Fall is a wonderful time of year, with the beauty of the leaves changing color, people are enjoying their last trail hike, mountain bike ride or yoga session in the park.  Nature’s transformation of the outdoor world brings changes to our personal fitness and family routines as well.  The start of a new school year, creating an indoor workout plan, or even organizing new carpool schedules can create stress and anxiety for people of any age.  They need something that can help them get their indoor mindful meditation and study habits in place.

This time of year, many people are seeking something to help them maintain or improve their mental energy, memory, focus and attention to get the day-to-day things done, let lone get ahead during a changing environment.  Moving to an indoor physical fitness program can be especially challenging.  Athletes, yoga devotees, weekend warriors, and anyone who is routinely physically active know that mental focus is a key component of peak performance. It’s just as essential as physical training. In competitive sports, the need for mental stamina is even more demanding.  This is true, no matter the activity.

A certain amount of physical activity enhances mental function, but as it becomes more intense, it places a higher demand on the brain. Unlike muscles, the brain does not store energy. The brain needs a consistent form of nourishment to continually generate the mental acuity it needs to meet the moment’s needs.  Citicoline is a critically important nutrient that the brain requires to support the mental energy, memory, focus, motor speed, and attention it must have to complete not only routine daily tasks, but to perform complex activities as well.   Unfortunately, this nutrient is not always available at the levels the brain needs, especially as individuals age, or are exerting themselves both physically, and mentally.  Supplementation is suggested by a clinically studied form of citicoline to provide what a healthy brain needs to perform well.  In recent years, consumers are more health conscious, and better educated, and thus are looking for science-driven ingredients that can address multiple needs.

What is citicoline, and what does it do? 

Citicoline is a naturally occurring nutrient found in the brain.  It increases an important substance called phosphatidylcholine that is critical for healthy brain function.  Cognizin® Citicoline is a clinically studied form of citicoline that can supply the brain with the nutrition it needs to stay sharp. 

Citicoline and energy. 

Energy reserves play a very important role in healthy brain function. The first vital benefit of Citicoline is its ability to help support the brain’s energy producing centers.  While the brain makes up only two percent of a person’s body weight, it consumes roughly 20 percent of the body’s energy when at rest. When performing difficult mental activities, the brain needs even more energy. Clinical research has shown that citicoline supports the health of mitochondria, the powerhouses within cells that actually produce the brain’s energy.^*1 Healthy mitochondrial function results in higher levels of ATP—the body’s main energy storage molecule—in brain cells. 

Why Cognizin® Citicoline?

Cognizin®, an innovative branded form of citicoline, is unlike artificial stimulants that ramp up energy and attention levels only to have those levels come crashing down later. Cognizin® provides nutritional support that helps fuel mental processes and enhance focus and concentration.

Scientific studies show how Cognizin® Citicoline’s supports cognitive function and performance.

The brain is constantly being attacked by various factors of our lifestyle including environmental pollution, internal toxicity, stress, and a lack of proper diet and nutrients. Citicoline may help combat the ravages of these effects by stimulating the nervous system process to maintain optimum sustainability of the molecular environment of the brain enabling a body to retain its ability to think cognitively and improve focus and attention. 

One study on Cognizin® Citicoline’s effect on focus and attention started with middle-aged women taking 250mg of Cognizin® daily^{1, 2}, and exhibited a decrease in omission and commission errors, thus exhibiting how citicoline can support focus and attention when performing physical tasks.