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Re: Ask HN: Do you use creatine as a brain supplement?

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I'm having good luck with caffeine + l-theanine + l-tyrosine.

I occasionally use nicergoline which I really like, however if I use it too many days and then skip, I get a headache - much like caffeine withdrawal.

At night I sometimes use rutaecarpine to deactivate any late-afternoon caffeine - though after a few days of continued use - it tends to render caffeine ineffective.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use creatine as a brain supplement?

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There's absolutely zero evidence that taking more than 100% of your daily required amount of any vitamin is effective for anything. Your body simply cannot absorb or make use of it. What you've described may very well be a placebo effect. Take a daily supplement which ensures you are getting a sufficient amount, and nothing more. Anything beyond that is literally getting flushed down the toilet in your urine.

You're parroting the official medical position which has not been revised in decades. There's a lot of opinions on the web based on incomplete science. I read a lot about it, and in the end decided to try it. Who cares if it's a placebo, as long as it works I'm taking it. For the record, homeopathy did absolutely nothing for me, so I'm not sure I have much of a placebo gullible body ;-)

>You're parroting the official medical position which has not been revised in decades.

Yes, because it's proven basic science.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use creatine as a brain supplement?

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You're parroting the official medical position which has not been revised in decades. There's a lot of opinions on the web based on incomplete science. I read a lot about it, and in the end decided to try it. Who cares if it's a placebo, as long as it works I'm taking it. For the record, homeopathy did absolutely nothing for me, so I'm not sure I have much of a placebo gullible body ;-)

>You're parroting the official medical position which has not been revised in decades. Yes, because it's proven basic science.

And I'm a living example disproving your basic science. Some days I can get by with 2 grams, some other days I need up to 10 grams to shut symptoms.

If it was a placebo, why would I need varying doses to suppress symptoms and why homeopathy didn't work as a placebo ?

Then explains me why vit C works better than regular medicine for my allergies (no symptom at all with vit C but they are just reduced by half with antihistamines).

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