Hey HenryHH,
When I take my L-Tyrosine, I do my best to get near 500mg, actually! It's just that the bottle of bulk Tyro I have is 920mg per 1/4tsp scoop (life extension brand).
I found, actually, the best memory-enhancing effects were from combining the HupA with 40mg of Vinpocetine with 410mg of Idebenone (spaced out throughout the day, of course). 410 sounds like a wierd number, but it's just a 1/4-tsp from BulkNutrition's Idebenone.
As far as sulbutiamine goes, for me, it helps with the memory aspect a little, barely. I find Sulbutiamine taken in nootropic doses to be more of an "acquisition helper" than a memory booster. Idebenone is more like a "clarity" boost. Vinpocetine didn't really do much of anything for me on it's own, however, I found it kinda gave like a 15% "boost" of sorts to the effects I feel when I take my normal noot stack.
My easiest way to describe my first-hand experiences with the three is most quickly summed up like this:
----In combination with HupA
- Sulbutiamine: "I get it, now!"
- Idebenone: "So, what you're saying is..."
- Vipocetine: Nootropic magnifying glass.
As far as dopamine precursors go, I have NO EXPLANATION whatsoever as to why that helped me. It could have just been that I was in a less anxious mood, and was able hold on to info longer.
Ben - Aus is absolutely right on the money, though, about routine exercise. I personally do about 2 hours of cardio a day, and try to do about an hour of weight lifting at least 3 to 4 times a week (maintenance, mostly). I think it should be generally understood that to partake in aspects of Transhumanism culture, it's necessary to be treating your body with the respect it deserves
beyond that of the average person.Although I differ slightly in my opinion of it's affects on AChEI deregulation, I don't imagine it's something safe to be taking every day (for fully healthy people). At most, It's something you might take in 30 day cycles every other day, or if you didn't want to worry about cycles, maybe just once every 4 days (which is how long it actually takes to be eliminated from your system... roughly).
Ben - Aus is also right about precursors: there's nothing wrong with them whatsoever! However, being a student, I know what it's like to have a tight budget. And for me, supplementing even 500mg a day of Alpha-GPC would cost me WAY over what I have the money for; but on the same token I don't want something crappy like Choline Bitartrate and have to take about 3g a day of it to balance out my choline levels only to smell like fish! If I had the choice available to me, believe me, Alpha-GPC or CDP-Choline all the way.
Demitriden: I suppose as more knowledge becomes available about these kinds of things, we begin to dismiss some of our skeptical reservations we once had about them. Personally, I have very few Noots (e.g. Huperzine) listed in my "Do NOTs" section, because I feel that almost any of them (even some of the more racey pharmaceutical ones if you consider them nootropics) can be of benefit or even enjoyed as long as they are done so responsibly.
Think of the way you'd use alcohol. If you're at a dinner party and feel like enjoying a glass of some fine red-wine, then go for one (or two, you sly devil)! Heck, if you're at a house party and there's some splendidly tasting martinis being poured, you might even enjoy one of those suckers. However, you delve into irresponsibility the moment drinking that martini at the house party turns into waking up in the morning to crack open a beer. Caution is always to be considered and risk is something to be inherintly accepted.
Edited by Pike, 26 January 2009 - 06:44 AM.
