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Neurogenol and AgeingReinvent Your Retirement Through Improved Cognition and Healthy AgeingImagine if you knew for certain that you were going to live a long and healthy life, and that slowing down mentally was not going to happen. What would you do with the rest of your life - maybe write a book or finish that degree that you never managed to complete when you were younger? What if you could reduce your brain age by up to 12 years within 5 weeks? Or what if you could regain your ability to concentrate for long periods of time? Would you reconsider your retirement plans? Well the news on this front is good.Much brain research has focused on age related problems due to specific diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, micro-strokes and mental illnesses such as depression. There has been significantly less research carried out on brain function in healthy elderly people, and consequently, the latent potential for older people to not only preserve but to improve their cognitive processes has been overlooked - until now. There is no doubt that certain aspects of brain function do decline with age such as reaction times and the efficiency of short term memory (see graphs below). But now there is something you can do about this loss in brain function. New research from Swinburne University in Australia has shown that Enzogenol® pine bark extract can improve cognitive processing speed and increase efficiency of working memory. The extent of this improvement is equal to 7.5 -12 years of age recovery!   Immediate Recognition Memory and Spatial Working Memory are the two most susceptible aspects of Working Memory to the deleterious effects of age. Performance on Immediate Recognition Memory tasks drops by a factor of 2 from the age of 20 to 80 years in healthy individuals. Performance on Spatial Working Memory tasks drops on average by a factor of 4 in healthy individuals from the age of 20 to 80 years. |