{"id":3890,"date":"2022-08-21T22:50:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/21\/4-reasons-people-take-nootropics\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T22:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T21:50:32","slug":"4-reasons-people-take-nootropics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/21\/4-reasons-people-take-nootropics\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons People Take Nootropics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K9_0cL1i6a0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>#shorts #nootropics #biohacking<\/p>\n<p>Our survey of 70,000 people we conducted when researching my book, Unstoppable, found that there are 4 main reasons people take nootropics;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re suffering from depression &#038; want to improve their mood<br \/>\nThey\u2019re having trouble focusing during the day<br \/>\nThey\u2019re struggling with poor memory &#038; brain fog<br \/>\nAnd, or, they\u2019re underperforming &#038; want to increase their energy &#038; mental alertness, especially when it comes to boosting their productivity<\/p>\n<p>Which is why you\u2019ll see entrepreneurs &#038; silicon valley elites flock to nootropics in droves. But here\u2019s something that may surprise you. Nootropics are already a part of your daily life. For example, you\u2019ve already ingested a nootropic, or a nootropic stack. The most common, caffeine, the world\u2019s most popular psychoactive substance, &#038; nootropic.<\/p>\n<p>However, caffeine is a double edged sword. While studies have shown that it can improve mental performance and alertness, studies have also shown that caffeine can induce anxiety for two reasons, one; it interferes with adenosine, a brain chemical that has a calming effect, and two, it raises levels of lactate in the brain, a biochemical implicated in panic attacks. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever had black tea, you\u2019ve had a nootropic stack as it contains both caffeine &#038; l-theanine, which is an amino acid. L-theanine has been shown to produce alpha brain waves within 30-minutes of consumption. Which is a relaxed yet alert state ideal for getting into a state of focus &#038; flow &#038; managing anxiety. It\u2019s what I took when I wrote  Unstoppable, a 90,000 word book that covers biohacking &#038; nootropics in detail. When l-theanine is combined with caffeine, it balances the anxiety producing effects of the caffeine, so you get an increase of energy, without the added anxiety.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K9_0cL1i6a0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#shorts #nootropics #biohacking Our survey of 70,000 people we conducted when researching my book, Unstoppable, found that there are 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,6,5,4,10,11,9,7,689,920],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-hacking-bio-engineering-videos","tag-bio-hack","tag-bioengineering","tag-biohacker","tag-biohacking","tag-biohacking-crispr","tag-biohacking-diet","tag-biohacking-kit","tag-biological-engineering","tag-genome","tag-genome-editing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}