30 years of evidence from thousands of studies showing disease progression can be prevented:
This large META-ANALYSIS features a systematic review of 396 papers that were selected from more than 44,000 on prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.
Considered the gold-standard clinical trial, this STUDY demonstrates that a multi-domain approach can help prevent cognitive decline.
A leading STUDY in a major scientific journal describes various modifiable risk factors by that may account for up to 40% of all dementia diagnoses.
If you have any of these symptoms, BRAINCOG can help
– A family history of dementia
– Memory loss that disrupts daily life
– Confusion with either time or place
– New problems with speaking or writing
– Difficulty completing familiar tasks
– Tendency to misplace things
– Unable to recall recent events
– Unable to retrace your steps
– Stress, anxiety, headaches, brainfog
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (aka ‘the MOCA test’)
Andrew Fortuna NT is MOCA qualified. MoCA is a screening tool administered by certified healthcare professionals who have completed the official training, as first step to detect evidence of cognitive impairment across 6 cognitive domains. With proper administration, the MoCA test should accurately reflect your cognitive performance, but it is not designed to make a medical diagnosis, but rather as tool to support a diagnosis by a qualified, specialist medical professional. MoCA has been widely adopted in clinical settings and used in academic and non-academic research around the world. The sensitivity of MoCA for detecting MCI is 90%, compared to 18% for the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) test often used for detecting Alzheimer’s disease. Early detection of cognitive decline is critical to reduce the risks of MCI or Alzheimer’s years in advance of clinical symptoms of frank dementia.
MCI & ALZHEIMER’S IS PREVENTABLE?
A large body of research suggests that MCI and Alzheimer’s disease are now ‘optional diseases’, meaning that they are not a consequence of the normal aging process as we have been made to believe. Evidence quite strongly suggests that what we eat and how we live our lives (aka modifiable risk factors), irrespective whether or not you may have the Alzheimer’s gene or a family history of it, largely contributes to the development of cognitive decline. Evidence from recent clinical trials and a large body of supporting research, suggests that a personalised nutrition and lifestyle programme may prevent the development of these conditions if implemented up to 20-30 years preceeding a hypothetical diagnosis during the ‘prodromal period’
ABOUT BRAINCOG
The BRAINCOG is a GDPR-compliant programme is based on the very latest nutrition and lifestyle science to prevent cognitive decline. BRAINCOG is a comprehensive personalised nutrition and lifestyle programme. By analysing your blood work, cognitive assessments, genetic predisposition, personal, health and medical history, your responses to the health questionnaires, BRAINCOG will help identify potential evidence-based triggers and mediators of MCI / Alzheimer’s and address them with nutrition and lifstyle using the functional medicine model (FMM). The FMM differs from conventional healthcare by addressing the underlying root causes of disease (instead of symptoms), whilst acknowlegding the uniqueness of each person’s genes and biochemical individuality, thus requiring distinct inteventions (not a one-size fits all approach).
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN BRAINCOG?
Research suggests that early screening and intervention, with or without frank mild cognitive decline, is essential to reduce the risks of developing MCI / Alzheimer’s and optimise cognitive function through life span. BRAINCOG is specifically intended for individuals aged 30 years and older who may be asymptomatic, showing subjective or clinically diagnosed cognitive decline, and/or interested in mantaining cognitive health, preventing further cognitive neurodegeneration, support brain health optimisation and/or improve cognitive function, with the help of a qualified clinically-trained nutrition profesisonal. Persons over 45 yrs old with strong risk factors such as carrying the Alzheimer’s risk genes, pre-diabetes/diabetes, chronically inflamed and/or diagnosed with some other underlying medical condition, are especially encouraged to participate asap. CLient GDPR authorisation will be required to be able to handle, store and process your health data.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM BRAINCOG?
BRAINCOG is designed to be fun, easy to follow at a comforable pace, personalised but with some compromises adapted to each individual’s capabilities. BRAINCOG gives you a unique and thorough professional evaluation of your past and current health as well potentially identify your root casues of your ill-heatlh and cognitive status. Also included is an MCI / Alzheimer’s orientated nutrition course to understand the essentials of preserving and improving cognitive function going forward. Although no guarantees can be made, by the end of the six or twelve months a number of improvements may be noticed. Depending on the persons’s initial cognitive health, medications, age, complexity of their underlying health condition(s), and assuming they have implemented the programme as strictly as possible, they may experience maintained or improved memory and cognitive function, improvements in anxiety, headaches, brain fog, stress resilience, and general mental wellbeing.
COGNITIVE DOMAINS EVALUATED
1) Short term memory
Remembering new information
2)Visuospatial abilities
Drawing, remembering spatial relationship between items
3)Executive functions
Planning, problem solving
4)Attention, concentration & working memory
Multi-step tasks
5)Language
Use of appropriate words
6)Orientation to time and place
Remembering dates, current locations
ABOUT ANDREW FORTUNA NT
– MSc Personalised Nutrition
– BSc (Hons) Nutritional Science
– Registered Nutritionist (mBANT)
– Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (CNHC)
– Personalised Nutrition clinical Practice diploma (level 6)
– Human anatomy and physiology (level 4)
– Neuro-linguistics programming (NLP) practitioner
– Qualified blood chemistry analyst
– Qualified Montreal Cognitive Asessment (MoCA) provider
– Certified Iridologist
– UK Royal Society of Medicine (member)
BSc research project and MSc dissertation were focused on: Brain energy metabolism and fatty acid utilisation by the APOE genotype in Mild Cognitive Impairment & Alzheimer’s disease
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS & REGULATORY BODIES
ANDREW FORTUNA NT is a member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT), the leading professional body regulating Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners in one to-one clinical practice in the UK. BANT members are regulated by the CNHC, demonstrating to the general public and to other healthcare providers that they meet UK-wide standards of practice in their work. CNHC members are overseen by the UK Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for Health and Social care, who also regulates dieticians and General practitioners in Gibraltar and the UK. WARNING: for your safety, you should not work with any nutrition provider who is not a member of any regulatory bodies or not clinically trained in Nutrition to support persons with medically diagnosed conditions
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