Comment · Tue, December 20, 2022 · ND Owner
Cognance: waste of money
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Neurogence · 33 points
I had taken a break from all nootropics for about two years or so. Recently I got back into dabbling, and saw quite a few positive posts on cognance. So I decided to try it out. I've been taking it for about two weeks now with no noticeable results. I tried to increase it to 200mg but still not noticing anything.
Originally, I had stopped taking mostly all nootropics due to lack of effects. I'm afraid all these new substances also have very negligible effects. I've tried hundreds of nootropics. The substance I've benefitted from the most is aniracetam, but I don't know where to find it these days.
How are you all experiencing positive and even "tangible" effects from substances like cognance? Is this all placebo? I don't buy the idea that everyone's biology is different. Substances that are effective have an effect on mostly everyone (example, caffeine). Whether positive or negative, you will feel something from caffeine. But most of the nootropics out there I barely feel anything from them. At this point I don't know what the difference is between something like cognance and a sugar pill.
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neroscizzor · 4 points
And we should probably all be remembering that bacopa is supposed to take a while to work to give memory benefits? This is my first day taking Cognance and I felt nothing, but I know bacopa is legit so I’m going to keep taking it. I really liked Synapsa.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Absolutely. Also, people esoterically define what they think are memory benefits. Very few people on here are taking empirical memory assessments at regular intervals, and documenting how their supplement regimen changes those results. Often times when you see people saying they did/did not get memory effects from something, that's just a measure of how they feel they reacted. It's not an objective measure. I wish Cambridge Brain Sciences still existed free to the public like it did in the past. That was a better way to assess how things were affecting one's memory.