Smart Drug Smarts: Brain Optimization | Nootropics | Neuroscience
Summary: "Intelligence is as fixed as a person's height." Right? But guess what - you're part of the species that invented platform shoes, stilts, elevators, helium balloons and rocket ships. Smart Drug Smarts is for people interested in maximizing their brains -- both in health and utility -- using the latest findings in neuroscience. Join Jesse Lawler as he chats with neuroscientists, biochemists, futurists, and multi-domain researchers into cognitive enhancement. Sleep, optimal nutrition, supplements and nootropics, cognitive enhancement, Artificial Intelligence, ketogenic diets, psychedelics, and tDCS are all on the table. Smart Drug Smarts doesn’t advocate any particular approach -- we’re here to provide an accurate-as-possible body of knowledge in a field where the options available are growing daily.
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- Artist: Jesse Lawler: Brain Enthusiast, Biohacker, Nootropics Nerd, Multichannel Eccentric
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Podcasts:
Social lubricant. Addictive evil. Between these extremes there’s a sea of alcohol.
Jesse talks to the authors of the new book "Stealing Fire" about the widespread use of altered states (achieved through many different means) to achieve heightened performance.
What makes human brains special? How do animal brains compare to our own?
The Oura ring has moved from a Kickstarter concept to a major tool for sleep and recovery research.
Our complex biology requires complex, personalized medicine.
Marijuana isn't the first thing you think of to fight off aging. But studies hint that low-dose cannabinoids might be just the thing to protect against brain inflammation.
GABA is crucial for stability in the brain. Supplementing with passion flower is one of the best methods of promoting GABA.
Omega-6 fatty acids are both essential and misunderstood -- occasionally even demonized as a too-prevalent part of the Standard American Diet. Dr. Chris Masterjohn explains the role they fill in the human diet, and against-the-grain advice on how to acquire them with a minimum of fuss.
What's all the fuss about this Southeast Asian plant that is both a stimulant and an opioid?
The mind is a powerful thing -- it can heal the body or harm the body.
Idebenone, CoQ10, ubiquinol... what’s the difference?
Han Solo joked that Chewbacca was "always thinking with his stomach." Science has shown this to be truer than we ever suspected.
We’re fascinated by the science behind brain tissue regeneration.
We need food to survive. Can we really be "addicted" to something required for survival?
Music is something beloved of people everywhere -- or at least, 98% of them (no joke - details within). Not surprisingly, music can provoke complex brain responses, both in terms of short term emotion and long-term learning and perceptual awareness. Join doctors Robert Zatorre and Assal Habibi to learn more from the cutting edge of neuroscience and musicology.
