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Futurebiotics Thinkfast Veg-Capsules, 60-Count

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Futurebiotics products work surprisingly well. I've tried several so far and ThinkFast is top notch. I'd been having concentration and memory problems for the past few years and couldn't understand what was wrong other than having a feeling that I was missing certain nutrients in my diet. Having tried Futurebiotics' Anti-oxidant SuperFood and noticing dramatic results in my complexion I decided to try ThinkFast. After two weeks I noticed my memory was back to normal and my focus and concentration were better than they previously were before the problems started. Great supplement that actually works.

I do not take this anymore as it triggers my migraines in the most severe and painful way. I am a migraine sufferer, and recently I started taking 5-HTP and Butterbur Extract as natural remedies for my migraines, and I was having some really profound success at being pain-free and moderately full of energy. And then I found my thinkfast bottle and took a couple. Almost instantly (within a few hours) I was holding my head in pain due to a migraine attack.

The primary component of thinkfast is ginkgo biloba, which is a brain booster in that it helps blood flow in the brain, as well as to other parts of the human body. However, for people prone to migraines I believe ginkgo biloba can trigger them. Migraine headaches, as opposed to "regular" headaches, are caused by the expansion of blood vessels. Medications that help migraines, including Imitrex as well as off-the-shelf migraine pills that contain caffeine, are specifically designed to constrict blood vessels, and this is the opposite function of ginkgo biloba which inhibits such constriction. Ironically, most medical claims regarding the side-effects of ginkgo biloba document "none, except for the occasional headache for a sparse few".

Shortly after I started taking thinkfast a few years ago, I started getting really horrible headaches, and after more months I began getting very odd dizzy spells, in fact I worried that they were TIAs (mini-strokes), and when I told my doctor I found myself in the emergency room. They found nothing. However, a visit to a neurologist (and multiple various tests including MRI scans) later, I was told that I have multiple sclerosis. I was also diagnosed with migraines and was prescribed Imitrex.

My neurologist also told me that people with MS are twice as likely to have migraines as people without MS. Could migraines be contributing to MS?

On a side note: Within the same year, a study came forth regarding cardiovascular condition called CCSVI, which seems to be cause to multiple symptoms, including the possible onset of the disease of multiple sclerosis. CCSVI is essentially a kinked vein. Where arteries are blood vessels going from the heart to a body part, such as the brain, veins are blood vessels going from the same body parts back to the heart where the blood is oxygenated. I have not yet been diagnosed with CCSVI yet because CCSVI is not an approved medical study in the U.S. yet (it is still new) but the concepts and the conditions line up and I have a suspicion. I believe I have CCSVI and as such I also believe that I am prone to migraines because my blood vessels are like a kinked garden hose in that it seems like pressure would build up if there is a kink in my vein. And unfortunately any "de-constricter" of blood vessels will not help me unless it can target the kink; what happens instead is the arteries open up, adding even more blood pressure to my head, and there is no return circulation because there is still a vein kink.

Obviously I am my own problem and my problem is no one else's. I hope to get a CCSVI diagnosis someday, and I hope my migraines disappear after that. Meanwhile, as much as I wanted to believe thinkfast's claims to boost the brain, I fear it is contributing to its injury instead.