Comment · Fri, November 3, 2017 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
[REQ] Epitalon update w/ results from telomere testing members.
Original post in this thread
navkat · 17 points
Last follow-up was 8 months ago here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/5qqald/followup_thread_my_experience_with_epitalon/
I would love to hear from /u/Telomerotica and /u/MisterYouAreSoDumb with updated results from yourselves and the two employees.
Thank you both.
What they were answering
navkat · 2 points
I suspect more and more that stress/cortisol and poor sleep have more to do with cognitive decline and aging than a lot of factors we previously associated with "burning it at both ends."
I won't get into my whole tl;dr sob story but I was in a profoundly violent marriage for ten years. Between that and the massive amounts of my Rx ADD medication I was using to get through Paramedic school so I could leave him, it was basically a 16+-hour-per-day sympathetic nervous system circus (complete with clowns and rabid monkeys) in my body for 7 of those years.
I came out on the other side not unscathed. When I was like, 5 years old, I tested at a 158 IQ. They told my mom I likely would have tested higher if I hadn't gotten bored with and started climbing on desks and going through drawers. After my ordeal and before I found this sub, I honestly started to believe I was in the early stages of dementia. I had no access to my own mind anymore. I was exhausted and numb, yet somehow, still anxiety-riddled and high-strung. I was gaining weight on massive amounts of ADD meds and a 950 cal/day diet, yet too exhausted to work out. I felt like a lower food-chain animal: all nerves and impulses and hunger, little cerebral engagement. Just burnt-the-fuck-out.
I want my edge back. I was sharp, little thing: a spitfire. I was the smartest girl in any given room. Of all the things that man rob…
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Yep, 100%. Stress is one of the most, if not the most, deleterious things to our health. I have no doubt that the stress of the past few years has had a bad effect on my overall health. I am definitely more stressed than the employee that had normal length telomeres. I am working on managing stress better, but it's not exactly easy. Haha