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Brain Boosters
Your first step? A trip to the drug store, of course. A meeting like
this is much too important to take on without fine-tuning your
biochemistry. You must create the optimal neurochemical
conditions for learning and creativity. You ask the druggist, who
then points you towards the shelf of cognitive enhancement
compounds. You load up your basket with bottles of piracetam,
vasopressin, hydergine, choline, DMAE, and maybe a little
centrophenoxine.
After an hour in your study you feel very different. You are
relaxed, yet alert and creative. Your brainwave activity has altered,
and an EEG would show that it has become more regular and has
increased in amplitude in certain frequencies, causing you to feel
simultaneously profoundly relaxed yet in a state of intense
concentration, loose and creative as well as mentally quick and
alert. A brain-mapping device would show that the two hemispheres
of your brain were in a state of "superconnection," with an
enormous increase in the amount of information flowing between
the hemispheres. At the same time, the rate of metabolism and the
energy level of your brain cells has sharply increased. You are now
in the optimal state to imprint new memories, to plan new and more
creative strategies, to visually rehearse every detail of your
upcoming meeting,
On the other hand, huge amounts of money are being spent for
research into cognition enhancing drugs. But much of the research
is being done by the big pharmaceutical companies, who are racing
with each other to develop patentable memory enhancement drugs
and to obtain FDA approval for these compounds. Since the FDA is
primarily oriented toward treating diseases in a medical context,
and has not shown much interest in giving its approval to drugs
that simply improve people's memories or boost intelligence, the
pharmaceutical companies are directing their efforts toward gaining
approval for their cognition-enhancement drugs as treatments for
medical problems such as Alzheimer's disease, multiple-infarct
dementia and senility. Since financial analysts estimate that such
cognitive drugs could quickly produce sales of well over a billion
dollars a year in the U.S. alone, and ultimately outsell antibiotics
and tranquilizers, the competition is fierce, and these companies
are in no mood to investigate ways their substances might work
synergistically or in combination with other substances or other
mechanisms such as mind machines.
Also, since their efforts are directed toward drugs that are
patentable, these companies have little interest in exploring the
Nootropic Drugs
Piracetam
being stimulated from all directions at once, but the feeling was
entirely pleasant. I was enthralled."
Hydergine
"I first tried Hydergine six years ago during a visit to see my Dad
at Christmas. He and I started taking 9mg and results were
apparent to us both within two days. He was in his 40s, and began
to remember events from when he was in his 20s as clearly as if
they'd happened yesterday. What was interesting was that the
events were nothing outstanding--just ordinary times. In other
words, the everyday events had been stored away all these years, it
just took some chemical prodding to jog them loose into the
conscious mind.
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DOSAGE: The US
recommended dosage is 3mg per
day, however, the European
recommended dosage is 9 mg
per day taken in three divided doses. Most of the research has been
done at levels of 9 to 12 mg per day or higher, and there is some
evidence that 3 mg per day is simply insufficient for significant
cognition- enhancement effects. It may take several weeks or even
months before Hydergine produces noticeable effects. Hydergine
(though not its generic counterpart) is available in a sublingual
form, and there is evidence that sublingual doses reach the brain in
greater quantity.
Dr. Laura De Giorgio, deeptrancenow.com All rights reserved.
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Vasopressin
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More Nootropics
Centrophenoxine
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While a natural foods diet, such as liver, meat and eggs provides
high dietary levels of choline, the modern processed junk food/
synthetic diet provides little choline, as do vegetarian diets.
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Vinpocetine