Website review: Johann Hari - Archive
Millerbull discovered this in Pharmacology
•8 reviews since May 15, 2008
pharmacology, provigil, nootropics
•johannhari.com/archive/article.php
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thegipples rated 7 weeks ago- From the page: "I paced and agonised and finally concluded that taking narcolepsy drugs when you donâ€t have narcolepsy is just stupid. Our lack of knowledge about what it does to your brain was, in the end, a deal-breaker for me. Perhaps in sixty years weâ€ll know for sure itâ€s safe, and I will have spent my life at only sixty percent brain-capacity â€" but Iâ€d rather risk that than brain damage. So I have cut a deal with myself. I am keeping a pack in the bathroom cabinet for the days when I am really knackered and have to be able to work fast and fluently â€" but I wonâ€t ever take more than two or three a month. As I put the tablets aside, I look out over my flat. My desk is piled high with the vast quantities of work I have pumped out. My cupboards are full of uneaten food. The whole place is freakishly clean, something I did in my spare time, without even thinking about it. Ah, Provigil, you are a gorgeous temptress. With a sad sigh, I close the bathroom cabinet on her sweet temptation, and stumble back to my slow, patchy life, with my slow, patchy brain."
- DarwinsLilHelper rated 8 weeks ago
- A great article on Provigil, AKA Modafinil. I ordered a box last summer, and it was everything they said it was, it makes you razer sharp, super motivated, and sleep becomes an optional activity, all with no noticeable side effects.
A word to the wise:
Don't over exert yourself physically on this stuff. The literature that came in the box said it was considered a performance enhancing drug by the IOC. To test exactly what the performance enhancements were, I went to a pickup game with my friend's amateur soccer league.
At the time I was pretty out of shape, but because of the Modafinil, I was able to run circles around guys who practice 3 times a week.
I'd run till I felt like my lungs were on fire and I couldn't go on, then I'd stop for about 30 seconds, and all of a sudden, my energy would just come back, sort of like the shields in Halo 3, then I'd be good to start running flat out again.
The downside to this was that my body wasn't in any condition to handle all that strain at the time, and my chest hurt off and on for a month. It scared me enough to start working out regularly again, but even being in shape, I could still see myself running till I had a heart attack on Modafinil.
The moral of the story: if you're gonna take Modafinil, remember that this stuff turns off your body's natural limiters, you have to keep in mind what you can handle with your level of physical fitness. It's all down to being completely responsible for what you're doing, and not pushing it.
I might order some more in the future if I need to be super productive, but I'll never run my body beyond what it can do, and I won't recommend taking it for more than 2 days in a row. It's too tempting to use it all the time, like having the easy button right in front of you. It's still new though, and nobody knows what the long term effects are. - A great article on Provigil, AKA Modafinil. I ordered a box last summer, and it was everything they said it was, it makes you razer sharp, super motivated, and sleep becomes an optional activity, all with no noticeable side effects.
- dhughes rated 8 weeks ago
- As with all chemicals you have to worry about your liver since it all gets processed there. If combined with alcohol it may be lethal. I admit it's an amazing story and of course I'm tempted to try it but like he said what is the catch? It's not a natural thing so you must be giving up something, a car engine that's supercharged gains power with the trade off of being less durable, maybe that's the result your brain ages quicker.
- thelonegremlin rated 8 weeks ago
- as my family has oft-said..."better living through pharmaceuticals." sure, my family is very sarcastic but who doesnt like popping pills? all the cool kids are doing it.
- Athaton rated 8 weeks ago
- True cognitive enhancing drugs are the only kind that might be tempting. More research needed. Such things will happen more and more in the future when such drugs become reliably documented.
- AtlasEndures rated 8 weeks ago
- i'm tired of abusing amphetamines like adderall during my mid terms. I think i'll give this a try...
- jjameyson76 rated 8 weeks ago
- He makes a good point about why it should be avoided, but I still think I'd try it!
