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“I take 2 tongkat ali caps in the morning, 10%. best supplement I've ever used. On it for 6 months now. bigger than ever. feel more driven. sometimes charged up like a Sith Lord.”
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“I was taking the 10% once a day and at first it was great! Then slowly depression and anxiety hit, my joints ached, lethargic, crappy mood and my sex drive crashed.”
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“I get the best results when I take it right before I eat.”
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“I've tried ND's 10% tongkat ali extract as well as their 2%...did not give me any negative effects.”
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RunningMostly positive
“I run for an hour literally every night. My Vo2 max has increased 76% in 3 months.”
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RunningMostly positive
“after exercise I tend to feel a bit mentally fatigued... after effects have become noticeably less severe.”
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RunningMostly positive
“the thing that's helped me best is exercise. Second thing was using nasal strips at night.”
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RunningMostly positive
“I went 5km and was dead after, but the mood boost felt unreal!”
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BlueberriesMostly positive
“Not a nootropic but I eat a bowl of frozen blueberries every day and it helps improve my memory.”
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BlueberriesMostly positive
“I added blueberries and green tea for antiinflammatories, which had a nominal improvement on their own.”
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BlueberriesMostly positive
“100g of blue berries or a ham sandwich or some other small meal after a few hours is definetly helping me”
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BlueberriesMostly positive
“my lows became less and less deep, and feel non existent at the moment... increased my short term memory... my blueberry smoothies at many times work like viagra... no huffing or puffing, no out of breath”
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Nicotine PatchMostly positive
“try a low dose nicotine patch . Will probably not keep you up, has the lowest addiction risk of all nicotine products, and speaking as a fellow ADHDer, helps with anhedonia for me.”
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Nicotine PatchMostly positive
“I'm about to start the process of experimenting with low dose nicotine patches for a few weeks. I want to see what the effect will be on my focus and wakefulness.”
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Nicotine PatchMostly positive
“I use low dosage nicotine patches when I really have to focus. They work rather well.”
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Nicotine PatchMostly positive
“I take my Adderall with Nicotine patch which help calm me down. But the effects are not there anymore or not sustained long enough.”
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ChagaMostly positive
“Chaga works really well as an anti-inflammatory, that's the one I have noticed works the most.”
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ChagaMostly positive
“The only effects I've felt from any of these is either very mild energy or mood stabilization”
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ChagaMostly positive
“Chaga helps with my anxiety when I’m trying to unwind.”
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ChagaMostly positive
“Chaga and Cordyceps! Gets me pretty lit and helps with digestion”
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7,8-DhfMostly positive
“Paired with NMN and 7,8DHF it seems to compound the energy improvements of NMN for me by a lot.”
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7,8-DhfMostly positive
“I've taken 7,8-DHF yeah. I don't notice much from it at all, but I've stuck to 25mg capsules.”
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7,8-DhfMostly positive
“Stacks well with Cognance. Enhances the mood boost noticeably. I use 100 mg Cognance orally and 25 mg 7,8 DHF sublingually first thing in the AM.”
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7,8-DhfMostly positive
“Try 7,8 DHF! Insanely powerful nootropic for me, but must be cycled.”
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“i've been taking dextroamphetamine for years. there is nothing close to it really.”
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“I do take dextroamphetamine 10mg twice a day which helps me to be somewhat productive.”
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“at 20mg or 5mg life does feel much better. anything over 5mg Dex I feel uncomfortably numb, irritated and just mad.”
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“I'm 1 month in on dextroampetamine 20mg IR and this really brings the anxiety out of me. It will actually make me focus on it and causes my to raise my heart rate whenever I have a anxiety 'burst'.”
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PanamaxMostly positive
“Panamax - very anectdotal, I can 'feel' it... stress free high motivation feeling for a few hours... 2 caps per day of Panamax sorted it right out.”
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PanamaxMostly positive
“Panamax was crazy good at this for me. Functional but flatlined stress.”
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PanamaxMostly positive
“No, I would take PanaMAX if you are wanting both energy and stress reduction. It works fantastically for that purpose.”
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L-LysineMostly positive
“Finally, I started to take L-lysine for a different issue. Immediately I saw that I could lay my head down at night and go to sleep like I could before. That was several months ago and I continue to sleep regularly.”
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L-LysineMostly positive
“I have been taking L-Lysine, roughly 2-3g a day for 2 weeks in an attempt to reduce my iNOS levels since lysine competes with arginine, but I haven't noticed much change so far.”
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L-LysineMostly positive
“Add L-Lysine, 6g empty stomach, avoid taking with other proteins and amino acids. It helps me a lot with my lungs.”
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L-LysineMostly positive
“I don't know why, but it works so well. When I take it daily I don't get any outbreaks.”
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KefirMostly positive
“I make my own kefir. Been feeling great since I started doing it 3 weeks ago.”
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KefirMostly positive
“Some versions of Kefir that are strong (have high bio count). Most are not. Wallaby (unflavored) is my favorite. All of those make me feel great.”
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KefirMostly positive
“probiotics have not worked for me but I have goats yogurt and kefir, good old extra virgin olive oil holy grail of Mediterranean diet, all this worked for me so far.”
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KefirMostly positive
“The first time I tried Kefir it felt like a drug. I really felt it get to my stomach and it felt great. Now when I have it, it can cheer me up”
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Choline CitrateMostly positive
“1g of Choline Citrate, then 30 min later I'm just in a better mood and calm.”
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