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[GeneralKrang]

Firstly, apologies if this is in the wrong place, I wanted a place to create weekly/monthly updates as I experiment with nootropic stacks. If any mods think this would be better in another forum, feel free to move it to the appropriate place.

I'm a software engineer looking to improve my cognative ability within my immediate professional area of expertise as well as the ability to more easily learn new skills. While I have taken multi-vitamins/fish oil in the past, this will be my first time experimenting with real nootropics.

My desires are to: Learn a language. (Either Chinese or Japanese)
Learn new skills: Mostly in programming/artificial intelligence/robotics

I will try to create one post per week, and look forward to hearing your feedback.

[GeneralKrang]

Week 1: 4/22/2013 - 4/28/2013 - Research/Vitamins

This is my first week researching nootropics. Since being off of vitamins for a while, I deicded to start off easy. For the first week I've been taking one multi vitamin per day (with more vitamins than a horse needs), along with fish oil. I'm currently taking 4.5g of fish oil per day, which contains around 1.08g of DHA. There's currently no noticeable side effects, besides feeling more motivated to learn (assuming this is a mental/placebo effect). Also experiencing some nasty fish oil burps which is expected, but should subside within a week or two.

I've ordered various nootropics and will start adding to my stack next week. I think I will slowly be incorporating nootropics into the stack, starting with Lion's Mane.

[GeneralKrang]

Week 1: 4/29/2013 - 5/5/2013 - Added Lion's Mane/Acetyl L-Carnitine

I'm going to try to take 1.5g of Lion's Mane and 1g of Acetyl L-Carnitine daily. I've heard that the Acetyl L-Carnitine should enhance the effect of ngf in Lion's Mane, so I will try to take them at the same time. Right now I only have 1000mg tablets of the Acetyl L-Carnitine though, so I'm going to try taking everything in the morning.

Today I took these two at lunch today. For a few hours after the fact I definitely felt a little different. I'm not really sure how to describe it, it was kind of like a tunnel vision/focused effect.

[GeneralKrang]

Can't edit and meant to add my current, although small, stack to my last post:

1 Multivitamin
6g fish oil (1.4g DHA) - half in the morning, half after afternoon workout
1.5g Lion's Mane
1g Acetyl L-Carnitine

[GeneralKrang]

Update, week 3 or so..

I've been toying with my stack, and I can't really say I'm feeling anything from it at all. I do feel extremely motivated to flex my brain, learn new things, and be productive - but I do think that this is probably more of a placebo effect and me wanting the medicine to work.

Here's my current stack which I generally split up evenly during the day. I ended up buying a few bottles of alpha brain before I knew what I was doing. So I'll likely run through that until I'm out then switch it.

Multi-Vitamin
Lion's Mane (2g)
Acetyl L-Carnitine (2g)
Fish Oil (6g,1.44g DHA)
Noopept/Choline Combo (60mg/400mg)
1x Alpha Brain


If you guys have any suggestions on what to add next/swap please let me know.