Forbidden Cures and Underground Medicine • 9Another surprising discovery: citicoline seems to increase alpha brain waves,
the ones associated with relaxation. In fact, these brain waves are the ones
responsible for getting your brain into the much-desired awake relaxed state.
And since one of the defining symptoms of AD is extreme agitation, boosting
alpha waves can make life for the patient and his caregiver much less stressful.
And that’s not all they found out—they uncovered exactly how citicoline
powers your brain, and helps keep your memory and cognition intact.
- Increases blood circulation to your brain
- Boosts your brain’s energy reserves
- Increases efficient oxygen use
- Enhances production of acetylcholine
- Maintains optimal dopamine levels
By making sure your brain has all the blood, oxygen, and energy it needs,
citicoline can turn memory problems around. And by boosting production
and maintenance of key brain chemicals, it can do so much more than that.
Acetylcholine—the super brain chemical
that powers your mind
One of the key benefits of citicoline is that it increases production of ace-
tylcholine, the most plentiful neurotransmitter in your brain, and one that’s
responsible for a lot of key functions. In fact, acetylcholine deficiency is a key
player in Alzheimer’s disease (and a big focus of pharmaceutical drugs that try
to manipulate the chemical artificially, with little success but plenty of dan-
gerous side effects).
What can boosted acetycholine levels do for you?- Help increase attention span
- Improve your ability to concentrate
- Increase coordination
- Ease depression
- Slow down memory loss
- Maintain better sleep
In fact, you can read this article because your brain has a healthy amount
of acetylcholine. But when someone develops AD, his acetylcholine declines
and is more quickly broken down by an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase
(AChE). And when acetylcholine levels drop so dramatically, they can cause
memory loss and decreased learning capacity, among other things.