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Smart Drugs and Nutrients: How to Improve Your Memory and Increase
Your Intelligence Using the Latest Discoveries in Neuroscience
by Ward Dean, John Morgenthaler, Steven William Fowkes
Smart Drugs and Nutrients, sub-titled "How to Improve your Memory
and Increase your Intelligence using the latest Discoveries in Neuroscience"
by Ward Dean, M.D. and John Morgenthaler, originally published over
a decade ago, is as useful and relevant now as it was then.
When it was originally published in 1990, it was the first of it's
kind and was a truly groundbreaking book. For the first time, information
about "Smart Drugs" aimed at the lay person, that was readable and
understandable, was available.
This book is still the standard reference and should be the first
book that anyone interested in using drugs for mental enhancement
should acquire.
Smart Drugs and Nutrients is very readable and clearly laid out.
The authors have done their homework, wading through all the medical
and scientific literature and technical reports, and distilled the
essential and useful information for someone embarking on a program
of cognition enhancement.
There are short chapters covering some of the basics of what this
is all about viz.
Age-related mental decline, how it affects us and what to do about
it. Recreational drugs (including alcohol) and how they affect mental
functioning over time.
The legal issues surrounding Smart Drugs and FDA policy about them.
FDA's non-compliance with their own polices. And how to obtain Smart
Drugs from overseas suppliers.
There are also individual chapters on each of the Smart Drugs,
providing a summary of the drug, it's use, side effects, recommended
dosages and references to the scientific literature.
There are 36 chapters on different drugs and nutrients, and most
of the main Smart Drugs, such as Piracetam and it's analogues, Vinpocetine,
AL721, DHEA, DMAE, GH3, Ginkgo Biloba, Ginseng, Hydergine, Vasopressin,
Acetyl-L-Carnitine and numerous vitamins are covered.
There are also extensive appendices covering product sources, Alzheimer's,
testimonials and case histories, FDA regulations and sources of
further information. On the whole there is no better introductory
book to the field of mental enhancement than this one. It should
be required reading for anyone who is in the slightest bit interested
in how they can improve their mental functioning.
Smart Drugs II, which will be covered in a later review, is also
excellent and follows on from the first, dealing with a host of
new products as well as providing relevant updates.
We would recommend that both these books be purchased as a way
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