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Lifestyle strategies and natural ingredients that promote cognitive support. Cognitive health has come into sharp focus for consumers in recent years, with younger patients looking for solutions that can help them in the office and older consumers seeking remedies to help maintain cognition as they age. But cognitive health is a complex domain with many ...
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[The Vitamin Professor Podcast] Lesson 13: Kesum for Cognitive Function, Inflammation & More
On this episode of The Vitamin Professor Podcast, Professor Gene Bruno talks to Annie George of Biotropics Malaysia Berhad.
Research Delivers Best Moves to Reduce Dementia Risk
It’s that time of the year when most of us get the chance to sit back and enjoy some well-deserved down time. But whether you reach for the TV controller, or a favorite book, your choice could have implications for your long-term brain health, say researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA). Assessing the ...
Poor Health, Stress in 20s Takes Toll in 40s With Lower Cognition
Higher inflammation in young adulthood linked to lower performance in skills testing in midlife. Young adults who have higher levels of inflammation, which is associated with obesity, physical inactivity, chronic illness, stress and smoking, may experience reduced cognitive function in midlife, a new study out of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has found. Researchers ...
Active Components of Ginkgo biloba May Improve Early Cognitive Recovery After Stroke
People with ischemic (clot-caused) stroke had better early recovery of cognitive function if treated with intravenous injections of a combination of biologically active components of Ginkgo biloba during the first two weeks after the stroke, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2024. The meeting will ...
Children’s Health: From Immunity to Mental Wellness
Many parents are entrusting natural practitioners with their children’s health; here are some products and approaches for practitioners to consider implementing in their practices. One of the most crucial concerns for parents is keeping their children healthy. And many parents are turning toward the naturopathic and homeopathic industries for products. “Parents are in control of ...
Deep Sleep May Mitigate Alzheimer’s Memory Loss
A deep slumber might help buffer against memory loss for older adults facing a heightened burden of Alzheimer’s disease, new research from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, suggests. Deep sleep, also known as non-REM slow-wave sleep, can act as a “cognitive reserve factor” that may increase resilience against a protein in the brain called ...
Study Links Nutrients, Brain Structure, Cognition in Healthy Aging
In a new study, scientists explored the links between three measures known to independently predict healthy aging: nutrient intake, brain structure and cognitive function. Their analysis adds to the evidence that these factors jointly contribute to brain health in older adults. Reported in the Journal of Nutrition, the study found that blood markers of two saturated ...
Keys to Brain Power
Helping patients/clients sustain cognitive abilities. It’s funny in a way—when middle-aged adults say, “I keep forgetting where I put my phone, am I getting Alzheimer’s?” They are mostly kidding, but there is an underlying rivulet of anxiety about potentially going into mental decline. Unlike clients of only about five years ago, the current crop of ...
Study Links Omega-3s to Improved Brain Structure, Cognition At Midlife
Eating cold-water fish and other sources of omega-3 fatty acids may preserve brain health and enhance cognition in middle age, new evidence indicates. Having at least some omega-3s in red blood cells was associated with better brain structure and cognitive function among healthy study volunteers in their 40s and 50s, according to research published online ...
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