I want to tell a story which gave me hope.
I measure my health by quality hours of my life for work, learning and family. Usually I am able to work 4-6h per day (I am software engineer - beginner) and that's it - no more energy and willingness to learn or play with my kid. If I feel very good which is pretty rare for me I can do extra 2h of learning something and I am happy to spend my time with family.
So to fix this I am willing to take every supplement I found to be useful. All this happend before I realised I could be infected with something, so my way of fixing my life was through nootropics.
But... I tried and once I went to manic-working state where I felt really happy, was able to work, learn and was happy to play with my child.
So in 2021 October I felt shitty as usual. I was taking all the possible supplements I could and as always it seems that nothing worked until... Actually on my 40 birthday (06.11) I felt somehow different - better. I felt that I have a lot of energy, excellent mood and motivation. I felt that I can do things, crystal clear head, sharp focus. Besides that I was willing to play with my child. We played silly and simple games and we enjoyed our time together for real!
I took usual supplements like omega 3, magnesium, zinc, vit d, b multi etc.
The list of supplements I was taking is:
October:
Cistanche (Testosterone ^)
BROMANTINE (Probably had some positive effect on kidneys)
BENFOTHIAMINE
November-december:
UNIFIRAM (AMPA receptors ^)
NOOPEPT (ORAL) (HIF ^)
HUMINERAL HUMIC/FULVIC ACID MINERAL (mineral absorption, distribution)
ALCAR (probably related to riboflavin pathway also)
COq10 (UBIQUINONE)
J147 (antioxidant)
EGCG
THERACURMIN (antioxidant)
NAC or NACET (antioxidant)
R-ALA (SDH, AKG-DH ^)
REDUCED GLUTATIONE (antioxidant)
BLACK CUMIN SEED OIL (HDAC inhibitor)
QUERCETINE (antioxidant)
ASTAXANTHIN (antioxidant)
PEA + PQQ
This stack did nothing for me until I switched to low-carb/keto like diet. I have been before on such diets and I would say I always perform better on lowcarb. But this time something was very different.
I was in that manic-happy-working state for 2 months. When Christmas came I stopped using supplements and relaxed. I thought I have found solution and planned to take similar stack after NY. Some more details about my experience being in this state:
- I was not triggered by junk food/junk info/porn/gaming at all.
- I was working like factory champ, by clock, being precise and accurate.
- I was able to do new and complicated things at work. Most of the times thinking before and drawing diagrams and planing etc.
- When was smoking "empty" weed (without THC) and got high from it like smoking usual joint. Later I realized that there was 1-3% of thc in that home-grown-cbd cannabis I got from my friend. And that high was not typical thc high.
- Sometimes I got very very frustrating by solving simple everyday tasks. Mostly because I got angry if someone messed up my "schedule".
- It was very hard to switch tasks.
- I also did a lot of meditations and yoga which I do rarely.
So after all the partying I thought I will be replicate this but instead of manic-happy state I got anxiety and depression started to creep on me. No supplements/nootropics worked. There were only few things missing from my previous stack:
HUMINERAL HUMIC/FULVIC ACID MINERAL (replaced with shilajit from Russia)
J147
ASTAXANTHIN
Thats it... I was depressed for almost half year. Probably got something like flue/covid. Low energy all the time. Only when summer came I started to regain some vitality.
Now ill go through this bornfree protocol and then probably will test some nootropics (if needed).
Does anyone have some ideas why I was not able to replicate my random superstack?