You are not dead until your brain is dead. Your brain needs two things to survive: fuel and activation. Fuel comes in form of oxygen and glucose. Glucose comes from food you eat, and oxygen comes from air you breathe. The normal inspiration/expiration ratio should be exhalation twice as long as inhalation. That is to say - breathe out twice as long as you breathe in.

There are also specific treatment modalities that a clinician may utilize to increase function or activation of right or left brain. One example is big letters made up of small letters. If you look at small letters you will fire right cerebellum to left brain. If you look at big letters you will fire left cerebellum to right brain.

Auditory stimulation (listening to nature sounds, clicks of a metronome, or Mozart in a major key) in left ear comes up through brain stem over to right brain and vice versa for right ear.

Visual stimulation from left side in a checkerboard pattern using different colors comes up through optic pathway to brain stem and up to right brain. The T.E.N.S. unit set at subthreshold stimulates large diameter nerves which fire up to cerebellum and to opposite brain.

There are also some nutrients that work best when taken together with a complementary vitamin or mineral, and in majority of cases, this can actually improve their effectiveness. A perfect example is that of Vitamin D, which when taken together with a quality calcium supplement can both enhance absorption rate and reduce amount of calcium that is excreted in waste products. Of course, you will still get some benefit from calcium supplementation alone, but for those to whom every bit of nutrition counts, a little homework is your best bet.

The most important reason to choose a high quality nutritional supplement is of course, safety. Unfortunately, since supplements and vitamins have become more popular with general public, many bargain basement brands have popped up overnight with claim that their product is just as good as more expensive ones and much cheaper to boot. Be very wary of such claims! Remember, if a supplement is priced far below its competitors, they had to find some way to trim down costs...are you willing to risk finding out what it was?

Mass produced nutritional supplements are often made in huge batches with equipment intended to churn out as much of stuff as possible in shortest amount of time, and often quality of supplement will suffer. Worse yet, there is increased risk of contamination.

When choosing nutritional supplements, you must keep in mind that your very health is dependant on decisions you make. While it might seem like a good idea to save a few dollars now, in long run you might find yourself wishing that you had invested that extra little bit in interest of quality. This is not to say that a less expensive nutritional supplement won't give you some benefit, but it might actually end up costing you more in long run if you're having to take multiple pills several times daily to get any kind of effect.

Take time to find a high quality nutritional supplement from a reputable manufacturer...you'll be glad you did!