I recently started taking piracetam, a safe and unregulated (in the US) nootropic drug that improves memory. The effect (at a dose of 1.5g/day) was much stronger than I anticipated; I expected the difference to be small enough to leave me wondering whether it was mere placebo effect, but it has actually made a very noticeable difference in the amount of detail that gets committed to my long-term memory.
It is also very cheap, especially if you buy it as a bulk powder. Note that when taking piracetam, you also need to take something with choline in it. I bought piracetam and choline citrate as bulk powders, along with a bag of empty gelatin capsules and a scale. (Both piracetam and choline citrate taste extremely vile, so the gel caps are necessary. Assembling your own capsules is not hard, and can be done at a rate of approximately 10/minute with a tolerance of +/- 10% once you get the hang of it.)
I strongly recommend that anyone who has not tried piracetam stop procrastinating and order some. Yes, people have done placebo-controlled studies. No, there are not any rare but dangerous side effects. Taking piracetam is an unambiguous win if you want to learn and remember things.
I ordered from here at a price of $46 for 500g each of piracetam and choline citrate, plus $10 for gel caps and $20 for a scale (which is independently useful).
How soon do you start becoming desensitized to it, if at all?
I could not find any reported instances of desensitization to piracetam, so I don’t think it’s an issue.
I’m trying out nootropics, adding them one at a time. Next on my list to try is sulbutiamine; I’ve seen claims that it prevents mental fatigue, and it too has basically zero side-effect risks. Also on my list to try are lion’s mane, aniracetam, l-tyrosine and fish oil. All of these are unregulated in the US.
I also use adrafinil, which greatly improves my focus. However, it’s more expensive and it can’t be used continuously without extra health risks, so I only use it occasionally rather than as part of my daily regimen. (There’s an expensive and prescription-only related drug, modafinil, which can be used continuously.)
Sounds good. Be sure to report back once you test out the others—nootropics are very interesting to me, and I think generally useful to the community as well.
First, the results of a wikipedia check:
“There is very little data on piracetam’s effect on healthy people, with most studies focusing on those with seizures, dementia, concussions, or other neurological problems.” which seems to decrease the assurance of safety for everyday use. But otherwise, most of the sources appear to agree with your advertising.
I too would like to see memory tests for these drugs, but preferably in a large and random sample of people, with a control group given a placebo, and another control group taking the tests with no aid of any kind. As well as a long term test to check for diminishing effectiveness or side effects. With my memory, I would pay a considerable amount to improve it, but first I want to see a wide scale efficiency test.
With my memory, I would pay a considerable amount to improve it, but first I want to see a wide scale efficiency test.
Why? Given the low cost and risk of trying it out, the high possible benefits, and the high probability that results will depend on individual genetic or other variations and so will not reach significance in any study, wouldn’t the reasonable thing be to try it yourself, even if the wide-scale test had already concluded it had no effect?
Using your logic, I would be forced to try a large proportion of all drugs ever made. My motivation to buy this drug is close to my motivation to buy every other miracle drug out there, I want more third party tests of each one so I can make a more informed decision of where to spend my money, instead of experimenting on hundreds per month.
Also, it does not have a DIN number in Canada, so I would need to import it.
A large proportion of drugs ever made have been claimed to improve memory and have a long history of null-results for side-effects and positive results for mental improvement?
I too would like to see memory tests for these drugs, but preferably in a large and random sample of people, with a control group given a placebo, and another control group taking the tests with no aid of any kind.
I don’t know, but I think it’s just memory. This is almost impossible to self-test, since there’s a wide variance in problem difficulty and no way to estimate difficulty except by speed of grokking itself.
I recently started taking piracetam, a safe and unregulated (in the US) nootropic drug that improves memory. The effect (at a dose of 1.5g/day) was much stronger than I anticipated; I expected the difference to be small enough to leave me wondering whether it was mere placebo effect, but it has actually made a very noticeable difference in the amount of detail that gets committed to my long-term memory.
It is also very cheap, especially if you buy it as a bulk powder. Note that when taking piracetam, you also need to take something with choline in it. I bought piracetam and choline citrate as bulk powders, along with a bag of empty gelatin capsules and a scale. (Both piracetam and choline citrate taste extremely vile, so the gel caps are necessary. Assembling your own capsules is not hard, and can be done at a rate of approximately 10/minute with a tolerance of +/- 10% once you get the hang of it.)
I strongly recommend that anyone who has not tried piracetam stop procrastinating and order some. Yes, people have done placebo-controlled studies. No, there are not any rare but dangerous side effects. Taking piracetam is an unambiguous win if you want to learn and remember things.
Two questions:
-How much does it cost?
-How soon do you start becoming desensitized to it, if at all?
I ordered from here at a price of $46 for 500g each of piracetam and choline citrate, plus $10 for gel caps and $20 for a scale (which is independently useful).
I could not find any reported instances of desensitization to piracetam, so I don’t think it’s an issue.
I’m trying out nootropics, adding them one at a time. Next on my list to try is sulbutiamine; I’ve seen claims that it prevents mental fatigue, and it too has basically zero side-effect risks. Also on my list to try are lion’s mane, aniracetam, l-tyrosine and fish oil. All of these are unregulated in the US.
I also use adrafinil, which greatly improves my focus. However, it’s more expensive and it can’t be used continuously without extra health risks, so I only use it occasionally rather than as part of my daily regimen. (There’s an expensive and prescription-only related drug, modafinil, which can be used continuously.)
Sounds good. Be sure to report back once you test out the others—nootropics are very interesting to me, and I think generally useful to the community as well.
First, the results of a wikipedia check: “There is very little data on piracetam’s effect on healthy people, with most studies focusing on those with seizures, dementia, concussions, or other neurological problems.” which seems to decrease the assurance of safety for everyday use. But otherwise, most of the sources appear to agree with your advertising. I too would like to see memory tests for these drugs, but preferably in a large and random sample of people, with a control group given a placebo, and another control group taking the tests with no aid of any kind. As well as a long term test to check for diminishing effectiveness or side effects. With my memory, I would pay a considerable amount to improve it, but first I want to see a wide scale efficiency test.
Why? Given the low cost and risk of trying it out, the high possible benefits, and the high probability that results will depend on individual genetic or other variations and so will not reach significance in any study, wouldn’t the reasonable thing be to try it yourself, even if the wide-scale test had already concluded it had no effect?
Using your logic, I would be forced to try a large proportion of all drugs ever made. My motivation to buy this drug is close to my motivation to buy every other miracle drug out there, I want more third party tests of each one so I can make a more informed decision of where to spend my money, instead of experimenting on hundreds per month. Also, it does not have a DIN number in Canada, so I would need to import it.
A large proportion of drugs ever made have been claimed to improve memory and have a long history of null-results for side-effects and positive results for mental improvement?
Indeed.
Working on it. Give me a few years.
Question: did you find that it leads to faster grokking (beyond the effects of improvement of raw recall ability)?
I don’t know, but I think it’s just memory. This is almost impossible to self-test, since there’s a wide variance in problem difficulty and no way to estimate difficulty except by speed of grokking itself.