First “Feed My Brain” Tablets Manufactured for Retail Sale in 1994

By 1994, after several years of testing, a pilot food supplement was manufactured for the first time as a tablet called “Feed My Brain.” International markets focusing on literacy and education immediately took an interest in FMB. Indonesia became the first country in the world to receive Feed My Brain, where it was registered with the Indonesian FDA as a food supplement and called “FMB.”

Since then thousands of Indonesian students have taken FMB. Favorable reports from school districts, parents, principals, counselors, and physicians throughout Indonesia, made it into one of the leading food supplements to support brain function in children sold in Indonesia.

Since 1996, thousands of Indonesian students have taken FMB. Many students who were doing poorly in school became “A” students, according to parents. No data was kept as to how many students did not show any benefit. What kept reaching the attention of the company in Indonesia was not the lack of positive testimonials based on returns, but the reports from around the country of students who were benefiting academically, in both rural communities and in major cities.

Not only do the many testimonials suggest that FMB might improve school performance in some students, but it also suggested that it might raise student’s innate intelligence. For many years, scientists believed that one could not raise intelligence beyond acquired intelligence, which is a function of environmental variables that relate to the quality of teaching, schools, parental involvement, etc. They believed that the innate IQ one was born with, called “innate intelligence”, could not increase no matter what kind of school you attended or how many special teachers or tutors one received.

Human intelligence is measured in many ways, but two primary ways have received particular research interest. All humans are born with some degree of intelligence. This intelligence can decide how well an individual may survive in this world, even possibly whether one succeeds in school. It can measure your ability to solve problems that require certain cognitive abilities, for example. This kind of intelligence is called “innate or fluid intelligence.” It can be estimated by the use of specialized intelligence or IQ tests. Can a student do arithmetic, read a book, speak another language, play a musical instrument or remember historical events? All of these subjects are taught by parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, tutors, and teachers. This knowledge is acquired because you were not born with these skills or knowledge. That is why it is called “acquired intelligence”, which can also be determined by certain IQ tests with reasonable reliability. Well known and validated IQ tests can measure this combination of acquired and innate intelligence. The total number of points that represent this combined score on an IQ test is the “IQ score.” It’s not a perfect way to determine intelligence, but can be a useful indication of where a child, for example, might be performing on measures of intelligence compared to other children similarly tested.