I've been running a second cycle of NSI at 35-40mg per day. My last cycle was 20mg per day for 30 days. Dealing with major depression. It's not as major these days.
I've been taking 5mg of lexapro for 2 months. The doc wanted to up it to 10, but I've been resistant because I don't want to become dependent on an SSRI. 5mg is as very low dose. I added in the 40mg of NSI about 10 days ago and have been experiencing a meaningful difference from taking the low dose of lexapro alone. While the lexapro may have been helping to slowly elevate mood and improve memory, humor, etc., the NSI seems to be restoring some deeper faculty. My previous experience with NSI seemed to have helped, but only marginally. The improvements have been many--namely memory, empathy, creativity, and general cognitive function. I wouldn't say it's 100% better; probably 50%. Because my sleep has been so terrible for the last two years (couldn't stay asleep longer than 4-5 hours), I'm still trying to recover from that. My sleep has been improving, but I'm also taking a low dose of Trazadone at night of 50mg. I plan to replace the trazadone with agomelatine shortly.
Since I'm certain that lack of sleep, alcohol use, and other substance use has negatively influenced DNA and sleep rhythms, I've been working on doing a reset. As part of this regiment, I've done courses of cerebrolysin. I've also recently added GHK-Cu at 30mg per day. While I've been getting soreness from the GHK injects, I can confirm that this has also had a net positive effect on my general well being. I had a stomach ulcer, as well as tingling/loss of feeling in two of my toes prior to the GHK. The ulcer had been previously treated with one of those awful proton pump inhibitors for 2 months. Seemed to help, but the problem hadn't resolved completely. Within 5 days of the GHK, the tingling has nearly disappeared, feeling has been restored to multiple parts of my body, and I've had no stomach issues.
FYI, I'm not overweight or anything. Most of these symptoms were a byproduct of the depression and resulting anxiety. For anyone who has had major depression, you know that there are very real physiological effects, beyond things like day to day memory loss.
For supplements I'm taking a mineral complex, antioxidant/vit complex, curcumin, DHA, ubiquinol, trans-resveratrol. I've tried adding uridine in the past. It certainly seemed to boost my BDNF (I can usually tell by how much I sneeze--there's a histamine relationship), but was also keeping my tired mind awake at night.
Other effects--my body temperature is nearly back to normal--around 98.4. 6 months ago it was typically 78.4-78.6.
Seeing as I'm using such an amalgamation of peptides and neurogenic stuff, it's not 100% possible to know exactly what's doing what, or how the synergy is taking effect. All I can say is that the NSI seems worth adding to any depression regiment.