Anyone using pomegranate extract?

Pomegranates have some good evidence behind their antioxidant and cognitive-improving effects.

Pomegranate juice augments memory and FMRI activity in middle-aged and older adults with mild memory complaints.

After 4 weeks, only the pomegranate group showed a significant improvement in the Buschke selective reminding test of verbal memory and a significant increase in plasma trolox-equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) and urolithin A-glucuronide. Furthermore, compared to the placebo group, the pomegranate group had increased fMRI activity during verbal and visual memory tasks. While preliminary, these results suggest a role for pomegranate juice in augmenting memory function through task-related increases in functional brain activity.

Pomegranate Supplementation Protects against Memory Dysfunction after Heart Surgery: A Pilot Study

Patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass graft and/or valve surgery were given either 2 g of pomegranate extract (in 2 POMx pills) or placebo (pills containing no pomegranate ingredients) per day from one week before surgery to 6 weeks after surgery. The patients were also administered a battery of neuropsychological tests to assess memory function at 1 week before surgery (baseline), 2 weeks after surgery, and 6 weeks after surgery. The placebo group had significant deficits in postsurgery memory retention, and the pomegranate treatment not only protected against this effect, but also actually improved memory retention performance for up to 6 weeks after surgery as compared to presurgery baseline performance.

There is a specific polyphenol compound in pomegranates, called Punicalagin, which seems to be leading to the best effects.

Pomegranate Compound Could Help Fight Alzheimer’s

Pomegranate juice decreases amyloid load and improves behavior in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Pomegranate Polyphenols and Extract Inhibit Nuclear Factor of Activated T-Cell Activity and Microglial Activation In Vitro and in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer Disease

Punicalagin inhibits neuroinflammation in LPS-activated rat primary microglia

Some drug companies are even trying to make a modified punicalagin-based drug to treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Creating pomegranate drug to stem Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

Punicalagin has even shown to improve human intestinal micoflora.

The influence of pomegranate by-product and punicalagins on selected groups of human intestinal microbiota

So I figured bringing out a pomegranate extract would be a good edition. The fact that we are working more closely with Verdure, and they already had a clinically tested version, was perfect. I've been using it for a little over a week now. So far so good. It's super bitter, though. So dilute it in water, or cap it.