There’s nothing more terrifying than watching your own brain health fail. You can feel it… but you can’t stop it.
Over and over I asked myself, where is this going to end? What am I going to end up like?
And nobody could tell me.
Doesn’t matter now. I’m over it. Completely well. This is how I did it
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Just over 3 years ago I thought I was losing my mind.
I mean literally… losing my mind.
My memory was failing me.
I found myself doing things – and I didn’t know why I was doing them…
My concentration was becoming noticeably weaker.
Sometimes I’d be faced with a very minor problem – and I just didn’t know what to do.
Or someone would be saying something and I couldn’t make sense of their words.
I’d started repeating myself too. Saying something.. and then realizing with a shock that I’d already said it less than an hour ago.
It got very slightly worse as the weeks wore on.
It was frightening. I found myself constantly worried about what was happening to me.
I’m fine now. Better than fine – I’m probably sharper now than I ever have been since my twenties.
But I never want to go back to how I was.
What made it worse was that this kind of condition has run in my family for generations.
Three different relatives of mine descend into a nightmare world where they knew things were going badly wrong for them mentally.
They knew their brain was starting to fail… they could feel it and experience it… but they felt powerless to stop it.
As the condition progressed… so did their despair.
If I knew anything – it was that I did not want to go down the same terrifying path that they went down.
My doctor told me I was simply experiencing the normal symptoms of growing older.
For him, I was just one more case. He’d seen it a thousand times. He’d see a thousand more.
But for me it was my life. And I felt I was losing my grip on it.
He told me to eat better and get outside a bit more. I did – but I still got progressively worse.
As I say, that was then. At the time I think everyone assumed I was going to slowly follow my relatives into a miserable decline of forgetfulness, confusion, and helplessness.
Thankfully, it didn’t work out that way.
And that’s in part because of a really fortunate accident I had just over 3 years ago. It led me to meet someone who, just in conversation, gave me an incredible break. One that changed my life forever.
I had been driving to my local mall – something I’d done hundreds of times previously. But as I approached it I didn’t recognize anything.
I had simply forgotten where I was. I turned into the parking lot… and I didn’t know where I was.
In my confusion, I’d stopped my car quite suddenly.
Which very nearly caused the car behind to rear-end me. He honked furiously at me.
I parked my car and apologized to him. I explained I’d got confused and that I was sorry.
Turned out he was extremely sympathetic.
We chatted for a few moments and he revealed that his wife had gone through a similar time some years previously. Forgetfulness, loss of concentration, and moments where she simply didn’t know where she was or what she was doing.
Despite very good medical care her condition gradually worsened. So he had done some research on her behalf and found a natural and straightforward approach to addressing her deteriorating brain function.
Things got slowly better for her day-by-day. After some weeks the incidences of memory failure and confusion ceased completely. He told me his wife felt as mentally sharp as a young adult again.
He wrote down the name of the program they’d used. He suggested I try it since… I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
When I got home I ordered myself a copy – and I started to work on it that afternoon.
And thanks to that gentleman – for whom I had nearly caused a car accident – I too am as sharp and as alert, as I have ever been in my life.
The turnaround was extraordinary. And this is how it works.
Perhaps my biggest surprise with this program is discovering that when our memory is letting us down…
when our concentration is failing us time and again…
and we just seem to not be thinking like we used to…
…there are proven ways of restoring mental vitality that has been delivering outstanding results to tens of thousands of people for years and years.
And while I would always strongly advise that you follow your doctor’s instructions… I also thank my lucky stars I found a better way to undo these frightening changes that were taking place in my mind.
And over a short period of time, it returned me to mental strength and sharpness I hadn’t experienced since my early twenties.
The essence of the program is very, very straightforward. It tackles the causes of this horrible condition right at its source… exactly where it actually starts.
Because these problems with poor memory, weak concentration, confusion… they don’t just happen for no reason.
It’s not just ‘old age’. Think about it. Your brain doesn’t sit there with a calendar marking off the days until it’s time for you to have a brain problem.
Instead, something is taking place in your body that is creating the symptoms that are worrying the life out of you.
Something is happening to you… and whatever that something is… it’s leading to the problems you’re having right now.
And as far as our cognitive decline is concerned, scientists have known – for some years now – what that something is.
More to the point, it’s the lack of blood flow to the brain.
When blood doesn’t flow properly to the brain, the brain is starved of two things it badly needs in order to function properly: oxygen and nutrients.
And research scientists have proved beyond any doubt that a brain that receives a reduced amount of blood flow will start to malfunction.
Much, much worse… it will worsen over time.
The brain needs oxygen and it needs nutrients – and both these are delivered to it via blood flow. If that flow is being slowed or blocked in any way at all… then it’s getting less than it needs.
Starved of what it needs to perform efficiently… it starts performing nefficiently.
And this leads to what you’re experiencing in your day-to-day life. The mistakes, the errors, the losses of your conscious life are the result of misfirings inside your brain matter.
And this is not theory, conjecture, or an area that needs further study. It’s a fact.
The connection between reduced blood flow to the brain and steady, measurable brain decline has been researched and shown with both mice and with humans.
It was when I addressed blood flow problems to my brain that I finally turned the whole thing around – and got my life back again.
I learned quickly that I had to act quickly.
The deadly side-effect of chronic lack of oxygen is the production of sticky protein substances throughout the brain. These sticky clumps create a kind of ‘plaque’ that interferes with how brain neurons fire.
And wherever our neurons are having trouble firing is where we’re going to experience very real, very noticeable brain decline.
And it’s an ongoing process. In a healthy brain these plaques are rare – and quickly cleared away. In less than a healthy brain, they accumulate over time throughout the brain. It’s this steady clogging up of the brain that leads to our mental decline.
But there is one piece of really good news.
This clogging up of the brain is a process – not an event.
And like many processes it’s one that we can influence. It’s one we can directly act on ourselves.
Imagine that the flow of blood and oxygen to your head is controlled by a tap. When you’re healthy the tap flows freely – nutrients and oxygen-laden blood reaches your brain, keeping it in excellent working order.
But in my case then – and probably in your case now – that tap was slowly being turned ‘off’.
For you, it’s not yet ‘off’ but you’re starting to notice that this is where it’s heading.
It’s heading to a state where you have no cognitive function, you can’t look after yourself, you don’t know what’s going on… A steady collapse of brain effectiveness.
We need to move it back to fully ‘on’.
If we can do that then blood flows freely again, oxygen reaches all the brain in the quantities needed.. and the brain finds its way back to fully functioning.
That’s exactly what I did for myself. And it’s an incredible experience.
I felt physically better after 3 or 4 days. I don’t know if this was those plaques gradually clearing out of my brain…
Maybe it was parts of my brain that were under-performing suddenly coming back into life.
I really can’t say that I know.
But it felt like I’d been in a smoky room for the previous year… and then, all of a sudden, I found a door, opened it… and stepped out into the fresh air of a brightly lit day….
It was a startling transformation.
The program that the gentleman at the mall told me about is called The Brain Booster. It’s a very accurate name for the program. I do feel super-powered sometimes!
It was created by Christian Goodman. I used it to restore the flow of oxygen and nutrients to my brain and I have never looked back.
Christian’s approach to tackling illness is simple but stunningly effective. He recognizes that most illnesses come about because of normal lifestyle circumstances.
If we don’t address the lifestyle cause then, at best, the drugs we’re prescribed will only mask the illness. They suppress symptoms – but leave the illness still there.
For some health conditions that might work. For others, it works sometimes.
But for brain problems, well, once that starts going bad it continues going bad unless it’s dealt with head-on. No playing with symptoms here.
You get rid of it or, in the end, it gets rid of you.
Blood travels around the body via blood vessels – veins, arteries, and capillaries. Our blood carries oxygen and nutrients to every part of the body and brain.
And everywhere they go those blood vessels are hemmed in by bones, muscles, organs.
And this is where our problems begin.
We’re used to seeing pictures in text-books of our veins and arteries just floating in our bodies, as if they are free-standing, surrounded by empty space, untouched by anything else.
The reality is very different.
In reality, our bodies are tightly packed. Blood vessels – arteries and veins – are pressed up close against muscle tissue and bone. They have very little room at all to move.
Yet they need at least a small amount of movement. Because as the heart pumps oxygenated blood through your arteries they expand a little in order to carry this blood load.
They then return to normal before expanding again to carry the next load of blood. Expand, relax, expand, relax. Your arteries need to be able to do this if they’re to properly deliver life-giving blood to your body and brain.
If things are normal in the body they have just enough movement to be able to flex and expand with each heartbeat – and so let plenty of oxygen-laden blood get up to your brain.
But if some of the surrounding internal muscles are a little tight and inflexible then… arteries find themselves pushed up against bones and organs. And, suddenly, they don’t have the same freedom to move anymore.
Surrounded by tight, inflexible internal muscles they don’t have the freedom to flex and expand with each heartbeat. And that directly affects the amount of oxygenated blood they can transport to your brain.
With each heartbeat we’re not quite sending the brain the blood and oxygen it needs to function properly.
There’s only so much of this your brain can take before its ability to function starts to decline. And you start to notice that decline.
And those internal muscles do get tighter over time. It’s not your fault but, until you know it’s happening to you, it is largely unavoidable.
Unfortunately, tightness in some of those deeper muscles is almost impossible for us to feel or notice until it causes other problems – like blood flow problems and brain decline.
And blood flow problems are serious problems.
Because the longer that deprivation continues the more pronounced those symptoms are going to become.
Until one day we reach the point of no return.
I started turning that flow of oxygen-rich blood back on in days. In weeks I was mentally sharper than I ever remember being.
And I’ve been that way now for 3 years.
Christian Goodman’s Brain Booster showed me what I needed to do to be rid of this problem for life. I did as he instructed and I got the results.
1. Breathing for the brain
I learned quickly there’s a difference between ‘breathing’ and ‘breathing so your brain gets maximum oxygen’.
We breathe approximately 20,000 times a day. So even the smallest problem with the way our body breathes is being repeated 20,000 times – every single day.
Can you imagine how a tiny bit of oxygen deprivation in each breath is going to damage your brain over the coming weeks and months?
Whereas a small improvement in each breath brings you a little more life-giving air per breath, 20,000 times a day.
Honestly, by the second day of practicing better breathing I felt more alive and alert than I had done for years.
I now take proper breathing very seriously. I’ve not had a single symptom of memory loss, brain fog, or confusion for over three years… but I still do these exercises at least once every day. Because I want to keep it that way.
2. Fix the muscles that are suffocating your brain
There’s no compromise on this: if tense, inflexible internal muscles are pushing arteries up against bones or organs, allowing them no freedom to move even a tiny bit… they’re not going to be able to expand in order to allow blood to flow through.
Squashed arteries can’t deliver oxygen or nutrients where you so desperately need them.
No matter how perfect your breathing technique… that life-enhancing breath isn’t going to get where it’s needed – and you’re going to lose oxygen to the brain.
It’s internal muscles that cause most of the problems. I had to make those muscles relaxed and pliable once more. And I had to do it without delay.
Otherwise, my brain faced chronic oxygen deprivation – and I faced catastrophic, irreversible cognitive decline.
3. Target oxygen directly to the brain
Ever wondered why different people experience different combinations of symptoms?
Dizziness, forgetfulness, low moods, loss of physical balance, difficulty in recognizing faces, confusion over where you are or what you’re doing…
Why is it that you and I can suffer the same condition – reduced blood flow to the brain – yet we have different sets of symptoms?
It’s because different parts of our brains are being damaged. You’re experiencing oxygen-loss in one area, I’m experiencing it in another.
Both of us will end up in the same terrible state in the end. But in the early stages, the illness can look different for both of us.
Fortunately, there’s a very powerful way that humans can cause blood to move from one brain area to another. It mimics exactly something your body already does to divert oxygen to different parts of the head.
A couple of minutes of doing this each day delivers replenishing oxygen to parts of the brain that are right now being systematically starved of it.
I followed Christian’s instructions to the letter. And I can honestly say that my troubles just melted away as my brain sparkled back into life again and I freed myself of worry – and fear – over my failing health.
Let’s be clear: when I say I did ‘exercises’ don’t for a moment imagine these were strenuous, difficult exercises that made me puff or sweat!
Almost every single one can be done either sitting down, lying down – or both.
So I would do one exercise while out walking, another while at home preparing food for dinner and a third while sitting watching television.
There are several to choose from and even today I still do most of them – just for maintenance purposes. And on long car journeys every time we’re stopped at lights I’ll do one of the exercises until we move again.
There’s even one that’ll make you laugh while you’re doing it!
But don’t underestimate what these exercises will do for you.
They’re easy. But they’re powerful.
Christian Goodman isn’t claiming to be the genius creator of some deeply mysterious miracle remedy. As with his other programs, he has taken known science and already-proven methods… and brought them together to create a program that literally transforms a person’s brain health.
He tests thoroughly and – best of all – He 100% guarantees his programs.
However he does it, I’m so glad he does. I found The Brain Booster just when I absolutely needed it most. I can’t imagine – I don’t want to imagine – where I’d be today if I’d not taken this chance to make things better for myself.
If you’re feeling the worry that I felt when I first realized I had a problem – then you have my sympathies.
I first tried to pretend it wasn’t happening, that it was just something that happened as you get older.
I soon learned it wasn’t something that ‘just happened’. And that for my own sake I needed to address it once and for all.
I did just that. And I’m so glad, so relieved that I’m where I am today. If I’d left it… I just don’t want to think about what I’d be like today.
If you’re ready to address this once and for all then click here and order your copy of Brain Booster. It’ll be one of the best decisions you’ve ever made…
We know it’s true but it’s worth reminding ourselves: this condition – memory loss, confusion, inability to understand or focus – doesn’t clear itself up.
It’s a process that has already started. And it heads in one awful direction only.
Fortunately, it can be tackled head-on and, as I and over four thousand other people have found out, it can be so completely treated that we end up more mentally capable than we’ve been since our twenties.
Don’t just leave this. It only heads in one direction. Click here and start addressing your brain health today…
Some conditions you can leave for 6 months. They don’t get disastrously worse.
But that’s not true when we’re finding ourselves noticeably more forgetful or confused. Some changes we feel almost overnight. Our problem here is that reversing this kind of condition is more difficult the longer it has gone on.
There comes a point where we’re simply unable to help ourselves anymore. And that’s it. Game over. We’re able to realize what’s happening to us. But we’re unable to fight it anymore.
Don’t do this to yourself. Act now, get it done and then move on. You need to do this…
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Skinstitut Holiday Gift Kits take the stress out of gifting
Toronto, October 31, 2024 – Beauty gifts are at the top of holiday wish lists this year, and Laser Clinics Canada, a leader in advanced beauty treatments and skincare, is taking the pressure out of seasonal shopping. Today, Laser Clincs Canada announces the arrival of its 2024 Holiday Gift Kits, courtesy of Skinstitut, the exclusive skincare line of Laser Clinics Group.
In time for the busy shopping season, the limited-edition Holiday Gifts Kits are available in Laser Clinics locations in the GTA and Ottawa. Clinics are conveniently located in popular shopping centers, including Hillcrest Mall, Square One, CF Sherway Gardens, Scarborough Town Centre, Rideau Centre, Union Station and CF Markville. These limited-edition Kits are available on a first come, first served basis.
“These kits combine our best-selling products, bundled to address the most relevant skin concerns we’re seeing among our clients,” says Christina Ho, Senior Brand & LAM Manager at Laser Clinics Canada. “With several price points available, the kits offer excellent value and suit a variety of gift-giving needs, from those new to cosmeceuticals to those looking to level up their skincare routine. What’s more, these kits are priced with a savings of up to 33 per cent so gift givers can save during the holiday season.
There are two kits to select from, each designed to address key skin concerns and each with a unique theme — Brightening Basics and Hydration Heroes.
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LONDON (AP) — Most people have accumulated a pile of data — selfies, emails, videos and more — on their social media and digital accounts over their lifetimes. What happens to it when we die?
It’s wise to draft a will spelling out who inherits your physical assets after you’re gone, but don’t forget to take care of your digital estate too. Friends and family might treasure files and posts you’ve left behind, but they could get lost in digital purgatory after you pass away unless you take some simple steps.
Here’s how you can prepare your digital life for your survivors:
Apple
The iPhone maker lets you nominate a “ legacy contact ” who can access your Apple account’s data after you die. The company says it’s a secure way to give trusted people access to photos, files and messages. To set it up you’ll need an Apple device with a fairly recent operating system — iPhones and iPads need iOS or iPadOS 15.2 and MacBooks needs macOS Monterey 12.1.
For iPhones, go to settings, tap Sign-in & Security and then Legacy Contact. You can name one or more people, and they don’t need an Apple ID or device.
You’ll have to share an access key with your contact. It can be a digital version sent electronically, or you can print a copy or save it as a screenshot or PDF.
Take note that there are some types of files you won’t be able to pass on — including digital rights-protected music, movies and passwords stored in Apple’s password manager. Legacy contacts can only access a deceased user’s account for three years before Apple deletes the account.
Google
Google takes a different approach with its Inactive Account Manager, which allows you to share your data with someone if it notices that you’ve stopped using your account.
When setting it up, you need to decide how long Google should wait — from three to 18 months — before considering your account inactive. Once that time is up, Google can notify up to 10 people.
You can write a message informing them you’ve stopped using the account, and, optionally, include a link to download your data. You can choose what types of data they can access — including emails, photos, calendar entries and YouTube videos.
There’s also an option to automatically delete your account after three months of inactivity, so your contacts will have to download any data before that deadline.
Facebook and Instagram
Some social media platforms can preserve accounts for people who have died so that friends and family can honor their memories.
When users of Facebook or Instagram die, parent company Meta says it can memorialize the account if it gets a “valid request” from a friend or family member. Requests can be submitted through an online form.
The social media company strongly recommends Facebook users add a legacy contact to look after their memorial accounts. Legacy contacts can do things like respond to new friend requests and update pinned posts, but they can’t read private messages or remove or alter previous posts. You can only choose one person, who also has to have a Facebook account.
You can also ask Facebook or Instagram to delete a deceased user’s account if you’re a close family member or an executor. You’ll need to send in documents like a death certificate.
TikTok
The video-sharing platform says that if a user has died, people can submit a request to memorialize the account through the settings menu. Go to the Report a Problem section, then Account and profile, then Manage account, where you can report a deceased user.
Once an account has been memorialized, it will be labeled “Remembering.” No one will be able to log into the account, which prevents anyone from editing the profile or using the account to post new content or send messages.
X
It’s not possible to nominate a legacy contact on Elon Musk’s social media site. But family members or an authorized person can submit a request to deactivate a deceased user’s account.
Passwords
Besides the major online services, you’ll probably have dozens if not hundreds of other digital accounts that your survivors might need to access. You could just write all your login credentials down in a notebook and put it somewhere safe. But making a physical copy presents its own vulnerabilities. What if you lose track of it? What if someone finds it?
Instead, consider a password manager that has an emergency access feature. Password managers are digital vaults that you can use to store all your credentials. Some, like Keeper,Bitwarden and NordPass, allow users to nominate one or more trusted contacts who can access their keys in case of an emergency such as a death.
But there are a few catches: Those contacts also need to use the same password manager and you might have to pay for the service.
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The Canadian Paediatric Society says doctors should regularly screen children for reading difficulties and dyslexia, calling low literacy a “serious public health concern” that can increase the risk of other problems including anxiety, low self-esteem and behavioural issues, with lifelong consequences.
New guidance issued Wednesday says family doctors, nurses, pediatricians and other medical professionals who care for school-aged kids are in a unique position to help struggling readers access educational and specialty supports, noting that identifying problems early couldhelp kids sooner — when it’s more effective — as well as reveal other possible learning or developmental issues.
The 10 recommendations include regular screening for kids aged four to seven, especially if they belong to groups at higher risk of low literacy, including newcomers to Canada, racialized Canadians and Indigenous Peoples. The society says this can be done in a two-to-three-minute office-based assessment.
Other tips encourage doctors to look for conditions often seen among poor readers such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; to advocate for early literacy training for pediatric and family medicine residents; to liaise with schools on behalf of families seeking help; and to push provincial and territorial education ministries to integrate evidence-based phonics instruction into curriculums, starting in kindergarten.
Dr. Scott McLeod, one of the authors and chair of the society’s mental health and developmental disabilities committee, said a key goal is to catch kids who may be falling through the cracks and to better connect families to resources, including quicker targeted help from schools.
“Collaboration in this area is so key because we need to move away from the silos of: everything educational must exist within the educational portfolio,” McLeod said in an interview from Calgary, where he is a developmental pediatrician at Alberta Children’s Hospital.
“Reading, yes, it’s education, but it’s also health because we know that literacy impacts health. So I think that a statement like this opens the window to say: Yes, parents can come to their health-care provider to get advice, get recommendations, hopefully start a collaboration with school teachers.”
McLeod noted that pediatricians already look for signs of low literacy in young children by way of a commonly used tool known as the Rourke Baby Record, which offers a checklist of key topics, such as nutrition and developmental benchmarks, to cover in a well-child appointment.
But he said questions about reading could be “a standing item” in checkups and he hoped the society’s statement to medical professionals who care for children “enhances their confidence in being a strong advocate for the child” while spurring partnerships with others involved in a child’s life such as teachers and psychologists.
The guidance said pediatricians also play a key role in detecting and monitoring conditions that often coexist with difficulty reading such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, but McLeod noted that getting such specific diagnoses typically involves a referral to a specialist, during which time a child continues to struggle.
He also acknowledged that some schools can be slow to act without a specific diagnosis from a specialist, and even then a child may end up on a wait list for school interventions.
“Evidence-based reading instruction shouldn’t have to wait for some of that access to specialized assessments to occur,” he said.
“My hope is that (by) having an existing statement or document written by the Canadian Paediatric Society … we’re able to skip a few steps or have some of the early interventions present,” he said.
McLeod added that obtaining specific assessments from medical specialists is “definitely beneficial and advantageous” to know where a child is at, “but having that sort of clear, thorough assessment shouldn’t be a barrier to intervention starting.”
McLeod said the society was partly spurred to act by 2022’s “Right to Read Inquiry Report” from the Ontario Human Rights Commission, which made 157 recommendations to address inequities related to reading instruction in that province.
He called the new guidelines “a big reminder” to pediatric providers, family doctors, school teachers and psychologists of the importance of literacy.
“Early identification of reading difficulty can truly change the trajectory of a child’s life.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2024.
