changing and staying the same

I haven't updated this in a while, although I meant to at several times. A couple of changes in my life: my bipolar mood problem flared up for a bit. Apparently the ashwagandha and bacopa remedies weren't strong enough, although at one point I traveled and didn't bring my ashwagandha with me. The conventional medicines may well have made things worse instead of better, but I bounced back eventually, and am back to my earlier medication regime. The other change is that I've temporarily put aside my vegetarianism. I think the second change followed from the first: when things go wrong, I think it makes sense to tinker with how one's living--it pays to take more risk to find a better way of living.

As for supplements and exercise: I'm back on ashwagandha, bacopa, green tea, turmeric, sometimes ALCAR and ALA, resveratrol, fish oil, and borage oil. Also a multivitamin, D3, zinc, and magnesium in the evening. I think with the colder weather and fewer daylight hours I've been getting less exercise, but I'm trying to get back to the gym and back walking. I'm concentrating more on weightlifting than on aerobic fitness during this period of being a carnivore.

I haven't yet failed in my project of living forever, which is good, but my experiments with supplements to help with mood and cognition (which is why after all I call myself nootrope) have had mixed results so far.