OP, what specific bacopa product are you taking, and what is its concentration (extract potency or % bacopa glycosides...)?
Swanson Superior Herbs - Bacognize, whole herb extract, standardized to 12% bacopa glycosides.
You mean 1000mg?
Try a lower dose, like 250? At different times, sometimes before work, sometimes before bed. And skip some days, better that you take it 4 days with manageable fatigue, than to insist on 7 days or nothing.
Another suggestion is to take with ginkgo or green tea, or a similar stimulant.
Yes, 1000mg/day.
Thing is, as I mentioned in the post, I've been off the Bacopa for a couple of weeks now, but the sedating effects have yet to wear off. It started suddenly - about week 12 of taking the supplement, so around the same time the long term memory effects begin to kick in. At first, I continued, but the extreme exhaustion was too much, and I've been off of the Bacopa for more than 2 weeks now.
There's some reports on Reddit that bacopa does make someone more emotion, so there's some truth to that serotonin idea.
Most likely a strange placebo effect - many here on LongeCity have also reported tiredness from Bacopa. My case appears to be a few standard deviations greater than anything I have read about.
Edited by LongingCity, 26 May 2016 - 08:24 AM.