Does anyone have any experiences with L-Dopa? I was looking at it here: Cognitive Nutrition
Highlights:
-Increase Dopamine levels.
-Supports mental alertness and mood.
-Increases HGH release. (I felt this sets it apart from other things)
-Supports physical strength and well being.
-Reduces excessive prolactin levels.
Looks pretty sweet to me, if it does what it says. Pretty cheap as well. What do you all think and what would be good to stack with this if it’s worthy?
My vinpo! and Choline! arrived today.
Going by the bottles the Vinpo 10mg should be taken 3-4 throughout the day and the Choline 1-2 in the morning. I’m sure it’s been posted previously, but I don’t have the time or energy (I will need other tablets for that) to sift through 42 pages of brainboosting. Anyway, what is the kicking in period for the Vinpo! and Choline?
Is there anything I can add to my treasure chest for the special occasions were I get zero or little sleep on a night?
Cheers
Rob
Rob,
Choline and Vinpo are the base of the pyramid, as far as noops are concerned. They work, but are subtle - to the point that you won’t notice a dramatic increase, but your comprehension, verbalization and recall will all be slowly climbing upwards until you reach ‘saturation’.
Just for kicks, may I suggest you take one of those online IQ quizzes, and then once again in a couple of weeks, to see how much difference it makes.
With the vinpo, start out with 10mg 2/3 times ED, and work your way up to 3 x 30mg ED. The choline dose depends entirely upon how much your noggin uses throughout the day. If you’re stressed, mentally, then I suggest taking a slightly higher dosage than you would normally. 3g per day, up to 5 if you feel very run down.
-Rowesk
Edit: beat me to it Bushy 
Note to Noop Troupe: Never put powdered vinpo in your shakes…
-Rowesk
Do you guys recommend taking choline with food?
[quote]rehabman28 wrote:
Do you guys recommend taking choline with food?[/quote]
Choline on an empty stomach can give you stomach cramps. I found for me what works best to increase acetylcholine levels is to take the liquid DMAE from Twinlab, 10 drops in the morning mixed with water as soon as I wake up in the morning. I tried 15 drops, but this is too much and gives me a stiff neck and headache. I tried different forms of choline supplements, including CDP choline, choline bitartrate, choline chloride, but they all overstimulate me and make my heart pound. Hope this helps…
A little off topic but thought it was pretty interesting. From
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080909/sc_livescience/humanshaveastonishingmemoriesstudyfinds
Clara Moskowitz
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Tue Sep 9, 12:02 AM ET
If human memory were truly digital, it would have just received an upgrade from something like the capacity of a floppy disk to that of a flash drive. A new study found the brain can remember a lot more than previously believed.
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In a recent experiment, people who viewed pictures of thousands of objects over five hours were able to remember astonishing details afterward about most of the objects.
Though previous studies have never measured such astounding feats of memory, it may be simply because no one really tried.
“People had never tested whether people could remember this much detail about this many objects,” said researcher Timothy Brady, a cognitive neuroscientist at MIT. “Nobody actually pushed it this far.”
When they did push the human brain to its limits, the scientists found that under the right circumstances, it can store minute visual details far beyond what had been imagined.
Those circumstances include looking at images of objects that are familiar, such as remote controls, dollar bills and loaves of bread, as opposed to abstract artworks.
Another factor that seemed to help was motivation to do well: The participant who scored highest won a small prize of money (the researchers refused to say exactly how much).
“You have to try,” said MIT co-author Talia Konkle. “You have to want to do it.”
The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, and a National Research Service Award, was detailed in the Sept. 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In the experiment, 14 people ranging from age 18 to 40 viewed nearly 3,000 images, one at a time, for three seconds each. Afterwards, they were shown pairs of images and asked to select the exact image they had seen earlier.
The test pairs fell into three categories: two completely different objects, an object and a different example of the same type of object (such as two different remote controls), and an object along with a slightly altered version of the same object (such as a cup full and another cup half-full).
Stunningly, participants on average chose the correct image 92 percent, 88 percent and 87 percent of the time, in each of the three pairing categories respectively. Though 14 subjects may not sound like a huge sample, the fact that they each recalled the objects with very similar rates of success suggests the results are not a fluke.
“To give just one example, this means that after having seen thousands of objects, subjects didn’t just remember which cabinet they had seen, but also that the cabinet door was slightly open,” Brady said.
Even the researchers didn’t expect quite such high recall rates.
“We had the intuition that it might be possible, but we were surprised by the magnitude of the effect,” said study leader Aude Oliva, also of MIT. “These numbers, higher than 85 and 90 percent, impressed us and also impressed a lot of people who heard about the work.”
So now that we know the brain’s memory is so fantastic, are we all out of excuses for forgetting friends’ birthdays?
Luckily not, Brady said.
“To some extent it’s about attention, actively encoding specific details into memory,” he told LiveScience. “If we tried really hard we actually could remember when someone’s birthday was: if you say to yourself, ‘The birthday is on this day and that relates to these other things that I remember.’”
Basically, he said, we can remember most things we put our minds to, if we invest enough attention and effort into trying to store them in the first place.
That study actually reminds me a lot of a super reading program called Photo Reading. It’s a pretty awesome program. After it you can photoread a dictionary in about 5 minutes then think of any word and know what page number it is on and the section of the page. Freaky cool.
I’ve heard some things about the photoreading program. Have you actually completed it and can vouche for its effectiveness?
dharmabum31- Yes, I have used it enough to know that it does work to some degree but not enough to say that it is everything it is cracked up to be.
Alteredstate- Good point, but to be able to recall those kind of details so quickly can easily spill over into other areas i.e. anatomy charts, chemistry etc. Essentially it’s supposed to enhances your photographic memory.
The program I am talking about is this one. http://www.photoreading.com/
Pretty interesting infomercial about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5VZa4USCTs
[quote]duece wrote:
The program I am talking about is this one. http://www.photoreading.com/
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So who all has used this course? Is it worth the $245 for the basic course or $530 for the deluxe? That’s a crap load to pay for something that doesn’t work. I’d be interested in hearing peoples experiences with this course.
[quote]Hawkguy wrote:
duece wrote:
The program I am talking about is this one. http://www.photoreading.com/
So who all has used this course? Is it worth the $245 for the basic course or $530 for the deluxe? That’s a crap load to pay for something that doesn’t work. I’d be interested in hearing peoples experiences with this course.
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I bought it a few years ago, and only completed part of it. It seemed to work but again I can’t say for sure. I also haven’t really been in a place in my life to need it up until now. I think I will dig it out of the closet this weekend and give it a serious effort and report back on it in a week or two.
[quote]duece wrote:
Hawkguy wrote:
duece wrote:
The program I am talking about is this one. http://www.photoreading.com/
So who all has used this course? Is it worth the $245 for the basic course or $530 for the deluxe? That’s a crap load to pay for something that doesn’t work. I’d be interested in hearing peoples experiences with this course.
I bought it a few years ago, and only completed part of it. It seemed to work but again I can’t say for sure. I also haven’t really been in a place in my life to need it up until now. I think I will dig it out of the closet this weekend and give it a serious effort and report back on it in a week or two.
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So would you recommend purchasing it? I’d be interested in hearing about your experience if you get back into it. I got board exams coming up and all kinds of other stuff to study up on and would consider getting this if it works.
bump