WHAT’S WRONG WITH W?

“Jack, what’s wrong with W? It seems he has a serious deficit of energy and strength. Maybe it’s just me, but he doesn’t seem right, and hasn’t for some months. I’m worried.”

This inquiry by TTPer Paul Rosenberg is typical of many I’ve been receiving. It’s obvious to Paul and lots of others that the Bush Presidency is running out of steam. The deficit in question is not, however, physical – as anyone who tries to keep up with W on a mountain bike at the Crawford Ranch can attest – it’s mental.

Which means neurochemical.

George W. Bush is in the best physical condition of any president in American history. He can bench press his own weight more times than Arnold Schwarzenegger. He can keep up with Lance Armstrong on a mountain bike course. He has the resting heart rate of a world class marathoner: 44 beats a minute.

But that low heart rate means low levels of something called noradrenaline. Also known as norepinephrine, this is the brain’s “go juice.” It’s the stuff in your brain that enables you to get out of the cave in the morning, hunt the animal down, drag it home, and feed your family.

This kind of brain stuff is technically called a neurotransmitter. Everything your brain does – every thought you have, every emotion you feel, every will to move a muscle is performed in the brain with these natural brain chemicals that transmit the message to think this, feel that, through your brain’s neurons.

You can’t focus or concentrate without the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. You can’t relax or fall asleep without the neurotransmitter serotonin. You can’t feel rewarded or good about yourself for accomplishing a task without the neurotransmitter dopamine.

And you can’t feel mentally energetic and confidant without the neurotransmitter noradrenaline.

The best way to suppress noradrenaline levels is to subject yourself to prolonged stress and be chronically overwhelmed by expectations. When this happens, your brain’s receptor sites for noradrenaline (the part of the neuron receiving the transmitted signal) become “downregulated” or less capable of receiving the signal.

This has happened to GW. Due to stress and expectations that most all of us cannot imagine much less tolerate, his brain is shutting down its capacity to produce and be receptive to the neurochemicals responsible for mental drive and not putting up with any crap from his opponents.

The solution is to reactivate noradrenaline levels and receptivity in his brain. W’s brain like everyone else’s synthesizes or manufactures neurotransmitters from certain nutritional building blocks – specific amino acids (constituents of proteins) and vitamins.

Noradrenaline is made from the amino acid phenylalanine with the help of nutrient enzyme cofactors folic acid, copper, and vitamins C and B-6. It’s very hard if not impossible to get the optimum amounts of these nutrients from your diet, especially if the neurotransmitter levels in question are depressed. The only way to efficiently do it is with a specifically designed nutritional formula.

It just so happens that I make one. My company, ThinkSmart Soft Drinks, produces Smartz, which is designed to optimally elevate levels of noradrenaline, acetylcholine, and dopamine in your brain. It takes about 20 minutes to start working. How it works and why is explained in detail on the Smartz website.

So thanks to Paul’s question, I’m sending a case of Smartz to the White House. Now all I have to do is convince GW to drink it. Wish me luck, Paul. If you see the old George Bush back again with fire in his belly, you’ll know I succeeded.