Upgrade Your Brain – Take Action Now!

STEP 1: Take the FREE Cognitive Function Test

What you’ll learn:

• Find out where you are on the cognitive function scale
• Learn the most important dietary and lifestyle actions you can take

Take Food for the Brain’s FREE Cognitive Function Test

STEP 2: Test for the Four Keystone Biochemical Processes

A consensus of world experts concluded that lowering homocysteineHomocysteine is an amino acid found in the blood. Elevated levels of homocysteine have been associated with narrowing and hardening of the arteries, an increased… with B vitamins is the easiest and most cost effective prevention action, which Oxford University’s health economists estimate would save the UK £66 million per year.However, it’s vital to test both homocysteine and Omega-3 levels, as they are co-dependent. Homocysteine-lowering B vitamins only work in those with sufficient omega-3, and omega-3 only works if homocysteine is low.

So, get tested for the four keystone biochemical processes with the DRIfT Test.

It will calculate your Dementia Risk Index functional Test (DRIfT) score. Tracking this, along with your Cognitive Function (CFT) and Dementia Risk Index (DRI) is the most comprehensive way to protect your brain.

This 4-in-1 test measures:

• Vitamin DWhat it does: Helps maintain strong and healthy bones by retaining calcium. Deficiency Signs: Joint pain or stiffness, backache, tooth decay, muscle cramps, hair loss….
• Omega-3
• Homocysteine
• HbA1C

More info at Food for the Brain – Drift Test from Food for the Brain and Other Tests.

STEP 3 – Get Educated

Read my book Upgrade Your Brain – Out Now!

More info & to order – Upgrade Your Brain Book

Join me on my UK or Ireland Seminar Tour – May/June

I’m visiting 30 cities in the UK and Ireland in May/June to kick start a nationwide ‘Upgrade Your Brain’ campaign.

“We need to engage with millions of people, get nutrition education happening in schools, and most of all get heath authorities and governments around the world to take the mental health meltdown seriously and put brain health at the top of the health agenda.”

Professor Crawford says “Today’s diet bears no resemblance to the wild foods we ate during our species’ evolution to which our genome is adapted. If we don’t prioritise brain health and nutrition the continued escalation of mental ill health, starting in the 1950s, can only end in disaster.”

Dates/locations: More tour info & how to book

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You’ll find information around brain health on the Brain Health & Memory topic pages of my website.

STEP 4: Start a Brain Healthy Diet

The Upgrade Your Brain cooking app with brain-friendly recipes will be launching soon. It will help you make the right food choices for your brain.

Pre-order the Brain Cook App. 

STEP 5: Ensure You Get Enough of the Right Nutrients

There are three essentials for building brain cells (neurons) – omega-3 fats, B vitamins and Phospholipids. Omega-3 is bound to phospholipids by methylationMethylation is what occurs when the body takes one substance and turns it into another, so that it can be detoxified and excreted from the… which is a process that is dependent on B vitamins – B6, B12 and folate.

There are some key supplements that have been identified to support brain health. In the Holford range these are:

• Connect: B vitamins and zincWhat it does: Component of over 200 enzymes in the body, essential for growth, important for healing, controls hormones, aids ability to cope with stress… to support healthy methylation
• High PC Lecithin – A Rich source of 63% phospholipid
• Omega-3 Support – 550mg of DHADHA is short for Docosahexaenoic Acid. It is an essential omega-3 fatty acid found in fish such as salmon, mackerel and herring, and is often… and 750mg of EPAEPA is short for Eicosapentaenoic Acid. It is an essential omega-3 fatty acid found in fish such as salmon, mackerel and herring, and is often…

All these are found in the Brain Food Upgrade pack

STEP 6: Spread the Word & Promote Prevention

We urge everyone to share the ‘prevention’ message with others.

You can do this by sharing social media posts and blogs/reports.

You can participate in Alzheimer’s Prevention Day on 15 May and encourage others to do the same. Take the free 3-minute online Alzheimer’s Prevention Check and get motivated to make the eight brain-friendly diet and lifestyle changes

“You are the architect of your own brain’s future health.” says neurologist Dr David Perlmutter.

Take the test for Alzheimer’s Prevention Day

Step 7: Support the ‘Prevention’ Work

‘Friends’ donate £50 a year and get so much in return. This is how we are funding our amazing research team (see foodforthebrain.org/researchteam/). We are a lean, keen, small but mighty team.

Every donation, big or small, goes right back into helping people prevent these preventable and terrible diseases such as dementia. Together, we can change the world. We need to, because time is running out. We will lose our humanity if we don’t stop this brain drain.”

All donations are put back into research, and the results of the research are shared back to people.

Give to Food for the Brain and support their work.