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Food and Brain Performance: Best Food for the Brain

Reading Time: 9 minutes The connection between food and the brain is inextricably interlinked. Food can either boost your brain’s performance or slow it down dramatically, depending on the type of food you’ve eaten. For instance, processed foods filled with refined sugar or unhealthy fats (trans-fats and seed oils) can impair cognitive function, and neurotransmitter production and expression, leading […]

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The Neurobiology of Acetyl L-Carnitine

Supplementation / By Carlos Castro

Reading Time: 2 minutes Guest blog by Designs for Sport The human brain is a complex organ that may undergo changes during the aging process. Age-related declines in cognitive function and neurological health may be related to multiple biological pathways. These may include neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Some nutraceuticals, such

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Better Brain Performance

Nutrition, Supplementation / By Carlos Castro

Reading Time: 4 minutes Did you know that you can enhance and positively affect your brain performance? And that you can accomplish this at any time of the day? Here is how I do it. I recently wrote an article about Pre-Workout Supplements where I addressed the subject of my favorite supplements to enhance brain function before a

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Vitamin D and Fish Oil Control Brain Serotonin

Nutrition, Supplementation / By Alyona Medvedeva

Reading Time: 2 minutes A Guest Blog by Designs for Health Fish Oil and Vitamin D – The Serotonin Power Team Many studies have demonstrated that fish oils and vitamin D help improve cognitive function, but what exactly is the mechanism of action? In an article just published in FASEB Journal, serotonin is described as the possible missing link, explaining

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Carbohydrate Addiction: The Brain Connection

Nutrition / By Alyona Medvedeva

Reading Time: 3 minutes Guest blog by Designs for Health High-carbohydrate foods are rewarding to the mouth Biting into a glazed donut, with the subtle crunch of the sugar coating giving way to soft, pillowy dough underneath, can instantly transform a mind-numbing work meeting into a temporary visit to one’s proverbial “happy place.” (That is, until the guilt sets

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Exercise & Brain Aging

Training / By Alyona Medvedeva

Reading Time: 3 minutes A guest Blog by Designs for Health Despite decades of advice to increase physical activity for the purpose of “burning calories” to aid in weight loss, millions of people conducting their own “n=1” experiments have found that exercise does not result in magical body fat loss. Lack of expected results from faithful efforts dedicating hours

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