I read on some post that unless you have Alzheimer's Disease, 100 micrograms a day is considered too much - especially if you're reasonably young. Consider every other day or even just twice a week. You could try opening/dumping the caps and splitting the powder in half (to be washed down with water/juice or recapped if you're into that sort of thing). Maybe you can achieve the same benefits/enhancements with 50 micrograms three times a week, or something similarly moderate, to minimize whatever risk there is out there. I guess the way to go about it is take less and less until it doesn't work, then take a little bit more than that.
I tried it (200 mic tabs, broken in 'half') for a bit: daily, three times a week, once a week - a week or two per amount. I liked it best at 100 mics 2-3 times a week. Mixing it with choline citrate led to some over cholination that manifested itself as shattered/chaotic thoughts, and though it was entertaining, it was not necessarily productive. Overall, Huperzine did me alright, but I prefer the choline citrate mainly for their respective interactions with piracetam (at least as I felt them).
Headaches: I've read some stuff about people getting headaches from lack of choline, so it could be due to that. Try upping your choline intake, then you could find out if that's the cause, or if you just need to drink more water or whatever. I've found that a bit of choline citrate mixes up with an ounce cranberry juice just fine. Also, eggs are awesome, consider getting to know them better.
Just guessing, but if you haven't had persistent headaches prior to trying huperzine, I'd bet you don't have a natural excess of AChE.
If you're really looking to find some way to incorporate Huperzine into your diet, you could always go research (maybe just searching on this forum for starters) and post up what you find or decide (so the next time this comes up, an answer will be readily accessible to whoever). The biggest thing that concerned me about huperzine's possible negative effects, which might accrue with regular/long-term dosing (there might be a little bit of risk involved however you go about it), is ACh receptor down-regulation (which could revert itself anyway thanks to neuroplasticity).
Stomach aches: peppermint tea.
Motivation:
way complex.
piracetam/choline works great (totally recommended).
others seem to like deprenyl, though I haven't tried it.
best of luck
LongeCity
