hey everyone it's mike i review nootropics and in this video today we're talking about modafinil
this is probably the most popular nootropic smart pill out there a lot of people are taking it and
reporting achieving much higher levels of productivity so in this video we're going
to talk about modafinil i'll share my experiences i've taken it for a number of years we'll look at
the benefits the side effects and how to take modafity and if you haven't yet subscribed do
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why this nootropic is so popular is the fact that you're able to get like a 12 hours of fatigue free
work and here's what i mean in a typical day after a few hours you would be a little bit tired you
would feel like a lack of focus you would want to take a break and rejuvenate yourself whereas with
benefital that break is not needed i'm talking from the time you get into the office let's say
it's 9 am you have this laser-like focus you are able to very easily shut out distractions and
you can really like knock off everything off your to-do list this has happened to me in which i've
often taken monopoly and i finished the work for that day the following day and even the
day after you kind of feel like superman like you know that feeling when you go for a run and
following the run you're in this really good hyped up state where you're very eager to be productive
that's how monofinal feels like throughout the whole course of the day everything outside of
work seems very boring and you have no interest in it whatsoever so it's very common that people say
that their girlfriends start hating them when they start taking the daphna because all they
want to do is work and if you're somebody whose work or lifestyle requires a lot of multitasking
but ethanol may be right for you because your multitasking skills are definitely up i'm talking
anybody who's maybe going from phone calls to typing up emails and then walking into meetings
like a typical entrepreneur you'll find that with modafinil having these transitions doesn't seem to
fatigue you as much and your willpower stays very high there's some emerging research showing that
modafinil can actually help with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms can do it in a way
which it doesn't have the abuse potential that typically is found in things like adderall or
concerta or vivans there's research and studies on modafinil that go way back to the 1970s so
it's seen as a relatively safe nootropic according to wikipedia here in 2017 it was ranked the 328th
most commonly prescribed medication with more than 900 000 prescriptions the way in which monopoly
works honestly some people don't notice it working but the people that find it most effective are the
people who are sleep deprived because it'll kind of take somebody who's maybe had only four hours
of sleep and given them the same cognition as if they would have had maybe seven or eight
hours of sleep as far as things even like the reaction time and their decision making however
though is that one way in which it is similar to stimulants is the fact that it will often keep you
up at night so you want to really make sure that you're intentional about taking it like either
first thing in the morning or within a few hours of waking up my cutoff time is about one o'clock
if i take medicinal after one o'clock then it's likely that it'll either cause me to stay awake or
i will sleep but of course have really bad sleep quality this level of focus is probably why it is
so hyped up but how is it as far as enhancing your cognition like doing things like actually
making you smarter improving your memory improving your decision making and your critical thinking um
from my experience it really doesn't do all that there are surprisingly some tasks where you may
perform better and there's some tasks where you'll actually perform worse than typically an example
of that is reading when you're on modafinil for whatever reason you can read a lot faster and
you can retain the information fairly well at the same time versus when i'm often drinking coffee i
notice that i'm able to read fast but i don't always remember it so with monopole um i would
say you can probably read twice as fast which can make it such that monopole will aid your learning
or aid your studying if you're going through some sort of course because of course then you're gonna
get to the material a lot faster and due to the focus you have you become a sponge for information
conversely though i don't think that modafinil is good when it comes to improving your performance
at analytical tasks so if you're somebody that's like a stock trader or maybe you're an
engineer it probably won't help you perform better i think there's much better nootropics out there
specifically for those tasks um two in which i really like are lion's mane i've made a video
which i will link right here and bacopa minieri this is a great nootropic and modafinil as well
unfortunately it doesn't really seem to help with your memory the only kind of way in which
i could see it improving your memory is because if you're you know sleep deprived then of course
it will make you perform at baseline but if you were to take like a well-rested person and have
them take some modafinil i don't see them having any benefits whatsoever when it comes to memory
the next major improvement with modafinil is that it really does improve your mood but it does it in
a very different way than coffee does with coffee often you feel this mood uplift but
you also get this euphoric feeling and that lasts for about three hours and then you'll experience
a crash whereas with monofinal it's a light mood boost you definitely know it's working and since
monofinal is something that you take once a day and last the whole day what you also experience
is like being in a great mood all day and unfortunately this is the reason why monophenol
is so often abused and that was my experience as well i first started taking it twice a week
three times a week and then four times a week and i knew that the direction i was going in was not
healthy so i took a whole month off of modafinil and i did talk about that experience in a video
i will link right here to have the best experience with modafinil as far as productivity i found that
it's best when i make my to-do list the evening prior and then from the moment i wake up once i
take my binaufal i'm just go go go because this is like the execution nootropic here's
the next and really surprising benefit is that modafinil can actually help with weight loss and
the way in which it does that is very similar to other stimulants think uh caffeine adderall viva
they are going to suppress your appetite suddenly food which you enjoy doesn't become that tempting
to eat anymore and i've also found it has this really neat effect as far as helping your workouts
especially if you're weight training you'll notice like your mind muscle connection is a lot better
and when it comes to endurance training your cardio is slightly better like having a better
aerobic capacity like if you're somebody that can jog for 20 minutes don't be surprised if you can
jog up to 25 minutes on those days when you take modafinil very often when people are trying to
lose weight they do take caffeine to suppress their appetite so monophenol can maybe act as a
substitute because it will give you that energy boost which you really need when you're cutting
because when you're cutting very often you're more irritable and you simply just don't have the
energy to get through your day of course if you're underweight or you're looking to gain weight then
be mindful of this i would probably recommend that you eat breakfast before you take monofinal in the
morning because from the time you take monofinal it's very likely that your breakfast will not seem
that appetizing anymore probably my favorite benefit is that modafinil does significantly
reduce procrastination i'm talking from the moment you come up with an idea you will execute it this
is like the ultimate nootropic when it comes to staying busy staying in action and at the same
time you are keeping things very simple whereas let's say you have to tackle a phone call versus
thinking of a hundred ways in which that call can go wrong you will go ahead and just make the call
before you have a chance to think about it and this is the very reason why very often
people report of like one day taking banafinol is equivalent to three days without metaphanol
in their particular style of work it's because of the fact that it reduces procrastination
makes it less likely that you're overthinking and wasting time of course with a nootropic
this strong it will always have some side effects and here here are the most commonly reported ones
they include um headaches dizziness difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep drowsiness
nausea diarrhea and constipation i haven't personally felt many of these but something i
experienced every single time i use modafinil are the headaches but i will admit they are bearable
they're not that bad and they always come at the end of the day in the middle of the day they can
come but they will go it's likely because you're dehydrated so make sure you drink a lot of water
but i'm talking like about 10 hours after the ingestion of medicinal you feel like this
strong sensation in the middle of your forehead it's very uncomfortable and i would really
recommend that you again drink a lot of water and do consider supplementing with choline
my favorite form of choline that i take and i take in abundance when i use modafinil is alpha
gpc and i've talked about alpha gpc in this video i will link here i would really recommend that
you consider this nootropic it's going to boost your energy and aid your concentration and mood
the other side effect that i experience is irritability i'm very impatient with people i'm
more likely to get in some sort of altercation or argument so modafinil i like to think of it
like a good thing to take if you are maybe like looking to build an online business because you're
completely alone but if you're somebody that is working in an environment with other people then
this is something to especially be mindful of you're definitely going to be a little bit more
irritable than usual but for the most part i was kind of surprised how few side effects there are
and even the side effects that are there they're like relatively light you can tolerate them there
are people out there who have reported taking modafinil for years getting off of monofinal and
actually feeling fine with respect to feeling the withdrawals that you would typically get
with something which is going to enhance your focus like i took conserta for many years and
i've discussed my experience in this video i will link right here and when i took concerta it really
really did boost my productivity my focus was a lot better i would say it was definitely better
than monopoly but the withdrawals really made it a horrible experience it's important to note
however that stevens johnson syndis a potential side effect of taking monofinal if you look on
wikipedia you can see a list of all of the sjs inducing substances of course modafinil being
one of them and think of sjs like something you would not want to get you will not look the same
as far as skin peeling rashes and if somebody gets stephens johnson syndrome they actually
have a five to ten percent chance of passing away however though with modafinil it looks like it's
pretty unlikely it says online back in 2017 that there was no definitive case had been presented in
the literature maybe just mild rashes that were treated immediately after finding them that's
my report on marathon hope you all enjoyed it i do want to say that of course these videos are
purely educational listen to your doctor your gp when it comes to the use of modafinil stay safe
and be sure to subscribe and comment below and i will look forward to seeing you all next time