My idea of nootropic and cognitive improvement is very different, but do not invent anything, it’s all based on the research. If you want to improve your intelligence, your ability to learn, or your productivity, you must first remove the one that is not good; for example, suffer from anxiety? depression? Well, it is useless to take nootropics without knowing what you’re doing, emotional disorders burn your cognitive abilities (not only “philosophy”, the studies say, and why, that you know the reason why this is biologically) . After resolving those improves your lifestyle, even without knowing the reason, you do not need a scientist to know that the good old work purposes, I refer to rest well, exercising and eating healthy. Obviously all these things are connected, for a nootropic it can also be a substance that improves the rest, or that manages anxiety without having effects on memory. If I do not sleep, I eat like a pig and drink alcohol, which is the point of thinking about piracetam, not do you any good, you’ll get far more benefits by improving your lifestyle.
You mentioned amphetamines, I would not take them for anything in the world, and I do not think they are absolutely the most effective solution for the treatment of attention deficit. Careful here, do not take me for one of those who are against drugs and natural products like XD. I consider all of the substances in the same way, natural or synthetic, but I wonder, what theory is behind it? there may be more effective treatments? what are the side effects? the results are only short-term or long-term? Also often we tend to consider a substance hoping that the face of miracles, but the body does not work that way. Hardly a single gene has marked effects regarding any aspect, be it cognitive or health concerns. There is an intelligence gene or a gene lifespan. it is true, some (few) have a greater impact than others, but often you have to look at their interaction to predict the effects. Then it is said that a single drug provide the desired effect, in fact, to get the benefits you will use high doses and then there will be more side effects. Before turning to drugs, why not look at the shortcomings? The fanatics of nootropics take at least the minimum recommended vitamins and minerals? Well sometimes cost more vitamins than taking a pill, then you tend to think more about the single most effective treatment, rather than boundary and I understand that. However in the case of amphetamines I do not think that they are effective and sustainable in the long term. Their mechanism of action does not convince me at all. Does not convince me, and because the studies indicate that the long-term are not very effective, and it is because before you know what they were amphetamines, I knew quite well the mechanisms of stress, and all the consequences that it brings, how it works the dopamine system, and why it is better to leave him alone, and consider it as a last resort. You know how the stress? It works like amphetamines. There is a very common test that is performed on mice in the laboratory, is called “social defeat”, in practice the conditions are created for a small mouse defenseless being subjected to a big mouse, it can be done only once or long term. Well, the effect on the brain in this test is the same as what you get with amphetamines, so much so that in a mouse under test becomes tolerant to amphetamines as if he had made use (this is called cross tolerance), and comes into play only the dopamine system, but also glutamate, cortisol, CRF and many others.
I think it is the best way to combine the already simple substances that have a very small effect, together cognitive workout. We used to believe that certain skills are innate … it is not so. Except in rare cases (which I thoroughly studied but that are impossible to replicate exactly) skills are not innate, there are certainly differences, and these differences can be smooth with the use of certain substances, but iron out these differences do not need to nothing if you’re lying on the couch all day, the difference is the training (in this case cognitive). People are looking for the magic pill, but do not realize they have it already.
You know what the first nootropic to use? what the best benefit / side effects and the best benefit / cost? and that makes the difference more than the others?
Physical activity! Already taken alone improves cognitive abilities, but not all. Many speak of the time window that is when you are young, because when you are young cognitive function are more malleable … except that the brain is plastic in adulthood, but by the way not everyone knows that with the 'aerobic exercise are released many substances such as to return the brain of an adult to a state of plasticity comparable to that of a child. But the interesting thing is what we can do for this plasticity … if you do a workout targeted to a certain type of cognitive ability in adulthood, there are people from seeing, but are reduced, but if the associate physical activity results doubled!
Oh my God, what I wrote XD I had not noticed. Excuse me: D
