• What is the best form of zinc specifically for libido, does it even matter?
  
• The initial dose from yesterday gave me bad nausea, this morning I think I still feel the after effects. Does this go away with time or should I just use less? (I know 40mg is upper limit)
  
• Since zinc is not stored in the body can I just use it acutely pre sexy time?

• I feel more fluid, and enhanced... even 5-6 hours later....much more significant and better than piracetam or prami, at any dosage.
  
• Focus enhanced similar to Pramiracetam, but none of the emotional blunting.
  
• Emotional uplifting present, but different from Piracetam... this feels more peaceful, there is definitely less stress present.
  
• Obvious anxiolytic effect in action.
  
• Tastes enhanced, and overall appetite, but in a controlled non-craving sort of way.
  
• More control....less stress MUCH easier to find the right words... no longer getting hung up searching for words when speaking. There is much less anti-anxiety.... while Piracetam and Prami reduced my anxiety via apathy.... Aniracetam feels to decrease anxiety by being more engaged in the moment, and handling it more smoothly.... definitely like this better in all aspects than Prami of Piracetam.
  
• I do not feel stimulated like I do when taking Piracetam... piracetam can prevent me from sleeping if I take it too late in the day... but I don't feel that on Aniracetam, though I do feel more alert.
  
• I can enjoy music and my environment much more... I feel more in-tune with the moment, and can vibe to music much easier... I find myself less concerned with what people think, but in an enjoyable happy way. Where as Pramiracetam or Piracetam made me not care what people think in an "I am powerful, fuck what you think" sort of way......
  
• I've found myself bobbing my head to music around random strangers....which I never do.
  
• I don't think twice about things that aren't worth thinking about.... where even on Piracetam or Pramiracetam, I would still have very very minor anxiety about certain meaningless things...Like for instance I would shutter at touching greasy foods with my hands because I like to keep my hands clean... but on Aniracetam, I just don't care really since things like that aren't that big of a deal... but that's just one example. It has positively effected many areas of my life when dealing with small things like this.

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• Slightly improved consummatory and anticipatory anhedonia
  
• Slightly improved libido
  
• Laughter is actually enjoyable now whereas before it was just a way for me to blow air through my nose
  
• Improved verbal fluency. What I mean by this is that I am better able to articulate myself and get my message across. I also am able to better form sentences as well as utilize terms that accurately describe what I am conjuring in my head.
  
• Less shortness of breath and improved recovery when doing HIIT exercise

“That we see such an effect on the brain — the most important organ in relation to this disease — shows that the supplement can pass through the blood-brain barrier even when administered orally, and accumulate in sufficient amounts in the brain.”

Slowing the death of nerve cells

“We found a significant increase of the protein in all the tissues of the body,” reports Prof. Ast, including an eight-fold increase in the liver and 1.5-fold increase in the brain. “While the food supplement does not manufacture new nerve cells, it probably delays the death of existing ones,” he adds.

Therapeutic potential for Parkinson’s

“There has been great interest in finding compounds that mimic the benefits of caloric restriction that could be used to delay the onset of age-associated problems and/or diseases,” said Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD, who studies aging at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and was not involved in this study. “If proven safe for humans, this study suggests such a drug could be used as a preventive tool to delay the onset of neurodegeneration associated with several diseases that affect the aging brain,” Puglielli added.

“We not only observed a delay in the onset of neurodegeneration in the calorie-restricted mice, but the animals were spared the learning and memory deficits of mice that did not consume reduced-calorie diets,” Tsai explained.

“The question now is whether this type of treatment will work in other animal models, whether it’s safe for use over time, and whether it only temporarily slows down the progression of neurodegeneration or stops it altogether,” Tsai said.

• motivation
  
• emotion/affect blunting
  
• libido
  
• concentration/focus
  
• memory
  
• pleasure
  
• "Brain Zaps"
  
• effects in the ADHD population
  
• effects in the Personality Disordered population (specifically avoidant and schizoid)

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• Can't focus on a book unless I'm really interested (thinking about what I'm gonna do tomorrow in the middle of a page)
  
• Constantly day dreaming in school  (makes up most of my school day lol and not just at school, just about anywhere)
  
• Tune out in conversations alot (someone can be talking to me and I start looking at whats behind them)
  
• Minor mistakes(such as forgetting the semi colon when coding .just little things like that)
  
• Really bad procrastination (even when I try to do something early I always end up doing it last minute, all most as if a wall is there)
  
• Messy (room,book bag, binder all messy)

A study out of the U.K. suggests that while it may provide an initial sense of relief and well-being, over the long-term, retirement is bad for your health, increasing the likelihood of developing depression and at least one physical illness. The study's author [analyzed] data from a survey of 11 European countries that sampled 7,000 to 9,000 people between the ages of 50 and 70 using two separate methodologies. He found that retirement had a "consistent negative impact" on physical health that worsens as the number of years spent in retirement increase.

[The author] also analyzed past studies on the subject of retirement and health and found that their results were mixed, with some finding a positive impact and others a negative or neutral one. The researcher attributes these varied results largely to a failure to distinguish short-term effects from long-term ones and to take the length of retirement into account. In the short term, retirees may experience a boost to health, he says, but this is outweighed by the negative impacts that manifest over the medium and long term.

[The author] acknowledges that there are many variables in any one individual's retirement that can often have contradictory effects on physical and mental health. Retirement can decrease work-related pressures and stress, for example, but it can also cut retirees off from the social networks they formed at work and lead to greater isolation, which can negatively affect health. By contrast, it can lead to more leisure time, which can result in new non-work-related social contacts or more participation in physical activities that positively affect health and well-being. "Untangling cause and effect in the relationship between retirement and health is very difficult. Whereas the short-term impacts of retirement on health is somewhat uncertain, the longer-term effects are consistently negative and large."

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/05/16/business-retirement-health.html