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What improves concentration/focus?

  • 17-05-2012 4:26pm
    #1
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭


    Are there any studies that show herbal medicines to be beneficial in concentration or focus? There are drugs out there that work but tend to be prescription and for more specific disorders/diseases (e.g. Modafinil and Piracetam*) but few if any over-the-counter solutions and in the gap herbal "medicines" have found a niche.

    Is there any research to suggest herbal medicine is effective in this area? Or even, are there OTC solutions that are effective in this regard (if there are, why turn to unproven medicines)?


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  • #2
    bleg
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    Ginseng I think...


  • #3
    Piriz
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    good nights sleep, healthy diet and regular exercise, drinking water, regular breaks and chewing gum..


  • #4
    seantorious
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    Piriz wrote: »
    good nights sleep, healthy diet and regular exercise, drinking water, regular breaks and chewing gum..

    Chewing gum, please explain?


  • #5
    Piriz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Piriz


    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666311001401

    1) The physical activity of chewing gum increases the heart rate. This increases blood flow and delivers more oxygen to the brain.
    2) Chewing causes the body to release insulin which docks in receptors located in the hippocampus portion of the brain, the key area of the brain for memory. MRI scans show the hippocampus "lighting up" during chewing.


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