Brain supplements?

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I’ve noticed commercials (somewhere) for Neuriva, so I thought I would try to find a cheaper alternative.
I recently ordered this mushroom-based brain supplement from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZBC7DNT
I have no idea if this supplement will help me out or not, but I thought I would give it a try.
Does anyone on BLF take brain supplements, and do they work for you? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Coffee twice daily (one filter, one espresso so I get the full spectrum of essential brain nutrients), nicotine inhaler as needed, cannabinoids to even things out :upside_down_face:

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Oh, I love caffeine.
If I’m feeling crummy, all I have to do is take 100mg of caffeine, and I usually feel great.
I do try to limit my caffeine intake, however, and I don’t usually take caffeine after lunchtime. :heart_eyes:

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Do you use straight up caffeine or is that an equivalent in coffee? I do keep caffeine the chemical in my car and I have in the past experimented with making my own energy drinks but coffee’s way nicer and through the magic of briping I’m able to have it anywhere. One time we ran out of regular coffee and I’ve pondered making decaf into re-caf :smiley:

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I take caffeine pills.
I take 2 or 3 in an average week. :+1:

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Some C12H17N2O4P or C₂₀H₂₅N₃O provide good training for a brain.

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Makes sense if you need to manage your intake. Do you not like the taste of coffee?

also a renowned mushroom-based brain supplement

…probably, depending on the actual molecular structure

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I had plenty of organic mushrooms in my younger years… :wink: however I’m not sure they did anything for my brain, other than convince it I was not in this universe for a few hours lol!

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I don’t like the taste of coffee, but I do love cappuccino.
The problem with cappuccino is that I don’t want to drink sugary drinks on a regular basis, plus caffeine pills are easier for me to take.

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Understandable. A good milky coffee drink, made from a dark roast, nutty, chocolatey coffee can be sweet on its own, without added sugar. These coffees come in decaf too so they wouldn’t interfere with your measured caffeine intake. Experiment with different coffee shops, you might stumble upon something fantastic! My fav milky drink is the flat white, very rich in texture.

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I’ve no input on the supplements you’d asked about, but I have been keto off and on for the better part of 3 decades. I almost always notice a “brain fog” when I break bad and eat like crap. Clears up when I get back on the fat/protein.

Caffeine is always a sure bet, along with B12 and D3.

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If it were legal, I would micro dose Psilocybin, but I’m not brave enough to do LSD. :+1:

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Bucket o’ coffee, honey, sugar, half’n’half.

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I have always found that I feel the most intelligent after about 15 beers or so.

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“Hold my beer, and watch this!” - famous last words. :beers:

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Cordyceps? Isn’t that the stuff that turns you into a zombie in Last of Us?

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I did some Googling…
Yes, but in reality humans are immune to cordyceps. :+1:

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See, beer can make you so intelligent that some can even feel when they are close to transitioning to a new dimension and exclaim to someone close to them “Hold my beer, and watch this!” .

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“It’s cheap! And it makes you holler and talk stoopid.”
– Spuds McKenzie

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Experimented with nootropics a bit at one point (piracetam primarily). Maybe made a small difference, maybe not, probably not worth how much I paid for them, and at the time I was mostly brain fogged due to other reasons in my life (dysphoria and relationship problems primarily), so one of the best overall pieces of advice I could really give is that if something seems wrong in your life, missing, “I wish I could be this way”, then just make it happen, and at least for me, better mental function followed from there - the brain has strange ways of communicating problems to you sometimes.

I also got diagnosed with ADHD a few years later and that’s been an enormous difference with relevant medication; If there isn’t anything medically diagnosable and no obvious positive changes you feel you need in your life, you’re probably better off with just improving your general nutrition either through diet or a general multivitamin than taking supplements that claim to do a specific thing.

You can drink coffee without sugar.

Sometimes it allows teleportation within this dimension too. Happened to me all the time back in university - I suddenly realised I was home, knew I didn’t get on the bus, but I didn’t notice I walked the entire way back either. Clearly, teleportation.

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