EGB 761®, your answer to better brain health and performance

If you are to ask everyone what worries them the most about aging it is pretty definite that majority would say that they have always been afraid of memory loss. Forgetting things are a normal occurrence but the remaining question unanswered would be how much is too much? Are your memory lapses attributed to normal aging or is it an indicator of a certain memory-impairing disease? 

So how to identify which is which?

Normal aging memory loss would not hinder you from having a normal life. 

For instance, you forgot your colleague’s birthday and yet you remembered it a few hours later. Or maybe you missed a couple of appointments because you are busy doing your daily chores. These instances are generally manageable and will not impede you from living a full life, especially with your peers, family and friends. However, when these minor cases worsen over time and impair your ability to work, socialize and live independently, you may be already suffering from impairment of memory, reasoning, judgment and mental skills. Simply, memory loss is setting in. 

People meet some simple signs in their daily life, but they don’t realize that those signs call for solutions to prevent them from getting worse. Those signs can be:

• Regularly forgetting where you left things you use, such as keys, glasses, books, etc.

• Forgetting names of acquaintances or blocking one memory with a similar one, such as calling a grandson by your son’s name. 

• Occasionally forgetting an appointment. 

• Having trouble remembering what you’ve just read, or the details of a conversation. 

• Walking into a room and forgetting why you entered. 

• Becoming easily distracted all the time. 

• Not quite being able to retrieve information you have “on the tip of your tongue” (difficulty to recall common information). 

LOW BRAIN PERFORMANCE RESULTING TO MEMORY DISORDERS

Some risk factors such as age and genetics cannot be changed. However, there is a continuous effort in improving brain performance and brain health to prevent possible dementia and Alzheimer’s disease—two of the most common memory loss diseases.  Bronx Study (2001) has stressed that the “decrease in intellectual and memory capacity must be treated as early as possible”. The study aims to educate people to pay high attention to their memory disorder since the beginning or it will be too late when the problem is getting worse and a chance of having  the disease is high when old age is hitting. Without proper prevention, the memory will develop from zero memory disorder to 

Memory Loss Intervention

While a few lifestyle factors such as smoking and drinking too much alcohol also affect your brain function to some degree, there are major steps you should ensure to support better brain health:

• Ensure you get sufficient sleep as sleep deprivation sharply decreases the amount of information that can be held by the brain in short periods of time.

• Avoid too much sugar in your diet as excessive glucose affects your attention span, your short-term memory, and your mood stability and it increases free radical damage and inflammation of the brain (Teresa Aubele Ph.D., Why a Sugar High Leads to a Brain Low: Overindulgence in sweets can lead to five hours of hell, 2011).

• Avoid too much stress as it is one of your brain’s worst enemies. High levels of the stress hormone cortisol cause your brain to age prematurely and to literally shrink.

• Take brain-improving supplement that increases your cerebral blood flow and protect your brain from degeneration over time.

Think Smarter, Think EGb 761®

EGb 761®(standardized extract of Ginkgo biloba 761) comes from a single type of tree, a living fossil, the only remaining representative of its phylum; it contains chemical substances unknown in other living things. The flavonoid fraction accounts for 24% of the extract and terpenes (ginkgolides and bilobalide) for 6%. It acts in many different situations and organs, and exerts protective effect on neurodegenerative, sensory, and vascular diseases (Christen Y, Maixent JM, What is Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761? An overview: from molecular biology to clinical medicine, 2002).

EGb 761®, is the standardized extract of Ginkgo Biloba, approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) for its standard of Efficacy and Safety. Not all Gingko Bilobas are recognized as EGb 761®. To be EGb 761®, Gingko biloba must contain the active ingredients (flavones glycosidase, terpenes and ginkgolic acids) whose amounts meet the standard required by WHO. EGb 761® is the code name of highly purified and standardized special extract of Ginkgo biloba leaves, the result of years of research to define the best composition of active constituents. The pharmaceutical qualities of EGb 761® have been well demonstrated over years; the safety profile of EGb 761® is also well-documented.

EGb 761® has the essential properties in strengthening memory capacity through helping develop greater performance of your brain, by its:

Anti-ischemic properties

Normally the vessels are responsible for transporting all the necessary ingredients to feed the organs every day. To function well especially in memorizing, the brain surely needs the enough supply of oxygen, energy, glucose and others nutrients. EGb 761® helps dilate the cerebral vessels and better the blood flow so that all the in-need nutrition is delivered sufficiently to the brain.

Neuro-protective properties

Neurons are the smallest parts that constitute the nervous system. Hippocampus is a major component of the brain that is responsible for memorization in human organism. It is also composed of numerous neurons connecting one another as the very complex system. EGb 761® helps strengthen both structures and functions of neurons to get better in memorizing. Furthermore, EGb 761® has the effect against the aging of the neurons and to stimulate neurons to be able to adjust to the change of the environment.

So make it your habit to take EGb 761® regularly and into adulthood. You are sure to have that chance of a healthier brain so you can perform well with your mental skills in whatever aspects of your life—your work, social and family life or at school. Start assessing your mental health to prevent any onset of brain diseases such as Alzheimer and dementia. Of course, always rely on the supplement that are clinically tested and documented over many years  safe and effective.