What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

Giving the brain a little boost

I can’t tell you how many times people tell me that their doctor says these nutrients don’t do anything. But what about the thousands of peer-reviewed studies that show they’re wrong?

For millenia, humans have sought to enhance creativity, stimulate motivation and improve brain function. Herbs such as Bacopa monnier i, tulsi and gotu kola (known as “the student herb”in ancient Balinese culture) have been used for thousands of years in Eastern medicine.

Eaten raw or dried, pulverized and used in teas, they were traditionally ingested to increase attentional control, working memory and cognitive flexibility, as well as improve so-called“executive functions”such as planning, reasoning and problem solving.

Coined from the Greek words nóos (mind) and trop, meaning “a turning,”the word nootropic was first used by Corneliu Giurgea, a Romanian psychologist and chemist, in 1972 to describe a class of molecules that selectively acted to improve brain

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