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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

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126 points julianh65 | 6 comments | 02 Jul 25 13:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.491s | source | bottom
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negativepanda ◴[02 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44445481[source]▶
There's one very simple "nootropic" that I've discovered many years ago and have been doing most days of the week. Buying a cup of coffee and taking a walk in nature. It makes me feel better than just coffee or just walking in nature. Another benefit is that in the days I can do this, I have something to look forward to since waking up.
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1. channel_t ◴[02 Jul 25 19:39 UTC] No.44447942[source]▶
Good simple nootropic, but I like the cup of coffee even better with a 200mg capsule of a high quality L-Theanine to give a zen-like calm to the stimulation of the caffeine. Underrated as heck IMHO.
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2. stronglikedan ◴[02 Jul 25 20:19 UTC] No.44448366[source]▶
Any brands that you would consider high quality? I'm currently using Nutricost, but only because it was the cheapest, and I didn't know they were allowed to fiddle with quality on these things.
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3. hackingforfun ◴[02 Jul 25 21:00 UTC] No.44448779[source]▶
Nootropics Depot [0] appears to be a high-quality vendor. They claim to test every batch of every ingredient in-house for all of their supplements.

[0] https://nootropicsdepot.com/l-theanine-capsules/

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4. dfee ◴[02 Jul 25 21:02 UTC] No.44448798[source]▶
Any difference from the 2-for-1 from Walgreens (private labeled)? Or is that the problem? We don’t really know what we’re getting?
5. QuantumGood ◴[03 Jul 25 01:20 UTC] No.44450657{3}[source]▶
I have personally found them to be a high-quality vendor [/anecdata]
6. OuterVale ◴[03 Jul 25 02:18 UTC] No.44450997[source]▶
I am still yet to see any decent studies into whether or not L-Theanine actually does anything at all. Studies never seem to find anything statistically significant, yet so many people swear by it. I'm inclined to say it is placebo.

Good recent writing on the topic: https://dynomight.net/theanine-2/