The Geek
Vitamin Bs help beat the blues. As a geek, I love this nutritious cliché not just for its poetic alliteration, but because, like all clichés, it bears some truth… Well, not some truth. It is the truth! Of the eight Vitamin Bs, perhaps the most important for nootropic brain health is Vitamin B6 (with B12 as a close second for … Read more
Believe it or not, before I found nootropics (or rather before nootropics found me), I related anything capable of influencing the mind to the destructive habits of hippies and advertisements. Thus when I first heard of nootropics, I took a long sip on my 32nd coffee of the day and asked myself: Why risk it? After all, … Read more
There’s no such thing as a low-energy rave. And ANS Performance clearly doesn’t intend to pioneer in that direction. ANS Performance RAVE is an energy supplement through-and-through, delivering 4 different, high-dosed stimulants, one being everyone’s favorite drug: Caffeine. But Nootropic Geek: I thought stimulants weren’t nootropics?? You’re damn right, reader. However, if you think that means … Read more
Multi-Tasking Mental Supercharger for Focus, Energy, and Memory If you’ve ever wondered why chickens are so smart, this review should help clarify things. Okay, perhaps chickens aren’t that smart (or smart at all), but they should be. After all, chicken eggs and even the chickens themselves are major suppliers of choline, which is a major component of brain health and cognition. … Read more
Unpopular opinion: Beyoncé didn’t make the beat sicker. It was Gerald Oster who sneezed on the beat when he co-opted H.W. Dove’s neuro-auditory revelations into his experimentation with binaural beats: an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine wave frequencies are presented to a listener dichotically (each to an ear). Otherwise known as “entrainment” for the beats’ … Read more