I have been running adrafinil for a fortnight and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
The measured outcome and the hoped-for outcome are rarely the same thing in these threads.
The animal data is stronger than the human data and the human data is not nothing, it is just small.
There is a serious question about whether the studied form matches what is sold, and nobody in a thread can answer it.
Tolerance builds fastest when it is taken for extra hours rather than extra work.
What is the strongest human evidence anyone here has actually read, not skimmed?
If it needs three other compounds to notice, you have not tested the first one.
Baseline first. Currently on adrafinil myself.
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.
Baseline first. Not on adrafinil but the pattern is familiar.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
Read methods.
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all?
Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.
I would take the narrow conclusion. Broad ones are more interesting and less true.
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.
Read methods.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?