is a supplement designed to and promote . It is formulated from six different ingredients, including two renowned natural nootropics, Bacopa monnieri and Ginkgo biloba, vitamin B12 – now scientifically recognized as playing a key role in the nervous system, caffeine, taurine and theanine.
The combined scope of their effects enhances well-being and cognitive performance: memory, cerebral microcirculation, mental effort … to provide the extra boost we need to be more focused and productive.
CogniMax Brain Booster is for anyone looking to:
Respond to cognitive challenges.
Improve their mood.
Regain greater work efficiency.
View tasks to be accomplished in a clear-headed way (mental clarity)
When revising for an exam and during the exam itself.
When your workload is particularly heavy.
On occasions that demand intense mental effort.
Before a stressful event such as an oral presentation, competition, job interview, etc.
When you’re finding it hard to find motivation.
When you’re mentally fatigued.
When you want to break bad habits of procrastination and inattentiveness.
More generally, CogniMax Brain Booster can be taken when you need a little boost or an extra level of concentration. You can take one capsule in the morning or before periods of prolonged work and concentration.
contains five main ingredients, all chosen for their scientifically documented effects and absence of toxicity. As always, SuperSmart has taken the utmost care to use only the highest quality raw materials for each of these ingredients.
The benefits of Bacopa monnieri are well-established in terms of improving the cognitive system and memory (1-6), as well as visual perception, attention and language (verbal understanding and vocabulary) and reducing impulsivity (7-8), improving concentration and reasoning (9), as well as alertness and speed of information-processing (10), associative memory (11), retention of new information (12) and even reducing the tendency to make mistakes (13-14).
Its principal chemical components are triterpene saponins (bacoside A1, bacoside 13, bacopasaponins, jujubogenin), cucurbitacins, monnierasides, flavonoids (luteolin and quercetin), alkaloids and coumarins.
Effects have been reported in both adults and children, healthy or otherwise (15), as a result of its different mechanisms:
1) Improvement by bacosides of transmission of nerve impulses. These compounds repair damage to neurons by inducing kinase activity and neuron synthesis, and by restoring synaptic activity (16). They exert antioxidant effects at several levels in all areas of the brain, particularly in astrocytes and fibroblasts where they protect against damage to DNA (17).
2) Involvement in the GABAergic system (18).
3) Effect on glutamatergic transmission (19) (lowering glutamate levels).
While the dose of a typical standardized extract usually contains 20% bacosides A, in CogniMax Brain Booster it is standardized to 50% of these active compounds. The CogniMax Brain Booster dose (300mg to be spread across the day) is the same as that used in clinical studies (20).
This is an amino acid found in green tea and certain types of mushroom. A number of preliminary studies have suggested it has a relaxing effect on the nervous system (21-22).
It may explain why drinking green tea every day helps to maintain mental alertness and improve cognitive performance (23) and memory. In research conducted in 2014, improved connections between neurons (called synapses) were observed in green tea consumers compared with controls (24). It also appears to stimulate blood flow in the brain (25).
This is one of the most abundant free amino acids in the body: it is present in almost all tissues, particularly excitable tissues such as the muscles, retina and nervous system.
The body is able to synthesise taurine itself in the liver and brain, but additional intake from the diet is necessary to prevent deficiency (26). Requirements for taurine are estimated to range from 40mg to 400mg a day depending on various parameters.
Taurine has excellent bioavailability when ingested: it rapidly enters the bloodstream, crossing the blood-brain barrier with the aid of specific carriers to reach the brain parenchyma where it joins endogenously produced taurine.
It is concentrated in synapses in certain areas of the cerebral cortex where it acts as an inhibitory transmitter, preventing over-stimulation caused by high levels of amino acids (27). It also plays a role in long-term potentiation (LTP) – the significant and sustainable increase in synaptic efficacy – via induction of a cascade of molecular events.