Check your Brain Health and Catch Cognitive Decline with a Brain Function Test

Brain function decline, as with other later life challenges, can be hard to understand and to trace to one source. That’s because difficulties with memory, thinking, completing tasks or the slowing of other brain processes are usually due to more than one cause.

• Metabolic imbalances (issues with blood chemistry – including abnormal levels of blood sodium, calcium or glucose – and kidney or liver disfunction)
• Medication side-effects (prescriptions interfering with brain function)
• Problems with hormones (including estrogen and sex hormone imbalances)
• Deficiencies in vitamins and other key nutrients (B 12, B vitamins and folate)
• Delirium or Psychiatric illness
• Depression and anxiety
• Damage to brain neurons, due to an injury or a neurodegenerative condition.
  *Most common neurodegenerative conditions include Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy-Body disease, Parkinson’s disease, and frontotemporal degeneration.
• Infections and toxins

The sooner you test and identify brain problems, the more likely you are to slow cognitive decline and maximize your brain function. If signs of cognitive decline and potential Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) are caught early enough, it is possible to slow down and drastically delay onset of the disease through changes in nutrition, lifestyle and supplements.

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is not usually diagnosed until later years - after 70 years of age. Many symptoms manifest earlier, and often family members will recognize a decline in their loved one over time. Those who test and identify the condition early will get a head start on effectively fighting it.

• Completing tasks
• Remembering things like birthdays, phone numbers, dates or an email address
• Driving and taking other forms of transportation
• Managing personal finances
• Finding your way to locations (getting lost easily)
• Grocery shopping and meal preparation
• Doing household chores and maintaining the home
• Managing the telephone, the mail, and other forms of communication
• Managing your medications

Our geriatric brain function tests are easy to administer at home with results delivered back to you via email or a call with a healthcare professional within just a few days. You’ll get caring, confidential support each step of the way and tailored advice and ‘food for the brain’ to treat any signs of cognitive decline or Alzheimer’s disease.