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Comment · Fri, December 11, 2015 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot

L-theanine feels too good. Am I missing something?

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volkhavaar · 9 points

Let's brainstorm potential drawbacks. I've been taking it everyday for a couple weeks and it feels like DRUGS. In a good way. But it's setting off those "no such thing as a free lunch" alarms in my mind.

EDIT: Lots of comments, not exactly what I was going for but it has been pointed out that discussing L-theanine does, to a certain extent, represent a conflict of interest as Doubleblinded, Inc. currently sells a kit for individual testing of L-theanine. So I'll shut up about L-theanine for the time being! Please take my observation as a anecdotal,spurious, non-quantitative and completely subjective data point. I'll rejoin the L-theanine talk in a few weeks.

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tvshowzonline · 51 points

Enjoy it, while your placebo lasts.

u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot

I would hope the people who started Double Blinded would know how to blind themselves, but perhaps not. I do find it funny he is posting this after launching a site selling L-Theanine/placebo kits. Wouldn't it make more sense to get a complete feel for a compound, and the blinding process, before launching it to the public? Would not a post like this, hyping up the effects of L-Theanine, only confound their results more?

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