Eggs vs Choline Capsules: One Egg Outdoes the Standard Capsule
It is 7:40 in the morning. There are eggs in the fridge and a pan somewhere under the counter, and […]
Cognitive Enhancement
Nootropics, focus protocols, and cognitive performance strategies — analyzed
through peer-reviewed research rather than marketing claims. What actually
works, what doesn’t, and where the evidence ends.
One Drink Doesn’t Help You Sleep. Here’s What It Does Instead
You wake up and the two halves of the screen disagree. Sleep stages: normal. Time asleep: normal. Recovery: red, resting
Nap Length Predicts the Cost Better Than the Benefit
Two forty in the afternoon. You have read the same paragraph of the spec three times and the third reading
They Measured Blood Pressure at 36 and 43, Then Scanned Those Brains 26 Years Later
Insight 46 — the neuroscience substudy of a British birth cohort begun in 1946 — took blood pressure readings from
They Tested It at 4°C and During Mock Interrogation. Your Capsule Holds Half a Gram
The bottle in your hand holds 500 milligrams and suggests one to three a day. The trial at the centre
In the Trials Where Nobody Knew Which Glasses They Wore, the Glasses Stopped Working
It’s 23:40 and you’re ordering blue-light glasses on the same screen the glasses are meant to protect you from. The
One in Five of You Already Has Hearing Loss. Six in Seven Don’t Know.
Two hundred and twenty-two people between 19 and 38, all of whom would pass a hearing test. Both ears each,
The Melatonin Argument Is About the Wrong Variable
If you have ever stood in a kitchen near midnight holding a gummy that says 10 mg, having decided that
Two Trials, Nearly 6,000 People, No Effect. And That Assumes Your Capsule Contains Ginkgo
Of everything I’ve looked at for this site, ginkgo has the best evidence base. Not the best results — the
Getting Better at the Test Is the Same Size as the Effect We’re Looking For
After fourteen of these, a pattern gets hard to ignore. I’ve now gone through the primary literature on magnesium, omega-3,