Category Nootropics

“Highly recognizable terms like ‘memory pill’ and ‘brain supplement’ are starting to sound flat and dated,”​ Dave Wright, director of Mind Lab Pro’s​​ parent company Opti-Nutra​​, told NutraIngredients-USA. He said that the term nootropic better

The basic idea is this: All movement starts in the mind. If a way can be found to improve focus and concentration, that should result in better performance during sports activity, especially in the end

‘Nootropic’ is a fairly new bit of nomenclature in the dietary supplement world. But it has been bandied about on forums on the Internet for years where a certain subset of consumers seek out products

“We have seen an increase in requests for nootropic studies over the past 3-5 years,”​ Josh Baisley, B.Sc., director of clinical trials at Nutrasource​​, told NutraIngredients-USA. The lab he works for is an Ontario-based full

YouTube has restored some channels focused on nootropics, the broad category of supplements that supposedly improve cognition, after they were wrongly deleted for violating the site’s community guidelines. “With the massive volume of videos on

Can a functional beverage make you smarter? That’s the question being answered by Koios Beverage Corp. (CSE: KBEV), a beverage company going public today on the Canadian Securities Exchange. Koios produces and sells a line

YouTube deleted at least three nootropics channels over the past three days, leaving members of the community confused and worried that a larger crackdown is coming. Steve Cronin was a typical nootropics YouTuber. He experimented

Every morning, Tomás Gutiérrez stirs a DIY chemical cocktail into his morning coffee. The mix is intended to inspire a specific kind of high: one that will sharpen his focus, boost his intellect and his

Nootropics are drugs that improve mental (cognitive) function without stimulating the central nervous system (often called “smart drugs”). The name is derived from the Greek word nous (meaning“the mind”) and tropos (meaning “to change or

This is part of our series on Changing the Brain, about what’s happening in our brain in various mental states and how we can change it for the better and worse. Demand for drugs and