BRAINCOG

BRAINCOG is designed to be fun, easy to follow at a comfortable 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.

INCLUDES:
– 2x consultations per month
– Professional health & symptoms questionnaire
– Professional medical case history analysis
– Lab testing interpretation & analysis
(lab test not inclusive)
– 2x Montreal Cognitive Assessments
– Personalised dietary plans and recipes
– Personalised online portal & resources
– Daily food log & activity tracking
– Sync your Apple watch, Fitbit etc
– Weekly tasks & challenges
– Goal setting & NLP Mental reframing
– Email support 24/7
– Iridology assessment
– Nature trip for you and your household

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.

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, always choose to work with nutrition provider like myself, who is a member of regulatory body, clinically trained in Nutrition to support persons with medically diagnosed conditions.

Preventing MCI / Alzheimer’s
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 preceding a hypothetical diagnosis during the ‘prodromal period’.