Limitless: Biohacking Brainpower, Health, Personal Growth & Beyond

Two questions I get from those new to Biohacking and who haven't yet tried smart drugs are... ❓ Which smart drugs actually work and have science behind them? ❔ Which Nootropic should I get started with? ⚡ My answer to both questions is the same: Piracetam Over 600 human studies and academic papers are published about Piracetam on Pubmed. Although a few insights from my own extensive experience...

Anxiety is an inevitable side effect of ambition. In fact, I would suggest that if you don't suffer from a little anxiety you are not really ambitious. Entrepreneurs and business people are infamous for how they self-medicate and handle their anxiety. With three stories, I illustrate how to wield anxiety and embrace heuristic gut reactions... Read 📑 Everything mentioned here https://www.limitless...

I've been living a Tim Ferriss kind of lifestyle for over a decade now so in this deep-dive book review - filmed in gloomy Istanbul, Turkey and beautiful Sozopol, Bulgaria - I'll add my own experiences and lifehacking insights to the notable passages of this +700-word, $16 book.  💡 You're going to want to watch this one in full as I point out MAJOR WAY that Tim Ferriss screwed up in, arguabl...

I've had a lively mind and an overactive imagination for as long as I can remember; which has led me to lead a life of adventure and novelty-seeking. The unfortunate downside to this is that for much of my life, I was on the insomnia spectrum; getting to sleep has always been a challenge. There is always just so much to think about! As a teenager, I remember wondering: What should I be thinking ab...

This amino acid is a potent combatant of stress, which lowers cortisol while at the same time supporting cognitive function and aiding memory. It decreases perceived exertion and cortisol from exercise or stress. In studies, the human participants were subjected to various social and task-related performance demands in the testing environment. The interesting finding was that despite higher perfor...

Oxiracetam is renowned as a smart drug for instilling self-control, preventing cognitive decline, promoting memory, and imbuing enhanced powers of logic that would make a Vulcan jealous. I've been doing Oxiracetam for about several years now non-continuously and it has become one of my favorite smart drugs because, for me at least, it is the discipline molecule. Read Meta-Analysis 📑 Everything me...

I interviewed Professor David Williams - a Biohacker, chemist, writer, Gulf War veteran, and director of a research chemical company. In this wide-ranging and illuminating conversation, we discuss... 2:53 How we met in Medellin, Colombia 4:50 David's corporate experience 6:05 Biohacker origin story 8:00 PTSD 11:20 Meditation 14:19 PTSD vs Nootropics 16:30 Racetams 18:20 Hacking bioavailability 25:...

This fish oil and B Vitamin cofactor is a promising agent to improve memory via RNA mechanisms. In human studies, Uridine has a positive effect on depression and bipolar disorder, among other things. Read Meta-Analysis 📑 Everything mentioned here https://www.limitlessmindset.com/Uridine-Meta-Analysis Order 💲 Uridine Capsuled  https://www.limitlessmindset.com/Uridine-Peak Powdered  http...

Phenibut was first synthesized behind the Iron Curtain in the USSR. It's one of the few Nootropics we know has been to space and back; it was included in soviet cosmonaut's medical kits. Phenibut has a special relationship with the GABA receptors; it's a purveyor of a tranquil and euphoric mind that you can use to replace a social drinking habit for about a dollar a night. Read Meta-Analysis 📑 Ev...

Gents, if you’re imagining that one day you might settle down with or marry a beautiful foreign woman, understand that the curtain is being drawn on the opportunity to geo-arbitrage your sexual market value as a Western man in a poorer country. Here I share two instructional dating abroad stories and break down why the opportunity is sunsetting for an “average Joe” like you to fly into Colombia, E...

NAC is especially useful to those who have succumbed to vice but as a general Biohack, its effect on glutathione is most interesting. Healthy people should use it episodically or cyclically because of its wide range of anti-aging effects - from empowering immunity and supporting mental health to reducing inflammation. Its +300 human clinical trials are summarized here... 1:50 Scientific Research 2...

I started writing an annoyed little rant about how every digital service/app seems to cost $10/month or $100/year nowadays - which often seems overpriced. It's turned into this +3000-word deep-dive piece critiquing the online "Idiocracy economy" and the roles we all play in it. It delves into the folly of the freemium model, academic research on human nature that entrepreneurs are ignoring, what s...

It's an understatement to say that European Biohackers face a challenge in getting quality Nootropics and smart drugs. I've lived here in Europe myself for over half a decade and in a word, it's just trickier for European Biohackers. So I'm happy to introduce you to some vendors that I think will clear up a lot of that frustration and challenge here on this side of the pond...  Everything men...

I’ve been a digital nomad for over half a decade and in that time have experimented with over a hundred different Smart Drugs or Nootropics. I’ve crossed borders with all sorts of interesting, pharmacologically-active potions and powders on my person. Here I address these important questions for traveling biohackers... Which countries can I travel to with smart drugs?  What is the legality of...

I give it 4 stars because it's a decent cognitive enhancer but - pound-for-pound, dollar-for-dollar, rubble-for-rubble - Piracetam remains the superior smart drug in my view. I'd suggest that biohackers try Piracetam for a month, then switch to Piracetam-derivative like this or Oxiracetam for a month, and then try stacking them. Read review 📄 Everything mentioned here https://www.limitlessmindset...

Given the unreliability of conventional birth control methods, if you were sleeping regularly with someone with who you really didn't want to make babies you should hedge your bets and supplement the normal contraceptives with herbal birth control. Read 📑 Everything mentioned here https://www.limitlessmindset.com/Natural-contraceptives 1:35 A very personal anecdote 4:24 Dubious contraceptive meth...

You don’t need to be an ethics philosopher to see the significant moral hazard in the unholy marriage of a company that makes people very sick and a company that sells drugs to treat sickness.  I'll join many others who are responding to this merger with a boycott of Bayer's products. I list 40 of Bayer's consumer products and here I'll present healthier alternatives; Nutraceuticals along wit...

It was a romance that burned hotter than most, which is no extraordinary thing - what’s extraordinary is how long it has burned hot. Not all men (if they are being honest), can say that they’ve had a grand and all-consuming passionate love affair in their lives - that they’ve had a “love of their lives.” Most men settle; they find their partners in the space between lurching after the biological u...

Gents, you might think that sexual hedonism means promiscuity, sleeping with a lot of women — having a lot of casual sex. I’ll make the case that it really doesn’t. Monogamy, done right, means a lot more, and better sex than promiscuity does. My book for men details exhaustively the strategies, lifehacks, and biohacks for holistic optimization of sexual hedonism. If you want to maximize sexual hed...

This book by Roosh V begins with a treatise on free speech by Quintus Curtius. He makes the point that we assume incorrectly that society will just get better and better. He argues that free speech is our cornerstone human right that all other rights depend upon, and he elucidates upon the shoddy maintenance of this foundational right by our institutions... 1:28 Progress is not our birthright 2:55...

I've done Modafinil over a hundred times in the last few years. A smart drug like this is kind of a way of cheating on your personal development, I explain why here. It's a wakefulness agent and a short-term cognitive enhancer, it doesn't feed your brain any nutrients that help it in perpetuity. It just gives you 8-12 hours deep in the focus zone.  By my assessment, ModafinilXL is the best so...

I lived in the motherland of truly great coffee - Medellin, Colombia - where I had a passionate love affair with the anti-oxidizing dark nectar. But as I've become more mindful of how what I consume affects my mood, focus, and productivity, I've become more aware of the negative effect that crappy coffee has on my day. Begrudgingly I decided that I needed to go off coffee or at least cut back shar...

Pop psychology and the broad personal-development adjacent culture sphere have become VERY trauma aware. This is a good thing in a lot of ways, as trauma affects us all. But, I'll break with the mainstream, by contending that myopic focus on trauma is a mistake. And it might be something you don't need to focus on at all to break away from the pain and pattern of the past. Read 📑 Everything menti...

I almost never watch the mainstream media - Fox, CBS, CNN, NBC, BBC - but there are a couple of alternative media channels and personalities I do follow and have some degree of trust in because they are more anti-establishmentarian. Their news programs are not interrupted every 10 minutes with advertisements from Pfizer or Ford. But, after reading this book, I have even less trust in the alternati...

Gents, one of the most pernicious myths about women that I’d like to disabuse you of is that women are just into guys with money. Over 7 years I traveled to over 20 different countries, and in many of them, I sought out local wingmen or at least found a local guy who spoke decent English and asked him about the cultural nuances of dating there. What I heard over and over was… “Oh, girls here are j...