Hack Your Neurochemistry with Customized Nootropics – Mr. Noots & Matt Gallant – #861

• All right, Mr. Noots, what is your true identity? Unveil yourself.  – 8:39
• For me, it was quite a journey. But I don’t know if we’re going to get back to that later. But I first started to do it as a way to get off coffee back in the ’90s.  – 11:40
• Huperzia serrata, right, it’s an extract and it increases choline flow, right? It also reduces cholinesterase enzyme so that the choline keeps flowing through the synapse.  – 13:27
• As a former addict, I thought, and I was hardwired to believe that more is better. And now I know better and optimal is better.  – 15:20
• We found that there were interesting ways that during the extraction process of herbs and the conversion process of pyroglutamic acid, you could get them to weave each other together and create these bonds that would go in various directions.  – 19:24
• When your body doesn’t have a load, if it doesn’t have an oxidant load, an oxidation load, if the adaptogens are effectively reducing stress levels, stress hormones, inflammatory conditions, then the nootropic works significantly better.  – 23:18
• If you get energy in the morning, maybe you don’t need nootropics at that time, and just tend to crash out in the afternoon. Well, around 12:00, 12:30 or 1:00 p.m., take your nootropics and you’re going to be rocking all afternoon. – 25:13
• How do you know, though, how to customize the stack? I mean, yeah, the surveys are good, but how much science is between the survey, and the tech?  – 28:27
• It really depends what am I trying to achieve? And what state do I need to be in in order to maximize my performance in that moment. – 30:38
• Anandamide actually comes from tobacco. Is that in there?  – 33:06
• I was working on stacks and then I met Mark and I had the feeling, okay, here’s a guy that I’ll never catch up to. – 38:49
• There’s methyl B-12, right, so methylcobalamin, just much more available and a couple other compounds that really helped that process. – 42:01
• The big epiphany was, “Hold it, if I change the amount of the choline donor, the nootropic, the antioxidant, right, the adaptogen. I change the ratios of those and maybe even add some elements like a pro hormone like a DHEA or pregnenolone or something like that, maybe I could get a different performance profile.  – 47:08
• I wanted something that was a parasympathetic brain enhancer, which meant that it’s going to operate when you’re chill, right, or it’s going to operate and bring you to a chill state.  – 50:13
• A lot of people don’t know what serotonin syndrome is. And if you’re using psychedelics, you might want to know about this, so just go off on that for a little bit.  – 53:42
• So tell me why you guys are like fruit versus just give me a scoop of glucose?  – 58:31
• We’ve talked about Brain Flow, the different formulas. There’s nine base blends and each of these gets customized?  – 1:02:32

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