Piracetam supposedly helps with memory and cognition by increasing blood flow to the brain or something… I got some to play around with and will let you guys know if anything interesting happens.
Piracetam works by influencing acetylcholine. Vinpocetine and ginko-biloba are examples of vasodilators (work by increasing blood flow to the brain).
I (strongly) recommend adding a choline supplement when supplementing with piracetam (and the other *racetams). You burn through choline more quickly when using them and so can end up with mediocre results and sometimes a headache if you neglect a choline supplement.
Also give the piracetam a couple of weeks before you expect to feel the full impact.
The imminst.org forums have a useful subforum on nootropics that is worth checking out.
It’s a little hard to distinguish the benefit from practice and the benefit from omega-3, so ideally you’d alternate periods of supplement and no supplement.
Piracetam works by influencing acetylcholine. Vinpocetine and ginko-biloba are examples of vasodilators (work by increasing blood flow to the brain).
I (strongly) recommend adding a choline supplement when supplementing with piracetam (and the other *racetams). You burn through choline more quickly when using them and so can end up with mediocre results and sometimes a headache if you neglect a choline supplement.
Also give the piracetam a couple of weeks before you expect to feel the full impact.
The imminst.org forums have a useful subforum on nootropics that is worth checking out.
Thanks for the info.
I was planning on trying it without the choline first to see if it was really needed.
Any ideas on how to actually test performance?
Seth Roberts tracked the influence of omega-3 on brain function via arithmetic tests in R:
http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/01/05/tracking-how-well-my-brain-is-working/ http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/04/14/omega-3-and-arithmetic-continued/
It’s a little hard to distinguish the benefit from practice and the benefit from omega-3, so ideally you’d alternate periods of supplement and no supplement.
Also, ideally you wouldn’t know when you were getting omega-3 and when you were getting a placebo during the course of the experiment.