The simplest definition of "nootropic" involves any substance or practice that enhances cognition. Brain bio-hacking is the cool-guy's term for nootropics. For a stickler like me, nootropics are any safe, side-effect-free substances that enhance cognition. But even so, the common … [Read more...]

Nootropics may optimize brain chemical status, promote brainwave frequencies, enhance cerebral circulation, reduce free radical damage, improve nerve growth factor levels, and more -- but what does this all mean in terms of nootropic benefits? How do nootropic bio-activities … [Read more...]

Have you seen the film Limitless with Bradley Cooper? His character is an out-of-work writer with writer’s block who loses his girlfriend and sees no future until he is offered the designer pill NZT-48. After taking it, he starts to use 100% of his mind, learns to play the … [Read more...]

Thinking about getting a smarter brain? Unfortunately, nootropics can't really do that. (You'll have to read books and accumulate experiences and all that time-consuming crap to become genuinely smarter.) However, nootropics for beginners may help make the path to a smarter … [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 … [Read more...]