An effective way to improve Mental Performance (1)

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Alexey Novikov"ACCELERATING THE HEAD", DO NOT OVERHEAT!

The problem of insufficient mental performance and fatigue, as it turned out, worries a lot of people.

On Habr, there were citizens who, who jokingly, who seriously advised amphetamines, prozac, nootropil, ginkgo, vinpocetine in the comments.

The level of ignorance of some "advisers" is off the scale. In this post I will tell you what not to do. I'll tell you what to do in the next one.

Amphetamines

The effect of them, of course, is. Derivatives of amphetamines are included in the composition of drugs that help to tolerate increased mental and physical stress, for example, reconnaissance saboteurs. If a tired horse is stimulated with a stun gun, it will run faster, but then it will fall and die. Any prolonged non-medical use of amphetamines is addiction, severe side effects and death. Among the "charms" is the development of schizophrenic psychoses.

Especially sorry for those fools who are trying to use "club pills" to improve performance. In addition to amphetamines, these pills contain a bunch of synthesis byproducts. As drunks are toiling and dying from fusel oils and methanol, so consumers of this shit get liver and kidney failure, fall into a coma from the by-products of synthesis. The process is artisanal and the cleaning sucks.

Prozac and other antidepressants

If, in the case of amphetamines, you should write a will, then, preparing to get hooked on Prozac, warn your woman that there will be no sex. What is this all about? Prozac is such an antidepressant. Despite the fact that many people colloquially call their inoperable state "depressuha", it is not associated with real depression in 99% of cases. Accordingly, they will not give any significant and persistent increase in mental performance. They just have a different mechanism of action. And a variety of side effects. For example, a decrease in sexual desire and erectile function.

Everything you need to know about antidepressants: they should be taken only as prescribed by a psychiatrist and under his supervision.By the way, those who manage to eat ecstasy or other amphetamine-containing drugs while sitting on Prozac die non-trivially.

And drink vodka, yeah.

Nootropics

Opinions differ on the effectiveness of these drugs. At one time, a teacher at the Department of Neurology told me: "In those doses in which you can take it without a doctor's supervision, it is not nootropil that works, but autosuggestion." Other colleagues use it and praise it. I also experienced its positive effect on myself (what if it was autosuggestion? :)

In general, Nootropil is a relatively safe drug, but this does not mean that you should immediately rush to eat it. In the next note, I will talk about non-drug methods, which in my practice have shown significant effectiveness even without "Nootropil".

One "smart guy" wrote in the comments "there are plans to switch to Vinpocetine." If the vessels of the brain are not changed, then this group of nootropics will not give anything at all. There probably won't be much harm, but there won't be any benefit for sure.

Dietary supplements, dietary supplements

It's good if they are at least harmless. Facilitate autosuggestion. But sometimes, instead of sawdust, these expensive capsules contain not harmless shavings at all, but herbs that first cause an increase in mood, then addiction, then disorders of varying severity.

Lyrically, let's step aside from the problem of reducing mental performance. As a doctor, I consider dietary supplements to be evil. An illustrative example of one fan of dietary supplements, who developed terrible osteoporosis against the background of prolonged and abundant use of horseradish knows what additives. They told us back at the institute: her bones broke like sugar. Well, there is no counting the number of elderly people who have earned heart attacks, strokes, hypertensive crises and other complications due to the rejection of "harmful chemical pills" in favor of "natural herbal supplements". A certain grandmother was taking antihypertensive therapy prescribed to her for life, and then there was a "gossip" who wailed, they say, "they went crazy there, they put you on pills." And she offered her grandmother crushed sawdust in capsules. Against the background of the abrupt withdrawal of the drug the next evening, grandma "knocks out the traffic jams". Hypertensive crisis, rupture of a vessel, cerebral hemorrhage. But everything is natural, no "harmful chemicals".

Vitamins

One of the local users, who admitted to the lack of medical education, advised 2-3 times a day to consume B vitamins. There is a reasonable grain in this. But vitamins are not dosed in "times", but between "two" or "three" times a day, the difference may be significant.

This is especially true for vitamins like Vitrum Superstress. They should not be taken more than one capsule per day at all. An excessive amount of some vitamins will not be absorbed by the cells, and their metabolism will follow an unfavorable alternative biochemical pathway. Read about hypervitaminosis, smart guys.

Caffeine

Some alarmist said, they say, "caffeine is the strongest drug." Nothing like that, of course. But do not take it more than there is in coffee or tea. The side effects of caffeine will be stronger than those of "Nootropil" or vitamins. Don't overheat the processor, guys.

As I receive idiotic advice from non-specialists, I will expand and supplement this note, and the other day I will post a really working methodology.

Portal "Eternal youth" www.vechnayamolodost.ru19.05.2008