These ingredients are…
Reishi Mushrooms, also called "mushrooms of immortality," which have been shown to have a powerful effect and even support healthy brain function.
Curcumin, Selenium, Vitamin C, and Ginseng because they are all powerful antioxidants that show a strong supportive effect on the blood brain barrier.
Duchesnea Chrysantha, which contains amazing little molecules called pentacyclic triterpenes that mop up a nasty menace called advanced glycation end-products (AGEs for short)…
Think of AGEs as rust on your brain that is corrosive to your mitochondria.
And finally Zinc because researchers at Duke University and MIT discovered it plays a critical role in communication between the cells in the brain that form memories.
When folks take the optimal form of these 10 “super” nutrients they quickly experience a noticeable boost to focus and memory.
But here’s the thing, given the science behind all of these ingredients you’d think doctors everywhere would be recommending them to their patients.
Unfortunately that’s not the case.
Most doctors write brain fog off as a normal part of aging, or worse, pull out their prescription pads.
But as science shows that these can come with
a laundry list of side effects that rob folks of their
energy and happiness.
So when you consider how these natural ingredients
can help keep the brain’s “power cells” working at
their best, why aren’t more people using them?
Well it turns out part of the problem is cost. Because
when I recommended these to patients it would
sometimes cost them as much as $300 to buy
all the nutrients separately.
So no matter how amazing it could make them feel, it simply wasn’t affordable.