I've tried the racetams, lots of vitamins, and stimulants.
I really enjoyed stimulants of the amphetamine class for their cognition boosting properties that racetams couldn't even come close to, and still use many vitamins daily. In my opinion, the racetams were honestly all more "strange" more than "helpful", to the point I'd not even really classify them as Nootropics as Amphetamines far outclass them in every sense of the term.
Then, I bought Magnesium L-Threonate after months of putting it off due to the cost. I really wondered about it, but didn't have that high expectations for it compared to Magnesium Glycinate... and the price was a bit steep for me.
In trying it, within 2 weeks I have changed my opinion so fast in a way that's never occured with any other substance.
From all of my favorite vitamins such as Vitamin K, Methylcobalamin or Folate, the P5P form of Vitamin B6, and so on... no supplement has ever been nearly this effective. Even as someone who has done gene testing that shows I do require Folate supplementation, and suffers from a digestive disorder that requires B12 sublingually or injected... nothing is like this.
I've been trying to fix some problems that had been occuring with feeling confused, dazed, or just "out of it" for awhile now with all the supplements and Nootropics. Originally months ago, the Stimulants and Nootropics were just to enhance myself but then the problems started getting worse.
I believe this was mostly already in-process before I began taking anything, due to genetic or dietary issues. The stimulants, supplements, and nootropics could have also made some of the issues worse... but they also greatly helped in other respects. I'd hoped to find something to get me back to where I was 12 months ago, and go from there.
This is so much more than that, honestly I feel more like my highschool self in a way I can't explain? All of my recent issue that have been dehabilitating for the past 3-4 months have gotten incredibly better, but the most surprising and totally unexpected thing has been how I suddenly "feel" more like my old self.
Not the old self from 6-12 months ago that I was aiming for, but more like my "old self" from 3-6 years ago. To be honest, I'd forgotten what it even felt like to feel like "me" from that time. It wasn't as if I expected, planned, or even desired to feel this way again... I'd quite literally forgotten some of these feelings until now.
It feels so strange to feel motivated, awake, aware, and able to just do things without anxiety or feeling confused/sleepy/tired all the time. I've sat down and read 150 pages quite easily in my freetime over the last 2-3 days... when I haven't read more than 100 pages of any single book since at least 2015, if not 2014.
I legitimately have no idea if this benefit is 100% a result of the Magnesium L-Threonate, but I've changed nothing else much since the beginning of 2018 and suddenly these gains are occuring after taking the 3 recommended capsules once per night for the first 10 days, then doubling that to taking 3 in the morning and 3 at night for the last 4 or so days. The double dosage seems to definitely make the differences stronger, and if I dose in the morning I notice I feel fuzzy/strange again as I did prior to supplementation after 6-8 hours... but the re-dose fixes that all the way until I sleep.
I don't know if I just happened to be specifically deficient or in need of Magnesium L-Threonate compared to most people, but if these benefits the last few weeks are a result of it's supplementation then I find it nothing short of life changing.