Guides
45 longer articles on how nootropics are thought to work, individual ingredients, combinations, safety and buying. They are general reading, not medical advice; each substance entry carries its own graded evidence and references.
Introductions
Stacks
- Caffeine + L-Theanine: The Canonical Synergy7 min
- The Best Stack for Focus, By Experience Level9 min
- The Optimal Sleep Stack Protocol8 min
- The Huberman Sleep Stack, Explained7 min
- Building Your First Nootropic Stack: A 12-Week Protocol9 min
- The Deep Work Stack: 4-6 Hour Focus Blocks8 min
- Stimulant Tolerance and How to Reset It7 min
- Travel and Jet Lag: Nootropics for Long-Haul Flights7 min
- The Recovery Stack: Nootropics for Burnout and Overtraining7 min
- The Senior Stack: Cognitive Resilience After 607 min
- The Student Stack: Exam Prep and Learning7 min
- The Female Nootropic Stack: Cycle-Aware Protocols7 min
- Cycling and Tolerance Management for Long-Term Stack Stability6 min
Science
Safety
Comparisons
Cognition science
- Working Memory vs Short-Term Memory: What Nootropics Actually Improve10 min
- The Dopamine-Noradrenaline Focus Axis11 min
- Acetylcholine and Memory Consolidation9 min
- BDNF, Neurogenesis, and the Slow-Build Nootropics10 min
- The HPA Axis and How Adaptogens Actually Work7 min
- Sleep Architecture and How Nootropics Affect REM and Slow-Wave Sleep7 min
- CYP Enzymes, Genetic Polymorphisms, and Why Doses Vary8 min
- The Blood-Brain Barrier: Why Most Molecules Fail6 min
Ingredients
- Magnesium: Four Forms Compared (Threonate, Glycinate, Taurate, Malate)8 min
- Curcumin: Why Bioavailability Is the Whole Story8 min
- Ashwagandha Cultivars and Extracts: KSM-66, Sensoril, Shoden7 min
- NAD+ Precursors Revisited: NR, NMN, NADH, and NAD+ Injectables9 min
- Bacopa Monnieri: 30 Years of Evidence9 min
- The Mushroom Kingdom: Lion's Mane, Reishi, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail, Chaga8 min
- The Eugeroics: Modafinil, Armodafinil, Adrafinil, Flmodafinil7 min