Articles in Brain Health

Your Guide to Nootropic Mushrooms

Nootropic mushrooms are known for their wellness benefits like boosting focus and supporting overall brain health. Learn more with Qualia. 

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Nootropics: Research, Benefits, and Types

Everything you need to know about the latest research to support nootropics and list of the best studied nootropics for focus, memory, and drive.

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Feeling Overwhelmed? Try Listening to Birdsong for a Calmer Mind

Feeling overwhelmed? Science shows taking a moment to listen to birds can help lower your stress response. Learn more!

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How Dark Chocolate May Support Cognitive Efficiency and Performance

Fighting the afternoon slump? Studies show dark chocolate may be all you need to boost cognitive performance and concentration. 

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Research Shows Your Brain Works Differently When You Take Breaks. Here’s Why.

A new study shows back-to-back meetings increase stress, but short breaks between meetings allows the brain to reset and relax. Here's what you need to know. 

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Your Guide to Brain Supplements

Brain supplements (nootropics) can support the many dimensions of brain activity. This is an ultimate guide to the top researched brain supplements. 

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What is Mental Acuity? Your Guide to Staying Sharp

Learn what mental acuity is and science-backed ways to maintain mental sharpness and clarity as you age.

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The Science of Nootropic Stacks: Achieving a Whole System Upgrade

Nootropics are active compounds that act on the central nervous system to enhance cognitive function. There are myriad compounds with nootropic activity, each targeting different elements of the vast assortment of processes that give rise to cognitive function.

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L-Theanine: Understanding Its Benefits & Origin

Learn the science behind using L-theanine as a natural way to support a calm state, mental clarity and relaxation.

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Qualia Mind Caffeine Free Ingredients

Explore the ingredients that create the ultimate brain blend without the caffeine, Qualia Mind Caffeine Free. Learn more now!

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How The Power of Belief Impacts The Benefits of Exercise

Studies show that if you believe you are exercising, your body may respond as if it is. Here’s what you need to know about the mind-body connection.

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Magnesium for Brain Health: Learn Why it is Crucial

New studies show magnesium supplementation can help maintain healthy brain volume and cognition. Here's what you need to know. 

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Do Brain Supplements Work?

Do brain supplements actually work? What do studies show? Learn the truth about nootropics and how they can enhance your everyday life.

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What are Nootropics?

Nootropics. You might have heard of them. The “limitless pill” that keeps Billionaires rich. The ‘smart drugs’ that students are taking to help boost their hyperfocus. The cognitive enhancers that give corporate executives an advantage. All very exciting. But as always, the media are way behind the curve. 

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Qualia Mind® Caffeine Free 2.0 - What's Changed? How's It Different?

Find out what happened when we set out to make a great nootropic even better. Learn the differences between Qualia Mind Caffeine Free1.0 and Qualia Mind Caffeine Free 2.0.

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What is Breathwork?

Feeling overwhelmed? Here are four of the best breathwork techniques to reset your nervous system and access a calm state of mind.

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6 Science-Backed Foods For Brain Fog

Many factors can contribute to brain fog, such as underlying illness, oxidative stress, lack of sleep, hormonal issues, dehydration, and perhaps the most unexpected and underlying cause of brain fog: our diet.

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Hugs Before a Stressful Experience Can Lower Your Biological Stress Response

Heading into a stressful event? A hug from your partner can lower biological stress response and reduce cortisol levels. Learn more. 

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Qualia Mind® 2.0 - What's Changed? How's It Different?

Find out what happened when we set out to make a great nootropic even better. Learn the differences between Qualia Mind 1.0 and Qualia Mind 2.0.

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How Short Breaks Spent in Nature Promote Executive Function in the Brain

Your brain is begging you to get outside today. Here's why.

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Qualia Resilience Ingredients

We share some of the reasons why we included each ingredient and how individually they contribute to the overall stress support found in Qualia Resilience.

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Qualia Nootropics: The Complex Intelligence Behind Their Formulation

Qualia nootropics were designed to promote a sustained improvement across the whole pallet of objective capacities and subjective states that contribute to optimized, creative, productive flow states. This goal required factoring many creative-productive capacities simultaneously. 

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The Power of the Brain-Body Connection - A Q&A With Aaron Alexander, Author of The Align Method

Explore the power and science of the brain-body connection.

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Box Breathing: A Breathing Technique to Focus the Mind

Learning to control the breath is one of the most powerful (and free!) neurohacks we have for improving concentration, managing stress, developing optimal health, and guiding our spiritual advancement.

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Stay Motivated to Workout: Understanding Mental Fatigue

Mental fatigue lies at the core of motivating yourself to hit the gym and to give the extra push in your athletic performance. In Workout Motivation: The Science of the Brain's Role in Exercise we broadly introduced the importance of our mind for exercise performance. The interconnectedness between the brain and body means many markers of physical performance are modulated by our mind.

Here we focus on mental fatigue, introduce you to some of the fatigue models (how scientists believe the brain is operating), explain willpower and self-control and how they interact with workout motivation, and provide actionable tools to help you follow through on a workout program.

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