Journal of Natural Health Oct 99 v5#4 6018.13

13	Whitewing Labs, Inc.	Journal of Natural Health, October 1999
Mind Power for the New Millennium by L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D.

“Time wears away all things, even our mind”
—Virgil 2,000 years ago

Sorry, Virgil. But today we’re not giving up without a fight. And we have the tools, intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and nutritionally, to put it to old father time.
    We’re not giving up our minds to father time. He may be able to wear down the Sphinx of Giza, but our brains are built to last.
    We’re not getting older. That’s the old, negative way of looking at life’s progressions.
    We’re getting smarter, stronger, savvier.
    We’re not going to give up one single bit of our mental powers. We need more memory than ever with each home having two or three telephones, area code overlays, nine-digit zip codes, security codes for the ATM, home and car alarm systems. Every time you turn around someone’s asking for your Social Security numbers, health care plan numbers, bank accounts, birthdays, anniversaries . . .
    Can’t forget your anniversary!
    We have the tools to cope, and that’s what this important report is all about.
    Today, significant scientific evidence indicates that the ability to perform everyday memory and learning tasks need not diminish over the adult life span. The keys are proper diet, exercise, lifestyle habits, attitudes and use of key brain-protective and memory enhancing supplements critical to healthy memory powers—especially the B Complex vitamins.
    I’m very excited to be writing about the new B Complex formula from Whitewing Labs. The B vitamins, commonly found in brewer’s yeast, wheat germ, peanuts, green leafy vegetables, eggs and beef, are key to maintaining optimal mental function.

How B Vitamins Help Maintain Memory Power
Vitamin B-1 (thiamin) helps the brain process energy from sugar and proteins.
    Vitamin B-2 (riboflavin) helps maintain the nerve's myelin (a substance that coats the nerves and helps in conducting information).
    Folic acid helps the body to produce RNA and DNA, nucleic acids important in the storage of recent memory events.
    Vitamin B-5 (pantothenic acid) helps the body convert the nutrient choline into the neurotransmitter chemical acetylcholine.
    Vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine) helps the body to utilize blood sugar, the brain’s main fuel; moreover, a deficiency has been shown to accelerate aging in the brains of rats. Scientists speculate that low intake of this important vitamin, together with deficiencies in copper and chromium, may be partly to blame for dementia and senility in the elderly. The vitamin is “so severely deficient in the American diet” that government officials brand it a “problem nutrient.”
    Vitamin B-12 (cyanocobalamin), found almost only in animal foods, is essential for healthy nerve tissue and helping to maintain memory.
    It is important to note that three of the B vitamins, folic acid, B-6 and B-12, can help the body to maintain normal levels of the amino acid homocysteine. In high amounts, homocysteine causes significant arterial damage, which can increase stroke risk.
    Jacob Selhub, Ph.D., and co-investigators, reporting in the February 2, 1995 New England Journal of Medicine, used ultrasound equipment to measure the degree of narrowing of the carotid arteries, which are responsible for delivering blood to

Who Needs Supplemental B Vitamins?

AIDS patients. Up to 35% of all persons with HIV are deficient in at least one B vitamin.

Impaired mental function among elderly. Many studies validate nutritional intervention for treatment of age-related senility and Alzheimer’s with the B vitamins.

Sulfite sensitivity. Vitamin B-12 can block the effects of sulfites in individuals sensitive to this additive.

Depression. Occasional depression in the elderly is often related to a deficiency of one or more of the B vitamins and nutritional intervention can often result in dramatic improvement.

Tinnitus. Many persons with tinnitus and noise-induced hearing loss suffer vitamin B-12 deficiency. Intervention with this vitamin may improve auditory quality.

the brain; their narrowing is strongly predictive of stroke risk. The scientists found that men and women with the highest levels of homocysteine were twice as likely to have narrowing of the arteries as those with the lowest levels.
More recently, high homocysteine levels and low levels of these B vitamins were shown to impair mental function, including decreased spatial coping skills and memory (Riggs, K.M., et al. “Relations of vitamin B-12, vitamin B-6, folate, and homocysteine to cognitive performance in the normative aging study.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1996; 64: 306-314).
Order Whitewing Labs’ new B Complex today from the order form inserted in the center of this journal.