Futurebiotics ThinkFast, Brain Performance and Memory, 60 Vegetarian Capsules

Obviously we are all different and we respond differently to supplements and pharma. There are times when I need a little bit of extra help focusing, particularly on days when I am scheduled to write copy, such as for my blog. Of course, I took 2 this morning, and I can see that I am not using my "focused" time wisely because I am writing reviews as opposed to finishing my website! I don't take these every day, but only on days where I need that extra focus and concentration.I recall one reviewer mentioning that if you are pre-disposed to migraines, this product may aggravate that type of headache. I have found this to be true, but that isn't set in stone. However, the reason I don't throw things out is because the human body changes constantly. . What affected me months ago may not affect me today.Case in point: The previous bottle did seem to provoke some wicked migraines, so I would suspend the product. Once I took it again, I had a migraine again. Sometimes they were debilitating, and sometimes they were not. Of course, if you have a migraine, it kind of defeats the purpose of "focus" because the pain interferes with any perceived benefit. That said, I ordered another bottle anyway. I don't take it every day and this time around, I have not had any migraines. I think it is often difficult to narrow down when migraines occur and what the causes are. They can be precipitated by a lack of sleep,excess caffeine, stress, too much light, hormone imbalances, supplement interactions, etc.It is always interesting to me when people say about any product "this didn't 'work/ so I threw it out". Well, I guess they have a lot more money than I do! Things take time and changes can be very, very small. The body changes. Our habits change. Sleep patterns change. If something doesn't work today, put in on the shelf and try it 2-3 months down the road. Things may feel differently. I thought the same thing about this product with the first bottle and I put it in the cabinet for several months until I found it again. Maybe I just wasn't paying close enough attention. Everyone is different, and my body is different today than it was 1 year ago.Just my .02.If you lack focus and concentration, there are a myriad of things to try (i.e., diet, meditation, music, proper sleep, exercise, supplements, etc). Experiment and find what works best for you. It's often a crap shoot, but you may eventually find the needle in the haystack.

First, I have used this for over 5 years. Without it I get foggy memory and with that comes frustration as I couldn't recall a simple thing like milk on a shopping list. My job was IT related and had to recall large sequences of number at a moments notice. It made that difficult. It all went away. It takes 1 to maintain sharpness and 2 days after first taking it to feel sharper. I have also given it to my 70 year old mother and she is doing great and "happy" because she has faster recall. I really can't say enough about it and there is not a price (which is sold at a great price too!) for faster recall of your thoughts. You will not be disappointed.

I have a whole combination of vitamins and supplements that I take for different aspects of my life, but this one absolutely does the most for me. I’ve never been diagnosed with ADD, but I’ve been teaching long enough to know that I have some attention issues. This, really helps me focus and motivates me and I can completely tell the difference in the days where I don’t take it or I let myself take less.

I do not take this anymore as it triggers my migraines in the most severe and painful way. I am a migraine sufferer, and recently I started taking 5-HTP and Butterbur Extract as natural remedies for my migraines, and I was having some really profound success at being pain-free and moderately full of energy. And then I found my thinkfast bottle and took a couple. Almost instantly (within a few hours) I was holding my head in pain due to a migraine attack.The primary component of thinkfast is ginkgo biloba, which is a brain booster in that it helps blood flow in the brain, as well as to other parts of the human body. However, for people prone to migraines I believe ginkgo biloba can trigger them. Migraine headaches, as opposed to "regular" headaches, are caused by the expansion of blood vessels. Medications that help migraines, including Imitrex as well as off-the-shelf migraine pills that contain caffeine, are specifically designed to constrict blood vessels, and this is the opposite function of ginkgo biloba which inhibits such constriction. Ironically, most medical claims regarding the side-effects of ginkgo biloba document "none, except for the occasional headache for a sparse few".Shortly after I started taking thinkfast a few years ago, I started getting really horrible headaches, and after more months I began getting very odd dizzy spells, in fact I worried that they were TIAs (mini-strokes), and when I told my doctor I found myself in the emergency room. They found nothing. However, a visit to a neurologist (and multiple various tests including MRI scans) later, I was told that I have multiple sclerosis. I was also diagnosed with migraines and was prescribed Imitrex.My neurologist also told me that people with MS are twice as likely to have migraines as people without MS. Could migraines be contributing to MS?On a side note: Within the same year, a study came forth regarding cardiovascular condition called CCSVI, which seems to be cause to multiple symptoms, including the possible onset of the disease of multiple sclerosis. CCSVI is essentially a kinked vein. Where arteries are blood vessels going from the heart to a body part, such as the brain, veins are blood vessels going from the same body parts back to the heart where the blood is oxygenated. I have not yet been diagnosed with CCSVI yet because CCSVI is not an approved medical study in the U.S. yet (it is still new) but the concepts and the conditions line up and I have a suspicion. I believe I have CCSVI and as such I also believe that I am prone to migraines because my blood vessels are like a kinked garden hose in that it seems like pressure would build up if there is a kink in my vein. And unfortunately any "de-constricter" of blood vessels will not help me unless it can target the kink; what happens instead is the arteries open up, adding even more blood pressure to my head, and there is no return circulation because there is still a vein kink.Obviously I am my own problem and my problem is no one else's. I hope to get a CCSVI diagnosis someday, and I hope my migraines disappear after that. Meanwhile, as much as I wanted to believe thinkfast's claims to boost the brain, I fear it is contributing to its injury instead.