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I’m staying away from pretty much anything thats not directly from the ground. I am also taking several brain helper pills to increase the uptake of seratonin,

• potatolicious 17y ago
  Thats struck me as odd too - he's avoiding anything unnatural and man-made, but feels no issue with popping a bunch of pharmaceutical chemicals? No offense to the author, and I'm glad if the above strategies are working out for him, but this smells a little like too much new-age health food mania. I too know people who swear by organic foods and will spend hours lecturing you on the dangers of industrialized food production... and have a row of pharmaceuticals they pop daily. This reminds me altogether of the Jonathan Coulton song: "I Feel Fantastic" (look up lyrics if you don't know it).
  • khafra 17y ago
    Caffeine's the obvious guess, but Vinpocetine is a nootropic made from periwinkles, and there may be others.
    • silentbicycle 17y ago
      He says "no coffee". Apparently it's neither natural enough nor "pure brain-food" enough. Piracetam is another popular nootropic. It's cheap, well-studied (as nootropics go, anyway), and probably pretty benign. My unrequested advice is that if you're thinking about taking nootropics, you should probably make sure you're eating reasonably well and getting enough sleep and exercise first. Then consider the trade-offs.