Chemical Enhancement (suppliments)

[spiderx]

<edit> arggg i misspelled the title...

Anyone else here taking supplements known as Nootropics?

Here's my regimen:

• Cinnamon 800mg (helps maintain sugar levels / reduce cholesterol)
• Garlic Oil 1,000mg (heart health / reduces cholesterol)
• Piracetam 5,000mg (brain and blood health)
• Lecithin(Choline) 1,200mg (brain and heart health)
• Fish Oil 1,000mg (brain and heart health)
• Multivitamin (replaces daily essential nutrients)
• Cayenne pepper (tasty!)
• Vitamin D (bone health)
• R- ALA (Alpha-Lipoic Acid)

Any results to report?

If not, why not? I figure, if I take alcohol to kill some brain cells, and caffeine to wake them up, I might as well take supplements to grow some more, right?

Anyways, really interested what others do, or don't.

My results:
After adding Piracetam + R-ALA, my drinking has gone down from "beer almost nightly / weekends" to "maximum one beer once a month". I've been able to pay more attention at work, and studying seems easier as well.

 

[Jules]

...
If not, why not? I figure, if I take alcohol to kill some brain cells, and caffeine to wake them up, I might as well take supplements to grow some more, right?...

Is your purpose for taking alcohol just to kill some braincells?

 

[murkrow]

I wonder if the brain cells you generate by doing this will be enough to make up the time you spend researching and maintaining it.

 

[Vrecknidj]

I eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Sometimes I'll take a vitamin.

Otherwise, nothing fancy like what's described here.

Dave

 

[creepingcharlie]

I'm hesitant to take supplements for the most part. I read in Skeptic Magazine that the benefits of taking fish oil for heart health is inconclusive, and potentially hazardous in people who haven't already been diagnosed with heart disease. He then equated it to insulin, saying that just because it is helpful for diabetics doesn't mean healthy people should start using it.

 

[Jordan~]

I read my dad, who is more skeptical than any magazine. We avoid anything advertised as being healthy like the plague. That's all that this crap about putting rubbish in your food is - an advertising craze. People are getting more susceptible to appeal to nature, and the men in suits have noticed.

Just eat fruit. It tastes nice and it's good for you.

 

[Dissident]

Yeah, being healthy is not such a mystery: Fruits, vegetables, excercise, avoid excesses... thats it.

 

[fullerene]

Yeah, being healthy is not such a mystery: Fruits, vegetables, excercise, avoid excesses... thats it.

It's funny, cause that's what I would have thought most natural if I weren't me. About 75% of my diet is meat, probably 15% dairy and 10% fruits/grains. I'm 6', 145 lbs, and can run up to about 6 miles on flat ground before stopping. I believe I also actually have low blood pressure too, but only because if I lay down for a while and stand up really fast my vision fills up with spots and I can't see for a few seconds (one of the symptoms).

My diet and health basically seem to defy any medical common sense. I pretty much eat whatever I want whenever I want. I think that your body basically tells you what it needs, because you get a craving for it. Things like soda, which are purely bad for you, tend to make me sick if I drink it with every meal (which I had to do upon going to college because that was what was on the meal plan), and my body just developed this overwhelming craving for meat when I turned 11 or 12 (before that I lived off of oven-cooked pizza and hot dogs).

Until evidence suggests otherwise, I'm pretty much with Jordan. When I used to pay attention to the things, I caught waay too many "healthy diets" that were in conflict or overturned within the span of 2 or 3 years (taking them from the news). I'm not sure they should be actively avoided... but they certainly shouldn't be followed as if someone actually unlocked the key to good health by drinking a glass of grape juice after every meal.

 

[Dissident]

Your body can resist almost anything when you are young, payback time begins when you are 40.

 

[severus]

I believe I also actually have low blood pressure too, but only because if I lay down for a while and stand up really fast my vision fills up with spots and I can't see for a few seconds (one of the symptoms).

That happens to me, too, but I didn't know it was from low blood pressure.


I wouldn't start putting a bunch of time and energy into your diet. Eat a variety of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, blah blah blah. I'm a vegan, and though it's for ethical reasons, I'm sure it'll have health benefits in the long run. I heard that soy increases estrogen levels....

Edit: Then again, I also heard that coffee causes cancer and fish makes you smart (& thats why asians are so smart, leik omg).

 

[Ogion]

You're Vegan? That means you don't eat/drink milk or products out of milk, right?
I myself am vegetarian, so no meat (or fish...), in short nothing which was once living tissue. But i do drink milk and related, so that's because i ask. I have to confess, that i would find it hard to do without milk, i am a milk fan. To live without meat however is no problem at all for me.

Ogion

 

[severus]

I don't eat meat, milk, eggs, gelatin, or any other animal (by)products. I also don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

I drink soy milk, and it's surprisingly good.

 

[Jordan~]

I couldn't be a vegan because I couldn't live for more than a day with no cheese. And vegan cheese probably doesn't come in as many exciting and wonderful varieties. Taking cheese from me would be like taking my vision.