Execises/guides/tips for a better/sharper brain

Running. Pretty much it.

meditation

DHA/EPA, choline, B6/B12/folate, something else

socializing with actual peeps

sufficient sleep

>tips for a better/sharper brain
Do what you want to be better in, anything else will have a negligible benefit compared to this.

Want to improve memory? practice memorizing shit
Want to improve math, practice math
Want to improve speed of reasoning, improve reasoning quickly.

>Want to improve speed of reasoning
I want exactly this but "improve reasoning quickly" makes no sense.Elaborate please.

I'm pretty sure drinking alcohol makes you retarded if you overdo it for a long period of time

I've gone out drinking almost every other weekend for three years and I legitimately feel like I've become retarded as a consequence

I wish I could find a reason to make myself not drink.

vitamin b12 to think faster.

i like methylcobalamin.

crystal meth makes me think fast

drink water

wow man

This goddammit!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylcobalamin
"Methylcobalamin is not sufficient as a singular source of vitamin B12. "

ACT - commitment and acceptance therapy use a form I like called mindfulness, it's used as clinical treatment

Drink plenty of water

Get regular exercise

Eat a healthy, balanced diet

Sleep regularly and for long enough

^^^ all things I myself am guilty of not getting regularly enough

Try meditation or drawing or something to give your brain a rest from the type of load studying puts it under. I study languages on my off periods.

exercise is a meme, always after exercising i become a gorilla for like 2 hours where i can't concentrate on shit because everything seems superfluous and vain

exercise for the dopamine rush, but for being more intelligent it's absurd

It's such a bitch of a cycle

rly? i always jerk off right before a test

smoking lots and lots of weed

You're doing the right thing, by relaxing. No-fap fag has no idea what he's saying.

>more intelligent it's absurd

Increased oxygen flow to the brain might not raise your IQ, but it sure as fuck isn't going to lower it.

In my experience there's nothing specific. Exercising to think only makes you good at what you exercised, your brain won't become more functional or anything like that. Same with exercising for IQ tests: It won't make you more intelligent, it will merely make you better at IQ tests. You can become more knowledgable though. For doing that there are no tricks or shortcuts. It's what you do in school and at university, it's what you to at home when researching stuff etc.

Beyond that, physical exercise of course, a good diet, good sleep and a well-balanced life (social life, sexual life etc). There are countless studies on the effects of certain diets, often with questionable validity. The only thing I noticed myself is that low carb diets give me more "thinking stamina". I don't feel completely burned out after a few hours of working. I used to go for longish runs (about 1 hour) on the evenings before exams when the weather permitted that. Slept like a baby afterwards and felt great the next day. Used to have periods of depression and that really paralysed my thinking, so I can how a lack of balance in your life can damage your abilities.

> Detox

Biggest bullshit ever.

read shit, take interest in what you read, analyze it, try to make connections between new stuff and knowledge you already have

also do moderate amounts of lsd, only drug i've done that doesn't make me feel retarded the next day

Read what you're interested in, go deeper, follow the rabbit hole. Exercise, yoga, meditation. Get full amount of sleep, take naps. Drink and eat healthy. Do nothing, relax. Write, draw or other a hobby. Have a healthy relationship with partner, friends and family.

In short be physically, mentally and socially also financially healthy.

Don't/stop smoking, drinking alcohol, doing drugs, mastrubating.

Practicing yoga makes you dumb, because you will have to accept hinduisitc concepts and become a polytheist.

It's anti-intellectual by nature.

>also do moderate amounts of lsd
I'm afraid of becoming a crackpot pseudoscientist, how do I know this wont happen?

LSD benefits you only when you want a sudden change in your personality - alternatively when you need to be creative, when you already have lots of information in your brain and want to see it in a unique perspective and write down the ideas.

If you want just to be in an euphoric, blissful state that doesn't necessarily bring happiness - use THC.

Cocaine and heroin are for happiness.

Even alcohol if you drink it once ever 6 months and allow your brain to flood in dopamine.

I've never studied or done MDMA - someone else should tell you the basics there.

I used THC medically and tolerance is a bitch, but even without I was not affected like most. Small dose = slightly uplifted mood, medium dose = toohigh and nauseated. tolerance just shifts the dosage required for each. Never anything inbetween.

I'm somewhat interested in LSD, particularly for creativity and imagination because I feel lacking in those areas ever since I became a teenager. But you didn't really answer my question, I feel like a lot of people I see that do a lot of recreational drugs beyond mariweedja and booze are no longer able to think rationally at all. I recognize that this is anecdotal but it still scares me.

I heard shrooms causes new neural connections, but I think that effect is transient and ceases once the drug escapes your system. I also read that it contributes to neurogenesis and has anti-depressive qualities.

Not the same guy, but LSD and shrooms are pretty similar.

businessinsider.com/magic-mushrooms-change-brain-connections-2014-10

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23727882

Not sure of the validity or the reputability of the studies, didn't look into them, but it seems promising and now at least have a scientific justification for eating magic mushrooms.

>I heard shrooms causes new neural connections, but I think that effect is transient and ceases once the drug escapes your system.
While neural connections are constantly changing, I don't think you can say the effect of new neural connections is transient unless you mean specifically the increased formation being transient.

I suspect shrooms are somewhat "safer" to attempt to get your hands on from the black market than LSD, in that you're more likely to be getting what you asked for. Any input on that?

Yeah, kinda

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushroom#/media/File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.svg
It does seem highly unlikely that someone would give you poisonous mushrooms though. All in all though, you could just make them yourself to be better safe than sorry. I can't offer anything beyond subjective advice. Anecdotally, a lot of people at Reed college (a school known for creating a lot of PhDs) use drugs, so though an unrelated point, smart people do drugs, that is, they seem to find some use from it. There's even been studies on IQ and drug use: higher IQ individuals are evolutionary more "novel." therefore more likely to try new things.

All the aforesaid is just random info I thought I'd use to qualify your first paragraph, excuse me for the digression

-Proper diet
-Moderate regular exercise
-Psychoactive compounds

A scrambled mess of connections with an appearance of greater complexity is not necessarily a better machine.

It just lets you see things differently as a result of the "scrambled mess." Connections you wouldn't have made, etc. When it gets out of your system it's not as if all of these ideas you had become permanently ingrained in your brain.

I understood what you meant, and I'm saying the notion that you're accessing a state that widens the total spectrum of possible connections / mental operations, is an abstraction that doesn't map well with actual outcomes.

Whatever. I see pictures like what you posted all the time, and they give dumb people the wrong impression of the relevant mechanics involved.

That really depends on what you think you consider is an "actual" consequence while high. A lot of artists use drugs to make their works more esemplastic. But perhaps you don't think that is a viable use for society. I can't really argue that subjective point though.

There have been cases where people have done interesting things while on drugs, scientifically speaking, you probably already know though and I don't know whether you think that what they did is an "actual" outcome either.

A lot of people question their beliefs and change their whole personality, they feel more content, and are less depressed (if they were). You can become an exaggerated version of yourself and your emotions towards others are amplified, you feel connected and are nicer to others, in sum, your self-esteem gets a boost. There's been introspective and "spiritual" benefits, but again, I don't know whether or not you consider the fact that people might change as individuals as an a practical or actual outcome.

All of the aforesaid I'd define as "possible connections" because these are possible human states that are "actually" realized, but I don't know whether or not you'd define "possible connections," as the same way I am defining it.

I think maybe your case is stronger with other drugs, but shrooms seem to have benefits from what I've read or watched, but that is an anecdotal point, as well as the point that I've benefited as a person, in some cases even creatively (I see life differently and can analyze things more intuitively, this helps me solve problems, but perhaps not exactly cause me to create novel solutions).

Yea I've also read that - the studies are on-going, but from what it seems also more than anything based on long time usage from users - psilocybin is the safest and greatest.

But thing is my friend in neuro-biology growth on neurons all like that, doesn't necessarily mean a good thing - the way the active chemicals act on some regions could just alter some functions and trigger a brain response to create more matter there.
It's dangerous indeed with LSD and THC no such thing has been observed.

reset.me/study/study-psilocybin-mushrooms-stimulate-growth-of-new-brain-cells/

It could turn out for it be beneficial, after the consumption cease - it could turn out to be harmful long term.

I briefly skimmed your post. You wrote a lot, and I'm not sure what you want or the means by which you derive value. Regardless, for your sake I'm just going to say it's not a conversation I'm interested in whatsoever. We think of things similarly enough that we can only disagree on smaller, specific angles.

I'm tired, I'm angry, I'm sad, and I'm bored. These are things versions of myself have already thought of, already considered, and already evaluated repeatedly to a point of exhaustion. I'm not capable of anything other than apathy, and I just don't care about any of it. I've used drugs for many things, somethings with an intention, sometimes not.

Most of my experiences talking about anything remotely personal, technical, or meaningful in the slightest, have been profoundly negative. Sorry, maybe you're not a waste of time, but I'm not going there. Hope you find someone else.

Stop using your phone too much. Best thing for your brain.