Say Goodbye to Brain Fog, Increase Brain Energy Fuels and Prevent Cognitive Decline
Speed Training Academy (S.T.A) offers online personalized keto (ketogenic) and low-carb advice and coaching solutions for athletes, physically active persons, weekend warriors, or others wanting to enhance their wellness journey.
Brain Health
According to the World Health Organization, by 2030, brain-related disability will account for 50 percent of the worldwide economic impact of disability. A 2022 definition by the World Health Organization of brain health is:
"The state of brain functioning across cognitive, sensory, social–emotional, behavioural and motor domains, allowing a person to realize their full potential over the life course, irrespective of the presence or absence of disorders." The WHO recognizes that brain health encompasses neural development, plasticity, functioning, and recovery across the lifetime of an individual"
Some typical challenges occurring with less than optimal brain health include:
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Brain fog
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Difficulty concentrating
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Poor memory
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Disrupted sleep
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Mood swings
The brain draws down approximately 20 percent of daily calories as energy for its functions. With such a metabolic demand from an organ representing 2 percent of a human's body weight, optimal nutrition is essential to meet these energy demands. A large portion of this demand is met by the carbohydrate and glucose content of the diet. However, in a percentage of persons from as early as the mid-forties, there is a reduction in the brain's ability to use glucose for energy. This decreasing brain glucose consumption facilitates the development of the above health challenges and even more severe neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia.
Past and ongoing research has uncovered that a major mechanism in developing inadequate brain health is a marked reduction in brain energy supplies. Technically known as brain hypometabolism, a ketogenic and low-carb diet is poisted to alleviate this troublesome phenomenon.
Ketogenic and low carbohydrate eating across the lifespan is now understood as necessary to eliminate the social isolation, depression, helplessness, and loss of function in daily living activities that accompany failing brain health. The advice of the day across populations is to ignore the overconsumption of carbohydrates (all types) in our foods, such as snacks, toiletries, and medicines, which is taking a toll on multiple healthcare systems globally.
In 2024, we not only have to deal with
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Type 1 diabetes (autoimmune) and
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Type 2 diabetes (lifestyle mismanagement), but we have firmly entrenched
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Type 3 diabetes (overconsumption of carbohydrates) into the fabric of daily living. Type 3 diabetes is also known as insulin resistance, causing Alzheimer's disease.
The quote below highlights the grim reality of Alzheimer's disease.
"According to a report by Alzheimer’s Disease International, there are over 55 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2020, and this number is expected to almost double every 20 years, reaching 78 million in 2030 and 139 million in 2050 . The same report estimates that the global number of persons with Alzheimer’s disease, prodromal Alzheimer’s disease, and preclinical Alzheimer’s disease were estimated at 32, 69, and 315 million, respectively, in 2019 2. Together they constituted 416 million across the Alzheimer’s continuum, or 22% of all persons aged 50 and above".
Therefore, global attempts to reduce our daily intake of all types of carbohydrates must intensify to eliminate the catastrophic decimation of brain health and wellness.
Regardless of age or stage of life, demands of work or play, providing an energy-sparing and regeneration strategy to nourish the brain is essential from the fourth decade of life and beyond.
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The infographic below from the Brain Health Initiative shows nutrition and physical activity as lifestyle changes to optimize brain health.
How Does the Speed Training Academy (S.T.A) Assist?
If you are experiencing brain health issues and are desirous of adding diet and exercise to your daily brain care routine, Speed Training Academy is willing to help.
Here is how:
STEP 1: BOOK a FREE, NO obligation 30 minute complimentary consultation to determine if we are a good fit for your dietary and nutrition project
STEP 2: BUY Dietary Assessment package.
STEP 3: Speed Training Academy (S.T.A) works with you in small bits over 3-4 days to collect, assess, analyze, and review your past and current nutrition data.
STEP 4: BUY Brain Health plan.
A bonus on demand is adding a physical exercise program using strength training exercises.
Dietary Assessment Package
The dietary assessment is necessary for your coach to design your nutrition/diet plan effectively. Without initial benchmarks, diet planning would surmount nothing more than spitting in the wind.
A typical assessment package
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Relevant health history
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Relevant diet history
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Relevant physical activity history
After completing your assessments, buying the Brain Health plan is next.
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Brain Health
The following two statements are foundational to the philosophical approach of Speed Training Academy (S.T.A) nutritional advice:
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"Healthy, wholesome foods are sources of bioactive ingredients for health and wellness, and the bioactive ingredients for health and wellness are found in wholesome, healthy foods"
"People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food" ― Wendell Berry.
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Each Brain Health Plan Uses the Following Personalized 4R Implementation Process
STEP 1: REMOVE – gradually remove and eliminate ultra and over-processed foods, household chemicals, personal care products, etc., from your diet, fridge, and kitchen that are contributing to your unwanted health and nutrition issues
STEP 2 - REPLACE – replace allergic and triggering foods in your diet with healthier food choices
STEP 3 - REPAIR metabolism – provide via appropriate food plan the necessary F.P.C.M.V (healthy Fats, moderate Protein, low Carbohydrates (fibrous) - Minerals, Vitamins) for health and wellness
STEP 4 - REBUILD your body with adequate food, hydration, exercise, and recovery
As a client of Speed Training Academy, access to your brain Health eating plan is via an online platform.
Client Support System
Speed Training Academy offers each client purchasing the Brain Health Plan a client support system.
​Primary support
​Skype Call
Skype calls for each client are on the THIRD Sunday of each month between 6 pm and 10 pm Atlantic Standard Time (AST- Barbados). Adjustments will be made for clients in other time zones. Each client will receive a time appointment for the Skype call based on mutual suitability for both client and coach.
Note that coaching and the work week run from Monday to Saturday.
​Secondary Support
Daily Reflective Diary
​Each client is encouraged to keep a daily reflective food diary as a companion on their nutrition journey. This can be a hard copy journal or a food dairy app (Cronometer, Carb Manager, Myfitness Pal).