hey there everyone it's michael and during this video i'll share my experience taking
phosphatidylserine as a nootropic supplement we'll go over the benefits how to take it and some of
the side effects as this is a nootropic supplement that i was initially exposed to six years ago
because i was a student and i was looking for pretty much anything to help me get
a boost of productivity and i feel like phosphatidylserine really is one of the more
underrated nootropics out there phosphatidylserine clearly improves cognition helps to slow down
cognitive decline as well there's improvements with adhd specifically in younger individuals
improvements with attention fatigue even golf performance i looked into this specific study
on golf performance and it was really intriguing because what so is it was a fairly well conducted
study it was a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study done to evaluate the
effects of phosphatidylserine specifically so they just measured the effects of phosphorous stirring
specifically on golf performance in healthy young golfers with the handicaps of 15 to 40. the study
duration was for 42 days where the subjects took fossil title serine or a placebo prior to making
their golf swings and what they found was the number of good ball flights was much higher and
the stress perception for all the people that were teeing up was actually improved as well which goes
to show you that in a practical sense if it can work on the golf course likely it can work in a
business setting or for students i remember using this as a student and it really improved my memory
especially when i was sleep deprived where this dootropic supplement specifically is a little
bit misunderstood is who is it applicable for is it applicable for people younger middle aged or
for seniors and a lot of the data and the research suggests that this is most effective with people
who are elder to help them with cognitive decline or especially help people who have some some
form of dementia but um it's definitely been my experience that when you take phosphatidylserine
although it is a little bit expensive it really helps to reduce fatigue if we were to take
into consideration the really important hormone called cortisol which is a stress hormone having
too much of it is known to really impair your cognition and even known to make you gain weight
phosphatidylserine is one of the only substances out there that in a healthy fashion actually
reduces cortisol levels like ashwagandha does so if you don't like ashwagandha yet you want
to lower your cortisol levels and this is a great alternative because as this study suggests over
here phosphatidylserine did help individuals who were trained when it came to helping their
cortisol response to moderate intensity exercise so when people exercise usually it does increase
cortisol which isn't always favorable because it can actually hurt the anabolic response that you
may get to training your muscles so if you want to build muscle then having too much
cortisol isn't ideal and what they found was the individuals who were taking phosphatidylserine
actually didn't have as much of a high cortisol response when they were training which obviously
helped them when it comes to growth and recovery and anecdotally speaking what i had found when i
was using phosphatidylserine for productivity was on days when i was somewhat sleep deprived the
combination of using like caffeine along with phosphatidylserine was really really helpful
caffeine is really good at energizing you when you're sleep deprived but it didn't really give
me like the memory benefit that i wanted and i needed because i was a student at the time
however it was like as soon as i took that stack my memory was like razor sharp i could recall
everything that i had learned like the prior day in my courses or whatever i was reading and then
it really struck me that phospholiparin is not only good for memory but as well like
learning retention so if you're a student this is definitely something that you want to consider
you may have to increase your dose to more than what's normal which is something we'll talk
about but that's when you should notice fossil fuels certainly it's not always the best thing
for elders if you are younger you should likely have benefits as well which is probably why that
it is in so many nootropic blends out there like quality of mind quality of mind we can see here
we've got 100 milligrams of phosphatidylserine and they also do have caffeine which makes for
that nice pair together yet quality of mind does not have ashwagandha which goes to show
you like i mentioned if you want to reduce your cortisol if you want to be somewhat in like a
more present state then you may want to throw out the ashwagandha because it can demotivate you and
use phosphatidylserine as a nice alternative especially if you're somebody like myself who
also exercises yet phosphatidylserine is something you can use on like a need to use basis maybe if
you're not somebody who's elder and you're using it for cognitive decline but if you're using it
for performance i have found that specifically using phosphatidylserine on those days when i need
a bit more energy on those days when i really want to fight fatigue using it sometime like
halfway during the day maybe like four or five o'clock will help with productivity and like
i mentioned using when you're sleep deprived will make sure that your memory is still sharp
your thinking and your ability to learn is still as it usually is i realize that a lot of you are
probably against taking supplements especially supplements like phosphatidylserine which are
naturally occurring and can be found in foods however the bad news is is that you're probably
not going to get a lot of phosphatidylserine in your diet according to wikipedia they state that
the average daily phosphatidylserine intake in a western diet is estimated to be 130 milligrams
but i don't think this is conservative i actually think that the average daily phosphatidylserine
consumption is somewhere between 50 milligrams to 100 milligrams and the reason for that is because
they've listed the foods which are richest in phosphatidylserine and if we look at the top three
we've got bovine brain we've got atlantic mackerel and we've got chicken heart and you really have to
scroll down in the list to find foods which are regular consumed in your diet like take
beef for example a 100 gram serving of beef has 69 milligrams of phosphatidylserine for example
pork is at 57 milligrams and when i was taking phosphatidylserine and actually enjoying it i had
to use higher doses in order to get that immediate benefit however now i'll admit that fossil title
certain is not something i'm consuming every day there's a few ways you can go about taking fossil
settle sirian you can be somebody who uses it daily uh for a long period of time or you can
be somebody who uses it when they need to however not everybody seems to notice it when they take it
i'm somebody that personally does so because of that i've always taken the approach of using it
just when i needed to just when on those days when i was sleep deprived because it really
had that nice benefit a very common question asked about with fossil fuel serine is whether
or not you need to have it with the meal should you have it with the meal or if you fast is it
still appropriate and i would say it's ideal to take with a meal however it is still beneficial
to take and you will still likely notice results if you do take it faster i personally found like
it seems to be a little bit more noticeable when i consume it especially with like a fat rich meal so
i'm somebody that eats a lot of brazil nuts and i eat a lot of extra virgin olive oil because
of the health benefits and i find that when i mix phosphatidylserine like 200 milligrams with
that kind of meal i can really notice the effects working however i'm somebody that does practice
intermittent fasting and i don't usually eat until like later portion of the day like sometimes like
five or six o'clock and i notice that when i take phosphatidylserine like early in the day whether
it's morning or early afternoon i can still notice it working well but not as good as it is typically
with a meal and otherwise people ask if you need to take time off of it do you build a tolerance to
phosphatidylserine and this is the tricky thing is that it's really going to depend just like other
really popular nootropics um like l-theanine or even ashwagandha some people don't really build
up a tolerance and therefore don't need to cycle off of it too much i'm somebody that never needed
to cycle off of fossil fuel serine even during the very intense period of my life when i wasn't
getting much sleep i would still notice the same benefits of phosphatidylserine like a month into
taking it that i felt the very first day so for me i wasn't cycling off of it much however for you
really be mindful of the effects use common sense if you're somebody who really responds
well to it now but you stop noticing the results like a week from now then i would definitely take
some time off and people have different styles of going about this some people like taking
a typical strategy of going like five days on two days off like weekdays they'll take
their supplement weekdays they won't take their supplement i'm somebody that if i don't really
build a tolerance to it then i'm usually taking time off like every 90 days or so but i really
don't keep it like that structured i'll just wait until like i have a vacation or i fly out of town
to have that break with that particular supplement as it's a lot you know easier for me knowing that
i don't have to carry around that supplement and i can take my time off or periodically
what i'll do is i'll wait until i run out of a supplement and then i'll wait like a couple of
weeks before reordering it to make sure that i can kind of make my receptors more likely to
feel them working afterwards because sometimes you really just don't know and it takes a lot of
um using nootropics trying different stacks in order for you to recognize if you really are
building a tolerance or not which can make it really trickiest of course if you're somebody
like myself that uses different nootropic stacks and speaking of nootropic stacks i've actually
made a video covering 10 very simple nootropic stacks in this video over here i really hope you
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