@Deano: phenibut does not feel like a classic nootropic to me but it does make me feel like even difficult days progress rather effortless. However this is not due to cognitive enhancement but medium-level anxiolysis (it helps battle anxiety), not all kinds of anxiety IMO, physically based anxiety less so (probably because these are more GABA
A related) but social anxiety dissipates like snow in the sun. Phenibut acts primarily or only on GABA
B. I say medium-level because it is quite noticeable and at the border of having to call it a drug but tolerance and withdrawals are considerably less hardcore than with benzo's. Still: watch out.
It is hard to recommend other supplements for you if you do not describe what you are looking for. Generally I quite dislike suggesting drugs or other compounds out of the blue on this forum. Doesn't feel quite right.
@Xork:
Link to noopept thread:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/663162-Nootropics-Subthread-Noopept-(GVS-111)
It's a tripeptide which is chemically speaking generally unlike the racetams but the prolyl linkage vaguely reminds of the functional groups racetams have in common. Wiki does say that it is derived from the racetam family but I'd say it is pretty different. It is not an AMPAkine like the racetams and many people do not get as noticeable acute effects as with racetams. On the other hand it does stimulate neurotropic growth factors which I think are supposed to encourage the formation of new neurons. But it is difficult to say if extra neurons help with anything in healthy humans. I guess if you are in a period where you are learning a lot there are different connections formed or consolidated in the brain and common sense of the layman would probably say that such a drug would support all that. Whether such things help with mental illness is really damn iffy, progress like healing from CNS damage may be rather indifferent and it would require certainty that positive changes are being made. Nootropics might not help at all or even make matters worse, who knows?
Noopept is not the only nootropic peptide, there are also selank and semax (all are of Russian origin by the way) and these latter two I am very interested in. They are more complex and harder to make and the high price does correspond with that. However they are supposed to have powerful abilities that mend the brain for example after serious stress.
It is worth noting that as these are peptides they are broken down in the gut so you must at least ingest them sublingually. But injecting is probably loads better. I think you need to reconstitute them in an acetic acid solution. One day I may try this with noopept but I can't find it >_<
Noopept tastes freaking musty by the way!
Some extra supplements arrived today: I have CoQ10 powder which is many times cheaper than gelcaps. But I am going to have to make an oil solution otherwise it won't absorb very well.
(By the way I just opened it and it is a very beautiful bright orange color and it smells and tastes pretty nice!!)
Here is the recipe for Coenzyme Q10 in oil (I'm using olive oil):
Also got phosphatidylserine because it has made me feel more adequate in the past which is not something I can say for a whole lot of supplements / noots.
Milk thistle to help my possibly flabbergasted liver.
Creatine which I just ran out of but that is not a nootropic.
And I took aniracetam and choline which I still have plenty of. I love aniracetam! For me it is the best out of racetams I tried. Oxiracetam and pramiracetam are a bit weird for me and piracetam is just less effective / potent. I don't know about nefiracetam or coluracetam but one of them might be hazardous for the testicles (!), at least in dogs. But I guess you have to make sacrifices if you want your dog to learn your tricks.
And it saves money for the neutering.
really appreciate any insight anyone could offer.