A study of 149 seniors with age-related memory impairment (AAMI) found taking (4) Flavay Plus® per day for 12 weeks led to improved performance tests related to learning and memory tasks of daily life. (166)
A study of 33 persons with dementia shows equally promising results. This eight-week study shows (4) Flavay Plus® per day can significantly improve dementia. (123)
The efficacy of taking Flavay Plus® for memory and cognition has been studied and proven in numerous randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trials (111,114,115,119, 122,123,126,139,166, 219-225,473,474) and several pilot trials. (168,475-481) The duration of these trials varied from 6 weeks to 6 months. People from various countries all over the globe (Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Israel, USA) were investigated with as many as 494 persons in a single study. The efficacy of Flavay Plus® is shown using different performance tests related to learning and memory tasks of daily life, and significant improvements were observed across the range of studies.
| Methods | Population | Duration | Conclusions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta-analysis of 9 placebo-controlled, double-blinded published clinical trials (114,122,139,166, 219-220,222,225) | 1,224 subjects, ages 40-91 | from 6 weeks to 6 months, 4 capsules per day | Statistically significant improvements in long-term memory, long-term recognition, free speech, and logic speaking as compared to placebo and baseline (starting) values (134) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover multi-center study: Plutchik Geriatric Rating Scale and Buschke Selective Reminding Test | 494 elderly patients at 23 locations with moderate to severe cognitive decline, ages 65-93 | 24 weeks, 4 capsules per day | Statistically significant improvements in behavioral and cognitive parameters, in total recall, long-term memory storage, long-term retrieval and long-term retrieval consistent (clinical evaluation and laboratory tests demonstrated safety) (114) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled study | 149 seniors with age-related memory impairment (AAMI) | 12 weeks, 4 capsules per day | Statistically significant behavioral and cognitive improvement in daily life tasks: name and face recognition, name-face delayed recall, facial recognition, telephone-number recall, and misplaced-objects recall (those who scored worst in starting test showed the most improvements) (166) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover study: Crichton and Peri geriatric rating scales | 35 hospitalized senile demented patients, ages 65-91 | 6 weeks, 4 capsules per day; 3 weeks follow-up | Statistically significant behavioral improvement in both scales (219) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover study: Plutchik Geriatric Rating Scale | 87 subjects with moderate cognitive deterioration, ages 55-80 | 8 weeks; 4 capsules per day; 4 weeks follow-up | Beneficial for cognitive effects (220) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study: Brain physiology (EEG) | 39 elderly subjects with arteriosclerotic encephalopathy, ages 55+ | 12 weeks, 4 capsules per day; 4 weeks follow-up | Improved discrimination (221) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study: The Set Test (Isaacs & Akhtar) and parameters like daily living, information, personal memory, non-personal memory | 142 subjects with Alzheimer's disease, ages 40-80 | 12 weeks, 4 capsules per day; 12- and 24-weeks follow-up | Significant improvement (p<0.05) (222) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study: Learning and memory tasks | 51 subjects with Alzheimer's disease, ages 55-80 | 12 weeks, 4 capsules per day; 3 weeks follow-up | Improvement in cognitive impairment (223) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled study: Learning and memory tasks | 50 persons, mean age 60.5 years | 12 weeks, 4 capsules per day | Reversal of age-related memory loss equivalent to almost 14 years; Improvements were found in learning and remembering written information, remembering names and recognizing people, and memory of numbers in data from objective neuro-psychological testing (126) |
Main outcome measures included: (i) ADHD symptoms based on DSM-IV-TR; (ii) short-term auditory memory and working memory using the Digit Span Test of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children; and (iii) mental performance to visual stimuli (GO/NO GO task). No adverse events and no side effects were found. (217)
Another study of 15 children (ages 6–12) with ADHD shows taking Flavay Plus® daily for 2 months significantly improved ADHD symptoms. Significant improvement was observed both in inattention and in hyperactivity and impulsiveness, and visual perception was also significantly improved. No adverse events and no side effects were found. (218)
| Method | Population | Duration | Conclusions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled | Children, ages 4-14 | 8 weeks, 3 capsules per day | Significant improvement in ADHD and working memory (217) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled | Teenage golf athletes | 12 weeks, 3 capsules per day | Significant improvement after 12 weeks, drop back to starting values after wash-out (465) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover | High school students | 2 weeks, 5 capsules per day | Calculus: Significant improvement 20% quicker, 39% fewer mistakes, 13% more correct calculations (466) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover | High school students | 40 days, 2 capsules per day | Significant improvement in cognitive performance (memory quotation) (338) |
| Open trial | Children, ages 6-12 | 2 months, 3 capsules per day | Significant improvement in ADHD symptoms (218) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled | Young adult golfers with handicaps of 15–40 | 6 weeks, 3 capsules per day | Results show a tendency to improve perceived stress levels and significantly improves the number of good ball flights during tee-off which might result in improved golf scores (215) |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled | Teenage golf athletes | 12 weeks, 3 capsules per day | Significant improvement after 12 weeks, drop back to starting values after wash-out (465) |
Initiating factors include oxidative stress, DNA damage, protein aggregation and apoptotic (cell-death) cascades. Flavay® has demonstrated to protect the brain against cellular alteration through modulation of neuronal function against neurotoxicity and inhibition of glial-induced inflammation by: CysDA, 5-S-cysteinyldopamine; DHBT1, dihydrobenzothiazine 1; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-alpha; IL-1ß, interleukine-1 beta; CRP, C-reactive protein; NO, nitric oxide.
Oxidative stress-mediated inflammation is attributed to cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Brain aging is also associated with elevated levels of neuro-inflammation which is intimately linked to oxidation. (379-384)
In vivo studies show oral administration of Flavay® readily crosses the blood-brain barrier and is bioavailable where it supports circulation and blood flow, nitric oxide activity, both lipid and aqueous antioxidant protection, and nutrient delivery. (1,2,3,14,102,272,402)
Study shows Flavay® modulates the immune response toward an antiinflammatory pathway which suggests a valid therapeutic measure in mitigating neuro-inflammation in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. (407)
Study shows taking Flavay® for six (6) weeks results in neuroprotective effects in the brain against Alzheimer's disease or other neurodegenerative diseases. In vivo assays identified 13 proteins in the brain that are favorably mediated by Flavay® "quantitatively in the opposite direction from previous findings for the same proteins in either Alzheimer's disease or ...neurodegeneration." (385)
In this study, using both in vitro and in vivo assays, researchers demonstrate Flavay® can "significantly inhibit amyloid β-protein aggregation" and thereby "significantly attenuate Alzheimer's disease-type cognitive deterioration". (403)
Six separate in vivo studies show Flavay® reduces the "Alzheimer's protein" (known as β-amyloid, amyloid beta, Aβ or Abeta), considered to be responsible for senile plaque formation and which later accumulate in brains of persons with Alzheimer's disease. The research consistently shows Flavay® slows cell death following exposure to the dangerous amyloid β-protein, and other oxidant stressors. (404,405,486,487,489,492)
An in vivo study finds Aβ fibril formation, amyloid plaques and microgliosis in the Alzheimer's diseased brain are reduced by Flavay®. (405,406)
Study shows Flavay® successfully inhibits the accumulation of age-related oxidative DNA damage in areas of the spinal cord and brain. (413)
Two in vitro studies show treatment with Flavay® significantly inhibits oxygen glucose deprivation-induced cell death in hippocampal neurons (496) and astrocytes (cells in the brain and spinal cord). (497)
In vivo study shows Flavay® is both neuroprotective and a potent antioxidant, protecting against brain injury and reducing formation of oxygen and nitrogen free radicals, as measured by 8-isoPGF2α and reducing levels of the proapoptotic protein c-jun. Researchers also reviewed previous findings including antioxidant properties, reduction of apoptotic cell death, reduction of brain injury in the adult gerbil forebrain ischemia model, protection of heart function and reduction of infarct size in experimental cardiac ischemia, attenuation of renal damage in the rischemia reperfusion model, reduction of brain injury and reduced a hypoxia-induced increase in brain lipid peroxidation. (498)
Study shows Flavay® provided significant protection against lipid peroxidation and DNA fragmentation in brain tissues in vivo. (272)
Study shows Flavay® inhibiting tau peptide aggregations, as well as dissociating preformed tau peptide aggregates. Results from this study suggest Flavay® may fight tau-associated neurodegenerative disorders by modulating tau-mediated neuropathologic mechanisms. (408)
Oral administration of Flavay® is shown to significantly reduce development of Alzheimer's disease type tau neuropathology in the Alzheimer's diseased brain. Tau is abnormally hyperphosphorylated in Alzheimer's disease and aberrant tau phosphorylation contributes to the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies. Anti-aggregation and anti-phosphorylation are main approaches for tau-based therapy. In this study, Flavay® could potently interfere with the assembly of tau peptides into neurotoxic aggregates through mechanisms associated with reduction of extracellular signal-receptor kinase 1/2 signaling in the brain. (409)
Oral administration of Flavay® is shown to significantly reduce decay of motor skills and extend life span in the model of Huntington's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with selective neuronal cell death. Abnormal aggregation of huntingtin protein with polyQ expansion has been shown to be linked to Huntington's disease. Flavay® has previously been shown to interfere with aggregations of proteins involved in neurological disorders, such as amyloid beta peptides (Aβ) and tau protein. This in vivo study shows Flavay® significantly inhibits polyQ aggregation in phaeochromocytoma (PC)-12 cell line containing an ecdysone-inducible protein comprising the first 17 amino acid of huntingtin plus 103 glutamines fused with enhanced GFP. (410)
Flavay® is shown to suppress development of peripheral and central sensitization in temporomandibular joint disorder through repressing phosphorylated-p38, OX-42, and glial fibrillary acidic protein and basal expression of the neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide. (411)
Administration of Flavay® helped prevent capillary leaking in the brain, increasing the resistance of tight junctions in the arteriolar capillaries. (102)
Few people realize the critical connection between decreased blood flow to the brain and cognitive decline. Researchers claim vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is "poised to become the silent epidemic of the 21st century." (472)
Decreased blood flow to the brain plays a major role in dementia and other brain disorders. The result is that the brain becomes starved for oxygen and fuel, producing a low-grade "suffocation." (455)
The good news is you can fight back. Research shows improving blood flow to your brain can prevent or reverse deterioration that causes vascular cognitive impairment. Neurons become more active when blood flow increases. (14,231,339,455)
"[A] method for preventing and fighting the harmful biological effects of free radicals in the organism of warm blooded animals and more especially human beings, namely cerebral involution, hypoxia following atherosclerosis, cardiac or cerebral infarction, tumour promotion, inflammation, ischemia, alterations of the synovial liquid, collagen degradation, among others."
—U.S. Patent No. 4,698,360 (1987).
Studies show Flavay® readily crosses the blood-brain barrier, strengthens collagen in the brain's vascular walls and capillaries, and increases circulation and nutrient delivery. Flavay® actually strengthens collagen in vascular walls and capillaries (the smallest vessels), making the vessels stronger and more elastic. (10,38-54,103,402)
Licensed and sold for vascular health in France for 70 years, the vascular protective activity of Flavay® has been established by many significant studies. Clinical trials show Flavay® increases blood flow and strengthens and tones veins, arteries, capillaries, lymph vessels, lymph nodes, and lymphoid tissues. (44-48,59,82,205,249,250)
Flavay's® support of healthy blood flow to the brain is important to brain function because studies show that decreased blood flow to the brain plays a major role in dementia and other brain disorders. Also, Flavay® as much as doubles plasma levels of endogenous antioxidants catalase, superoxide dismutase and glutathione, which are essential to cognitive function. Studies confirm what many users of Flavay® experience—striking benefits in improved concentration and mental focus—the classic symptoms of attention deficit disorder. (33,64,64,71,159,231,361,371)
All higher brain functions require a well-balanced release of nitric oxide in the brain. Nitric oxide acts as neurotransmitters to control communication among brain cells and is deeply involved in concentration, learning and memory. But if not tightly controlled, too much nitric oxide damages brain cells. Excessive production of nitric oxide can cause some of the brain's worst free radical damage and development of neurological diseases. (10,14,202-204,352,353,377,379-384)
Nitric oxide is now recognized as a very important signaling molecules for intercellular and intracellular communication throughout the body. (14,102,232-236,248,352,353,377)
Flavay® protects the blood-brain barrier by improving nitric oxide levels in the microvascular endothelial cells of the blood-brain barrier. (202-204,292,296,374)
Flavay® lowers stress hormones, lowers oxidative stress and protects neurotransmitters by improving nitric oxide levels. (14,53,103,202-204,265,274)
Flavay® also protects against toxic overproduction of nitric oxide by blocking nitric oxide synthase. Research shows Flavay® works to balance nitric oxide activity, both to stimulate normal synthesis and inhibit over-production of nitric oxide. (10,53,265,302,306)
This is important because when nitric oxide is over-produced, a chain reaction begins which causes neurons to break down and destroy surrounding healthy cells. In Alzheimer's, free radicals attack cell membranes of the hippocampus, the memory region. In Parkinson's disease, the area of the brain to suffer the most damage is the "substantia nigra," which produces dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for muscle movement and coordination. (14,232-236,240-242)
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