Nootropics

NAC is also pretty popular on there

It helps forsure but I found that if that's your consistent working schedule the comedown w addy or vyvanse can fuck with the rest of your week so I'd not recommend it unless you're in dire straits but I feel like that's what you're getting at anyway

What I really think is what you said lol but wanted to see if anyone had any solid counters... which there don't really seem to be.

I take L-Theanine as well and take it alongside caffeine. Caffeine alone gives me energy but jitters and a big crash. Combining caffeine with L-Theanine gives me the same energy but without the jittery ness, so it’s a noticeably smoother energy / focus. Crash is also much more manageable too.

Its basically the stuff in tea that’s supposed to chill you out. I don’t really notice anything on its own but combined with caffeine it’s great.

hard to tell...no side effects tho.

If you use food as an analogue, sex is like real, natural fruits and vegetables, while masturbating to porn is like eating highly refined sugar and candy. It's been proven that porn acts as a superstimulus to the brain. The people producing porn know what they're doing, and they produce content in such a way that it exceeds the normal sexual stimulus that would be found through real sex, which causes your brain to become desensitized over time to normal sexual stimulus. That's why you hear about people needing more and more weird/extreme stuff to get off. The industry's lobbyists have tried to convince mainstream society that these "fetishes" and hyper-specific sexual tastes that people acquire through porn is just a healthy behavior of people exploring their sexual tastes, but the reality is these extreme tastes are completely fabricated by the ever-escalating nature of porn addiction and dopamine receptor desensitization.

There is a valid argument to be made that masturbating without porn to just your imagination is just fine, but It's been shown that the state of satiety following orgasm causes a large release of the hormone prolactin, and elevated levels of prolactin cause a decrease in testosterone production in men. So if you're someone who's masturbating twice a day, you could imagine that your testosterone level literally would never have time to recover. (Think back to every article saying that most men these days have less testosterone than their father, grandfather, etc).

The above are all fairly empirical claims with studies and data to back them up, but from a purely broscience perspective, I think porn and masturbation make your body and brain think that it's accomplished something when in reality you haven't. By allowing yourself the instant gratification of easy access to sexual release, your brain is conditioned to not put forth the effort of flirting, developing real bonds with women, and developing the actual social/relationship skills that would normally be required for a person to be able to have sex. Anecdontal evidence from forums like nofap have people claiming that their voices became deeper and their confidence actually significantly improved after they quit porn.

Maybe on some level, the brain detects that it's not getting sex, so it starts pulling out all the stops in order to maximize sexual attractiveness and proficiency, but porn keeps you complacent. Again though, these last two points are purely speculative.

Google, Reddit. You have to import it. You probably shouldn't use phenibut though, the effective dose changes from person to person, it's way more addictive than meth or coke, and a phenibut withdrawal will lead you to experience crushing depression like no other chemical compound.

^dont listen to these guys lol you don’t have to order from sketchy overseas websites or anything. I got mine from nootropicsdepot.com (which I’m pretty sure is based in the US) and it arrived in 2 days. Like I said, like any substance there is a potential for addiction but not any more so than alcohol or nicotine. Definitely would not compare it to meth. If you have a history of struggling with addiction and just no self control then maybe it’s not for you, but as long as you commit to using it only for important things like interviews or days where you can’t bring yourself to be productive otherwise, you’ll be fine.