Nootropics: Smart Drugs and My Experiment
I remember reading in high school about the intense regimen imposed on world-class Olympic athletes, of their sports doctors and nutritionists, of their medical tests and dietary restrictions, all to push their speed and edge just a bit farther. I read the article and wondered, why don’t the world class scientists, the genius thinkers, have the same devotion to their bodies? For every workout or vitamin that allowed a sprinter to shave off seconds off his time, should there not be something similar that would allow the professor to arrive at his theory, or the engineer his perfect design, a few hours faster? Now there are many complications with this analogy, the most obvious of which is how deep the understanding of the human brain needs to be than say a human lung for specific causes and effects to be found. There also exists the problem of how to measure cognitive capacity - how much more difficult it is to quantify intelligence, concentration, motivation. But there are studies nowadays that do try that, people that try to answer the question “How can we think better?”. I’m interested in benefiting from these work these people have done.
I am now, more than ever, in a position in life where I stand to take advantage of high cognitive performance, where the opportunities available to me demand my best focus and work. At this point I think I can invest sometime in the methods and mechanisms in which I can achieve this. Now, before everyone comes at me all in arms about illegal drugs and such, please be assured that I have not lost my morals nor general pansiness for trying new things. I WILL be thoroughly looking into the research of the methods and substances I try and I WONT be doing anything dangerous nor anything illegal. Now, for my own reflection and your general amusement, I will do my best to document in this blog what I try, how they’re supposed to work, and how they worked with me.
Now without further ado, I present round 1 of my experiment:
* Exercise and physical workout regimen recommended in Transcend by Ray Kurzweil
* Most basic nutritional supplements recommended by the above.
- Generic Multivitamin (Centrum Performance)
- Omega 3 supplement (1000mg EPA 350mg DHA)
* Caloric restriction (exact numbers depending on how much I decide to care)
* Piracetam 800mg - 20 minutes before each study session
Nothing too fancy yet. Will post later on the logic behind the steps in round 1.
