Simon Mills

And when you inhale something, it literally moves into the brain.

And from there into the limbic system.

Remember, there's a line in a Shakespeare play called Hamlet, Ophelia.

the young lady says, Rosemary, that's for remembrance because everyone knew that this improved cognitive functions.

And when I was working on our campus in Maryland, we actually did a clinical trial with Rosemary in people struggling with their crosswords as they get older and found that although it wasn't a conclusive study, there were pointers to it improving cognitive or performance in those people.

And there's been other studies since that reinforce that.

I would say that rosemary is one of the ones to watch in terms of long-term brain health.

There's another remedy called ginkgo that a lot of people know about, which is used as a prescription medicine in Europe.

for cardiovascular problems and that's been shown to be likely useful and using the same sort of mechanisms as as we've seen here and with the green tea i'll check it here yeah that looks all right you see it's more yellow than green but uh

And this is flavoured with a little bit of mint to make it a little more agreeable.

Sometimes people find green tea is not their favourite taste.

It's got a nice minty flavour.

I'm going to nail this because there's a lot of people listening who will want to hear this.

Cocoa, chocolate, dark chocolate, is a medicine.

End of.

One of the best medicines around is 50 grams to 100 grams of 75% or more dark chocolate.

She should be sipping in for you.

No, Coco, seriously...

brain health as well, cardiovascular health.

I mean, they do studies where they've put cocoa into volunteers, that means students usually, you know, so young kids, and they were able to show changes in the blood flow within minutes, certainly within an hour of eating cocoa.