/noot/ - ноотropics

Babby /noot/'s First Stack for under $50

L-Theanine - 100mg
Caffeine - 50mg (100mg if tolerance-reliant)
Fish Oil - 1g DHA + EPA
Piracetam - 1.6g 3x per day
CDP Choline - 300mg

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1. L-Theanine and Caffeine are commonly recommended as a great starting point for the world of nootropics.

L-theanine is thought to have both antioxidant and relaxant effects. 1 Some animal studies have shown that the amino acid may also be helpful in lowering lipids in the blood , fighting obesity, and preventing cognitive dysfunction and stroke. When combined with a caffeine source you'll be able to enjoy all the benefits of caffeine without the crash or jitters. An excellent beginning to any stack.

$1.85 - http://www.powdercity.com/products/l-theanine-benefits
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>>22
Anti-inflammatory. Go with a butter source instead of cream. This, of course, is after you wean off from having coffee and get rid of your tolerance for a few weeks.

I would be personally interested in hearing of anyone with ADHD-PI/SCT (primarily inattentive/sluggish cognitive tempo) and what they're currently doing to treat it. What I've noticed across all accounts, including mine, is that we're non-responders to traditional stimulants due to a primary disturbance in the striatum/cortex. Atomoxetine, modafinil, memantine, have been matched with SCT/PI sufferers with nominal effects. I'm wondering what, if anything, have they done for their subtype?

>>23
Nigga, did you say butter?

Nootropic experiences: Cerebrolysin is the best I have tried. Followed by NSI-189. Bacopa seems like the best to supplement over a lifetime. I have tried most of the racetams. I find oxi and phenyl addicting, and noopept the best for memory. Aniracetam and colu are comparable to each other and are good for anxiety. Over all, general health supplements have given me the biggest energy boost, antidepressant action, and focus. I will outline these below.

Most important shit to take IMO/IME:
multivitamin
fish oil
D-3
magnesium
creatine
taurine
ALCAR
curcumin (turmeric)
bacopa
ashwaghanda

all of these are dirt cheap. Take this stack first and then add in more experimental stuff like racetams and all those other goodies they talk about over on Longecity. Oh and the best reference I have found is Examine.com enjoy.

>>37
I've been taking 100mg noopept daily, think that's okay

>best diet
Try Ray Peat diet. Fruit+red meat(lamb,beef)+dairy+seafood(cod,sole,oyster,mussels,lobster,crab). Vegetables are good if cooked well. Cook food in coconut, macadamia oil, ghee/butter or lamb/beef tallow. Avoid PUFA oils.
Legumes and grains are irrelevant to a healthy diet, the nutrients and vitamins offered by them can very easily be gained in higher quantity from other food.

Non-ruminant meats (chicken, pork, turkey, duck), nuts and high-fat fish (salmon, tuna, mackeral) are ok in moderation.
>exercise
I say lifting+sprinting. Crossfit is the road to snap city and endurance cardio is counterproductive if you lift.
Lifting gives you dat muscle and has all around proven benefits, sprinting is good for the central nervous system, legs, good cardio and feels great.
But really the best exercise is anything you'll stick to over the long term.
For lifting routine, a mixture of weight+bodyweight exercises is the best IMO and stretching is essential.
>sleep
I suggest 10pm-7am but really anything from 7-9 hours if fine. Beware below or above that, you're getting into sleep deprivation and oversleeping.

Sleeping on back, left side or right side is fine. Sleeping on stomach is bad, it obstructs your breathing and leads to cramps.
>>30
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>>32
Longecity may have the deluded pseudo-intellectual fanaticism that you'd find in many places on the internet, but also like many places on the internet that have discussions of this nature, there are diamonds in the rough. This place is no exception. It takes time to find the great threads in Longecity, but the few great ones that there are have brought light to many interesting and tried supplementation/experimentation among its users, that they're usually offhandedly recommended to newcomers and experts alike outside Longecity. I definitely enjoy going Longecity over Reddit, no question there. Also, if you're interested in just hearing about the anecdotes without the mental gymnastics going on in Longecity, then go to Erowid.

>mediterranean diet
>myth
I haven't heard of Ray Peat or the clinical data on any other diet that wasn’t the mediterranean diet. if there is any, so I'll just defend that there's evidence that shows eating a mediterranean diet, which would primarily consist of plant-based foods, is a step in the right direction for anyone wanting to try a diet. Much like the whole paleo-diet (which I initially thought was a good idea, until reading more about ketogenesis), I'm confused of your claim that it's a myth while mentioning a diet such as the Ray Peat diet. I wouldn’t mind being proved that it is worthwhile and that the Mediterranean diet is a myth, of course.

>sleep deprivation
There's no statistical or health-related reason that has determined the need for us to sleep for more than 6.5 hours a day. Any sleep routine your body acclimates to the amount of sleep debt is owed. No human body will oversleep (10+ hours) if there is no sleep debt owed. There have been studies that monitored test subjects' brainwaves after putting them through rigorous solitary confined cubicles, deprived of any light, that shows that the average mean of hours slept after the initial trials (which were 16 hours of sleep the first days) evened out to be an average that was half of that, 8 hours. Their cognition markedly approved when reaching peak sleeping hours.

Here's a study explaining that 6.5 hours is the perfect amount of sleep needed for a person to lower their risk of cancer and reap numerous other health benefits.

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>>33
Also, thanks for the few contributors to this board for posting.

Hoping that we'll be able to get more posters in here.

>>33
>if there is any, so I'll just defend that there's evidence that shows eating a mediterranean diet, which would primarily consist of plant-based foods, is a step in the right direction for anyone wanting to try a diet. Much like the whole paleo-diet (which I initially thought was a good idea, until reading more about ketogenesis), I'm confused of your claim that it's a myth while mentioning a diet such as the Ray Peat diet. I wouldn’t mind being proved that it is worthwhile and that the Mediterranean diet is a myth, of course.

Here's a good article on the subject: http://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/the-mediterranean-diet-pasta-or-pastrami/

And have a funny video too while you're at it… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=773hzYEq22s

>>35 haven't had an erection in ten days