Trying to separate three different claims about noopept: that it is the right molecule, that it is the right dose, and that it does something useful.
Most of the popular protocols are borrowed from clinical populations and applied to healthy people without comment.
Loose evidence is not the same as no evidence and people overcorrect in both directions.
Sample size, blinding, and who paid for it. Those three questions kill most of the confidence in most of these threads.
Happy to be corrected on any of the above.
A certificate of analysis answers one question and gets quoted as though it answers four.
Baseline first.
Most of what is called evidence here is one person, one vial, one month.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
Baseline first.
Same here.
Same for me with noopept, unfortunately.
Baseline first. Without a baseline the after picture is decoration.
Same here.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.
Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.
Loose evidence and no evidence are different, and people overcorrect in both directions.