Author: DynamicBrain Inc.
Publication: Monthly Newsletter
Published Date: March 18, 2019

March is Brain Awareness Month, and this is a great opportunity for setting brain health resolutions! To recap, there are six pillars to maintaining a healthy brain: physical exercise, cognitive training, brain health nutrition, high-quality sleep, an active social life, and low stress levels.

Until recently, there haven’t been any good guidelines for choosing a brain-training program. But in 2015, the experts at the National Academy of Medicine released an important report that included a five-item checklist to use to determine whether a brain-training program is scientifically proven—or whether it’s making claims it can’t back up. And to the best of our knowledge, BrainHQ is the only program that can check off all five of these criteria!

If you are not yet a BrainHQ regular user, now is the time to commit, and I would deeply appreciate it if you could share this important message with your friends and families.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch.

Kind regards, Frieda Fanni President DynamicBrain Inc. DynamicBrain Inc. is the Canadian partner of Posit Science Corporation providing brain fitness program BrainHQ in English and French.

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