Brain Food Seasoning

Ingredients: Mushroom Blend (Lion's Mane, Reishi, Shitake) Pumpkin Powder, Sweet Potato Powder, Kale powder, Blueberry Powder, Gingko Biloba Powder

Ingredients subject to change!

How to use: 

Cooking: Add up to 1 tablespoon per 1 lb of meat used in homemade food.

Direct feeding: Rehydrate single serving with hot water (cool before serving) and add to any dog food.

Serving suggestion: 1/2 tsp per 10 lbs of dog weight per day (up to 1 tablespoon for dogs 50lbs and over)

The science:

• Lion’s mane is shown in studies to increase Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and increase the speed of neuron regeneration in animals.*
• Blueberry extract is shown in multiple human studies to improve cognitive function.**
• Gingko Biloba is shown to improve attention in healthy young adults and shown in an analysis of multiple studies to stabilize or slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease in people.***

*Wong, Kah-Hui, Murali Naidu, Rosie Pamela David, Robiah Bakar, and Vikineswary Sabaratnam. 2012. "Neuroregenerative Potential of Lion's Mane Mushroom, Hericium erinaceus (Bull.: Fr.) Pers. (Higher Basidiomycetes), in the Treatment of Peripheral Nerve Injury." International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms 14 (5): 427–446. https://doi.org/10.1615/IntJMedMushr.v14.i5.10.

**Hein, Sabine, Adrian Robert Whyte, Eleanor Wood, Ana Rodriguez-Mateos, and Claire Michelle Williams. 201

"Systematic Review of the Effects of Blueberry on Cognitive Performance as We Age." The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 74 (7): 984–995. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glz082.

***Kennedy, David O., Andrew B. Scholey, and Keith A. Wesnes. 2000. "The Dose-Dependent Cognitive Effects of Acute Administration of Ginkgo Biloba to Healthy Young Volunteers." Psychopharmacology 151: 416–423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000429.

Tan, Meng-Shan, Jin-Tai Yu, Yan Wang, Xing-Hua Meng, Li Tan, and Lan Tan. "Efficacy and Adverse Effects of Ginkgo Biloba for Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 43, no. 2 (2014): 589–603. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-14083.