BriteFOCUS

BriteFOCUS Review

BriteSMART: A nutrition supplement formulated to reduce stress, improve your mood and boost overall brain performance. Its ingredients break down carbohydrates to give you more energy and support learning and memory while promoting healthy cognitive function

BriteSHIELD: A nutrition supplement to help protect your brain against the effects of aging, with contents formulated to enhance your mood, mental performance and memory by improving nerve functions and preventing damage caused by free radicals.

BriteSHOT: A drink to help with brain fatigue, sharpen your focus and increase your mental energy without those ‘caffeine or sugar-style jitters’ by raising levels of glucose, oxygen and neurotransmitters in the brain.

What Does BriteFOCUS Claim To Do?

BrightFOCUS claims that BriteSMART, with Ceretrophin – its proprietary blend – ‘impacts both cognitive function and mood. Specifically, BriteSMART decreases stress and improves memory, mental focus/attention and general intelligence. Remarkably, in just four weeks study participants experienced an average 6-point increase in their IQ scores!’

As for BriteSHIELD, it’s ‘formulated for protection. It contains ingredients that have been clinically proven to protect the neurotransmitters and slow down the brain’s aging process. In addition, it also helps protect the brain from cell damage caused by free radicals and toxins.’

And BriteSHOT is claimed to be, ‘a booster to the other supplements in the line or as a stand-alone for younger patients. Consumers report that BriteSHOT helps with calm and focus, making it easier to complete brain-intensive tasks.’

Does BriteFOCUS Work?

Taken individually, the ingredients of all three BriteFOCUS products are known either to improve mood or brain function or give the body a bit of an energy boost, so there’s no reason to assume that taking all of them together either in tablet or liquid form wouldn’t work.

We’re a little bemused when reading through the clinical study for Ceretrophin we notice several disclaimer-type statements regarding those tests, saying that their results should be treated as ‘preliminary findings’ which ‘should be subjected to replication in a larger sample’.

This leads us to believe that yes, clinical double-blind tests were indeed carried out as the company claims, but only with a very small number of test subjects.

One thing that did come out of those tests, we discovered, was that Ceretrophin doesn’t speed up the thinking process, but ‘instead improved accuracy and reduced mistakes’, so perhaps if you’re looking for something to help you think quicker, it might be better if you looked elsewhere.

What Are The Ingredients of BriteFOCUS?

BriteSMART contains Ceretrophin ™ – a proprietary blend made up of:
Huperzine A, which is isolated from the Chinese herb Huperzia serrata, considered to be a promising agent in the treatment of Alzheimer’s and effective in relieving memory deficits for college students

• Vinpotecine: Derived from the periwinkle plant. It’s widely used as a neuroprotective agent, enhancing blood flow to the brain and increase the brains uptake of glucose and oxygen, improving speed of memory learning and recall
  Acetyl-L-Carnitine, which naturally occurs in our liver, kidneys and brain. It may have beneficial properties in treating age-related disorders, depression and attention deficit problems. It also increased energy production in brain cells and enhances blood flow to the brain.
• R-Alpha Lipoic Acid: Facilitates the action of enzymes in several metabolic pathways and is an important antioxidant. It’s also been clinically shown to enhance memory function.
• Rhodiola Rosea: Known to stimulate the nervous system, decrease depression, eliminate fatigue and enhance work performance. It’s also been used to prevent high altitude sickness.
• Biotin: Otherwise known as Vitamin B7. Helps the body to convert carbohydrates into glucose, metabolise fats and proteins, and is created in the intestine by bacteria there. It helps prevent loss of appetite, fatigue, insomnia and even depression.

Other ingredients: Tricalcium phosphate, microcrystalline cellulose, vegetable stearic acid, methylcellulose, croscarmellose sodium, silicon dioxide, pharmaceutical glaze and vegetable magnesium stearate.

BriteSHIELD contains:
An absolutely massive amount of Vitamin B12 (11,120%DV) which is good for detoxing and protecting nerve cells.

It also contains Cereprotectin, which is their proprietary blend, made up of:

• Turmeric Extract: An antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detox agent. It’s also used to treat depression, Alzheimer’s and fatigue.
• N-Acetyl Cysteine: An antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, detox agent and energy booster which serves to protect nerve cells against damage and degeneration.
• Quercetin: An antioxidant with anti-inflammatory properties, often used to treat schizophrenia.
• Japanese Knotweed Extract: It’s antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and improves blood flow by expanding blood vessels and reducing the activity of cells needed for blood clotting.
• R-Lipoic Acid: It’s an antioxidant, breaks down carbohydrates to make energy for the body and is used to treat memory loss and chronic fatigue syndrome.
• Black Pepper Extract: Helps the body absorb these ingredients.

Other ingredients: tricalcium phosphate, microcrystalline cellulose, vegetable stearic acid, methylcellulose, titanium dioxide, riboflavin, croscarmellose sodium, silicon dioxide, pharmaceutical glaze and vegetable magnesium stearate.

Contains no added sugar, starch, preservatives, gluten or soy products.

BriteSHOT contains the same proprietary blend of ingredients found in BriteSMART.

• Highest grade pharmaceutical ingredients
• Non-GMO
• Gluten-Free
• Vegan-Friendly

Does BriteFOCUS Have Any Side Effects?

We couldn’t find any side effects reported for the combination of ingredients, so we looked a little closer into the individual ingredients contained in BriteFOCUS’ proprietary blend Ceretrophin … and this is what we found:

Huperzine A can cause digestive problems, sweating, blurred vision, muscle twitching, cramps, increased saliva and urine production and high blood pressure if taken orally for more than three months.

Vinpocetine can cause digestive problems, sleep disturbances, dizziness and flushing of the face, as well as nervousness.

Acetyl-L-Carnitine can cause more seizures in people who’ve already had them, and can cause a ‘fishy’ odour in urine, breath and sweat.

R-Alpha Lipoic Acid can cause rashes when taken by mouth, and if you ingest it when there’s a low amount of thiamine (vitamin B1) in your body it can cause serious health problems.

As for Rhodiola Rosea, its potential side effects aren’t known yet.

Are There Any Customer Reviews For BriteFOCUS?

It’s the strangest thing – of all the websites we’ve seen offering customers the chance to upload their reviews this is the only one where there has been no reviews whatsoever. And that’s for any of the three products BriteFOCUS are trying to sell there.

But we did check out the testimonials on the website. The customer testimonials were all glowing, of course, as were the two testimonials from the founders of BriteSMART. Three other doctors put their name to statements that referred to the products as a program, while one of those statements appeared to be referring to something else completely.

So we looked elsewhere for reviews.

Both the reviews for BriteSHIELD on Amazon give it 5 stars, as did all three reviews there for BriteSMART. But so far for BriteSHOT, there aren’t any reviews as yet.

Does BriteFOCUS Offer a Money-Back Guarantee?

We couldn’t find one. Anywhere.

Where Can I Buy BriteFOCUS?

They available as a Groupon special back in 2015/6. BriteFOCUS’s Facebook page recently announced they were now selling though Amazon new Format but then again it’s probably much easier to try and ignore how awful the website is, and order directly through there.

If you’re looking for an incentive to get caught up in BriteFOCUS’s autoship program, look no further than their $20 discount offer as an incentive for signing up. You get BriteSMART and BriteSHIELD for $99.95 with renewal options of 1 month, 6 weeks or 2 months.

It’s such a shame that the drop-down menu and all the other buttons on that page are jumbled up so untidily, like the page was put together by someone who really didn’t care about giving a good impression. Because it really doesn’t.