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Review
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Most people take their physical health very seriously, and with good reason, obesity is on the rise, and many people have started getting toned up and slimmed down. But while we are doing push ups, sit ups, lifting weights and doing cardio to stay looking and feeling young and fit, we often forget about our cognitive health. Most of us don’t really start thinking about the fitness of our brains until we start to see some problems cropping up, but experts suggest we should start thinking about it much sooner.
Joshua Reynolds, the author of 20 20 Brain Power, Recipes with Your Mind in Mind, has been fiercely promoting this book as being both a way to learn more about how your brain works and how to keep it agile and on point. In this competitive market many of us want to keep our edge, and Reynolds suggests that his book offers the best way to do just that through education and eating right. But many experts suggest that people take certain supplements like Alpha GPC and Vinpocetine to easily and quickly increase cognitive and brain health. So who’s right? Let’s take a look and see.
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| Book at a Glance |
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At its core, the basic premise of this book is educating readers about the ins and outs of brain health, as well as helping them eat better to increase their overall cognitive performance. Reynolds does this by giving readers access to his three N’s, which consist of Neuro nutrition, Neuro stimulation and Neuro relaxation. It is a 20 day program that takes you through a cognitive re education program.
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| Book in Focus |
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20 20 Brain Power is one of those books that consumers often buy when they start to realize that their brain health is not where it should be and they want to find out why. This book will give them a lot of data on the aging process of the brain, as well as answers to what they can do about reversing this process. It discusses how lifestyles, environment, overall health and behavior affect brain health and accelerate cognitive decline.
In this book Reynolds discusses how brain puzzles and stimulators may help build up our cognitive powers, as well as helping us relax. Relaxation is important, because stress may actually make our brains work much slower. In some respects this book is a bit like a research paper, but it’s also a book that is geared toward helping people eat better to support better cognitive health. There are actually plenty of other books on the market that also offer users recipes and tips to help them increase their brain health. This is because many believe there are superfoods that can help give our brains and body’s a burst of vital nutrients, which may have a profound affect on our their performance. For instance, Omega 3 Fatty Acids have been shown to boost everything from brain health to heart and joint health.
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| Lifestyle |
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Reynolds wrote 20 20 Brain Power and created a supplement known as Procera AVH, which he says may help users increase their overall cognitive health as well. While each of these products are sold separately, somewhere along the way they are often teamed up, which ends up costing consumers more money as well. That said, the fact remains that nutritional supplementation has been shown to be a great way to effectively and quickly get brain health and performance up to speed.
Procera AVH relies on Omega 3 Fatty Acids, as do many of the recipes in this book. However, supplements that contain Alpha GPC and Vinpocetine have often out performed Omega 3 Fatty Acids in clinical studies. In research studies Alpha GPC has been shown to increase Choline levels, which in turn helps increase alertness, focus, memory and learning. In fact, in some instances Alpha GPC helped reverse short and long term memory damage.
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| Positives |
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• Provides research information about brain health
• Educates users on how to eat to increase cognitive function
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• Is a slow groove toward cognitive health
• Tied into a holistic supplement
• Style of book, research paper style, may not be as enjoyable to read
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| Final Thoughts |
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For individuals looking to find out why they are experiencing some cognitive decline and for those who want to know what the research says about it, Joshua Reynolds’ 20 20 Brain Power may well be a really interesting read. It also offers readers recipes and information to help them eat a diet that works to increase cognitive health. But as many readers have reported on rating sites and blogs, this book based plan is a very slow groove. While this can be effective over time, many consumers reported that they actually stalled half way through this process, because they simply didn’t have the time to finish it.
With the kind of high octane lifestyles many people lead, few people have the time to read through a book like this one, and so many may opt to use a more expedient route, which may include high performance cognitive enhancers. While Reynolds is also marketing a supplement called Procera AVH on his website, it does not use the kind of results oriented extracts and elements, like Alpha GPC and Vinpocetine, which experts suggest looking for in these kinds of formulas. While we can’t do push ups for our brains, we can give them the nutrients that they need to get and stay on point. In the past we had to do this by eating right, but with new technologic gains, we have much faster routes available to us. It is just a matter of finding the best product to fit our needs.
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Editors Choice:
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Neurostin® -
Neurostin™ is a blend of non-prescription ingredients that were carefully formulated to reverse and prevent the depletion of the nutrients your brain needs to perform optimally. This is a very well received product that customers speak highly of. The unique formula of Neurostin™ provides your body with all the necessary building blocks to make choline which is the most vital component needed by the cells that comprise both short and long term memory. The formula has also been proven to produce both oxygen and blood flow to the brain which decrease and reverse the effects of deterioration. Neurostin is one of the few formulas that regulates the levels of homocysteine which is key in preventing both long term memory loss and Alzheimer’s. This is an awesome overall formula that enhances overall brain function, sharpness and clarity Click Here to read our full review. |
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