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Reviewer: shugie, 75 or over Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Consumer)
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Whether my imagination or not, I believe it helps with my age-related cognitive functioning.
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Reviewer: 65-74 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Consumer)
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very bad side effects affecting my emotional well being and what I felt in my brain. I could not take it. Bad side effects.
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Reviewer: 65-74 on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Consumer)
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I took this for a couple of months before discovering that the latest scientific research has determined that the phosphatidylcholine that citicoline (and egg yolk, etc.) becomes in the body, especially when combined with carnitine, a common amino acid in meat, has been found to be a major factor in the development of atherosclerosis: "23% higher risk of cardiovascular events and a 55% higher
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Reviewer: Moose, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months
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Onset of significant increase in hypertension
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Reviewer: 65-74 on Treatment for less than 1 month
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Started taking 500 mg, once a day, and since the third day my memory and focus is back to what it was 20 years ago.
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