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quote:Originally posted by Mordant Carnival:
That stuff played merry hell with my epilepsy- I had fits for days afterwards.
christ! how horrible! i take ginko all the time, though it neither makes me smarter nor induces fits. i just keep on hoping.
culturally, smart drinks were big back in the day -- they show up in early issues, no? back in the early 90s rave heyday, they were the sort of thing the Mondo2000 guide to culture would talk about and they were tied in to the era that was all about cyberpunk, preweb email, the whisperings about "VR" and all that.
they sort of disappeared and then remerged in mainstream, market ready form as all those sleek little "energy drinks" like red bull. main active chemical in there is Taurine, an amino acid said to be used in nerve building and that sort of thing. i take taurine and occasionally choline as well (a rumored lucid dream enhancer) but honestly, none of it has THAT noticable an effect.
steroid though -- the kind proscribed when you need your immune system depressed -- those make your mind work on ultra-overdrive, it's really the most amazing thing. |
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Don't know which chemicals are involved here.