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Brain Drain™ Research Study Waitlist

What to Expect

YOU KNOW THE FEELING

You reach for a word and it's gone. You finish a sentence and lose the thread before you get to the end.

You're not foggy, exactly... you're just not all the way there. And you've been told it's stress, or age, or just the way things are now.

Brain Drain™ was built for that.

It's a 90-minute facial acupuncture and scalp treatment combining therapeutic gua sha and a specialized full-body acupuncture protocol designed to support the brain's natural waste clearance pathways through the face and neck.

In June 2025, a landmark study published in Nature mapped these pathways and demonstrated that gentle mechanical stimulation can restore clearance that naturally declines with age.

Brain Drain™ is the only treatment in Westchester built on that research.

This fall, I'm opening a small research cohort specifically designed to take place over 12 weeks to formally track what this treatment does to cognitive function, sleep quality, and tissue change over time.

I'm documenting everything: validated cognitive scales, Our ring sleep data, standardized photos, and palpation assessment.

This is clinical research happening in a real acupuncture practice.

This cohort is for you if…

    • You’re experiencing brain fog, word-finding difficulty, or cognitive fatigue

    • You’re in perimenopause or approaching it and your brain doesn’t feel like yours anymore

    • You have ADHD or suspect you do, and the cognitive load has become unsustainable

    • You own an Oura ring, or you’re willing to get one before the cohort starts

    • You can come to Well Collab Acupuncture in Ossining, NY for in-person sessions

    • You can commit to 8 sessions over 12 weeks (4 weekly, then 4 every other week)

    • You are not currently pregnant

What you’re signing up for

This is a genuine commitment and I want to be honest about what it involves.

  • 8 sessions of The Brain Drain™ over 12 weeks at Well Collab Acupuncture in Ossining

  • A validated cognitive assessment (CFQ 2.0) at baseline, week 6, and week 12 (takes about 5 minutes each time)

  • Weekly clarity ratings and session check-ins

  • Oura ring sleep data shared weekly

  • Standardized photos at baseline, week 6, and week 12

  • A simple home practice between sessions — gua sha and facial exercises I’ll teach you

In exchange, you receive 8 sessions of a 90-minute treatment that retails at $300 at a research rate of $199 per session ($1,592 total). You also get the home practice protocol, which is the foundation of a course I’m currently building, for free.

By adding yourself to this waitlist you’re confirming that the above requirements are true for you and that you’re genuinely interested in participating. This doesn’t enroll you in the cohort; it just puts you in line. When spots open this fall I’ll be in touch with next steps, full informed consent documentation, and scheduling.

Brain Drain™ observational cohort is a practitioner-initiated research project at Well Collab Acupuncture.

De-identified data may be submitted for publication in integrative medicine journals.

Participation is voluntary and can be discontinued at any time.