WHY ARE NEUROTRANSMITTERS SO IMPORTANT?

WHY ARE NEUROTRANSMITTERS SO IMPORTANT? 

Everything that you do begins in your brain - every thought, every memory, and every will to move a muscle. Everything that goes on in your body happens because of the release of neurotransmitters. EnergyFix® is specifically designed to provide nutrients that your brain can use to make more neurotransmitters. The results are pretty remarkable. 

Mental fitness formulations were created in the early '70s. Noradrenaline, the brain's version of adrenaline, is required for alertness, activity, and ‘get up and go’. When you have ample amounts of noradrenaline you can make quick decisions and have effortless memory. There is a related neurotransmitter called dopamine. Dopamine is important in the reward system of pleasure. It is also essential for memory. 

Neurotransmitters are not drugs; they're natural substances made by neurons in your brain from nutrients in your diet. The neurotransmitters transmit nerve signals across the synapse from one nerve to another. 

The amount of activity that you can perform has a lot to do with the supply of the neurotransmitters that are available to your brain. That supply, in turn, depends on the availability of raw materials the brain receives from your diet or from supplements. 


HOW DO WE GET MORE NORADRENALINE? 

Phenylalanine is a precursor of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline and is available in the typical diet. Most of it, however, may be squandered through competition with other amino acids for transport across the blood-brain barrier or used for other purposes such as building proteins or for gluconeogenesis (making glucose from amino acids). The problem we face is not just the availability of precursors. Co-factors are also an issue. If you go into a health food store, you'll be able to find phenylalanine capsules easily. Sometimes you take them and something happens; you get more energized. Many times nothing at all happens. Part of that is because other nutrients such as vitamin B6 and vitamin C, folic acid and copper are needed in order to convert phenylalanine into noradrenaline and dopamine. These are essential nutrients that are required as co-factors to enzymes that are involved in the process of conversion. These materials - the copper and the vitamin B6 - are also required to convert phenylalanine into beta phenylethylamine, which is a neuromodulator in your brain that modulates the effects of noradrenaline and dopamine and probably some other neurotransmitters as well. 


DISCOVERING HOW THE BRAIN USES NUTRIENTS 

The specific pathways along which these nutrients operate have been studied and this information is used in the design of EnergyFix. Once it was discovered that noradrenaline and dopamine were being depleted by excessively hard work, the obvious question was how does the brain make them? It is important to know what nutrients, enzymes, and co-factors are required. Most of this has been known since the mid-1960s. The metabolic pathway charts, which show each step in the process of going from phenylalanine to noradrenaline, are widely and readily available. 

Experiments have shown how much noradrenaline can be produced. One experiment involved army personnel who had to fly halfway around the world and then engage in simulated combat. They used related amino acid, tyrosine, as a supplement. They found that tyrosine could help fight the fatigue and brain fade that occur. Another study involved the breakdown products of noradrenaline and other neurotransmitters that are found in the urine after various kinds of activities. It is known that more of the breakdown products of noradrenaline appear after mentally fatiguing activities, such as working long hours. 

In an experiment performed on office workers in Japan who were given difficult mental tasks to perform it was discovered that if the difficult mental tasks went on for only a couple of hours a supplement didn't make a drastic difference. However, in an all-day task of eight hours or more supplements made a real difference - particularly as the day wore on - in terms of the person's alertness and ability to perform. 

HOW DO I TAKE ENERGYFIX® FOR BEST RESULTS? 

Do not take EnergyFix® with proteins. Wait at least one hour after consuming protein and then do not consume proteins for an hour after taking EnergyFix. When your stomach disassembles protein certain amino acids can interfere with the transport of phenylalanine across your stomach into your bloodstream and particularly across your blood-brain barrier into the brain. 
There are protease enzymes in your saliva that start the digestive process as soon as you start chewing. When protein reaches your stomach it starts to be taken apart by protease enzymes. Our bodies are very efficient at breaking down food into usable nutrients. 

EnergyFix® Capsules are designed to do the same thing as the EnergyFix®  drink but without the low glycemic fructose. You'll get better results if you take carbohydrates with EnergyFix® and EnergyFix® Capsules. We recommend a piece of fruit with your drink (or capsules) both at 10:00 AM & 3:00 PM. This is a good way to get your two pieces of fruit for the day along with the necessary fiber. 

CHECK IT OUT WITH YOUR DOCTOR 

One fascinating statistic is that 80% of the population does not get the FDA's recommended daily allowance of one or more of the essential nutrients you need to make the most important neurotransmitters, dopamine, and noradrenaline. So it is understandable that the number one complaint doctors get from their patients is that they feel chronically tired or fatigued. Now we hasten to warn against the assumption that if you are chronically weary then all you need is one of our supplements containing phenylalanine and co-factors. You may have a medical condition, which needs to be treated by a doctor. If you feel chronically tired, go to a doctor and request a complete blood panel.  If everything checks out then EnergyFix® may be your best solution for feeling better.