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Friends,
If you are over 30 (or 40, or 50), some or all of the following things are either happening, or will eventually happen to your mind :
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you spend more time thinking about the hereafter (you walk into a room and try to remember what you're here after) |
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you never remember a name, but always forget a face |
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you periodically lose your intellectual curiosity and drive |
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you always fall asleep while reading |
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you have periodic bouts of unexplained emotional downers |
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you are more irritable with the people you should love |
The truth is your brain started getting older at age 17 and has been aging little by little ever since, and there are good reasons why, but there are even better reasons why it doesn't have to be so!
Most people know me as editor of THE RUFF TIMES. But few people know that a quarter century ago, before I began my financial publishing career, I was the chairman of the Advisory Board for a food-supplement manufacturer , during which time I developed a near obsession with keeping up with current developments in supplemental nutrition.
A few years ago, a trickle of research and anecdotal reports exploded into a flood of information about how our brains are nourished , and how certain natural ingredients can help us maintain optimal mental function as we grow older, reversing or arresting the mental stagnation I thought was inevitable with age!
Five Reasons Why an Improperly Nourished
Brain Gets Prematurely Old, or Works Poorly
In my thirty years of study, I have learned five bedrock principles:
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The brain is a busy factory that needs a daily supply of critical nutrients to do its job, including the raw materials from which the brain manufactures replacement cells, synapses and “neurotransmitters,” the chemicals that transmit information-loaded electrical impulses from brain cell to brain cell. If it doesn't get these raw materials, the brain cannot work efficiently. |
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Free radicals can damage or destroy brain cells, but certain nutritional elements can neutralize them and prevent the damage. |
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There are not enough of these nutrients in the typical modern diet , and many of them have been refined out of modern processed foods, leaving our brains hungry. For example, when they refine flour, they take out 49 known nutrients and Heaven knows how many as-yet-unrecognized nutrients), including critical trace minerals –- then they put back six –- and they have the gall to call it “enriched.” Some of what they leave out is essential to optimum brain function! |
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The right nutritional supplements, can make up for these deficiencies and restore full function to the brain, helping you to maintain stable emotional or mental functions as we age, even compensating for a life-long lousy diet of de-natured foods. |
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Certain botanical substances also can have profound positive effects, such as the herb ginkgo biloba which improves memory, increases blood flow to the brain, and fights free radicals. |
But I did nothing until one day when we visited my wife's mother in her rest home. I saw a man, probably younger than me, staring at the wall, trying to remember where he was – or even who he was . I thought, “If I don't do something, perhaps there go I,” and I decided right then that I wanted to keep my marbles until the day I die. I didn't mind being old, but I hated the thought of thinking old or seeming old, so I searched out every book or research report on the subject that I could find so I could discover which nutritional elements that are known to nourish our brains so I could extend my useful life. I found that in Europe, doctors were routinely prescribing nutritional substances to improve memory, arrest brain aging and help stabilize moods, and students at New York City colleges were drinking brain-food cocktails before final exams.
I began prowling the health food stores, trying to assemble a personal program to keep my mind young and improve my memory and sharpen my mental acuity. I bought ginkgo biloba and bilberry extract, and bottles of other herbs, vitamins, amino acids, enzymes and minerals, and I felt a difference, but it took 30 to 50 pills and potions every day, and the results were erratic, plus it was very inconvenient and very expensive.
So I finally decided to pull together the essential elements I had identified into a new food supplement for myself that contained the right balance of all the known “brain foods.” When I outran my considerable layman's knowledge and experience, I called in the professionals –- the best scientists in the field of nutritional supplementation -– to incorporate all of the identified factors into an age-specific, brain-food supplement .
I worked with the laboratory founded by the legendary scientist who holds more than 50 patents for the chelation of minerals. (Chelation bonds mineral molecules to specific amino acids, dramatically improving the absorption of these critical nutrients.)
The Birth of a Breakthrough
So Hi-Q was born , and it was like a miracle! My mental energy has been boosted; my periodic emotional downers are gone; my concentration is back, and my overall mental acuity has made a big leap forward or perhaps more accurately, a leap backward! I'm now 74, going on 30 !
For a few years, Hi-Q sat on my shelf, temporarily forgotten except for my personal use. But one day, as I took my Hi-Q shortly before my 70th birthday, it struck me that “It's too good to keep to myself.” So I decided to offer it to the world.
What About Those In Their Golden Years?
We first developed Hi-Q Prime for adolescents and adults from puberty to age 49 , the high-stress, school-going, career-building and child-raising years.
As I got older, I became more concerned with those who, like me, were moving into their golden years , so I next developed Hi-Q Golden . It is identical to Hi-Prime , except that we have added DHEA, the miracle natural anti-aging hormone, which is not needed by anyone under 50.
Teenagers are unstable hormones with feet , with nightmarish diets of fat and sugar and the seven essential preservatives . Hi-Q Prime meets their brain's nutritional needs in the growth-spurt years , including the final neurological connections which are not complete until about age 20-24 , as well as emotional stability , a commodity in short supply in teenagers. In just a couple of months you will be amazed at the change in them, including their moodiness and school performance.
Hi-Q Prime may be the most important gift you seasoned citizens can give your grandchildren.
The Dog That Didn't Bark
Perhaps the most important benefit of Hi-Q Golden is the things that don't happen !
In the favorite Sherlock Holmes mystery, “The Dog That Didn't Bark,” Sherlock solved a mystery because of something that didn't happen . When the dog didn't bark, he knew the murderer was someone the dog knew.
I originally created Hi-Q because of what I didn't want to happen to me . And much of my benefit is the bad things that didn't happen . My mind now feels as young and active as it ever did. I'm still optimistic and upbeat, I read as avidly as I always did, and my memory seems to be as sharp as ever – I can still remember every joke I hear. The important thing is that I really feel no different from 30 years ago (from the neck up, that is).
I believe that supplements are more often preventive than curative . I believe that if I am more frequently experiencing occasional forgetfulness and losing some of my mental sharpness – or am about to – because of aging and malnourishment, Hi-Q will provide me with the optimal nutritional support I need so that I don't experience such age-related effects. I don't dare be without it .
Some Surprise Benefits of Hi-Q Golden
Depression : Your moods are regulated by a homemade neurotransmitter produced in your body called “ serotonin ,” and older people make less of this vital hormone. Some researchers have said that serotonin helps to promote a calming and relaxed feeling . Hi-Q Golden provides the raw materials the brain needs to manufacture serotonin.
Weight Loss : Serotonin also can reduce the compulsion to overeat and suppress the appetite. Again, Hi-Q Golden simply supplies the raw materials!
A Superior General Supplement : In our pursuit of the perfect brain food, we inadvertently developed a superior general supplement for all ages! The brain is the control center for the whole body. It regulates sight, hearing, memory, fat metabolism, moods, libido, learning, body weight, humor, sleep, energy, and much more. You can throw away most of your other supplements , although I recommend additional vitamins C, E and Calcium.
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Quality - Little Lies
A word about quality and honesty . The labels on food supplements often lie legally . There has been a lot of press about ginkgo biloba as an aid to memory, and we have ginkgo biloba in every Hi-Q capsule, but there are at least seven levels of ginkgo biloba quality and purity. The lowest, what you usually get, is cheaper to make, but probably a waste of money . You can't tell the difference by looking at the label, as they all use the same terminology. We use only the very highest quality ginkgo in optimum amounts.
And that can be true of almost any component in any supplement. I told our manufacturer: “Use only the top-of-the-line quality ingredients. It also must be as true to nature as it is possible to make it.”
Thanks for reading and considering this. In my varied and interesting life, Hi-Q is probably the best thing I have ever done .
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| Hi-Q Prime is developed specifically for adolescents and adults from puberty to age 49, the high-stress, school-going, career-building and child-raising years. |
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Hi-Q Golden is developed for anyone 50 or better. It is identical to Hi-Prime, except that DHEA, the miracle natural anti-aging hormone, is included. |
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