The nutrient your brain can’t live without

 

The nutrient your brain can't live without can turn AD around

Not surprisingly, this natural brain protector targets some of the same issues as pharmaceutical drugs—but in a gentler and much safer way.

The natural medicine you’ll learn about here is the real deal. In fact, some doctors have already been using this complex nutrient as medicine in Japan to treat strokes and brain injuries. And researchers are just beginning to understand how it can improve brain function...even for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients.

This miracle nutrient is called citicoline (or CDP coline, which stands for cytidine diphosphate choline), and it’s crucial for healthy brain function. In fact, your brain literally can’t function without it.

So far, citicoline’s success has been pretty amazing. And it makes me won-der why more mainstream doctors don’t know about it.

•    It halts progression of Alzheimer’s disease, and even improves quality of life for Alzheimer’s patients (helping them maintain independence, for example)
 
•    Improves brain function of stroke patients (when taken within 24 hours of the stroke)

•    Citicoline improves mental function in some dementia patients

•    Citicoline helps both prevent and treat age-associated memory impairment

•    Can improve memory, especially in people who suffer from memory impairment

•    It may even help coma patients recover more quickly

Actually, it’s really American mainstream doctors who aren’t working with citicoline. Japanese and European doctors have been using it successfully for years.

Scientists finally see (literally!) how citicoline boosts your brain power

In November 2008, researchers published the first study that clearly showed just how citicoline impacts the brain. Using special imaging tech-nology, these scientists were able to see exactly how citicoline changes brain activity, specifically in the frontal lobe.3
Citicoline actually increases brain function in the frontal lobe, which han-dles things like attention span, learning, memory, and creativity. In fact, your front lobe is considered the management center of your brain, and when that center gets damaged—as can happen with Alzheimer’s disease—all of those functions will suffer.

Some of these scientists most important discoveries explain citicoline’s success in boosting brain power. For one thing, it substantially increases a critical brain chemical called phosphocreatine, which provides extra energy and helps reduce fatigue.

The researchers also learned how essential citicoline is for brain cell pro-tection—it increases specific lipids (phospholipids) that help maintain cell integrity and turnover, and your brain simply can’t work without this.

Citicoline keeps your eyes in tip-top shape, too

What’s brain power without eyesight? Luckily, with citicoline, you may never need to worry about that. One 12-month study found that the nutrient improved retinal and visual function in glaucoma patients. And an 8-year study showed that citicoline substantially improved vision.
 
Another surprising discovery: citicoline seems to increase alpha brain waves, the ones associated with relaxation. In fact, these brain waves are the ones responsible for getting your brain into the much-desired awake relaxed state. And since one of the defining symptoms of AD is extreme agitation, boosting alpha waves can make life for the patient and his caregiver much less stressful.

And that’s not all they found out—they uncovered exactly how citicoline powers your brain, and helps keep your memory and cognition intact.

•    Increases blood circulation to your brain

•    Boosts your brain’s energy reserves

•    Increases efficient oxygen use

•    Enhances production of acetylcholine

•    Maintains optimal dopamine levels

By making sure your brain has all the blood, oxygen, and energy it needs, citicoline can turn memory problems around. And by boosting production and maintenance of key brain chemicals, it can do so much more than that.