hey there everyone this is michael duggal the nootropic reviewer and during this video
you're going to learn about some of the key new tropics that i'm using to be in a great mood
all day long meaning that i can better handle stress meaning that i have mental clarity and
i'm finishing the day feeling very fulfilled and and looking forward to having a good productive
day there afterwards let's face it nootropics have very different functions there are some
new tropics that you can use to boost your memory and a lot of nootropics people use specifically
for focus like concentration to get a lot of work done and these few nootropics have been so good to
me that i really don't want to take any time off of them but with all nootropics i think it's good
every here and there just to take some time off to reset your tolerance and make sure that you
respond to the nootropics as well as you did the first day that you started taking them and the few
nootropics they are a lion's mane mushroom they are ashwagandha we've got rhodiola rosea and we
have bacopa and the first being lion's mane of the four this one is probably my favorite when
it comes to improving my mood within a week's use of taking lion's mane i was less nervous i was at
a stage when i i always carried about a little bit of anxiety like nervousness when it came to work
and getting my next commission check and lions i mean helped me to detach from that a little bit
it helped me to talk with people with a little bit less anxiety not only you know in the middle of
a conversation but throughout the whole course of the day i would finish the day feeling a lot more
optimistic but also throughout my experience and taking it daily i noticed i was much more open to
fail like fail forward you're very easily able to see like the positive side of things let's
say if you go to a meeting and it doesn't go as planned you can take it as a learning experience
but also for example if you use lion's mane while you're on vacation you'll be in a much better mood
if you're going through some sort of trauma maybe somebody in your family had passed away
maybe you have something to be concerned about which is like overshadowing your whole experience
and you'll find that lion's mane will help you to be a lot more calmer and that's one thing i
really like about it one of the major side effects with lions main people may mention is that it can
be somewhat demotivating i haven't found that to be my experience i can't say if it's made me
more productive or not but i'm finding that i'm able to like tackle problems and come up with
complex solutions that i originally wouldn't be able to find and some other common side effects
to report it are some people mention it can it can actually cause hair loss but this is like
very rare some people mentioned that it messes with their libido or their testosterone levels
i think it's just a matter of time until research does clearly show that these are not common side
effects and if anything there's just outliers uh or people who've had those experiences and
the common dosage is taking 500 milligrams per day my favorite being the eight to one
mushroom extract from nootropics depot i started off taking three to five hundred milligrams once a
day now i take it three times a day 500 milligrams and if you want to learn more about lion's mane
i would encourage you to watch this video over here i tried lion's mane and it changed my life
that's a great video and nootropic number two for being in a great mood all day would be ashwagandha
and ashwagandha it gets a lot of hate in the nootropic space some people don't like it because
of the fact that it can to some extent decrease productivity but you can't ignore the fact that
ashwagandha is probably one of the best nootropics out there at helping you to better handle stress
making you in a significantly better mood i think it's just that you need to really understand
the different types of ashwagandha and you need to dose it accordingly to whatever your goals are if
your goals are to make a lot of money for example i would be very careful with some of the forms of
ashwagandha because some people take ashwagandha and they feel very fatigued they even feel tired
like they want to go to sleep some people actually take ashwagandha to get to bed so ashwagandha if
you're unfamiliar with it it is one of the most popular nootropics specifically around handling
stress being in a better mood it's been used for centuries and is a very common like household
product not only nootropic but you can look at it more like a general supplement that you can take
and people often mix it in teas or they have it in some sort of supplement blend i dislike the
fact that when i started using ashwagandha and i was in sales i didn't really see any
increase in my income it didn't help me that way more so just help me be a little bit calm which
was good with some kind of clients but for some clients i just needed to be very enthusiastic and
charismatic and i don't see ashwagandha being helpful that way i would say ashwagandha take
more of it if you're going through a bad stage of your life but take less of it if your goal really
is productivity and as a testament to that you can look up like quality of mind which is one of
the best nootropic blends out there they don't have ashwagandha for that specific reason that
their goal is to boost productivity and i've talked about the side effects of ashwagandha
in this video over here. one of the biggest frustrations about ashwagandha is if you look
at the different dosage protocols everybody seems to be doing something a little bit different and
i've tried stages when i took it three times a day twice a day sometimes once a day some people only
use it pre-workout it's a bit of a challenge i would encourage you to watch this video over
here where i talked about the different forms of ashwagandha and how to use them specifically
for me the way that i'm using this nootropic is by taking 500 milligrams twice a day i'm taking
it once in the afternoon around two o'clock and then i'm taking it again at six o'clock
i personally don't like taking it pre-workout so usually pre-workout i'm taking some nootropics
around 10 AM, but ashwagandha is one that i omit from that stack because i don't like that it makes
me feel a little bit too relaxed when my goal is to be intense and to have a good workout whether
it is cardiovascular training or it's weight training and our next dootropic for being in
a great mood all day would be bacopa meneri i absolutely love it because it's a nootropic that
i didn't really take for mood i more so took it because it's one of the best things on the market
for boosting memory levels and also helping with cognition while better handling stress it is an
adaptogen meaning that it helps to maintain a higher capacity to tolerate stress helps you to
reduce stress levels you're in a far more better mood and at the same time you're getting the
cognitive benefits from it but something that really separates bacopa apart from the other
nootropics discussed in this video is the fact that it can really boost memory from learning
retention to short-term memory long-term memory it will probably effectively improve your grades
too this study over here clearly showed that when it came to med students using bacopa so these were
already intelligent people they had noticeably better scores on memory tests compared to the time
when they first started taking baculpa and i've noticed the same thing to be true there's a lot of
nootropics out there around improving your memory from ginkgo biloba piracetam they don't come
anywhere close to the effectiveness of bacopa as with bacopa if you take it in the middle of
the day you're suddenly in a much better mood you have mental clarity you're easily able to forget
whatever past experiences that happened earlier in the day so i really like it this isn't for
everyone i'm somebody that that is very sensitive to bacopa like i take it i can definitely feel it
for some individuals not but for that reason it's something that i don't use prior to sleeping i'm
typically taking a 500 milligrams along with my ashwagandha at two o'clock and then 500 milligrams
later at six o'clock a very common way to take bacopa is starting off by taking 500 milligrams
once a day and then if you need to take more of it like i think it's a good idea to take more if
you're somebody who's working very long days like myself then taking it twice a day is great i don't
think it's like too much or you taking too many nootropics if you were to take it twice a day as
that's a very common practice and with respect to side effects demotivation is somewhat common for
others they experience lightheadedness if that is the case you may want to consider adjusting
the dose maybe taking a little bit more and our fourth nootropic for being in a great mood all
day would be rhodiola rosea this would be my least favorite of the four specifically around boosting
mood but when it comes to productivity this is my absolute favorite rhodiola rosea has been one of
my favorite nootropics i remember like when i first started taking rhodiola rosea i knew it
was working because after i ingested it like a simple dose of 500 milligrams i was easily able
to get an additional like two hours of solid work done because with rhodiola rosia i wouldn't say it
helps so much in elevating your mood more so when it comes to reducing stress reducing fatigue not
only mental fatigue but physical fatigue i like to call rhodiola rosia a nap in a pill because
you get that physical energy boost without feeling stimulated or having anxiety like you would feel
with caffeine so for me anyway rodeo rosea would fall under that category more so around like being
productive but it does at the same time make you in a much better mood because of the fact that you
get like just replenished with your energy levels and you'll find it a very common ingredient in a
lot of nootropic blends out there from quality of mind mind lab pro i would almost like not
trust any nootropic blend that doesn't have rodeo or rosea because it's so solid at improving your
productivity while helping you with cognition don't really expect it to improve your memory
or help you with with like complex thinking or problem solving which is why i don't typically
take it in the morning i typically take it in the afternoon at two o'clock and six o'clock along
with my bacopa and my ashwagandha and where it's different than the other three nootropics is with
the other three nootropics i think it's safe to say you should be taking them giving them
some time being a bit patient taking taking them once to twice a day for at least a week to really
see the benefits but with rhodiola rosia after you ingest it you should suddenly feel a good
a good spike of your energy levels you should feel that mental clarity and that's something i
really like about it but what i dislike is that if i miss a couple days use of rhodiola rosia or even
one day's use i don't get the benefits anymore whereas with the other nootropics like ashwagandha
it feels somewhat saturated in your system after you use it for a couple of weeks and the
reason why i would not i use these four nootropics together is because really you can be demotivated
from doing so i mean the way that i'm doing it is i'm using these four nootropics but i also have
other nootropics which are helping me with focus with productivity which are helping my ambition
rather than taking away from it and this is very common across lions main ashwagandha and bacopa
specifically is that they can be somewhat demotivating so some of my favorites for
productivity i include a new pep they include a piracetam and they include alpha gpc. i've talked
about a number of nootropics that have really helped me to increase my income specifically in
this video over here you'll likely find that informative. Thank you for your interest in
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