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[NootropicsPowered]

Hello,

I have been looking to create my own stacks for working out and cognitive boost. I have been looking into using Aniracetam as a cognitive boost, I saw it can increase IQ and help relieve stress? Seems like a solid nootropic. What are your thoughts on it and what is your serving size. I am looking at using 700-1,000mg.

[brainslugged]

Most nootropics are slightly overhyped depending on where you are getting your information from.

This site seems to be fairly accurate, although a bit exaggerated at some times. Youtube videos are almost always unreliable.

Increase in IQ with any medicine is incredibly unlikely.

Aniracetam, however, is great for anxiety, at least as far as nootropics go. It won't help terribly with social anxiety, but I find that it makes me more relaxed in daily situations and has a mild zen-like effect.

You have to remember that these aren't some secret, extremely powerful medicines, they are just a little stronger than vitamins, kinda the equivalent of adding a bit of of lemon to fish, noticeable and enhancing, but not major.

700mg-1000mg is a good range to take it. It is the range that I normally take it. I have taken about 2.8g at one time before, and it was not helpful, very dulling, and not nootropic. The key with racetams is to find the optimal dosage for you.

[JohnnyP]

Just my two cents I wouldn't take it before a workout, don't get me wrong I like taking it afterwards but has too much of a calming aspect for me to want to take it before working out unless it were something like yoga or meditation.

[Sunwind]

I disagree that they are barely above vitamins. then again, everyones experience with these things is different, as are they and their brains, and from what I know people with problems tend to experience benefits a lot more than normal healthy people simply looking for a study aid or something, so there's that to consider aswell.

on the subject of aniracetam, how long does the anxiolytic effect last between doses? it's much shorter acting than piracetam isn't it? like pira is something like 5 hours, ani 3 or so? that could be expensive and also annoying to take so much a day and so often, anyone that has used it for that got anything to say?

[ch1ll]

on the subject of aniracetam, how long does the anxiolytic effect last between doses? it's much shorter acting than piracetam isn't it? like pira is something like 5 hours, ani 3 or so?

A quick search is telling me the aniracetam half-life is between 1-2.5 hrs. This is not very precise and there may be better answers elsewhere, but yes it does seem much shorter than piracetam's ~5 hr half-life.

[brainslugged]

on the subject of aniracetam, how long does the anxiolytic effect last between doses? it's much shorter acting than piracetam isn't it? like pira is something like 5 hours, ani 3 or so?

A quick search is telling me the aniracetam half-life is between 1-2.5 hrs. This is not very precise and there may be better answers elsewhere, but yes it does seem much shorter than piracetam's ~5 hr half-life.

If I remember correctly, aniracetam itself has a very short half life, but its metabolites have the most anxiolytic effect, and they have a longer half life (4-5hrs, I think, but I can't remember exactly)

I disagree that they are barely above vitamins. then again, everyones experience with these things is different, as are they and their brains, and from what I know people with problems tend to experience benefits a lot more than normal healthy people simply looking for a study aid or something, so there's that to consider aswell.

on the subject of aniracetam, how long does the anxiolytic effect last between doses? it's much shorter acting than piracetam isn't it? like pira is something like 5 hours, ani 3 or so? that could be expensive and also annoying to take so much a day and so often, anyone that has used it for that got anything to say?

I think I came across a bit too negative on nootropics. They are certainly better than vitamins, but they are somewhere between vitamins and things like ritalin/benzos/alcohol. They certainly make a difference, but it isn't a profound shift in state. They can slowly make you more happy/less depressed and increase memory, but they aren't the adderall of memory or anything like that. You can't take piracetam and have photographic memory in the way that you can take amphetamine and have laser concentration.

I am actually starting to think that they may be somewere around the same level as things like bupropion. I don't know, I only have the one drug to sample from, but it is certainly no stronger than a nootropic. I do think that racetams should be used more for depression, esp dysthymia.

Edited by brainslugged, 15 June 2013 - 08:28 AM.

[Sunwind]

on the subject of aniracetam, how long does the anxiolytic effect last between doses? it's much shorter acting than piracetam isn't it? like pira is something like 5 hours, ani 3 or so?

A quick search is telling me the aniracetam half-life is between 1-2.5 hrs. This is not very precise and there may be better answers elsewhere, but yes it does seem much shorter than piracetam's ~5 hr half-life.

If I remember correctly, aniracetam itself has a very short half life, but its metabolites have the most anxiolytic effect, and they have a longer half life (4-5hrs, I think, but I can't remember exactly)

Ah, well that's good. I guess I will make my bulk purchase then of a few KG to last a few years. I didn't really want to have to dose so often, that would have been too inconvenient and annoying

[ch1ll]

Ah, well that's good. I guess I will make my bulk purchase then of a few KG to last a few years. I didn't really want to have to dose so often, that would have been too inconvenient and annoying

Have you tried Aniracetam before? Specifically from where you plan to get it? Because that's a large chunk of change to drop with the possibility of it not working as you expect. Maybe try a smaller purchase first before you go and buy a few year's worth. Just my advice.

[Sunwind]

"try a small amount of something before you buy a large amount" is your advice? well... thanks I guess? I might have not done that had someone not said anything..