Comment · Wed, October 19, 2016 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Anabolic/androgenic steroids as a nootropic?
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faulked · 18 points
I'm considering using steroids as a nootropic. I want to recapture the drive, motivation, and vitality I had a few years ago. Body builders say they feel invincible on an AAS cycle. Youthful energy and enthusiasm is precisely what I'm lacking.
I'm going to do this carefully and responsibly. I'm having my blood tested to establish my baseline testosterone level. Then I'm going to inject a therapeutic dose of testosterone enanthate on a biweekly basis and see what happens. I'll use an aromatase inhibitor to keep estrogen under control. The risk seems minimal and the benefits could be enormous.
For instance, /u/validstatement said:
> In my experience, testosterone's presence in the body is one of the most potent nootropic forces I have ever discovered. Period. It has been totally safe for me to take, and has had very strong cognitive benefits. While it doesn't seem to increase memory, it can significantly improve motivation, anxiety, energy, and reaction time. Sex drive also goes through the roof. I would say these effects are more potent than almost any nootropics I've tried. The only substa…
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Hormesis · 1 points
I've mentioned this to you personally, but for everyone else... I do marketing for a living, and in the niches I work with, nootropics are coming up a lot more frequently. I've been pitched many times by nootropics companies looking to have me write "reviews" of whatever blend they carry.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Amazon just put a stop to the paid reviews that were rampant on there. The issue is that they are not removing all the old reviews that were compensated. So the people that gamed the system before are not set for life, as they have way more reviews than anyone is going to get legitimately now. It's such a screwed up system.