Is your memory playing tricks on you?

Do you have a hard time concentrating on your work ? Is it because you are exhausted ?

Perhaps, but when your concentration decreases or memory is impaired, it's often due to stress.

This is specifically due to cortisol, one of the hormones released when you are stressed. Its maximum concentration in the bloodstream is reached about 20 minutes after a stressful event. Secreted cortisol goes to the brain, specifically to the hippocampus - an area of the brain that plays an essential role in the memory process. The bigger the hippocampus, the more efficiently information is stored for your long term memory. Yet with repeated high levels of exposure to cortisol, the hippocampus atrophies, which decreases its function. A high level of cortisol leads to problems concentrating. All in all, too much stress is harmful to both memory and concentration !

A unique and 100% natural response to stress-related problems, Lactium® significantly decreases the negative effects of stress upon intellectual functioning: impaired memory, trouble concentrating, difficulty reasoning and communicating*.

* PROCLAIM Clinical Study 2003 sponsored by Ingredia Nutritional.

 

Most people think that memory is a matter of age. Actually, it's not.