Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
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Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
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Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#2Modafinil (brand name Provigil). It keeps you awake and makes you smarter without any of the nasty addictive side effects of stimulant medications like amphetamine.
Look up the symptons of ADHD. Go to your friendly neighborhood doctor or psychiatrist and tell him you have said symptons. Also, look around continuously, don't make eye contact, and fidget a lot. Then indicate that you've done some research and heard that off-label prescriptions of Modafanil have shown promising results for ADHD and that you're not interested in addictive stimulant medication. If the doctor tries to give you Stratera, tell him that you've heard it makes some people anxious and that you think Modafanil would be a much better fit for you.
If it doesn't work, try another doctor.
Then, enjoy a lifetime of enhanced cognition, at least as long as you've got prescription drug coverage. You will also have gained the ability to go without sleep whenever you so desire.
Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#3Modafinil (brand name Provigil). It keeps you awake and makes you smarter without any of the nasty addictive side effects of stimulant medications like amphetamine. Look up the symptons of ADHD. Go to your friendly neighborhood doctor or psychiatrist and tell him you have said symptons. Also, look around continuously, don't make eye contact, and fidget a lot. Then indicate that you've done some research and heard tha…
Avoid milk and cereal, avoid foods with corn syrup, eat more meats and fish (with water), avoid manufactured (versus baked) goods like PopTarts, avoid microwaved foods, and replace those fluids by drinking water from the faucet instead of the soda and coffee (remember, your tap water meets higher standards than bottled water does), and eat small meals 4 times per day or more, and you will be alert and not need prescription drugs.
There are so many good things that will happen by doing the above, as well as by avoiding certain foods, that when you put it all together, you will feel great. Removing caffeine will stop the withdrawal symptoms and addiction after you're done with the initial withdrawal. Removing corn-syrup will make you feel much better and food without it tastes much cleaner. Avoiding manufactured foods will point you to baked goods, which are much, much healthier. Water is incredibly necessary and will help clean you out, as well as help flush any excess protein away from your kidneys after you eat the meat, as well as flouridate your teeth. Often when your body feels "hungry," it is actually thirsty for water.
Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#4Modafinil (brand name Provigil). It keeps you awake and makes you smarter without any of the nasty addictive side effects of stimulant medications like amphetamine. Look up the symptons of ADHD. Go to your friendly neighborhood doctor or psychiatrist and tell him you have said symptons. Also, look around continuously, don't make eye contact, and fidget a lot. Then indicate that you've done some research and heard tha…
Avoid milk and cereal, avoid foods with corn syrup, eat more meats and fish (with water), avoid manufactured (versus baked) goods like PopTarts, avoid microwaved foods, and replace those fluids by drinking water from the faucet instead of the soda and coffee (remember, your tap water meets higher standards than bottled water does), and eat small meals 4 times per day or more, and you will be alert and not need prescr…
Just to be clear, the title was tongue-in-cheek. I'm not actually advocating prescription drug abuse.
Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#5Modafinil (brand name Provigil). It keeps you awake and makes you smarter without any of the nasty addictive side effects of stimulant medications like amphetamine. Look up the symptons of ADHD. Go to your friendly neighborhood doctor or psychiatrist and tell him you have said symptons. Also, look around continuously, don't make eye contact, and fidget a lot. Then indicate that you've done some research and heard tha…
Avoid milk and cereal, avoid foods with corn syrup, eat more meats and fish (with water), avoid manufactured (versus baked) goods like PopTarts, avoid microwaved foods, and replace those fluids by drinking water from the faucet instead of the soda and coffee (remember, your tap water meets higher standards than bottled water does), and eat small meals 4 times per day or more, and you will be alert and not need prescr…
Why not treat your body right AND improve yourself with prescription drugs? Surely both will have more effect than one alone.
Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#6Modafinil (brand name Provigil). It keeps you awake and makes you smarter without any of the nasty addictive side effects of stimulant medications like amphetamine. Look up the symptons of ADHD. Go to your friendly neighborhood doctor or psychiatrist and tell him you have said symptons. Also, look around continuously, don't make eye contact, and fidget a lot. Then indicate that you've done some research and heard tha…
Avoid milk and cereal, avoid foods with corn syrup, eat more meats and fish (with water), avoid manufactured (versus baked) goods like PopTarts, avoid microwaved foods, and replace those fluids by drinking water from the faucet instead of the soda and coffee (remember, your tap water meets higher standards than bottled water does), and eat small meals 4 times per day or more, and you will be alert and not need prescr…
| Often when your body feels "hungry," it is actually thirsty for water.
Complete bullshit. Penn and Teller killed this one pretty convincingly.
Basically, if you eat a 'normal' diet (which most people don't, ironically) including enough veggies and fruits, there's no real need for outside water sources.
For most people, enough water that you don't feel thirsty is sufficient. There's no need to force yourself to drink water. And hungry very, very rarely means thirsty.
Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#7Modafinil (brand name Provigil). It keeps you awake and makes you smarter without any of the nasty addictive side effects of stimulant medications like amphetamine. Look up the symptons of ADHD. Go to your friendly neighborhood doctor or psychiatrist and tell him you have said symptons. Also, look around continuously, don't make eye contact, and fidget a lot. Then indicate that you've done some research and heard tha…
It's actually not too expensive, and pretty easy to find online from overseas (which is legal, I understand, so long as you're importing personal-use quantities i.e. 3 mo supply or less)
Doesn't really make you smarter, that's pretty hyperbolic, but will definitely stave off some of that 'brain fog' that comes about after lunch / towards the end of the day. And being able to be productive an extra eight hours or so a week is pretty priceless.
Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Avoid milk and cereal, avoid foods with corn syrup, eat more meats and fish (with water), avoid manufactured (versus baked) goods like PopTarts, avoid microwaved foods, and replace those fluids by drinking water from the faucet instead of the soda and coffee (remember, your tap water meets higher standards than bottled water does), and eat small meals 4 times per day or more, and you will be alert and not need prescr…
Why not treat your body right AND improve yourself with prescription drugs? Surely both will have more effect than one alone.
The reason why I don't like drugs: if they are so beneficial, why doesn't the body produce them by itself? It seems to me evolution would have figured out a way to do that by now. If it hasn't, maybe there are some side effects that diminish fitness. Same goes for genetic engineering, I remember the story about the memory gene for mice - if all it takes for a better memory is to flip one gene, surely evolution would have managed to do that a long time ago.
Of course evolution might have another "idea" of what is good for us than we do (evolution doesn't really care about us).
Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#9Modafinil (brand name Provigil). It keeps you awake and makes you smarter without any of the nasty addictive side effects of stimulant medications like amphetamine. Look up the symptons of ADHD. Go to your friendly neighborhood doctor or psychiatrist and tell him you have said symptons. Also, look around continuously, don't make eye contact, and fidget a lot. Then indicate that you've done some research and heard tha…
It's actually not too expensive, and pretty easy to find online from overseas (which is legal, I understand, so long as you're importing personal-use quantities i.e. 3 mo supply or less) Doesn't really make you smarter, that's pretty hyperbolic, but will definitely stave off some of that 'brain fog' that comes about after lunch / towards the end of the day. And being able to be productive an extra eight hours or so a…
In the USA, I'm almost positive it is only legal to import if you already have a valid prescription for it. Even then, customs can seize it if they want.
A study showed that "Modafinil significantly reduced error rates in the long delay condition of the visuo-spatial task and in the manipulation conditions." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15221200&dopt=Abstract
Maybe it doesn't make you smarter, but it makes your brain function better for some very specific memory tasks. I think that such a benefit would be broader than the number recall tasks from the study.
Re: Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not treat your body right AND improve yourself with prescription drugs? Surely both will have more effect than one alone.
The reason why I don't like drugs: if they are so beneficial, why doesn't the body produce them by itself? It seems to me evolution would have figured out a way to do that by now. If it hasn't, maybe there are some side effects that diminish fitness. Same goes for genetic engineering, I remember the story about the memory gene for mice - if all it takes for a better memory is to flip one gene, surely evolution would…
The body doesn't produce certain drugs because they have nothing to with our survival. Even if we don't need them, certain drugs can give you a decided competitive advantage over your peers. Of course, you have to be willing to put something in your brain that alters it in a way that no one truly understands. I'm sure it is prudent to err on the side of caution when it comes to messing with your body, but I'm very comfortable with risk.
Evolution is pretty random (or is it chaotic?). There are so many permutations that we have a DNA sequence that is very, very good for surviving in our world. It could be better though, and at this point in our civilization natural selection will not get us there.
Genetic engineering is inevitable. It will happen. In 10 or 20 or 100 years when it becomes practical there will be "conservatives" who are against it and "liberals" who are for it. They will fight for a while but in the end science will win, because science always wins in the long run.