I saw such comments. Is there any study demonstrating a need for choline supplementation, or do we just have anecdotes?
No studies that I know of. But all of the most experienced nootropic experimenters at ImmInst seemed to heavily recommend it. In one case it was even suggested a guy add it to his stack despite eating 6 raw eggs a day. At any rate, I think choline is stored in your body, so you should be able to go for months on piracetam without noticing choline depletion. In the meantime, though, you should probably read up on it, and make sure to check for weird effects.
I also haven’t quit caffeine (<150mg daily from espresso); is there any known negative interaction w/ Piracetam?
I don’t remember any such interaction from what I’ve read, which is quite a bit. If there is, it must have been incredibly mild or I think I would’ve remembered.
Agree that eating raw eggs is a bad idea because of the possibility of infectious organisms. (Exception: you get the eggs from your own chickens or some such, and you know what you are doing.)
No real effort; I just read comments for 6 hours straight or so and paid attention to people who were referenced as high status or knowledgeable, then paid extra attention to the stacks or suggestions of those people, and came away with the impression that choline was recommended. It was by no means scientific and it could be that choline supplementation isn’t necessary. Hopefully there’s some literature on the subject; I plan on looking a lot closer in a few weeks when I start to really do some research into nootropics and other IA.
No studies that I know of. But all of the most experienced nootropic experimenters at ImmInst seemed to heavily recommend it. In one case it was even suggested a guy add it to his stack despite eating 6 raw eggs a day. At any rate, I think choline is stored in your body, so you should be able to go for months on piracetam without noticing choline depletion. In the meantime, though, you should probably read up on it, and make sure to check for weird effects.
I don’t remember any such interaction from what I’ve read, which is quite a bit. If there is, it must have been incredibly mild or I think I would’ve remembered.
Thanks. This response is incredibly valuable to me, because it saves me from spending a lot of time reading (another) forum.
6 raw eggs/day? That’s got to be about 1 day of unpleasant food poisoning per year :) I cook mine in butter.
Agree that eating raw eggs is a bad idea because of the possibility of infectious organisms. (Exception: you get the eggs from your own chickens or some such, and you know what you are doing.)
How much effort did it take for you to learn which ones were experienced?
When I looked, I found a lot who didn’t take choline supplementation.
No real effort; I just read comments for 6 hours straight or so and paid attention to people who were referenced as high status or knowledgeable, then paid extra attention to the stacks or suggestions of those people, and came away with the impression that choline was recommended. It was by no means scientific and it could be that choline supplementation isn’t necessary. Hopefully there’s some literature on the subject; I plan on looking a lot closer in a few weeks when I start to really do some research into nootropics and other IA.