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[Raevinn]

I just bought some "Brain Booster" by a local company called Solal Technologies. It had huperzine a in it which I've been wanting to try out, anyways any opinions on this? It contains the following:
Acetyl-L-Carnitine 80mg
Phosphatidylserine 18mg
Phosphatidylcholine 40mg
Choline bitartrate 120mg
Huperzine A 50mcg
Idebenone 20mg
Tyrosine 200mg
Ginkgo biloba 50mg
grape seed extract 50mg
Vitamin B5 (calcium pantothenate form) 50mg
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin)

Here's a link as well: http://www.solaltech...&productId=5263
Would anyone say this is good to take?

[chrono]

Well, it's a soup of things that work, but the dosages aren't great. 80mg ALCAR? 40mg PC? Pretty ridiculous. You could probably get the same effect by just taking the hup A with the choline bitartrate, not that it's necessarily a smart combination. Like I usually say when people ask "should I have bought this product I already bought": buying these separately is better in just about every way except the "one pill" factor.

[noregister]

I wonder how these similar all-in-one products stack up?

Get Smart (about $.60 per pill for me):

Aniracetam 250mg
Centrophenoxine 150mg
Pyritinol 150mg
Picamilon 50mg
Piracetam 50mg
Sulbutiamine 50mg
Vinpocetine 5mg
Oxiracetam 5mg
Idebenone 5mg
Galantamine 150mcg
Huperzine A 50mcg


Ortho-Mind 1.0(about $.36 per pill for me):

R(+)-lipoic acid 100 mg
Huperzine-A (from 20 mg Huperzia serrata 0.5%) 100 mcg
Vinpocetine 15 mg
Bacopa monniera extract(50% baccosides A&B) 300 mg
Ginkgo biloba extract - (24% ginkgoflavone glycosides, 6% terpene lactones) 100 mg
Cytidine diphosphate choline 500 mg
L-Pyroglutamic Acid 1500 mg
D-calcium pantothenate 500 mg



Apologies for the formatting. I like the idea of pre-mixed stacks because I'm not sure spending the time and money to isolate what works best for me is worth it at this point. I was not able to find many products that aren't fluffed with non proven ingredients or outright snake oil. I found a product called Adralin that looks promising also but I couldn't find a list of ingredient quantities.

Because I can find Ortho-Mind locally I am considering taking it + lecithin and going from there.

[chrono]

Ortho Mind seems like a better formulation, to me. Get Smart has a lot of ingredients in truly irrelevant dosages, which are clearly included only for list padding—most of them, in fact. OTOH, I couldn't use AOR's product, since bacopa gives me brain fog and fatigue (and 150mg is a very good dose of it). And with 500mg CDP-choline in addition to a very good dose of hup A, I'm not sure why taking lecithin on top would be necessary.

Feel free to see if it works for you. It's easy and doesn't require any research effort, but it's not something I can make myself recommend.

Edited by chrono, 15 November 2010 - 09:50 AM.