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My experience with nootropics
I tried several supplements in an attempt to support an optimal endicrone environment for vitality, fertility and hypertrophy, with terrible results.
My experience is that after a period of efficacy, my stress resistance is way less compared base levels, and I would say my base level stress resistance is on the low end of average, whereas after taking nootropics, in the cooldown period my stress resistance tanks to a point I actually become disfunctional.
I have experienced burnout on three occasions over the last five years putting me out of work for months. Currently I am coming out of a dip and I notice that after not taking nootripics for a while I am starting to get back to baseline stress resistance, building back confidence and agency.
This is of course all anecdotal and I can't for sure say if or how nootropics may have contributed to lowering and tanking stress resistance, or on the contrary whether they actually have been a factor in faster recovery and better resistance, in case the conditions for burnout were already present and triggered by other factors.
Either way, I feel better and more stable now without using them for the last couple of weeks.
I think using nootropics have caused me to perform at levels where I didn't notice or was able to ignore my physiological limits, only suffering the consequences after a hard crash.
Wanted to share my thoughts and was curious if other people have had similar experiences.
I can't say I'm definitely done taking them, but if I decide on continuing their usage, I need to manage intake better with longer cooldown periods to prevent a hard crash, while trying to prevent physical exhaustion because nootropics shut down the signals of when I am doing so.
I have tried primarily ashwaganda and shilajit.
On a side note, possibly influential factors, I have ADHD (and high functioning autism).
Share advice, tips, feedback, or drop a comment to tell me how retarded I am.