X-post from part of this in response to Adderall supplementation requests: (http://www.longecity...er/#entry682842)
"- P21 -- A surprisingly useful tool recently added to my toolbox. Added an incredible ease of fluid thinking, if simply through accessible energy and capacity to manage attention and thus increased working memory. 125-250mcg provided ever-so-slight energy and noticeable awareness and lucidity for 3-6 hours on its own and with Adderall. 500-750mcg was fine without Adderall. More than that increased the effects but resulted in the slightest urge to take a nap after more of the positive effects above. At 1.5mg the effects seemed to result in diminishing returns in positive effects with a more pronounced sense of wanting to take a pleasant nap. Induced remarkably vivid memories of dreams the night before, and in particular involved becoming lucid, turning a neutral dream into positive, controlled one, and then waking myself up consciously feeling warm, calm energy. It seemed to be easier to store and retrieve complex information (bio, chem, calc). I've only tried it for 5 days and am taking a short break, as that is the protocol for Cerebrolysin, of which it is apparently a highly-active component peptide."
So far, I've been loving it. I must say that the first day off after 5 days on was remarkably vivid. I wrote that post, went to class, performed a lab experiment in more breadth and depth than usual in less time than allotted and expected, went out that night, made a lot of new friends, and ended up partying late into the night with one of them. I was in the zone. Actually, now that I think about it, even on day 2 last weekend at a party I was in the zone -- I went to a party and met an incredible woman and sparks flew like I haven't remembered in a while. The whole time I was socializing and meeting everyone there. This is after a few weeks of kind of being a shut-in doing research and work (well, and surfing), after which I usually take a few social events to "warm up" to my usual extroversion. This is day 2 off and I feel a little sharper than normal even though I haven't had any kind of supplement over the last 2 days besides my daily multivitamin and activated B-complex with methyltetrahydrofolate (Thorne Methyl-Guard) to support my MTHFR C677T & MTRR A644A +/- mutations, implicated in impaired processing of folic acid to the above in the methylation cycle (viz. snp rs1801133 & rs1802059 and/or http://www.heartfixe...trigenomics.htm for details -- I found this out using 23andme & geneticgenie.com/nutrahacker.com). I'm resuming protocol today for another 5 days as this is my first week in 5d on/ 2d off to mimic Cerebrolysin's recommended protocol for 4-6 weeks.
Ceretropic's Paul a.k.a MisterYouAreSoDumb and Jason a.k.a. Guacamolium on reddit have posted about P21 here:
http://www.reddit.co...t_its_supposed/
They are both very knowledgeable and accessible via Ceretropic's contact info at the site. I've had short conversations with Paul regarding Selank and P21 since I started ordering from them a couple weeks ago and he's been incredibly helpful and responsive. It's really exciting to potentially get some of the benefits of Cerebrolysin with only subcutaneous injections (which I am comfortable with as they are easy, safe, and performed by diabetics everywhere daily) rather than intramuscular injections (which I don't want to perform without proper equipment -- which I will do in the upcoming months). They seem to be initially working with about 1mg dosages similar to Semax, but Paul is considering slightly increasing that to 1.5mg in his private experiments. I've been working with 0.5mg-1.mg, but I like small increments of 0.125-0.250mg as I do not feel any "napogenic" effects (as Jason humorously described them) a few hours later at that dosage.
EDIT: I'd also like to point out another anecdote in hindsight: I had never had the drive/impulse/what-have-you with that perfect combination of creative flow of prose, intellectual analysis, and memory of studied research at the same time to synthesize these sorts of posts until day 4 of my first week of P21 tests. It does overlap with week 4 of my noopept tests, but I haven't been taking it with regularity as I only like to take it when I'm going to be working alone all day and not have to entertain distractions. I think that it's a remarkable coincidence worth noting. It's not only that I don't feel any writer's block or too distracted to consistently focus, but that I fluidly and spontaneously did so when I opened longecity -- which I have been doing for the last few months consistently, and for many, many years on and off beforehand.
Edited by barbelith42, 24 August 2014 - 01:39 AM.