Since weeks I wanted to write a scientific outline about this subject. My searches have been frustrating, the papers I finally retrieved are not very concise reflecting a situation of not-knowing a lot.
The studies available look at the various parameters we usually measure, if we design a study in sports and experience science. I just want to list some of them here: maximal oxygen uptake, resting and maximal heart rate, blood pressure, cardiac output and other cardiac functions, erythropoiesis, hemolysis, energy expenditure and balance, blood ammonia, muscle glykogen, creatine kinase, cortisol, testosterone, catecholamines, different ratios, cytokines, growth factors, immune parameters, sleep patterns, mood scores and many more. Each study picks another focus, but the whole picture is missing.

Don't forget our brain demands energy and recovery. Proper brain function consumes 25% of all available energy. That's quite a lot. At the end of a long season we hear many athletes say: "My head is so empty and lacking energy, even worse than my body." A race in which we have competed at full throttle can affect an athlete more mentally than bodily. Studies have shown that pronounced body strain, especially when getting close to the own limits, is leading to an increased activity of the brain too. The energy demand can exceed the energy supply during periods of extreme neuron activities.

To work on authentic content is an awkwardly shaped creature for our brain. It takes energy, and the brain consumes already 25% anyway, without performing a special job. Our journey to Hawaii took its toll, brain activity is still low ;-). Since I am involved with Biestmilch I did quite some searches on the gut-brain axis. I learned a lot about the interactions between gut and brain, I learned that there is a hard-wired connection between the brain and the gut, and that there are myriads of soluble factors synthesized by the nervous and by the immune system that influences our well-being in every moment of time. The presentation by Heribert Watzke gives an inspiring view on the importance of cooking (= transformation of food) for energy production and expenditure and the avenues the skills of cooking have opened to us humans.

Since we have the BIEST BOOSTER in our product portfolio I'm much more concerned about stuff that is enhancing brain activity and cognition. Nowadays brain doping has become silently accepted, students, scientists, computer specialists, artists, people under pressure in their jobs tend to use drugs to stabilize or enhance their performance. There are other possibilities, healthy ones, to boost your brain instead of dope. The article in the Scientific American that I found today and is very much in line with biestmilch, its biology and philosophy accounts for that.

• Scientists are finding that the adult human brain is far more malleable than they once thought. Your behavior and environment can cause substantial rewiring of your brain or a reorganization of its functions.
• Studies have shown that exercise can improve the brain’s executive skills, which include planning, organizing and multitasking. What you eat can also influence how effectively your brain operates.
• Activities such as listening to music, playing video games and meditating may boost cognitive performance as well.

If you want the proof read the original article that quotes several studies performed in various species from humans to rats. If you once have browsed through the Biestmilch Universe you may have noticed that biestmilch could be an integral part of your diet, your way of life, your physical activity. These are the things that make and keep you healthy. It is the quality of your diet and your physical and mental activity that may help you to stay young and fit. We know today that the best tumor prevention strategy is they way you live your life, the more trendy term is lifestyle. By the way, it seems obvious that your body keeps going accordingly, only if your brain remains fit and flexible. It is the brain that is the coordination center for signaling to your body to move arbitrarily. Everybody knows what it means on the job if the brain works and feels lousy ;-)

Birds are brilliant brains. For decades science underestimated them. Analyzing their brain, they badly misjudged it. The massive forebrain and cortex they interpreted as stem ganglia, a brain structure and formation that may not allow more than a vegetative state of being. How wrong we have been. How wrong may we still be in our judgment of other beings. The paradigm of Darwin's pyramid makes us blind and arrogant. Listen to Einstein's talk. Einstein gives us all reasons to reconsider our position. Einstein, the African grey parrot, has a vocabulary of more than 200 words and sounds; she can perform nearly half on cue. At least, this is what we know about her, perhaps there is much more than that.

I asked myself: »Is it deception or is it perception?« Or is it just brain functions beyond our daily routines of cognition. Magician Keith Barry on TED Talk. Think of Keith Barry as a hacker of the human brain - writing routines that exploit its bugs and loopholes, and offering a revealing look at the software between our ears. Quoted from TED.

Since we work on the development and marketing of our new product: the BIEST//BOOSTER we are paying a lot more attention to subjects like doping. Doping is not only an issue among athletes. The specific about sports is as a matter of fact that cheating adds on doping. As biestmilch is a substance used in high performance athletes we are well aware of this perspective of the problem. At this point I don't want to go into this highly political and controversial subject. I would like to draw your attention to a breaking news published in Nature. The journal cites a poll they had performed among 1400 scientists in 60 countries asking whether they took already once substances known as braindoping like Ritalin or Modasamil. Yes, indeed, one in five admitted the use of these drugs to increase concentration and performance. One quarter of the interviewees takes drugs once a week. Half of them already suffers form withdrawal symptoms like headaches, lack of concentration, panic attacks or trembling. Even though they are not ready to refrain from using these addictive substances. To their opinion it should be on them to decide. Only for kids they recommend prohibition. Recently, I read about the fact that a high number of students as well is addicted to such performance enhancers. It is not mine to judge, but definitely, we would be happy to see those guys to try our booster, magic stuff and all nature. The Biest//Booster contains the strength and long lasting effectiveness of Biestmilch and a slight boost of the natural caffeine-extract Guarana.