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[Deep Thought]

My Daily Stack

Piracetam: 1200 mg twice daily.
Noopept: 10 mg twice daily.
Acetyl L-Carnitine: 500 mg once daily.
Alpha Lipoic Acid: 200 mg once daily.
Vitamin C: Up to 500 mg once daily.
Folic Acid: 50 mcg once daily. Part of a B-vitamin complex that I take.
Inositol: 100 mg once daily. This is part of the same B-vitamin complex mentioned above.
NAC: 500 mg once daily.
Fish Oil: 6 grams of fish oil daily. 2700 mg EPA and DHA. 3240 mg omega-3 fatty acids.
Vitamin K-2: 100 mcg every 4th day.
Centrophenoxine: 250 mg once daily. Titrated upwards for a maximum of 500 mg.

TULIP

Coq10: 300 mg once daily.

I haven't started taking or doing this yet.

PQQ: 20 mg taken once daily for two consecutive days, then 5 mg once daily from then on.

LLLT.

I also take a weak multi-vitamin to plug in any nutritional deficiencies that I might have.

Exercise

I run 30 to 45 minutes a day.

Body-weight exercises + resistance training with dumbbells.

I consider adding the following two protocols:

CILTEP
I consider adding 2x450 mg Now Artichoke Extract, 4mg of Forskolin and 500mg Phenylalanine.

Mr Happy’s Stack
150-250mg UMP, orally, twice per day.
500IU of mixed vitamin E.

Edited by Deep Thought, 20 September 2013 - 09:16 AM.

[thomas1234]

How long are you on this stack and what effect did it have on your life?
Could you attribute any accomplishments to it?
Could you give a bit more background on yourself (age, occupation, study,…)

[Deep Thought]

Update:
I'm going off of acetyl l-carnitine for a few days to test if it's what's giving me headaches and making me feel sluggish.


How long are you on this stack and what effect did it have on your life?
I've been "on" it for a month. Piracetam 5 days, centrophenoxine 3 days. Taking nootropics has been very beneficial for me. I can study harder than I've ever been able to before and I still feel motivated enough to do other things in my freetime. I slacked too much at the start of the semester, by accident. I took phenibut and became so careless that I didn't read up on things in time.

Could you attribute any accomplishments to it?
I'm faster at learning new stuff and memorizing what I've read, I'm less nervous and have become confident in my abilities,.

Could you give a bit more background on yourself (age, occupation, study,…)
Age: 23.
Occupation: Full-time student.
Study: Computer science (calculus, algorithms, programming).

Edited by Deep Thought, 23 September 2013 - 06:38 PM.

[Deep Thought]

Daily Stack (Revised)
Uridine: 250 mg once daily.
Piracetam: 1200 mg twice daily.
Noopept: 10 mg twice daily.
Alpha Lipoic Acid: 200 mg once daily.
Vitamin C: Up to 500 mg once daily.
B-vitamin complex: + PABA and myo-inositol ½ capsule daily.
NAC: 500 mg once daily.
Fish Oil: 6 grams of fish oil daily. 2700 mg EPA and DHA. 3240 mg omega-3 fatty acids.
Vitamin K-2: 100 mcg every 4th day.
Centrophenoxine: 500 mg once daily.
L-Tyrosine: 500 mg twice daily.
Lecithin: 10,5 grams. AFAIK it's actually a poor source of choline, inositol, -serine and other phosholipids, but it includes all of them. Lecithin contains ~7-8% phosphatidylserine.
Weak multi-vitamin.
TULIP

Coq10: 300 mg once daily.

PQQ: 20 mg taken once daily.

CILTEP

Artichoke Leaves Extract: 500 mg twice daily.
Full spectrum Forskohlii: 400 mg.
Phenylalanine: 500 mg once daily.

Edited by Deep Thought, 24 September 2013 - 03:50 PM.

[Deep Thought]

Accomplishments
Date (August - so before I started taking this stack.)
My vision has slightly improved. I'm now down to -2 on my right eye, from -2,5. The optician wanted to to double check to make sure, and booked a new appointment the day after. The second time I went to have an eye exam it turned out that my right eye was less astigmatic on top of slightly improved vision.

Scores
Cambridgebrainscience.com
Stroop test ~105
Monkey ladder ~11
Digit span ~7
Grammatical reasoning ~32
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http://brainscale.net
Corsi block-tapping ~9.73
Dual N-Back ~4.78
QNB ~2.2
CWM Spatial ~9.70
CWM Verbal ~9.70

Mensa.dk = 145+ (It doesn't go higher than 145.)

Edited by Deep Thought, 25 September 2013 - 01:39 PM.

[Deep Thought]

Accomplishments
My reading comprehension has gotten better. I used to have diffulty with comprehending and remembering everything that I read because of my losing focus whilst in the middle of reading a sentence and/or not integrating the content with stuff that I've already read. I read in a scientific journal that positive changes in the brain is detectable after 100 hours of reading and in the same article, that reading Shakespeare excites the brain as it struggles to 'connect' the dots and discern the meaning of Shakespeare's texts. (The Shakespeare effect.) Hard work and tenacity pays off.

[lostfalco]

Update:
I'm going off of acetyl l-carnitine for a few days to test if it's what's giving me headaches and making me feel sluggish.

Are you taking forskolin with PQQ?

[Deep Thought]

Update:
I'm going off of acetyl l-carnitine for a few days to test if it's what's giving me headaches and making me feel sluggish.

Are you taking forskolin with PQQ?

I haven't actually added forskohlii (forskolin content unknown, unfortunately) yet, but plan to do so as soon as they deliver it.

Why are you asking?

Edited by Deep Thought, 28 September 2013 - 04:42 PM.

[Deep Thought]

Accomplishments
My reading comprehension has gotten better. I used to have diffulty with comprehending and remembering everything that I read because of my losing focus whilst in the middle of reading a sentence and/or not integrating the content with stuff that I've already read. I read in a scientific journal that positive changes in the brain is detectable after 100 hours of reading and in the same article, that reading Shakespeare excites the brain as it struggles to 'connect' the dots and discern the meaning of Shakespeare's texts. (The Shakespeare effect.) Hard work and tenacity pays off.

The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth have profound effects on the human brain.

http://en.wikipedia....iam_Shakespeare -> Works

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Wordsworth -> Major works

Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals
The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this week.
http://www.telegraph...ch-reveals.html

Edited by Deep Thought, 29 September 2013 - 07:42 AM.

[Deep Thought]

Taking piracetam makes me nauseous, gives me headaches and blurred vision, I'm discontinuing it...
http://www.longecity...c-transmission/


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Noopept: 10 mg twice daily.
Alpha Lipoic Acid: 200 mg once daily.
Vitamin C: Up to 500 mg once daily.
NAC: 500 mg once daily.
Vitamin K-2: 100 mcg every 4th day.
Centrophenoxine: 500 mg once daily.
L-Tyrosine: 500 mg twice daily.
A weak multi-vitamin and weak B-vitamin complex.

Mr. Happy's uridine stack

Uridine: 250 mg once daily

Fish Oil: 6 grams of fish oil daily.

Lecithin: 10,5 grams.

TULIP

Coq10: 300 mg once daily.

PQQ: 20 mg once daily.

CILTEP+resveratrol

Artichoke Leaves Extract: 500 mg twice daily.
Full spectrum Forskohlii: 400 mg twice daily.
DL-Phenylalanine: 500 mg once daily.

trans-Resveratrol: 100 mg.

Edited by Deep Thought, 29 September 2013 - 02:22 PM.