Category: Nootropics
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Ashwagandha trials used 225-675 mg a day of root extract, most often 600 mg for eight weeks. Here is the population behind each number.
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Theanine trials used a median of 200 mg as a single dose in healthy adults, with the effect measured at one hour. Here is where each number came from.
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Ginkgo, high-dose omega-3, curcumin and more: which brain supplements to stop before surgery, when to stop them, and why it matters.
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Ashwagandha raises T3 and T4 in some studies and can destabilize levothyroxine dosing. It also carries a LiverTox likelihood score of B.
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L-theanine with prescribed stimulants has never been trialed. Here is what the caffeine data show, and what the real cautions are.
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A Korean cohort of 12 million adults found 43% higher 10-year stroke risk in alpha-GPC users. What that proves, and what it doesn’t.
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Ginkgo inhibits platelet-activating factor and has bleeding case reports. If you take warfarin, a DOAC, clopidogrel or aspirin, read this first.
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A compound-by-compound guide to nootropic and antidepressant interactions: what is documented, what is a case report, and what is only theory.