Although it only makes
up 2% of your body mass, it receives 20% of the total blood
flow and it consumes 20% of your oxygen uptake. Therefore, your brain needs protection from oxidative
stress.
Like
all other organs in your body, the functional capacity of the
brain deteriorates over time. The most common reason for loss
of brain function with age is Oxidative Stress that occurrs
naturally but with detrimental effects.
In fact your brain can
be
the most susceptible organ in your body to the deleterious
effects of oxidation due to the intensive energy production
and oxygen consumption in our brains. The brain is the most
active organ in your body when it comes to using oxygen.
Many
scientific studies advocate the consumption of antioxidants to
combat the deleterious effects of oxidative stress on the
brain. However, clinical studies using vitamin antioxidants to
reduce oxidative stress in the brain have not shown any
improvements in brain performance.
Even the highly
promoted Ginkgo extracts have not shown significant benefits
in cognitively intact individuals. Therefore, some researchers
have suggested using more powerful antioxidants such as plant
derived procyanidin flavonoids (such as Enzogenol) to combat
oxidation in the brain.
Enzogenol® is the first
such flavonoid antioxidant to show significant improvements to
brain performance in healthy humans. In a controlled clinical
trial on healthy older people carried out at the Brain Science
Institute at Swinburne University in Australia, Enzogenol® was
able to significantly lift cognitive performance compared to
the control group which received vitamin C only (Pipingas et
al., Phytotherapy Research, 2008).
Enzogenol has the same flavonoid
content as 4 kgs of fruit and vegetables.
