Question about Brain

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Choline is what you're thinking of, and the category would be Nootropics.

Yes there are lots of Nootropics, ranging from herbal supplements to pills. I currently take Modafinil which is on the heavier spectrum of Nootropics.


They work. However, the heavier you go, or the more nootropics you take at once(because you can stack them on top of eachother), the worse the brain decline after you stop [may] be. Brain decline as in - if you are operating at a high level with the drugs, take them away, you will feel cognitively below normal for a while. I think it's worth it. I mean even though modafinil is on the heavier level of them, it has minimal side effects, which is why it is gaining popularity. My personal experience with it for me, is that it increases my: Memory, focus(not too much but I also take ADD medication for that specifically), Creativity, Energy(I will be researching sometimes on the internet from when I get home from school until 12 AM), but most importantly I make a lot more connections I otherwise would have missed. Like I can detect patterns much more efficiently.


I have been researching on this category of drug for the past week or so because I was curious since I was taking Modafinil already. It's pretty interesting, you should read up on it, there are a lot of over the counter nootropics you can get that do in fact work. For starters, one that a lot of people use that is pretty light that already has a lot of different nootropics combined in order to create a nootropic stack in only one pill is called "Alpha Brain".

Thanks for responding. The "c" supplement I was thinking of was a trade name and not choline. Choline is the precursor to acetylcholine, one of many neurotransmitters (among other things). That's why they use cholinesterase inhibitors as one possible treatment for dementia.

I have read up on them also. I just wanted to get someones opinion that had first had experience.

Oh alright. I just went to the word that I was most familiar with, as I had just looked up about what "Choline" is yesterday, so it's what I thought you were talking about. 

I know what you mean with the choline treating dementia, it seems it's a common trait that a lot of medications that were thought to treat different conditions are being discovered to have "brain enhancing" effects. For instance, Modafinil is originally(and still essentially is) a narcolepsy medication, but in recent studies and trends it's shown to be beneficial to normal people who have no noticeable issues. (this might be a tad wrong since I can't remember the full details) however,
Fun fact: I'm pretty sure the person who created Modafinil got contacted by the FDA and was threatened, or got a law suit filed or something, because he was apparently "advertising it as something it wasn't" I believe an ADHD medication, or something.