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| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5218 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 25 of 51 01 November 2011 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Indeed, there are very few. At least with Piracetam it has been around since 1964 and has shown to be very safe, even in the long-term. If you already have a healthy mind though, these things can help boost performance but then you might rely on them too much. You can also obtain similar effects through proper diet and exercise. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4868 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 26 of 51 01 November 2011 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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My love of languages causes my body to produce endorphins, which I find to be helping my language learning.
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6459 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 27 of 51 01 November 2011 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I’m on a lot of medicine, sadly, none of them are enhancing but they rather make me dumber. Sleeping pills with a
long half life make you literally retarded in the way you walk, move, the balance is of, logic is falling, etc. etc. Antidepressants don’t do anything except trying to get read of underlying depression — though that can help. Nevertheless: I’d strongly recommend people who, like me, are taking drugs, drugs as in prescribed medicine, for psychiatric conditions especially, but other prescribed medicine too, not to try these ‹smart drugs› due to the fact that the interaction between medicines is a very very vast field of studies and knowledge and the more different things you take, the greater is the risk for negative interaction. Grapefruit juice and throat burn powders can seriously ruin the effect of a medicine. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6172 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 28 of 51 02 November 2011 at 1:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Personally I love piracetam with choline. It gives you extreme focus and motivation and
you just remember everything. It basically cured my gf's dyslexia during the time when she was taking it everyday. I tried aniracetam but didn't get much of a result. Best of all it's completely non-toxic and has no side effects. It does sound too good to be true. Everyone should take omega-3 though. That's just basic. Edited by zerothinking on 02 November 2011 at 1:18am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6350 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 29 of 51 02 November 2011 at 3:58am | IP Logged | ||
totally agree 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5566 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 30 of 51 02 November 2011 at 4:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Am I weird for not wanting to mess with such substances without a medical indication?
By the way, people are generally much more likely to choose unhealty food when they are taking a vitamin supplement; I have the suspicion that in the same vein, people will be more likely to choose behaviour that doesn't help with their study success (regarding diet, sleep, relaxation, exercise etc) when they are already taking a so-called neuro-enhancer. We're pretty good at fooling ourselves, and the majority of those who believe they're part of the minority who don't - well, it wouldn't be a minority then. Edited by Bao on 02 November 2011 at 5:45am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4759 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 31 of 51 02 November 2011 at 4:58am | IP Logged | ||
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This is a very interesting topic. I think there are some benefits to the medication
itself such as concentration - however as most of the others said, for language learning it is not very good, unless you need to focus for a short periods of time. From what I read it lasts for 4 hours. So it would only be good for maybe reading or learning new vocabulary. However, it can also increases any underlying mental problems you may have (anxiety etc)and also after chronic use your brain can become sluggish due to the brains reliance upon on it. I honestly do not know what my full opinion of this medication is apart from if it was meant for humans to use it would be natural and not created - so there is bound to be negative effects. Personally, just stick with stuff like fish oils and natural things that aid your body. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6237 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 32 of 51 02 November 2011 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Which medications last 4 hours? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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