ThinkingAdvantage: A Remarkable Solution to Optimising Mental Performance.

Clearly to develop a successful nutriceutical to optimise brain function requires answers to many of the questions in the previous chapter. To do this requires an effective tool to get direct feedback to know which of several possible forms of each component truly optimises mental performance. Direct biofeedback can also determine exactly how much of each component synergises the other components in the formula to create a fully functional synergistic matrix.

Applied Neurology: A Powerful Biofeedback Tool.

Applied Neurology is the use of muscle-acupressure feedback to assess nutrient-brain interactions. Although not commonly known, it is one of the best biofeedback tools presently available. Applied Neurology can be used to evaluate if nutritional deficiencies affect specific brain functions such as frontal lobe working memory, the seat of many of our executive functions, and hippocampal short-term memory functions.

Furthermore, if deficiencies are present, the same biofeedback can determine exactly which nutrients, including both the form and amount, are required to re-establish full function, and whether this nutrient combination is synergistic.

Direct biofeedback has shown which 'key' nutrients are necessary to maintain integrated brain function even when people are under stress, especially the stress of decision-making. This feedback has also delineated the composition of the complex nutrient matrix required for optimum utilization of these key nutrients. Without this information any product is pretty much 'hit or miss'!

If the person happens to be taking a product which makes a complete nutrient matrix available in their brain, then the key ingredients present in the product will work and produce an obvious effect - a 'hit'. If on the other hand, the person is taking a product that has any marginal nutritional deficiencies in the required matrix, even though the product may have all of the 'big guns', there is no way to 'fire' them - a 'miss'!