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[Junk Master]

Modafinil.  Just make sure to take frequent drug "vacations."  

 

Call me old fashioned but I'm a fan of piracetam on non-mod days.

 

Also, I'd be very curious to see how you would respond to c60 Olive Oil.

[Junk Master]

Oh, I completely agree Ambien is terrible for mild cognitive impairment.  Sneaks up on you too.  Shame because it sure does work as a sleeping pill!

[normalizing]

i remember years ago reading a lot of positive about ambien being able to wake people from comas and having neurogenic properties. some of those studies are still online somewhere just needs searching. but that was like, 7 years ago or so, funny how things are always changing never precise

[Phlogiston]

The odd thing about Ambien for me is that I subjectively felt completely refreshed and clear headed when waking after taking it. On the other hand, when I took Trazadone for sleep I felt brain fogged until noon. I strongly preferred Ambien because it seemed not to have any cognitive price tag.

 

I guess it should have occurred to me that a drug that causes bizarre amnesic reactions in some people might begin to impact memory even in those of us that don't have overt negative reactions

[pleiotropic]

 

about berberine, i have never heard anyone switching from metformin to berberine with positive effect. also i have never seen anyone ever use berberine for any of the shitload of positive things it might bring  and actually have any good reports on this forum! I have been on here for quite long time checking on any good log of people actually using it and reporting positive experiences and NOTHING.

all in all, extremely overrated and until someone actually starts using it for REAL and not just recomend it all the time to people left and right without personal experience, i just think its a bunch of shit.

 

Both my grandmother and I take it.

 

Cant say for myself, but it definitely decreased my grandmothers fasting blood sugar & HbA1c and kept her HDL, LDL & total cholesterol at very healthy levels after we took her off of statin therapy.

 

FWIW

 

 

Does it have lasting effects on LDL and total cholesterol after discontinuing?  I'm wondering if using berberine a few weeks on and a few weeks off could be a healthy and cost effective, hormetic approach to using berberine hcl.