[ExI] Which nootropics work best?

[J. Stanton]

Max:

Ghrelin is strongly neurotrophic.  I find fasting to be an extremely 
effective nootropic due to the action of ghrelin.  And high-fat paleo 
dieting makes it much easier to fast without being distracted by hunger 
pangs.

I seem to recall that centrophenoxine potentiates the effects of 
*racetam, which might be worth a try.

Frankly, removing gluten and seed oil from my diet, combined with a high 
intake of delicious fatty meat, coconut oil, butter, etc. and adequate 
n-3 intake from fatty fish and fish oil, has been such a great cognitive 
benefit to me that I haven't felt the need to push into artificial 
substances.

Oh, egg yolks.  There is lots of choline in egg yolks, among other 
critical brain nutrients.  Anyone who throws away egg yolks is throwing 
away all the nutrition in an egg: whites are just protein.

> I see a considerable interest in keeping us not well-fed, but overfed
> to the point of lethargy and carelessness.  We're so much easier to
> control on the edge of carb/sugar coma and tuned-in to the TV (modern
> opiate of the masses?)

If you want to fatten an animal for slaughter, you feed it a grain-based 
diet.

Furthermore, a population dependent on insulin, Toprol, metformin, 
Paxil, and Ambien is much easier to manipulate.  You're not going to 
foment revolution if you're dependent on daily medication to survive.

JS
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