Nootropic Stacks

Let me confirm something you already know on a gut level...

The supplement industry is a capitalist Wild Wild West, a profiteers' paradise, a mostly unregulated free market, and smart consumers should beware.

While the ubiquitous white Nutrition Facts box you see on the labeling of the packaging looks official, anyone with basic word processing software can create such a representation of the ingredients ostensibly in a product. When you realize that no one verifies that the actual individual ingredients are in a given product, you realize how much of a decision to buy and take a supplement is based upon trust.

Biohacker Review: A superlative brain rehab sabbatical stack

CONSCIOUS1™ by Ultra Human distinguishes itself from the crowd of capsuled Nootropic stacks. As a veteran Biohacker, I'm pretty bored of taking capsules and capsules limit the dosage of individual ingredients in a Nootropic stack. This one packs a whopping 4.5 grams of powdered active ingredients, many of which are patented, denoted by the ®. This is a good sign of credibility when evaluating Nootropic products and supplements. Patented ingredients have a reputation to live up to; they aren't the cheapest, but they are more likely to be pure and efficacious.

Onnit’s Alpha Brain is Problematic AF!

A critique of the popular, celebrity-endorsed Nootropic Stack

In this article, I’ll do more than just criticize and point out flaws. I’ll point out how Onnit could improve this product and suggest some superior Nootropic stacks; products that have a whole lot more credibility and integrity behind their formulation, marketing, and creation. Of course, you might say: Jonathan, it looks like you’re getting paid by these guys to promote their products(and bash Alpha Brain). Where’s your integrity? Yes, I am affiliated with some of these Alpha Brain alternatives, and I’m certainly a fallible human, but my integrity is only as good as my arguments. I’d urge you to just evaluate the arguments and evidence I present about these products.

A certain percentage of people who try the renowned smart drug get zero results from Piracetam.

Others will try Piracetam, and get a nice productivity buzz for a few hours that's comparable to a cup or two of coffee but when they try to push the dosage up they get headaches, brain fog, or run into a tolerance curve. This is part of the reason why the Piracetam source I recommend offers a very flexible 100% money-back guarantee.

However, on the other end of the user experience spectrum, a number of anecdotal reports speak in grand terms to Piracetam's capacity as a transformative upgrade tool for the minds of otherwise healthy, young people. It has an uncanny, yet frequently reported, effect of bringing back once-forgotten memories, both good and bad.
The good news is that for the vast majority of people who try Piracetam, it has a significant, almost immediately noticeable effect on productivity, focus, and memory. Indeed this is the reason it is one of the most popular smart drugs.
The reason for this inconsistency is complex, Piracetam, while often sold as a supplement or research chemical, is a drug with a range of very complex interactions in our neurobiology. To maximize its effect there need to be several high-quality cofactors present in your biology.

The Piracetam rabbit hole goes very deep, yet most people who take it just barely poke their heads in it...

Biohacker Review:

I had tried this stack in its commended dosage of 2 capsules daily and it did not really blow my socks off. One sweltering summer afternoon I doubled the recommended dosage and did 4 capsules. I found this to be pleasantly stimulating; I was very focused on my work and in a good mood. The effect lasted about 3 hours. Every evening I take a little break from my work when me and my wife walk our dog, toward the end of the workday I am stuck in kind of funk around this time and am not all that talkative, but on 4 capsules of this stuff, I was very chatty. I did a Dual N-Back brain training session and my scores were a bit improved. At this dosage I could feel a little blood pressure, doing it at a higher dosage I suspect would be overstimulating, I'll continue to use this stack at this dosage. There was an uptick in Dual N-Back brain training scores from 3.5 to 3.7 stacking 4 capsules of Clarity Daily Nootropic with 2 capsules of Thrivous's Alpha Neuroprotector vs taking the Clarity stack alone.

Alpha Neuroprotector

 

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Category: Nootropics & Anti-Aging

Modafinil and I go back. Way back. I've used Modafinil well over a hundred times, I've used every type of Modafinil. You name it - Armodafinil, Artvigil, Adrafinil, Modalert - I've metabolized it! While Modafinil holds a special place in my heart, it's problematic.

In this article, I'll break down ten issues with Modafinil and I'll suggest an alternative.

NZT-48, the fictional "Limitless" drug cost $800. Are pricey real-life Nootropics worth it?

The most expensive Nootropic I'm aware of is...

Qualia (Maybe?) Problematic

Several people have asked me about this slick Nootropic stack product and I also know several people who have tried and loved it. I've personally experimented with over 100 different Nootropics over the past 10 years and I can tell you, even without trying it, that there are a couple of problems with Qualia...

Biohacker Review: Wakes your ass up!

1-2-Go is my favorite morning stack right now...

This is one of the most efficacious and popular stacks amongst biohackers: Caffeine and L-Theanine.
Caffeine provides the motivation
L-Theanine provides the inspiration
Theobromine which is supposed to be a vigilance agent

Two very popular Nootropic ingredients make me raise a skeptical eyebrow whenever I see them in a product. DMAE and Huperzine.

Huperzine, which we'll discuss first, is an effective energizing Nootropic but less is really more.