Why did MisterYouAreSoDumb stop taking the more artifical nootropics?

So you have to realize that it is more about learning and advancing for me than trying to find a stack to address a deficit. Learning more about the body/brain, and what compounds can affect it and how, is what I am interested in. Developing novel things and advancing our understanding of how they affect us is my jam. This means that my stack is always changing with things that we are developing and releasing. Also, due to the legal/regulatory issues surrounding a lot of the novel synthetic compounds, we are more focused on natural and botanical things these days. Because of that, it would stand to reason that my stack would lean more heavily in the natural direction. In addition, nature has surprised me a lot on this journey. When we shut Ceretropic down, I really thought things would not be as interesting with our development and research going forward. How do you top some of the novel peptides we did? However, I was pleasantly surprised that the more we dug into natural things, the more complex and interesting things seemed. You just have to create potent and standardized extracts to really feel those effects. I mean, chemicals are chemicals. If a plant makes them or we synthesize them in a lab, our bodies don't know the difference. They are just chemicals. On top of that, the entourage effect does seem to be a real thing. One chemical in a plant isolated can work very differently than taking it with a bunch of the other actives in the plant. Sometimes they all work together synergistically. We have learned a lot throughout this process, and some of the lessons we have learned from the plants we have applied to novel synthetic compounds as well. We never stopped working on them. We have developed, and continue to develop, new synthetic molecules. We just don't talk about or release them. That R&D is happening for possible future endeavors that better fit into the legal/regulatory framework of the US. I have tried synthetic compounds nobody in the world has even heard of, because we made them ourselves. I've tried peptides nobody even knows about. We have developed derivatives of other nootropics that have never existed before, and I have tried them. It's just we don't release them to the public.

So no, synthetic compounds are not just placebo, and I still do take them. I am just more focused on advancing our understanding of how the human body/brain works, and releasing novel new things that we can actually release to people. At the moment that means focusing more on things found in nature, but done in a way that makes them more potent and effective. However, we still do work on synthetic compounds, and perhaps one day the world will see some of the ones we have made. I am just much more careful about the legal and regulatory issues surrounding that process these days.