Ha true, ok well if your just looking to get started your budget should be plenty, I find too many people trying to dive in head first with the best stack first time around which seems a waste as starting off with just one or two nootropics and gradually changing and expanding can allow you to find what suit you best and tailor the dose to suit you. In general, if your just starting out with a $100 budget I would say.........1) Get a good quality multivitamin, You get what you pay for sometimes, go for a well reviewed brand, especially one with a high B-complex if possible...........2) Get some fish oils, Good brand well reviewed again, particularly omega 3, Just seems to help everything sync and is such a low cost addition to a brain enhancement regime...........3) Get some Piracetam, you could start with other racetams but piracetam is a good start point as Sanguine mentioned. Upside its cheap and can be very effective. Downside it has to be taken sublingually ideally and doesn't taste the best, Easily take-able though. .......... 4) Get some choline, maybe choline bitartate, Low cost again and good starter nootropics, you could look at Alpha GPC which is one of the main ingredients in your alpha brain if your budget can stretch to it. I would start with Bitartate though as it makes the others a nice upgrade then when you got the swing of things. 5) Possibly some caffeine or bacopa, I would recommend caffeine as it helps to spur things on, is low cost and you can add it to drinks as such to avoid wasting your money at starbucks or redbull
Initial outlay is the biggest thing but if you start with those basics you should be able to easily attain that on $100 a month, I would recommend dosing with the piracetam on its own first for a week or so before adding choline, just my views
Thank you for this,
absolutely, I meant an additional $100, I by no means have the best "base" stack, but i do have a raw, food-based multivitamin, krill oil (in place of fish oil), l-arginine (in vary amounts), vit C, vit D, red ginsend, and not daily but consistently supplement maca, lecithin and eat usually 2 eggs in the morning.
So I will definitely start off with Piracetam, and I've heard different experiences regarding choline sources, some say choline bitartate is "good enough" while others say its not clean and not good, some praise alpha GPC, others say it gives them headaches or the spins.
Caffeine i get moderately through out the day with my 2-5 cups of green tea/some other tea. but I have a bottle of bacopa from earlier this year just sitting in my drawer as Ive heard its not for males, studies showing shrinking testicles and ive heard other bad things about it.