Comment · Tue, January 10, 2023 · ND Owner
Cognance final review - much ado about nothing !
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Hiawatha2020 · 24 points
This is in follow up to a previous review where I used 100mg of Cognance for a week and noticed nothing.
Then I went on 200mg a day for 3 weeks and still nothing to report home about …. No placebo effect either
I then took 200mg of Cognance with prescription Adderall 10mg. It caused irritability, anger and bad mood. The focus provided usually by standalone Adderall 10mg was completely lost.
So my final review is give this a pass. It’s absolutely worthless for me.
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Curious_Technician85 · 3 points
Not gonna lie I appreciate your honesty and perspective on this. It’s interesting to me that you’re not bullshitting or trying to just defend your product on this either. I think it’s more interesting with products that you guys have that are almost undeniably good, but obviously the hate will come on stronger for something new like Cognance.
I haven’t tried it yet cause I want to see what people think and see if it’s right for me. A lot of peoples responses are because they expect these supplements to change their entire life, and though sometimes they do- you actually have to lean into them with a lifestyle that befits it. Microdosing is expensive so the selling point for me here is really whether it’s providing a mechanism that is even marginally similar, the name is obviously pretty cool, and you’ll get a lot of positive/negative attention due to these kind of things.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Yeah, people can get out of control with their expectations. People also just fundamentally misunderstand how variable everyone's body and brain chemistry are. I try to explain it as much as I can, but it's hard to conceptualize unless you have lived it for a decade like I have. Honestly, if we bring out a product that affects 75% of the people that take it very positively, that's a very good result! However, that still means 25% of the people that take it might be disappointed. If 10,000 people try a new product because it is hyped, that means 2,500 people might express disappointment or non-response. That's totally normal, though. Then maybe 1-2% will report a side effect. That's 100-200 people getting a side effect. When you realize that the people getting a bad effect are the most likely to talk about it, you can see how it can skew perceptions. The people that take it and get good effects just keep quietly buying it. You often only hear from the strong positive or negative effect people. Talk to any doctor about how many drugs they have to go through for the average patient before they find the right one, and you will see the same variability. People are just very complex organisms. If we were all the same, it would be much easier. That's just not the reality of the world.