… But in the short run, it’s great. I’ve taken a clinical dose (1000mg per day) of DMAE (2-dimethylaminoethanol bitartrate, but the significant part is the dimethylaminoethanol itself) for around eight weeks or so now. It helped me concentrate at first, but by the sixth week or so my system was completely calmed back down, and when I stopped taking them, it was as though nothing had ever happened. Placebo effect or did it just stop working? I think the most notable effects were within the first two weeks–I felt tight in the neck and was highly alert but uncomfortably so, as with a headache. Ah well. The search for viable nootropics continues.

… But in the short run, it’s great. I’ve taken a clinical dose (1000mg per day) of DMAE (2-dimethylaminoethanol bitartrate, but the significant part is the dimethylaminoethanol itself) for around eight weeks or so now. It helped me concentrate at first, but by the sixth week or so my system was completely calmed back down, and when I stopped taking them, it was as though nothing had ever happened. Placebo effect or did it just stop working? I think the most notable effects were within the first two weeks–I felt tight in the neck and was highly alert but uncomfortably so, as with a headache. Ah well. The search for viable nootropics continues.