Nootropics Depot
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Nootropics Depot is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 28, 2021 and October 05, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Nootropics Depot’s Dynamax, a mixture of several fancy types of caffeine and caffeine-like chemicals”; “Nootropics Depot is on a crusade to test whether other supplements are correctly labeled”; “Nootropics Depot is a supplement company that actively engages with the supplement community on Reddit”. It most often appears alongside Reddit, turkesterone, Wikipedia.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: April 28, 2021
- Last seen: October 05, 2022
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- Reddit (2 shared issues)
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- turkesterone (2 shared issues)
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- Wikipedia (2 shared issues)
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- 2020 SSC nootropics survey (1 shared issues)
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- 852 (1 shared issues)
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- @a_centrism (1 shared issues)
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- @amplituhedron (1 shared issues)
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- AIDP (1 shared issues)
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- AISafetySupport.com (1 shared issues)
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- Alkemist (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- American Botanical Council (1 shared issues)
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Results were generally predictable and unexciting (with one exception I'll get to soon). People thought stimulants worked better than non-stimulants, addictive substances better than non-addictive substances, and well-known mainstays better than new experimental chemicals. As on previous surveys, branded combination pills did worse than individual substances. For example, Nootropics Depot's Dynamax, a mixture of several fancy types of caffeine and caffeine-like chemicals, did significantly worse than ordinary caffeine. Nootropics Depot has a lot of smart, careful people, so I don't think they bungled the mixture. I think people just expect more out of branded products, and penalize them when they don't perform better. Since all tests were open label, I have no way of knowing how much of the results were just expectation effects.
3 recs: ModafinilXL, CosmicNootropic 4 recs: Liftmode 5 recs: Eufinil 6 recs: Science.bio 7 recs: BuyModa, LiftMode 48 recs: Nootropics Depot
46: Nootropics Depot is on a crusade to test whether other supplements are correctly labeled. Here’s what happened with turkesterone.
Inline links: Here’s what happened with turkesterone
I looked through several other supplements on these sites and these results are typical, although maybe slightly better than average. The most concerning category was mushrooms, where about 25% of brands used some mycelium (the “roots” of a mushroom, which have fewer health-promoting chemicals than the above-ground part) instead of or in addition to the mushroom itself. This is a known issue with mushroom supplements; not enough people know the difference for companies to be consistently incentivized to get it right. III. MYASD From Nootropics Depot Nootropics Depot is a supplement company that actively engages with the supplement community on Reddit. A big part of the engagement is their CEO, who goes by the Reddit username MisterYouAreSoDumb, talking about his experiences running the company and answering customer questions.
Nootropics Depot is a supplement company that actively engages with the supplement community on Reddit. A big part of the engagement is their CEO, who goes by the Reddit username MisterYouAreSoDumb, talking about his experiences running the company and answering customer questions.
Botanicals are more complicated. Commonly-used botanicals from reputable brands are usually about as trustworthy as vitamins, but there are lots of complications around extraction processes and sometimes you might get 50% more or less than you thought. Less-commonly-used botanicals are less clear; you still will rarely find outright sugar pills, but you may find people bungling the chemistry, not caring too much about exact amounts, or selling mushroom mycelium instead of fruiting body. “Male enhancement” products are their own special class of danger zone, as are anything that’s been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience; you should be extra careful to buy from only the most reputable companies. I trust Nootropics Depot, Thorne, NOW, and Jarrow, in that order, but you’ll want to do your own research and maybe check ConsumerLab for the particular product you’re buying.