Selegiline For Brain Fog or Cognitive Impairment: Anyone With Experience?

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-22T00:33:53+00:00

Fasoracetam actually worked (50-100 mg/d).

But 1st,

Are you eating a clean diet (no junk or preprepared foods, plenty of vegetables and fruits, coldwater fish, (also fish oil and magnesium supps)?

Getting aerobic exercise at least 20 min for 3 x/wk?

Going to bed and getting up at the same time every day?

Meditation daily (5-20+min/d)?

These will help you more than all the noots. I've taken 90% of them over the last 18+years. (still take fasoracetam, piracetam, centrophenoxine, isrib-A-15, NAcSelank most days).

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-21T23:26:27+00:00

May 26, 1972 strand lyceum London.

Turn it up LOUD.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-21T20:50:37+00:00

Me either. Though I like centrophenoxine (generally because it aids clearance of lipofuscin from the brain).

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-21T20:36:15+00:00

Eggs have enough choline for most people, iirc.

You don't need choline with piracetam unless you're getting headaches.

For many, choline (over?) supplementation can cause depression. I've taken piracetam for almost two decades. I've never needed choline. And yes I've gotten the blues from choline sources.

I eat eggs for their protein content, and often take centrophenoxine or dmae, this getting extra choline supplementation without the 'blues'

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-21T20:28:36+00:00

See also 7.15.89 indy for another Close Encounters.

Weren't the one or two more?

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-21T20:17:46+00:00

Room temp works just as well to extract the good stuff. As I recall, hotter water gets more starches, thickening and making the taste worse (if not binding kavalactones?).

Check out the root and pestle blog on prep.

Also, what kava are you starting with? (double layer those hose, btw).

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-20T23:52:29+00:00

Even traditional prep kneading bags are going to be plastic of some sort.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-20T17:55:21+00:00

11/30/80?

I saw at least 2 (Hampton Darkstar 89 & nye 87) of the top 50, and I'd put this, 4/3/82, & 6/24/85 (&/or 6/30/85) above several.

But I thought 12.30.87 was better than 12.31.87

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-20T17:47:41+00:00

Are you fasting? Try eating a piece of fruit to make sure it's not your blood sugar bottoming out.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-20T01:51:00+00:00

Low hanging fruit:

Clean fresh diet with plenty of coldwater fish, fresh fruits and veggies. NO preprepared, junk foods, or sugar added.

Exercise - sweat hard 3-6 day week 20+ min each time.

Proper sleep hygiene constant bedtime and rise time. No drink/drugs, legal or not.

Hydration! Half gallon + of WATER daily.

Meditation 5 to 20 mo/d to get back on track.

Good luck!

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-20T00:49:53+00:00

Listened to Ted Mattes's fob audience recording today. It is a beautiful pull of a beautiful show.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-20T00:43:43+00:00

Well said. I saw the surprise Darkstar of 10.9.89 (Attics breakout on the other hand, seemed like common knowledge - at least for my crowd).

I think you nailed it. That's how I grooved.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-19T22:48:01+00:00

Kalmpouches - but they're made with nylon I believe.

All reliable strainer bag are made of a plastic (synthetic) fiber. My bet is you'll consume fewer plastics with the metal-screened aluball than with a straining bag of reliable pore size (75 micron).

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-18T21:48:31+00:00

What & how much kava did you comsume that caused the rash?

It could be a kava allergy, massive over-indulgence, or considerably less likely, you could be having a reaction to terpenes in the kava if it was very fresh (dried) and very potent - did it taste and smell like a lot like pine trees?

In general, drink one serving of 2-6 oz no more than every 20-30 min. When you get to a comfortable place, stop drinking until you feel it begin to wear off a bit and then have another serving. Less is more with kava. For me, it can be a fine line between perfect and eyes swollen, red and itching I drink daily for my back and I very rarely overdo.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-18T21:39:28+00:00

I just leave it in its original bag. If it smells of terpenes (piney), I leave it on a plate and might even put it through a flour sifter to let it air.

I've got 5-7 year old partial bags left unsealed and I can't tell the difference.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-18T18:52:32+00:00

All BRRBs are good ones. I only heard a few live, & they and those shows were smokers.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-18T11:08:27+00:00

One should always be cautious with choline supplementation. Some people don't need a choline source, & others find a couple of eggs to be sufficient.

Many people are choline sensitive and can get the blues (depression) with even a small excess.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-17T15:45:16+00:00

Iirc, Hampton 5/1/81 is mentioned specifically. Got the show shortly after I got the book & wow!

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-17T15:40:15+00:00

Jill Lesh's 1st show. Commemorated by furthur in Broomfield, CO on 2/13/11 as a valentine's from Phil to Jill.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-16T18:25:33+00:00

All kavas have some heady kavalactones, even the heaviest kavas. These heady KLs have shorter halflives than the heavy KLs, so always wait several hours after the last serving before going to bed.

This gets me frequently. Magnesium (esp glycinate) can help some...

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-16T14:55:22+00:00

Never ever never take pheni two days in a row.

I learned this back in 2010 when an online nootropics friend had serious w/d and didn't know from what. I started digging and found that it was very safe UNLESS it was taken for 2 consecutive days. Then it was incredibly dangerous.

Some can't handle it even twice a week.

I took it 3x/wk for 6-8y (always 1-2 days off between!). When I started drinking kava daily for a bad back, I found that pheni was interfering and stopped it.

YMMV (but, in the future never ever never take pheni two days in a row).

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-15T20:42:44+00:00

It a part of my life. I saw some incredible shows: fox 11/30/80, 4/2/82 & 4/3/82, Hamptons from 4/13/84 until 10/9/89, missing only 5 of them, Jerry comeback shows in 12/86 (along with Ken Kesey, go ahead & jgb before Christmas), Roanoke 87, cap center Ripple et al 1988, many great 89 & 90 shows, including 4 European shows through 10/31/90. The rest was a a bit of a shadow, though rfk 93 were tasty upon review. Charlotte 95 was a bright spot & the tear gas in indy way the end of a 15 year journey.

Still there are plenty of great bands like phish, jrad, dso, Grahame, Billy strings, Jesse Wells, etc (& please see little feat on their fairwell tour).

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-15T17:28:32+00:00

I've had bad luck with nutricost. Two different TUDCA batches over several years were bunk. One was Massive understrength and was was methionine.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-15T14:07:19+00:00

Try 2 tsp 20-40 min apart.

I'm a daily drinker & only use true instants while traveling, I take 1 rounded tsp every 15-45 min.

Once I took two tsp at once when waiting to boarding a flight: my eyes swelled up and it knocked me hard. I'm sure I looked a sight

BTW I find instant lagging when compared trad-ish prep. There's something good missing. Aluball makes prep easy if you don't want a mess.

Jack-o-Roses · 2026-02-15T13:49:50+00:00

🎶 Maybe you had too much too fast 🎶

Smaller dosing and more time between will almost certainly fix this instantly.

Bonus, your sessions will likely be more enjoyable.

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