BriteAge Library

The first step to improving ones cognitive performance is learning about your own brain health. BriteAge offers this library to offer a broader background of issues surrounding your brain's abilities, the issues that threaten it, and the natural supplements that aid brain function.

Satisfying Your Brain's Vital Needs

Just as your body has regular needs so does your brain. Weighing in at a little over 3 lbs. (about 2% of your body weight) your hungry, hyperactive brain consumes up to 25% of the glucose and oxygen from your daily nutritional intake (food, drink and supplements).

Your brain cells (neurons) are almost 10 times more metabolically active than your body cells. Therefore, your brain has very specialized needs for the synthesis of neurotransmitters, the brain's chemicals of communication. In fact, your brain is so metabolically active that your brain cells are prone to go into overload and burn out! This is why the brain needs a steady supply of brain-essential energy substrates to keep mental performance levels up, while at the same time it needs a regular dose of brain-essential anti-oxidants to protect it as you age. Consequently, your brain also needs regular stress relief and detoxification, which only you can give it.

Your Brain's Three Daily Needs

Over the past 10 years brain health and fitness experts have developed a science based yet practical program to satisfy these three vital daily needs:

1. Brain Nutrition- The foods and nutrients you feed as well as don't feed your brain. Fortunately, Mother Nature has endowed us with plant based nutrients that can restore the blood flow, glucose, oxygen, and neurotransmitters that age has taken away to improve our mental energy, clarity, and performance.
2. Mental Exercise- Your brain works just like a muscle. With proper stimulation it can stay fit and healthy for a long time. Only recently it's been proven that the brain also needs exercise, or stimulation above and beyond its average daily use.
3. Stress Management- Just being aware of unrelieved stress in our lives is not sufficient enough in reducing in the harmful effects it has on your health. Just as stress comes from many sources, there are many options for stress management.