Nootropics: Post your current stack!

[Zanick]

~5g Piracetam, as 1.6g 3x/day
200mg Modafinil in the AM
5g Creatine, in the AM or before workouts
525mg Maca whole root powder, in the AM and before workouts
750mg Bacopa monnieri in the AM
A mushroom compound of reishi, maitake and shiitake.
Plus a multivitamin, one of those Whole Foods multis with tons of herbal shit

This stack was built emphasizing improvement in three main focuses of my life right now. Firstly, I began a job six months ago where I was expected to assume a quasi-leadership role among my coworkers and provide customer service, but it came with a learning curve and I needed to get over it fast. Second, I'm good with people but also have bad, free-floating anxiety that I need to work on that would undoubtedly impair my work. Third, I want to see better gains at the gym.

I find that this works very effectively for me in all of these areas, as I found myself excelling lately even though I'm quite busy and stressed. Typically it isn't expensive for me right now; maybe $20 a month for upkeep. Due to a recent change in health insurance, I've been omitting the modafinil as it's become cost-prohibitive. I was prescribed it for narcolepsy, so this is unfortunate. In the meantime, I find my cognitive performance to be similarly enhanced by a double shot of espresso and 200mg theanine.

Sources available upon request, provided that the rules here allow it--I'll check on that in the meantime. Also, for any nootnoobs, none of these drugs can replace a good night of sleep... yet.

[Daran]

600mg adrafinil
750mg Bacopa (Himalaya)
250mg Rhodiola Rosea
4 tsp Royal Jelly (evaluating)
Prophylactic Kava-kava
5 grams kratom

I'm currently waiting on some 90% icariin extract since upon resuming kratom I'm sure my test levels will take a hit.

OP, what brand of bacopa do you use?

[Zanick]

Actually, I stick with Himalaya. While I've planned to try another, cheaper one before, the Whole Foods down the street always happens to have a one day sale on supplements when I need it, plus it works fine for me when I take it just once a day, so I've had great luck there. How do you find yourself responding to it?

Also, how would you compare adrafinil to modafinil, if you've had both? I've been thinking that or a new, experimental -afinil being tried by Cephalon might be the solution to the struggles with my health insurance.

[Daran]

I started taking bacopa last year after I got myself into trouble with phenibut for three months. I took it for it's gaba modulating properties and purported memory enhancing effects and it certainly makes a big difference. I find that it still helps and I start to notice its absence when I occasionally cycle off it.
As for Adrafinil, it's pretty effective but you do need to dose it quite high, in the 600-900mg range. 300mg of Adrafinil is equivalent to 100mg of modafinil IIRC. I've taken armodafinil, the more active enantiomer of modafinil, and it packs quite a bit more punch than adrafinil. All in all, it's not too bad and it does keep me alert when I'm low on sleep. I wouldn't say that it increases my cognitive performance like piracetam does (or, used to). It's also pretty expensive, you can get generic modalert online for about the same price.

[Iudicium Infernalum]

I've been meaning to get a stack for a while but i keep buying other stuff...