Very pleased with the Brain Flakes
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My two-year-old and four-year-old grandchildren both love these, and we have had them for about two days now.  The container is full of plenty of very colorful pieces for them to share.  My two-year-old loves to sort them by color and fill containers with them.  My four-year-old likes to build with them.  He has, with a little help, constructed trees and lakes for his Hot Wheels ramp landscape today.  He is just getting started.  I am sure more complicated structures will soon follow.
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My brain is very happy I just interviewed Dr. Mike Dow for our Inspire Nation Show! He offers fantastic advice in his book to help defog the brain.

What's that mean? Well, you know how we're all tired, cranky, or can't think straight, or the brain's just too tired, for at least part of the day? Well it turns out that's not normal. It's caused by our environment, medications, diet, sleep, and so much more. Dr. Mike Dow details all of it in the book, PLUS simple fixes to get our brain's back on track. And his argument (backed by science) is how critically important this is, not just for our brain's function today, but for it's health in the long run--preventing alzheimers, dimentia and more.

The changes he recommends are super-easy to make, and have greatly helped my brain. Yes, I was an ADHD poster-child years ago and taking the steps in this book (some I found before reading this book, others I've never seen elsewhere) have helped me think more clearly and more focused than ever before!
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I was skeptical. How could a few movement activities that are hardly even exercises improve my grades?  My friends and I agreed to do the activities for a month with our teacher as a short experiment. The results were amazing. We all immediately felt better, could concentrate on our assignments and read with accurate comprehension on the first read instead of needing to review passages a second or third time. The movements made things more clear and sharpened our senses. My grades have improved. I recommend the Brain Gym 26 for everyone.
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I really enjoyed reading this. The author did a great job exploring the many aspects of life that contribute to overall brain functioning, such as nutrition and lifestyle. One of my favorite parts was about the different exercises that could be done to help improve the brain. That makes this book not only educational, but also useable in day to day life. I would definitely recommend this to everyone looking to improve brain health and function. (I was given an advance copy of this book; this is my honest opinion.)
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I have not met Lee Gerdes but know of many people who have used this method to do their
brain training with much success.  I read the book just 2 weeks ago and am now in the
process of getting my assessment done and having the brain training next week.  I am
very excited in the prospect of having a better functioning brain.  After the traumas
we all experience this is what we need and deserve.  Lee has mapped up to 20,000 different
brains and compiled this research with every intention of helping those in need.
I am excited that this could be the piece of the puzzle that helps those that are so
addicted they can't break free, those that have had blunt force traumas to the skull,
those who have fought in our wars overseas.  Imagine how we could help our soldiers
and so many others.  I am using it myself for PTSD and after stopping the anti-depressant
Effexor to help my brain readjust to the trauma of the drug.  I look forward to the
changes that will affect me and my brain.
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The shipping was fast. The flakes are wonderful, I used them in breakfast cookies, and they turned out great. Highly recommend.
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I've been using Mind Boost in Minutes for a few months now and have noticed a real difference in my memory and concentration skills. The 15 minute exercises are great before going to work and i do the longer exercises in the evening. Great product!
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The author stacks the frontal lobe of the book with feel-good research results from neuroscientist researchers, and saves the less good stuff in the midbrain of the book. The fun news: the amygdala twins (DANGER! LINDA ROBINSON!) are dozier, less likely to trigger irrational reaction. The older brain is calmer, does as well, or better, as young brains at problem-solving, makes better financial decisions. Judgment improves, whether from long experience, or less activity distracting. One anecdote is striking: the successful landing of his plane in the Hudson River by Pilot Chesley Sullenberger and his also middle-aged crew; the "senior" tugboat and ferryboat captains who turned around to effect the rescue. Put youngsters in those cockpits and would the results have been the same? The unfun news: we'll continue putting the mail in the refrigerator and the milk on the desk. What was your name again? Brains are not alike, and the divergence in midlife brain ability is more variant still, but it's a good read, and begins the riposte toward inaccurate science still lingering that we're past our prime at 45.
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This book is amazing.
I'm not addicted to any substances except maybe to sugar but I've been forgetting things and unable to concentrate.
I was feeling a mental fog for a while and following this author's suggestions I started adding lecithin to my smoothies and within 3 days my head started feeling clearer. He offers a lot of excellent advice about what the brain needs and which food you can find it in. The supplements he suggests are to start on for a few weeks until you're feeling better, then continue on with eating certain foods that contain these essentials for you brain. Thank you!
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I am delighted with my purchase. My daughter had a few flakes of dandruff, and I didn't want to use a harsh shampoo on her. After using this shampoo only once, it cleared up her flakes right away. I am also pleased that it is a gentle formula. Well done, Mustela.
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The book meets my expectations 100%. I am still reading some parts of it. The book is a total breakthrough in neuroscience.
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This is the third can of fish flakes that I have bought during my adult life.  The first time we set up a fish tank we had tropical fish, with a Clown Fish and a Blue Damsel.  We soon found out that our Blue Damsel was the Devil himself and he killed any other fish, crab, snail, or anything that we put in the tank with him.  Therefore, our first can of fish flakes lasted a looooooong time since the Devil Fish was the only thing we were feeding.  It wasn't until an unfortunate Bio Bubble malfunction that the Devil fish died and we were able to have more than one fish.  I can't for the life of me remember the brand of the first can we had but once we had more than one fish we burned through the can fairly quickly.  We got guppies.  And if you know anything about guppies, 11 guppies quickly turned into over 40.  The next can of fish flakes we bought had only orange flakes.  Our biggest mistake was putting black rocks in the tank.  The orange flakes made orange poop.  And you could see every bit of it against the rocks.  This can has a variety of different colors and does not make the fish poop a crazy color that stands out against the rocks or tank decor.  We now have an uncountable amount of guppies.  They all swim to the top when this giant can of fish flakes comes out.  The price was unbeatable.  We had seen this size in a store and of course, since I found it cheaper on Amazon, I ordered it here.  I also appreciate that my small humans don't have the dexterity to get this monster can of fish flakes open on there own, I don't want to waste fish flakes by spilling them all over the place.
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I enjoyed Dr. Fotuhi's book and found it concise and easy to read.  Dr. Fotuhi highlights a lot of scientific research and thoughtfully includes discussions of open issues yet to be resolved.  It was refreshing to read a book so deeply grounded in science which was also easily readable for the layperson.  I am a middle-ager who returned to graduate school and have been struggling to pass the final professional exam which will allow me to move into a new career.  I have already implemented several of Dr. Fotuhi's recommendations and have committed to his brain boosting prescription for the long term.
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Note: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I normally don't read self-help books, but this one intrigued me with the premise that the brain is like Velcro for the negative and Teflon for the positive. I'm a pessimist, and the Velcro/Teflon thing is definitely an apt and imaginative way to describe how my mind works. Finding out that there's a revolutionary explanation behind this mindset, and that this is how everyone's mind naturally works, certainly makes me feel less screwed up.

Hanson goes into the science of why the brain is like Velcro for the negative and Teflon for the positive, and how the accumulation and emphasis of the negative in the brain has a detrimental effect on your life. He describes how the negative neural pathways in the brain can be slowly "rewired" to weaken and remove the negative and to strengthen and increase the positive, making you more resilient to stress, more confident, more secure, and more content. His "HEAL" method for rewiring your brain involves four steps: 1) Have a positive experience. 2) Enrich it. 3) Absorb it. 4) Link positive and negative material. The steps, explained in detail with examples in the book, are logical, simple, and, most importantly, do-able. It essentially amounts to a mental exercise for 10-30 seconds at a time, a few times a day. I think the HEAL method will be helpful in improving my life, and I can't wait to start trying it. I'll edit this review in a few weeks with an update on if it was effective for me or not.

Overall, I thought this book was interesting and easy to read, and I'll probably end up rereading it. I appreciated that each chapter ended with a page or two of review notes to reinforce the most important points. I also liked that the reference list in the back is extensive--certainly a good place to look for sources to explore certain concepts further, and it shows that Hanson has put a lot of research into this book. My only criticism is that the book was fluffy and repetitive at times, but maybe that's a characteristic of self-help books that I'm not familiar with since it's not one of my preferred genres. Even with these flaws, I would still recommend/buy this book for anyone that I thought could use some help developing a more positive life and way of thinking.
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This was a gift for my dad who has dementia. This book is fantastic for the mind. The puzzles are perfect to stimulate the brain. Would recommend for anyone suffering from memory issues.
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This is an excellent book. I am a 70 year old who was loosing brain power. I thought what better way to improve my brain than to study the brain. It is easy to understand and extremely interesting. I find myself spending hours every day studying this book. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in this subject.
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This truly is a good product.  The flake has very little misshapen, or blemished pieces.  Delivery is very fast.