Natural doping for your brain

Up, up, up with the ability to focus, remember the little things, stay focused and generally the ability to make everyday life work as a full-time parent and career person. It's rarely sexy to talk about Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, stroke, ADHD and old age, but that's what nootropics are designed to treat [1] . What has been found out later is that the so-called "smart drugs" are excellent as general cognitive performance enhancers - let's dive into that.

Much of the talk about nootropics in the medical world is no longer about whether nootropics can promote brain health, but rather the whole political aspect of who will have access to it, health/learning inequalities and also whether access to such performance-enhancing supplements can be abused. In other words, nootropics are widely used in the medical treatment of mental illnesses, cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative diseases. The question is therefore whether the general population should have access to increased focus for today's important board meeting, increased learning to study for that important exam and increased memory for the forgetful and hard-working mother - or whether one should only continue to use these excellent plant properties for research into mentally debilitating diseases.

At PREMIND ®Biotics, we say YES to getting nootropics out into the wild. Many nootropics have been thoroughly tested, and as long as you stick to ingredients that are approved for humans and have scientific results to be cognitively enhancing, we see no reason to withhold this gift of nature from humanity.

Nootropics for your brain health

When we talk about cognitive performance enhancers, we are talking about increasing a person's ability to perceive, store, process, evaluate, and respond to a given piece of information or sensory input [2] . All of which are things that nootropics can play a role in.

When we talk about nootropics, however, we are not necessarily talking about drugs or chemically manufactured substances. In fact, not at all. Chemical performance enhancers are an imitation of the naturally occurring nootropics in foods and from the plant kingdom [3] such as Ginkgo, Brahmi and Ginseng. This is not to say that you can always eat your way out of a disease, but you can go a long way by thinking about what ingredients you feed your gut.

See product with Gingko, Brahmi and Ginseng here .

The way nootropics work is quite complicated, as much of it takes place in the busiest part of our neural network: the brain. However, in simple terms, the following occurs:

• Increased blood flow to and in the brain [4]
• Increased concentration and activity of neurotransmitters [5]
• Increased anti-inflammatory response in the brain [6]

We receive many inquiries regarding busy weekdays with family and work with/without stress – most people are recommended a combination of FOCUS and RELAXATION, which we are happy to reveal has only received positive feedback.

A wonder in the plant world

A plant that falls under the category of “nootropics” is the Indian medicinal herb, Brahmi [7] . Among its many health-promoting properties, Brahmi has been shown to have a reducing effect on, among others, Alzheimer’s [8] and general age-related cognitive decline [9] . What is extremely exciting for the average healthy person, however, is Brahmi’s health-promoting properties on the “healthy”, young, perhaps slightly stressed brain. Here Brahmi has also shown cognitive-promoting properties, such as increasing the memory of recently learned information [10] , improving learning and increasing the perception of visual information [11] .

Find products with brahmi here .

So what are nootropics?

Nootropics are a category like antidepressants , anti-cancer drugs or muscle-building drugs but are used to describe plants and medical imitations with certain properties.

When a plant, such as brahmi, falls into the nootropic category, it means that it has the effects mentioned in the section “Nootripics for your brain health”. Nootropics can increase your attention and perception. That is why a lot of research has been done into what it can do for some of the mentally degenerate diseases that the blog starts by pointing out.

Read how the brain and gut are connected here .

Science has come a long way, but in the research surrounding Alzheimer's and other mental illnesses, we unfortunately do not know enough. We do know, however, that a lot of money is being spent on research into this and that there are immediate good prospects. One thing we do know, however, is that for the healthy and fit person, nootropics have the ability to make the brain sharper.

So now we can conclude by asking if you should try nootropics? You can also read what our health partner says on the subject and their own experiences with nootropics here .
We will give you a simple piece of advice: TRUST YOUR GUT.

 

 

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2. Suliman, NA, Mat Taib, CN, Mohd Moklas, MA, Adenan, MI, Hidayat Baharuldin, MT, & Basir, R. (2016). Establishing Natural Nootropics: Recent Molecular Enhancement Influenced by Natural Nootropics. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2016, 4391375. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/4391375

3. A. Srivastava, P. Srivastava, A. Pandey, VK Khanna, AB Pant (2019): Phytomedicine: A Potential Alternative Medicine in Controlling Neurological Disorders, Pp. 625-655 in: New Look to Phytomedicine, Academic Press. ISBN 9780128146194, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814619-4.00025-2. Editor(s): Mohd Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Iqbal Ahmad, Debprasad Chattopadhyay

4. Ibid

5. Ibid

6. Ibid.

7. Chaudhari KS, Tiwari NR, Tiwari RR, Sharma RS. Neurocognitive Effect of the Nootropic Drug Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri) in Alzheimer's Disease. Ann Neurosci. 2017 May;24(2):111-122. doi: 10.1159/000475900. Epub 2017 May 12. PMID: 28588366; PMCID: PMC5448442.

8. Ibid.

9. Onaolapo AY, Obelawo AY, Onaolapo OJ. Brain Aging, Cognition and Diet: A Review of the Emerging Roles of Food-Based Nootropics in Mitigating Age-related Memory Decline. Curr Aging Sci. 2019;12(1):2-14. doi: 10.2174/1874609812666190311160754. PMID: 30864515; PMCID: PMC6971896.

10. Roodenrys S, Booth D, Bulzomi S, Phipps A, Micallef C, Smoker J. Chronic effects of Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri) on human memory. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2002 Aug;27(2):279-81. doi: 10.1016/S0893-133X(01)00419-5. PMID: 12093601.

11. Stough C, Lloyd J, Clarke J, Downey LA, Hutchison CW, Rodgers T, Nathan PJ. The chronic effects of an extract of Bacopa monniera (Brahmi) on cognitive function in healthy human subjects. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2001 Aug;156(4):481-4. doi: 10.1007/s002130100815. Erratum in: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2015 Jul;232(13):2427. Dosage error in article text. PMID: 11498727.