Think Gum “Brain-Boosting Chewing Gum” Will Revolutionize The Way Students Study For Tests
November 22, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Education News
STANFORD CALIFORNIA- Think Gum,™ a “Brain-Boosting Chewing Gum,™” will revolutionize the way students study.Functional chewing gum, or gum that promises a little something extra has previously been used to whiten teeth, supply daily vitamins and even keep you awake. Think Gum LLC takes this sweet delivery device to new limits with their namesake confection.
Think Gum™ was designed to “enhance concentration, improve memory and ease anxiety,” says Think Gum LLC founder Matt Davidson. Chewing gum isn’t often thought of as high-tech, but with ingredients like xylitol (a tooth-friendly calorie-free sweetener) and vinpocetine (a cerebral-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor) you might feel like you need an advanced degree just to chew this stuff. It’s a good thing Think Gum™ will help you in your chemistry class, right?
“You don’t need to understand all the biochemistry. You just need to chew it while you study, and again when you need your brain to perform,” says Davidson. That’s easy for him to say. He graduated Phi beta Kappa and Magna cum Laude from U.C. Berkeley in 2006 with a degree in molecular and cellular biology. At the age of just 22, he co-authored his first scientific paper in the British medical journal, The Lancet. He is now a bioscience Ph.D. student at Stanford.
Davidson created the gum after hearing about how some scents such as rosemary and peppermint could be used to improve concentration and reduce careless errors. Like many people, Matt chewed gum to help him focus. He coupled this with his science background and an entrepreneurial spirit. “I used to pick leaves from rosemary bushes on campus and put them in my peppermint chewing gum before class,” he says. Think Gum has come a long way since then. It now includes herbal extracts such as ginkgo biloba, bacopa, guarana and vinpocetine. He is quick to add, “It also has enough caffeine to keep you going during boring lectures.”
If you chew Think Gum™ while studying, your recall of the same information will be improved when you chew Think Gum again. Context-dependent memory, herbal extracts, and caffeine make Think Gum™ the solution for the slacking student. The gum is sugar-free and tastes like typical peppermint gum with hints of the aromatic herbal ingredients.
Think Gum is available for purchase online at www.ThinkGum.com and at some campus bookstores.
Contact:
Matt Davidson, Founder of Think Gum LLC
MDavidson@ThinkGum.com
(510) 409-5791
www.ThinkGum.com
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