Gotu kola
Centella asiatica
In rats given an inflammatory challenge, gotu kola protected spatial learning, shortening the time and the path to the hidden platform in the water maze.
What the evidence shows
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Gotu kola, the creeping leaf of the Indian wetlands, strengthens the brain's connections and small vessels — memory holds and recall comes easier.
Centella's triterpenes hush the overfiring alarm in the nerve and raise BDNF, the protein the brain uses to build and strengthen new connections.
Gotu kola lowered p21, the shield that keeps enlarged fat cells alive, in the white fat of mice on a high-fat, high-fructose diet.
In mice given excess iron, the standardized gotu kola extract ECa 233 eased the memory deficit it caused in the water maze.
Gotu kola, an old Ayurvedic leaf, lends the brain its asiaticoside to strengthen the connections that hold memory, focus and the thread of a thought.
Where it appears
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- Adipocyte Apoptosis (Mature Fat Cell Clearance)
- ALZ (Memory Preservation)
- Anti-Fatigue (Cellular Energy Endurance)
- Autonomous (Executive Command)
- Ecstatic (Nervous System Stand-Down)
- NAD+ Booster (Cellular Energy Currency)
- Plush (Collagen, Firmness & Glow)