New super brains.. about drugs that make you smarter and miserable!

At first glance, entrepreneur and programmer Dave Asbury's mornings may not look different than anyone else's.

Dave wakes up and takes his young children to school, then comes home and makes himself a breakfast of coffee and butter.

Then, he goes to his office, reaches out to a corner, pulls out several capsules from boxes that look like medicine boxes, and gets to work.

[1] To here, it seems

Everything is normal, until we discover that the capsules he is taking are not actually drugs, but drugs.

We cannot consider Dave's use of these drugs strange, for throughout human history, and before civilizations even existed, drugs have accompanied man.

Because of the damage it causes to the individual, some find in it an escape from the worries and burdens of life, even though the price they will pay for this is high.

What is really strange is that what Dave, and many others, are seeking from a particular type of drug is the complete opposite of all this;

When he swallows these drugs every morning, he does not want to escape from his reality. Rather, he does the exact opposite.

He would like to plunge more into this reality and manipulate it to his advantage, he would like to become smarter, more productive, richer.

The drugs that Dave takes are neither cannabis nor opium, nor are they like any other familiar drug, Dave takes nootropics, or what are known as "smart" drugs.

Chemist C. was not immortalized.

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Georgia once said that the word he invented as a name for the drug Pristam, which he installed in his laboratory one day in 1964, will become so popular sixty years later.

The name of this compound came from the combination of the two Greek words "nos", which means brain, and "tropine" which means "mine."

[2] Like any medicine

Another, Giorgia designed Alprista as a treatment, which he hoped would help patients with brain diseases that affect the brain and cognition, such as Alzheimer's in the elderly, and speech disorders in children.

But most Nootropics users now are often perfectly healthy individuals who do not suffer from any brain disorder, and who do not aim to cure themselves of a disease.

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Smart drug users are also different from users of any other type of drug, as they are not marginalized groups or “Magna” youth who dose the drug in dark dens or noisy parties;

Nootropics users are some of the most prestigious university students in the world, and some of the brightest tech minds in Silicon Valley, the tech hub of San Francisco, America.

By taking drugs that are mostly made for people with cognitive impairments as a result of mental illness, these brilliant students and brilliant programmers aspire to enhance their abilities to learn, focus, and think creatively to become smarter, which seems to happen already under the influence of these drugs.

Each drug has side effects that range in severity, from things as mild as a headache to symptoms as severe as the illness for which they were taken.

Phoebe, a history student at a prestigious university in England, describes the effect of Nootropics on her in her interview with the Guardian: “These drugs help you work, so you can study for longer without distraction. You feel like going to the library on your own, and you don't even want to take Lunch break. You look at the clock, it's seven in the evening, but you can still go on."

Johnny, a student at the same university, describes his first experience with the drugs: “I had a strange feeling, I remember sitting for an exam and thinking, 'This is awful!

My God!

I feel as if I'm going to pass out,' but at the same time I could remember everything, whole paragraphs that I remembered word for word. It was wonderful."[4]

It all sounds really great, taking a few pills in the morning gives you an incredible ability to work and think.

However, as anyone who has ever taken a drug knows, each drug has side effects ranging in severity, from mild things such as headaches to symptoms such as the severity of the disease for which it was taken, and additional drugs must be taken to treat them.

What are the side effects of nitrobex?

There are not enough studies to answer this question, but the long-term experience of many with Nootrobox has not been very promising.

Writer and journalist Kate Miller tells her story with those drugs that she started taking while she was a freshman in her last year of college, and will continue with them after entering her career.

At first, everything seemed great, she found that she could focus for long hours and work effortlessly until late at night, and with all that, she managed to maintain a good social life.

But not long after, the ugly face of Nootropics revealed itself to her: Kate turned addicted.

In her article in the New York Times, Kate recounts what she went through: “I was deluding myself that I could stay balanced while taking these drugs, when I thought the benefits outweighed the harms. I started increasing the doses I was taking, and then found myself spending long nights tossing in bed. Sleep is exhausting, my mind races and my heart is pounding. When I wake up the next morning, the first thing I do is reach out to take the pills again. My body starts getting used to these drugs, and then they lose their effect, so I increase the dose. I take them if I find myself yawning after I started Turn off the alarm. I am a wreck, always angry and out of my ability to connect with the world."

Kate reached a point where she found her life was falling apart on all levels, and here, she decided to stop taking these drugs for good.

But what no one told her was that stopping in and of itself would be difficult. Nootropics, like other drugs, leave users at the beginning of quitting defenseless in front of a barrage of painful withdrawal symptoms.

“I found myself falling asleep during meetings and could no longer finish my work before the due date,” Kate says. “I also started to get very hungry and began to binge eat. This disruption in my brain’s chemistry left me very fragile and sensitive, and my weight gain and late work only made matters worse.” It was difficult for me to understand at the time that what I was experiencing were withdrawal symptoms, as no one had warned me about the symptoms of these side drugs” [5].

Phoebe and Johnny, the two students whom the Nootropics helped with during exams, quickly noticed its bad effect on them soon after;

Phoebe began to feel an excruciating pain in her stomach, and Jimmy felt that he had become so dependent on her for everything, that he took it every morning without really needing it.

Fortunately, before they had Kate's bad experience, the Taliban gave up their nootropics completely afterwards.

Even Dave Asprey, the entrepreneur who drank massive amounts of Nootropics every morning and founded a coffee blend company, the Nootropics developed into severe allergic reactions to certain foods he had eaten normally all his life.

In a research in the scientific journal Clinical Neuroscience, researchers Farid Taleh and Jane Aglotti found that many Nootropics cause side effects ranging in severity and severity from diarrhea, headache, dizziness and insomnia, to memory loss, identity disorders, and deficiencies in the locomotor system.

The research also included a case study of four individuals between the ages of 17 and 28, who were taken by Nootropics to the emergency room in the hospital after they had a nervous breakdown. [6]

Here, we find ourselves in front of a more important question: Why might people with high levels of intelligence often resort to drugs that may add to their intelligence this deeper dimensions, but in return, they may cause side effects that no one knows how dangerous?

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Biohackers look at our bodies as a programmer or engineer might look at a computer looking for ways to improve it.

Tim Farris, an entrepreneur and acclaimed author of human development books, has no real grudge or fear about the long-term side effects of Nootropics.

Speaking with CNN, after starting to talk about the amount of pressure that entrepreneurs are under today, he concluded his conversation by saying, “Just like an Olympian who is willing to do anything, even if he reduces his age by five years, to win the gold medal, you will think about Any drugs you might take to get smarter."

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Jeff Wu, a software engineer who started a company that manufactures nootropics, goes the same way: “Creativity and high mental performance are the only ways you can succeed in Silicon Valley. The only way for your team, product or project to be successful is to have a comparative advantage over the competition (which Nootropics will provide you with).”

And it's not just technical industries, Wu adds: "To get smarter and more productive is to meet modern-day standards of success."[9]

If the willingness of some people to swallow unresearched drugs without suffering from real illness just in order to increase their ability to produce seems strange to you, then you have not heard of the term and the practices that these drugs and many other strange practices include: it is penetration of the body, or " biohacking".

Is there then, the relentless pursuit of success, any kind of happiness?

Or is the summit nothing more than a glamorous image of something in fact empty, cold and lonely?

Biohackers look at our bodies as a programmer or engineer might look at a computer looking for ways to improve it. They try, through methods that vary in their extreme, from intermittent fasting to injecting themselves with stem cells, to make their bodies and brains better, stronger, healthier. .

At first glance, this may not seem like a bad thing. Who wouldn't want to be the best possible version of themselves?

But what is interesting about this is that their desire to develop their bodies and brains stops at the point that makes these bodies and brains more productive, and does not skip them to other aspects of life, as none of the body hackers, for example, thought of creating a drug that by taking it becomes more willing to help others in their adversities.

In the same vein, in the face of the large number of people willing to take Nootropics to increase their ability to produce, neuroscientist Anders Sandberg found in a study he conducted that only 9% of people were willing to take a drug that made them more empathetic or kinder to others.

This increased use of Nootropics and a willingness to manipulate the constitution of the body itself in order to increase production is itself a symptom of the civilization disease that envelopes our world today: the obsession with success at any price.

“In the 1960s, sedatives were known as mothers’ little helpers,” says Carol Gadwallar, a journalist for the Guardian on this. “Today, nootropics are the little helpers of capitalism. Just another symptom of a competitive world where everyone is looking for a comparative advantage over others.”

[10] Neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee says: “Today, from birth to death, people know nothing more than to run in a ferocious rat race. We feel that there are a limited number of prizes on the horizon and that everyone is competing for them. The situation is difficult, and you find yourself ready to Do anything to win."

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In this world governed by machines and numbers, we are also expected to become machines: machines that get up in the morning and work tirelessly until evening falls, and everything is ultimately governed by numbers.

How successful you are is related to how much you produce each day, which at the end of the month will translate into how much money you make.

Your salary or wealth is no longer mere means to provide you with a decent life, but has become a kind of obsession. Every person wants to become successful in a modern culture that values ​​only material values, and stigmatizes those who fail the test of making money with failure.

In such a culture, it is not surprising to find people willing to swallow drugs of unknown side effects in order to get better.

Is this not, in one way or another, what modern culture imposes on us all today, to work until we burn and lose some of life’s simplest pleasures just so we can live decently and escape the stigma of failure?

The question remains:

Is there then, the relentless pursuit of success, any kind of happiness?

Or is the summit nothing more than a glamorous image of something in fact empty, cold and lonely?

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