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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“I went no/low-carb/keto-ish about 2 years and really felt a difference in my subjective well-being: mood, weight, energy levels. Anytime I revert back to carbs I feel like crap.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“Once I got my carbs down to 20-30 g a day my anxiety went away almost completely.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“Everytime i've gone into ketosis i feel MUCH more lucid, calm, and sharp.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“I adopted a ketogenic diet to deal with the insulin resistance, and within a week I felt amazing.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“I do keto (and tell the entire internet and all my friends) for its nootropic effects. Mental clarity and stability. Higher baseline in terms of energy and focus.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“I stopped needing a CPAP machine after a couple of months on the ketogenic diet.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“One of my friends recently went keto and said she noticed a significant reduction in her anxiety.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“A ketogenic diet helped in almost every aspect of my physical and mental well-being. ... I felt absolutely awful the entire time I was on keto.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“I've found that shifting my diet from carb/sugar based to protein/fat based helps.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“Ketogenic diet made the biggest difference for me. And creatine. All other nootropics and supplements did jack shit.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“The calmness, stability, and clarity is unmatched by any drug or nootropic I have ever tried. Been on it consistently for about three months. I feel a ton better.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“Following a Ketogenic diet has helped me with all of the above.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“also on a ketogenic diet. Not sure which is doing which, but I have less brain fog, less anxiety, less depressive thoughts.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“What helped me BEST, is not all the supplements (i've tried millions) but intermittent fasting and then Omad style. And, ketogenic food. So, 3500 a meal while eatig keto. Never had such good results.”
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Ketogenic DietMostly positive
“I've been in nutritional ketosis for 2 years straight now and every day I feel more and more amazing.”
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PQQMostly positive
“Stacking it with Ubiquinol or COq10 and PQQ is where it's really at! I call this the trifecta. It improved physical energy, mental energy, and just about everything.”
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PQQMostly positive
“I started taking mitochondrial supplements like pqq and alcar, and they helped me immensely at first but for the past few months, anything I take makes me feel worse.”
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PQQMostly positive
“strange as I take Ubiquinol pretty regularly, but PQQ made me feel like shiat.”
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PQQMostly positive
“I take 20mg PQQ about 3 times a week. I usually find that it gives me a boost in mental energy, but if I take it every single day I start to get too much chatter going on upstairs.”
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PQQMostly positive
“PQQ makes me sleep better, and my energy levels and motivation improves drastically. It really improves my focus and overall brain function too.”
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PQQMostly positive
“I also take alcar, alpha lipoic acid, choline, and pqq, but... there is some difference with these, but not as major as with CoQ10.”
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PQQMostly positive
“PQQ – super promising with regards to long-term energy levels, good experience so far with my self-experiment.”
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PQQMostly positive
“I am getting a lot better results from the PQQ I added in, which is surprising”
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PQQMostly positive
“PQQ (lipasomal), phosphatidylserine, and cortisol calm. Works for me, all about knocking down cortisol”
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PQQMostly positive
“The only thing that helps me substantially is pqq10 specifically.”
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PQQMostly positive
“Creatine, taurine, alpha gpc, and pqq. I noticed improvements with these as well.”
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PQQMostly positive
“Coq10 + PQQ is a great synergy for naturual energy, it cured my crippling chronic fatigue”
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PQQMostly positive
“I'm here to say PQQ beats both IME - at least worth giving it a shot if you haven't.”
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PQQMostly positive
“PQQ is great in my experience. It was the only reason I made it through my keto-adaptation phase without falling behind in school or fitness.”
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PQQMostly positive
“I stacked PQQ (20mg) + CoQ10 (50mg) + P5P (30mg) + niacinamide (50mg) + B2 (100mg), and that combo kinda fills the void left by quitting coffee.”
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PQQMostly positive
“I think you mean PQQ. Get a sublingual form of it also.”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“I have really enjoyed the synergistic effects of caffeine + teacrine. I take 200mg of each every morning... have not felt the need to increase my caffeine intake at all.”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“Theacrine made me furious, and over nothing...the only days I took theacrine. I'm otherwise so chill I can go months without getting very angry.”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“I have stacked it with sabroxy and teacrine (also used dynamine). It works very well together.”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“I've been using this combination for a few months now...100mg in the morning absolutly disrupt my sleep at night. I've found 50mg in the morning to be the perfect spot.”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“I'll add in Theacrine. It is a caffeine alternative but the research shows it lasts longer, people build a tolerance more slowly, and it causes less anxiety.”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“Theacrine is short acting. No jitters more focus more mood boost. Not so great admittedly as it isn't as pronounced and if you don't mix with caffeine I get a crash after 2 hours”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“I supplement with something else if I'm especially tired that day. In terms of supplements I use theacrine (smoother energy boost, less pissing).”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“This is a new one, and not much information is available for it... I really like the effect. Long-term results are pending.”
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TeacrineMostly positive
“For energy the best I've found is Teacrine.”
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