Choosing Nootropics
How to optimize choice of smart drugs, individually?
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Generally, we want to improve our mental abilities, as this is useful for all kind of goals. However, it remains a difficult problem. For example, some smart drugs may decrease longevity (we should have a category for that, too), which reduces the likelyhood of reaching both the technological singularity, and the longevity escape velocity. On the other hand, using smart drugs may increase the mental acuity, that may enable the very breakthroughs needed to overcome problems in general.
The choice of neuro-modulation strategies is broad, each individual is unique, and, by the amount we are taking, food has to count as one of the key elements of that too, as we are playing the "tetris of life", to optimize our organism's metabolic and signaling "shapeflows".
So, the problem is -- how to intelligently choose what and when to eat. When playing tetris -- it is not good to have the same bricks falling all the time, in most cases. An organism benefits from variation of ingested substances over time, to clear the metabolytes, and so, we should vary diet and supplementation, question is -- how?
关于一些细节。我尝试过多种物质，从长春西汀到拉西坦、普拉西坦、莫达非（我不推荐）、Phenibut、银杏等。然而，我倾向于只吃维生素和阿司匹林（从营养方面来看，鱼油、葡萄柚、大蒜和咖啡）。在矿物质和维生素中，我使用柠檬酸镁、Triovit（抗氧化剂）、Multi-B Strong（B 族维生素）和 Vitiron 或 Neurozan——作为广谱补充剂，并结合一些抗衰老物质，如白藜芦醇和 NMN （还没有勇气开始服用二甲双胍）。
我不确定我这样做是对还是错，但是，我也很想知道其他人的选择。
Regarding some specifics. I had tried multiple substances, from Vinpocetine, to Piracetam, Pramiracetam, Modafinil (which I do not recommend), Phenibut, Ginkgo Biloba, and others. However, I tend to stick with just vitamins and aspirin (+fish oil, grapefruits, garlic, and coffee, from the nutrients side). Among minerals and vitamins, I use Magnesium citrate, Triovit (antioxidants), Multi-B Strong (B-vitamins), and either Vitiron or Neurozan -- for broad spectrum supplements, combined with a few anti-aging substances, like Resveratrol and NMN (did not have courage start with Metformin yet).
I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or wrong, but, I'd be curious to know also about other people's choices.
当我喝酒非常重要时，我服用了硫胺素 B 复合维生素来消除宿醉或阻止宿醉的发生。
现在我服用 Neuromind 和一个单独的欧米茄 3 素食胶囊。这使我非常警觉，愿意做具有挑战性的事情。
When I drunk alcohol if was very important I took a Thiamine Bcomplex vitamin to remove the hangover or stop it from occurring.
Nowadays I take Neuromind and a separate omega 3 vegan capsule. This causes me to be very alert and open to doing challenging things.
// 当我喝酒很重要时，我服用了硫胺素 B 复合维生素来消除宿醉或阻止宿醉的发生。
我不确定它对宿醉有什么作用，但我在 14 岁的时候给自己注射了氯化硫胺素。我记得它曾经让嘴唇发麻。 :) 这更像是一种探索性的事情，而不是其他任何事情。
我想，当时我正在探索清醒梦，并尝试各种补充剂来改善清醒梦。 B6似乎有效果。
// When I drunk alcohol if was very important I took a Thiamine Bcomplex vitamin to remove the hangover or stop it from occurring.
I'm not sure how it would work for hangovers, but I had injected myself with Thiamine Chloride as a 14 year old kid. I remember it used to make lips tingle. :) It was more of an exploratory thing rather than anything else.
I guess, I was exploring lucid dreaming at that time, and was trying various supplements to improve lucid dreaming. B6 seem to have an effect.
Nootroflix.com 是一个很好的起点。此外，跟踪您的心理指标并与您的医生交谈。
Nootroflix.com is a fine starting point. Also, track your psychophisical metrics and talk to your physician.
// Nootroflix.com
有趣的模型。我想，仅针对心理表现优化益智药是没有意义的：更有意义的是针对那些同时是抗衰老药物的益智药。也许，“抗衰老益智药”是正确的类别。
// Nootroflix.com
Interesting model. I guess, it doesn't make sense to optimize nootropics for mental performance alone: much more sense is to target those nootropics, that simultaneously are anti-aging drugs. Perhaps, "anti-aging nootropics" would be the right category.