The other has selenium and stuff and less tablets.
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TheBest
January 28, 2018, 3:05pm
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whoops, good catch, @insidemind
NOW foods and vitamins is quite a medium sized company. They sell an assortment of products.
https://www.nowfoods.com/
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If you want to improve cognition, exercise and cognitive training are proven to do that.
There’s good research on combining exercise with various supplements (like fish oil) and getting better results than from either alone.
There’s also good results on exercise and cognitive remediation therapy, ask your doctor about that, but if you can’t get it where you are, Brain HQ has apps that are kinda consumer versions.
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TheBest
January 28, 2018, 4:01pm
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I can’t exercise with meds. If I wasn’t on meds I’d exercise 3 times a day. Can’t do it. Good advice though.
Walking is fine.
It still increases heart rate and blood flow.
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Walking fast will make your heart rate beat above 100 beats per minute. As humans age, the maximum heart rate goes down.
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TheBest
January 28, 2018, 4:06pm
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I’ve lost 17 lbs in the last 4 months. I’ve jogged probably 5-6 times. I walk to the grocery store probably twice a week. Other than that I don’t do much.
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Here’s a study on the cognitive remediation I mentioned.
SM Eack, GE Hogarty, RY Cho, KM Prasad, DP Greenwald, SS Hogarty and MS Keshavan,
Archives of general psychiatry , Jul 2010
Cognitive rehabilitation has shown efficacy in improving cognition in patients with schizophrenia but the underlying neurobiologic changes that occur during these treatments and support cognitive improvement are not well known.To examine differential changes in brain morphology in early course schizophrenia during cognitive rehabilitation vs supportive therapy.Randomized controlled trial.An outpatient research clinic at a university-based medical center that provides comprehensive care services for patients with severe mental illness.A total of 53 symptomatically stable but cognitively disabled outpatients in the early course of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.A 2-year trial with annual structural magnetic resonance imaging and cognitive assessments. Cognitive enhancement therapy is an integrated approach to the remediation of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia that uses computer-assisted neurocognitive training and group-based social-cognitive exercises. Enriched supportive therapy is an illness management approach that provides psychoeducation and teaches applied coping strategies.Broad areas of frontal and temporal gray matter change were analyzed with longitudinal, voxel-based morphometry methods using mixed-effects models followed by volumetric analyses of regions that demonstrated significant differential changes between treatment groups.Patients who received cognitive enhancement therapy demonstrated significantly greater preservation of gray matter volume over 2 years in the left hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and fusiform gyrus, and significantly greater gray matter increases in the left amygdala (all corrected P < .04) compared with those who received enriched supportive therapy. Less gray matter loss in the left parahippocampal and fusiform gyrus and greater gray matter increases in the left amygdala were significantly related to improved cognition and mediated the beneficial cognitive effects of cognitive enhancement therapy.Cognitive enhancement therapy may offer neurobiologic protective and enhancing effects in early schizophrenia that are associated with improved long-term cognitive outcomes.
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TheBest
January 28, 2018, 4:23pm
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I heard choline supplements help with gray matter.
TheBest
January 28, 2018, 5:32pm
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My cognitive issues seem to be better at 4 grams of Sarcosine a day. I guess it’s a “B” supplement at high doses.
TheBest
January 28, 2018, 5:38pm
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The next time I buy supplements I’m not sure if I’m going to buy 180 grams of Sarcosine or Bacopa, Ashwagandha, and Pregenolone. I will probably just get them both in the next couple of weeks.