What if there was a way to hack into your brain and enhance its power? Imagine waking up one day and finding access to a drug like the NZT-48 from “Limitless” that allows you to unleash your brain’s maximum potential. With the new generation of nootropics, you do not have to imagine it anymore. The Nootropics are smart drugs that can enhance the cognitive functions of the brain. Brain enhancing drugs can have a milieu of actions including improvement of brain function, enhancement of cognition, increase in concentration levels and growth of memory. Nootropics and brain enhancing drugs are terms people use interchangeably.
How should a smart drug behave in the human system?
With the advent of technology, several new smart drugs have emerged in the market. From Piracetam to Noopept, we have come a long way to perfecting the cognition enhancement effect. In spite of hundreds of investigations and popular research publications, several people are afraid of the adverse impact of these new generation drugs on their health. However, there are two most important criteria that all nootropics must meet –
- They must be able to protect the brain from the unpleasant actions of chemicals in the drug.
- They must possess little to no toxicity in the human system and have no side effects.
Noopept is one of the most popular smart drugs that adhere to these qualities, just like its famous predecessor, piracetam. Noopept has no side effects when the consumer subscribes to the prescribed dosage. When the consumer exceeds the boundaries of recommended dosage, there can be little side effects like headaches and increased levels of agitation or nervousness. However, both side effects are challenging, and one can easily counter the problems with choline supplements. Piracetam works marvelously in coordination with Noopept. When a person takes Piracetam only, they are more likely to experience no side effects at all. Even headaches are the rarest occurrences with regular piracetam consumption.
What traits define nootropics?
Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea coined the term Nootropics and defined them in 1963. According to him, each nootropic must meet these five criteria –
- The compound should be able to improve learning and memory.
- They should be able to protect the brain from physical damage, like hypoxia.
- The chemicals should be able to protect the brain from chemical attacks of addictives like barbiturates.
- They should be able to enhance the coordination of neural firing in the cerebral cortex and sub-cerebral cortex of the brain.
- These chemicals should always be beneficial for the consumer and have almost nil side-effects.
Even today, there are only a few brain-enhancing drugs that meet all five criteria Dr. Giurgea laid out almost 60 years ago and is where we must clarify the difference between nootropics and other generic mind enhancing drugs. Not all brain enhancing compounds are harmless as these smart drugs. If there is not enough recognized research or publication on the effects of a new drug, you must be very cautious about relying on it regularly for enhancing your brain functions. Many of the modern pseudo-smart drugs have a severe addictive effect on the brain. Therefore, all nootropics are brain-enhancing drugs, but all readily available brain-enhancing chemicals in the market are not nootropics. Before you choose a brain-enhancing drug, you should always read more about smart drugs and their effects on your health.
What can the nootropics achieve?
A person can experience several amazing effects of the brain enhancing drugs after regular consumption. Each one has a different set of effect on the brain functions. While almost all of them share the same goal – an improvement of memory and cognition, there are a few sets of functions that make them perfect for specific conditions and disorders.
Management of anxiety: anxiety disorder is widespread in today’s dog eat dog world. Sadly, doctors still find it difficult to diagnose anxiety disorders conclusively due to the diverse symptoms and random occurrences. People of all ages can suffer from increasing levels of anxiety that makes it impossible for them to focus on their task at hand. Anxiety issues often have physical manifestations in people including elevated blood pressures, digestive problems, and headaches. Severe cases require regular medication and therapy. However, due to the lack of awareness about anxiety as a disorder, many people suffer from frequent attacks without knowing that it is treatable. Nootropics can handle the neurochemical causes of concern. They can promote the calming effects by enhancing dopamine and serotonin levels. Several of the smart drugs can successfully eliminate the causes of anxiety by acting in coordination with other medications. You may suffer from social stress, performance anxiety or anxiety without any particular reason; there are nootropics like Noopept that can help you out!
Pain management: another important cause of anxiety and depression is a constant pain. There are times when people find themselves in debilitating pain that compromises their daily productivity. Research shows that people suffering from fibromyalgia, neuritis, rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of painful inflammation of joints often experience increased levels of agitation, anxiety, and depression. Barbiturates can reduce pain, but they are addictive. Pain management came at a significant cost of compromised cognitive abilities, weak short-term memory and diffused learning skills. Nootropics not only help with enhancing brain activity, but they also help with controlling the sensation of pain. Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid cum nootropic that reduces stress, anxiety, and depression.
Control of memory problems: forgetting to switch the lights off while leaving the house or remembering where you kept your car keys are quite regular. Everyone has more than one such incident once a day, where they forget the exact location of their glasses or mobile phones. However, the problem becomes a lot more dangerous when people remember details of their ongoing office projects or the names of their co-workers and employees. Preparing for exams becomes a lot arduous when you tend to forget the essential names, numbers, and dates. Adrafinil, Pramiracetam, Phosphatidylserine, Noopept, Huperzine A, and Modafinil are the three necessary nootropic chemicals that have the superpower to improve your memory. They can also enhance clarity during logic and reasoning processes during everyday life situations. Research on the effects of these compounds points towards the possibility of suppression of neurodegenerative diseases, which compromise memory functions.
Improving the power of concentration: compromised memory functions in an individual of any age can be a result of inadequate concentration. You must have noticed this already. When you are trying to multitask, you often end up missing out the more delicate details of one task or another. For example – when you are trying to listen to your professor speak and texting your friend back at the same time, you will either miss out parts of the lecture or essential details in a message. To many, this comes across as memory faux pas although it is a result of lack of enough attention. The lack of restorative sleep or extreme mental exhaustion can cause you to lose focus. Nootropics like Noopept, Modafinil, Adrafinil, and Pramiracetam help in boosting brain functions. They improve concentration, attention span, and memory.
What should you know before taking any smart drug?
Smart drugs have several families and subfamilies of compounds that have a variety of brain-enhancing activities. Finding the one that is ideal for the issues you are facing can be a challenging task since each one has lucrative benefits. That is the primary reason you should consult an expert before taking a new nootropic or switching to one smart drug from another. Sometimes, stacking several intelligent medicines together can have the best effects. For example – the alpha brain is a stack of several nootropic compounds like Huperzine A and alpha-GPC. This stack boosts the secretion of acetylcholine in the brain. It increases the neurotransmitter concentration in the synapses that improve memory functions distinctly.
Advances in pharmaceutical engineering and molecular biology have helped scientists leverage the effects of naturally occurring amino acids and amino acid derivatives. Many of the smart drugs are not even synthetic compounds that are foreign to our bodies. That is why the intelligent modern medicines can enhance brain functions without eliciting deleterious side effects. Additionally, they protect the brain from cognitive disorders and destruction of neuronal structures. Delaying the onset of age-related dementia or other hereditary neurodegenerative diseases is now a reality. Combining nootropics can open a whole new world of disease prevention and brain function improvement that can improve your memory and learning abilities.
Do nootropics cause addiction or withdrawal symptoms?
Thanks to favorite Hollywood movies and comic books, we often believe that nootropics or brain enhancing smart drugs can cause addiction and withdrawal symptoms in people. All intelligent medicines that conform to Dr. Giurgea’s definition of nootropics must not have any unpleasant withdrawal signs. They are not addictive, so getting off them is easy as well. However, you should also know that about 5 in 1,000,000 people have modafinil sensitivity. These are also the same people, who have heightened sensitivity to NSAIDs. If you have NSAID drug sensitivity, always consult an experienced physician before starting modafinil.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
