Motivation: anecdotally, it seems like lots of supplements/nootropics (l theanine, magnesium, melatonin) work very well for some people, not well for others, and very well for a bit before no longer working for yet others. Personally, I have tried a bunch of these and found it hard to distinguish any purported effect from placebo. Clinical trials are also often low quality, and there are plausibly reasons a drug might affect some people a lot and others not so much.
I think it would be super useful to be given 60 indistinguishable pills in a numbered blister pack, half placebo half active, along with some simple online tool to input the pill number along with some basic measures of anxiety/depression/sleep quality, so that you can check how the drug affected you modulo placebo.
I would guess that the market for this would be quite small. But if anyone wants to make this product, I commit to buying at least one!
Idea: personal placebo controlled drug trial kits
Motivation: anecdotally, it seems like lots of supplements/nootropics (l theanine, magnesium, melatonin) work very well for some people, not well for others, and very well for a bit before no longer working for yet others. Personally, I have tried a bunch of these and found it hard to distinguish any purported effect from placebo. Clinical trials are also often low quality, and there are plausibly reasons a drug might affect some people a lot and others not so much.
I think it would be super useful to be given 60 indistinguishable pills in a numbered blister pack, half placebo half active, along with some simple online tool to input the pill number along with some basic measures of anxiety/depression/sleep quality, so that you can check how the drug affected you modulo placebo.
I would guess that the market for this would be quite small. But if anyone wants to make this product, I commit to buying at least one!