Smart Drugs: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential - One Pill at a Time | ENDEVR Documentary 

The question is: would you try a smart pill? Or not? I’ll do a poll on Community ☝🏼

Optimised sleep, a balanced diet, regular exercise and emotional regulation = limitless

😂 This guy saying he's worried about his health and trying to improve it, next scene eating instant noodles.

"How to avoid picking up a dumbbell at all costs" documentary

Bryan Johnson has the right approach, use data. If you are not exercising, sleeping great, and eating well don't even think about optimizing that last 3%

Sleep health vastly underrated in terms of its huge impact on health of the brain and body!

I’m a medical student and most of people here are on Nootropics. I’ve personally tried a few and 200mg Modafinil with a couple of cups of coffee worked best for me. One of the major side effects I experienced was a diminishing sense of empathy. When neutral, I could easily empathise with people and give things time, be patient. On nootropics, it’s all about making progress and it’s impossible to just sit down in silence. Apart from that, I experienced a slightly elevated heart rate (exam fear probably contributed as well) and a super focus where I could easily pull off 4-5 hours of non-stop study sessions(at the peak I was studying for 15 hours a day). I liked the experience but it’s not something I’ll adopt as a lifestyle since empathy is important for me, especially in our profession. Would love to hear from medicos and their experience with Nootropics. Also, ENDEVR, great documentary as always!

This is the perfect example regarding the problem of people and the expectation of instant gratification. Unfortunately, everything that's healthy or good for you takes effort and awareness. Nothing is as easy as swallowing a pill.

This came full circle so beautifully, love how life was trying to teach you something more valuable about yourself. That you're already good enough.

This is more about greed than it is about health and better living. Money money money money money. Sickness.

The duality is strikingly awful. While fast typing tech bro has an entire pharmaceutical library of mystery drugs, we also have thousands of people jailed for a simple cannabis plant. There's an entire category of people who microdose LSD and party drugs. Meanwhile, the poorest amongst us die in record numbers to fentanyl and legal drugs. When was social change supposed to come, again?

I was pleased to hear he came full circle to the conclusion that we're human and ended with the wisdom that we use to work with our hands, now we work with our brains, and in the future, we'll work with our hearts (i hope).

So in conclusion, you answered your own question in the first 60 seconds. You work too hard and depend on work too much to cover other parts of life which you feel less satisfied. Everything else is just attempting to brush this under the carpet. If I was undecided pre-viewing, 52 minutes later, deciding that I'd wouldn't touch these pills was easy to make. Unless you place work and money above all else, I couldn't quite see the benefits.

I lost my brother a couple years ago due to something similar, thank you for bringing awareness to this topic.

"I wanted to be more active so i did drugs, then i spiraled out of control on the count of all the different drugs so i went to a doctor, and she said [you should probably stop doing drugs], then i went to a therapist and she said [you should probably stop doing drugs], in the end i found out that i should probably stop doing drugs.....for now"

people need to start focusing on living true to oneself, instead of living in comfortable lies, we are here for LIFE, and your time is the value NOT money.

I cant wait until biohackers discover cocaine

i really liked your last sentence. I would like to add "let us not forget that our hearts is what make us not just human, but living creatures"

A "Runner's High" often times won't happen on your first intense jog if you're not used to that sort of cardio. Instead, you're likely to feel exhaustion in exchange... When you first begin working out, or cardio intense exercise, you have to get past an initiation on your stamina before your body gains the stamina to overcome what would otherwise exhaust those who don't do so regularly, and from my experience, that's when a Runner's High is easier achieved.

Thank you so much for sharing this thriller. I practised extreme overworking in 1996-97 exclusively on coffee and the movie kept me stressed all the way. Interestingly, afterwards I often found myself in situations where I had to overwork. However, I never managed to earn an adequate amount of money. The thing that makes me feel depressed is when I refused to overwork I would still find myself in situations where I had to overwork. I'm feeling much better now, though I had to pause the video and it took me two days to watch it to the end.

Thanks Nikolas for the lovely video. It provides a great insight into what's actually our purpose, what we should be striving for, and the importance of not being dependent on external stimulants but rather look deeper inside ourselves for the answer.

Really enjoyed this "mini docu", you tried exactly what I was curios about it and definetly I have learnt a lot from this one, we should take more time for ourselves and accept what we can achieve and what we simply can't... We have a life opportunity not to proof something to anyone but to try to enjoy it with what we have day by day...

Hi! Great video! It's more than just trying those drugs. There's a lot of contents and lessons here. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing!

A guru once said thus: "The nature of truth in the existence is that, what looks likes poison if you consume it, it becomes the elixir of life. What looks like the elixir of life if you consume it, it becomes your poison. In the pursuit of fullness, hasn't the whole humanity poisoned their own lives?"

When I worked for this really old grumpy (but actually he was cool) pharmacist, he told me to never purchase anything in the vitamin aisle. He called it "All voodoo" and said it's dangerous because there's no regulations on it or fda approval. That has stuck with me for my entire life! Im glad i never got swept up in the diet pill craze

This is so effed up. There’s no words for this

Thanks for the journey!!

Great documentary. Very informative.

Smart practice: Motivation...meditation...the mediation towards the highest medication: The mind purification.

Such a informative documentary… sometimes all we need is sleep and a good time out just to relax.

also 48 minutes, really felt that money chasinng scene.... I feel it too. the burn out.... Honestly learning yourself can be hard and a long process.... mushrooms can help a bit for a nice trip, to relax, to think abiut life, to mix the brain. always etter with friends and people that used it as well to feel secure in a safe place. your heart is connected to the things you do

WOW! Brilliant, work with the heart, thats how we're going to be in the future!!! Love this ending, hardwork pays off, but only when we stop, to reflect.

I figured this out decades ago... have a diet full of various vegetables (salads are easy for a start), pick a different lean protein each day for amino balance, keep carbs to an accent. work out in any way you choose for at least 30 minutes... 1 hour is preferred 3 times a week. for supplements use a protein shake, a creatine monohydrate (juice is best) drink and a choline rich supplement. Abstaining from drugs or alcohol will help. After that, you need a daily mental regimen of affirmation for your goals. That's all you have to do to maximize your life.

The optimal state is balanced. The brain and body have well established ways of working, and any artificial enhancement has a cost. Its as if the body requires you to earn your state, in ways it has defined, if you don't it will throw things out of balance. You can still use things but be sure theres a cost. I'm certain that if a person felt what it feels like when the body is functioning in an optimal way (through diet, exercise and lifestyle), they would never consider any other option. Because it wouldn't be as good. Maybe for a blip in some aspect, but then your optimal is no more.

Wow...Didn't expect the last clip from all this but would agree. More from the Heart is needed.

Your enthusiasm for the push-ups made me do some solid pushups haha (i also really suck at doing them normally, but this got me going), great stuff! I think most of it is making small mental shifts and it's in the act of a constant search that we can grow as humans. I view almost all I take in as doing something to my brain especially food, information and tactile experiences including sports. And those already are some very big things

Exercise & eat well. There you’ve been hacked.

I do 3 to 5 day fasting sessions, and day 2 is BAD! But past that it's easy and super clear and memory improvement.

Good Work Sal !

Congratulations on the final sentences, That is the essence of everything :-)

I am a life long horse person. A wise old cowboy once told me we only have so many of anything in our life......use them wisely.

This is very interesting, myself been doing my own variation of IF (intermittent fasting) since 2012, and not going back. Thanks for sharing this, so much potential out there!

i did my first ever 3 day fast the other day and honestly it was life changing!!! DOING HARD THINGS IS REWARDING!!!!

The guy measures the success of his product by measuring how many words per minute he can type.

first documentary i actually like from Endevr after long time

Thanks for the great work💯💎👉👑

Yea...so its interesting to me that a few of the people in the docu are overweight...I would first start by cleaning up the diet...I find a Keto diet to start the journey...Awesome ...It fills you up plus Energizes you without the jitters!! That with a 10 min meditation & a brisk 1 hour walk & you will feel like a new human...Having a dog is also super helpful 🐕

usually people who are always stressed out get a heart attack early in life.. maybe you'll survive maybe you won't, but let's say you do, it will leave your body all fkd up for the rest of your life.. it's not worth it. being on constant work and stress is like always driving your car just on 1rst gear..

Excellent and most interesting topic. Well done. I'm not sure where I've been (maybe under a rock lol) but I never heard of nootropics or smart drugs. I did love the movie Limitless though :) Maybe one day with AI or emerging technologies this idea may become a reality but not sure we are there yet. All our bodies are so unique it would be difficult for one size pill to work on everyone the same. As a person living with decades of chronic illness and trying everything out there to feel better I know it's much more complicated than any one thing fixing certain health issues. I'm looking forward to some answers from this new future tech based on precision medicine. Thank you for taking the time to make this video for us🌞😎🌴

Great vid. Thanks

I like how when I was going to the art academy, there were students on all sorts of drugs thinking they were "more creative", turns out, 100% of the time they were the absolute last in class ranking.

Tried Modafinil. Gave me constant headaches and insomnia. Also, the elevated heart rate and higher blood pressure doesn't help at all. Weird kind of focus when you do work but it's not exactly productive. Maybe it's just me. Taking taurine pills in combination with Arcalion(Sulbutiamine) is WAY better in terms of how I feel health-wise. Not as much focus as nootropics , but enough focus and energy for first part of your day. It's like taking red bull without the sugar. Heard it's good for heart health too.

He reminds me so much of myself…really good documentary helps me rethink some things

I mean for those of us with ADHD we are already doing this with adderall and other medications xD it doesn’t necessarily make us smarter but does check the box on focus, energy stabilization and allowing us to complete our tasks with more ease. It does help with my memory too but not as much as I wish it did. If something could magically fix my brains short term memory I’d jump on that in a heartbeat.

I was doing that stuff in 2017. I helped bring Phenylpiracetam to the over the counter market! Cool video

would be interesting to see cases of colon cancer and strokes in their regions in a few years

Carry on at this pace and your heading straight for brain and nervous system dysfunction syndromes like fibromyalgia.

So,the guy from Nootropic is basing his BioHacking on something like Practicing typing? Doesn't everyone get faster the more they type and practice. Kinda the point of practicing?Seems like a great way to base your outcome for your new drug.

Stress will trump the meds. You also broke fast dangerously, besides being overweight (I am guessing 28% BMI). In addition, the visceral fat residing on your gut and poisoned microbiome are the main causes of your mental fog, energy and so on. Fix your gut liner, introduce fermented foods, practice healthy fasting and live from earth such as propolis, fungi, etc. Good luck with these magic pills, but personally I would stay away from synthetic meds. The bottom line, we have to fix our metabolism and reverse insulin resistance, while promoting your microbiota and mental fitness with fermented food, stress management and intermittent fasting.

There’s a difference in being productive and feeling productive. I think overall if you’re constantly taking nootropics it can give you the feeling of being productive but also lead to you relying on the feeling of the supplements over actually just being productive. Sometimes focusing can be uncomfortable but if you can work through that then you can really improve your work rate

I've started that intermittent fasting diet on three separate occasions. It *ALWAYS* sucks in the beginning, and it can take several weeks to fully adapt to it. You don't really do it to be more productive, you do it to lose weight. Once you hit your target, you stop entirely unless you have other health reasons to maintain it. I have IBD, so I'm usually on it for extended periods of time. This is to prevent dramatic and very enduring inflammation in my stomach and intestines, which results in me regurgitating everything I ate. I simply can't handle more than one meal per day. People with healthy digestive systems and without blood sugar issues shouldn't maintain it longer than six months at a time - and that's being generous. I usually advise to cycle off after three to four months. For greater focus and more energy, it's better to eat five to six small portions throughout the day. Small breakfast of protein and carbs around 7 AM. Knock down a glass of juice or a hot beverage, and follow that with a full glass of water. The carbs will expand in your stomach and make you feel more satisfied. By carbs, I don't mean granulated sugar, I mean fresh fruit and or bread. It's even better if you add a teaspoon of ceylon cinnamon because it just *rips* sugar through your system and into your bowels. It'll kick you in the teeth and have you begging for more. Beat the sugar crash by having a light snack halfway between breakfast and lunch. 10 AM is a good time. I would dodge pineapple at breakfast and instead knock that back with a tall glass of water at snack time. Now pineapple is acidic and is considered that fruit you eat that eats you too. That'll have you good and hungry a few hours later, but it's water soluble, so you can feel full with that combination. What's really good about pineapple is the bromelain. Bromelain fights inflammation, so it's good for mobility and comfort. Target 1 PM for lunch and have a small salad with a vinaigrette dressing and topped with seafood. If you're allergic to seafood, go for poultry. Take some tree nuts on the side. Prone to being cold? Make sure spinach is in the salad. Cholesterol problems? Pop a daily dose of zinc and olive leaf extract. Drink another glass of water. Halfway between lunch and dinner, something like 4 PM, have an even lighter snack than before. A Greek yogurt with chia or flax. Flax is rich in CBD, so it'll relax your body as you wrap up your day. Have another glass of water. Between 7 PM and 8 PM is just right for dinner. Don't skip your nicontinoids. Eggplant, tomatoes, and broccoli - that sort of stuff. This is your biggest meal of the day, but you can't put a lot down after eating all day. You can smother a baked potato [potatoes are richer in potassium than bananas are] in broccoli and melted low-fat cheese with minced onion and garlic [sulfates are good for skin and hair]. Have a side of eggplant topped with a little bit of meat and a sauce you like, or even eggplant parmesan. And have a veggie soup as the main attraction of the meal. Don't forget to knock back a water! Skip dessert. If you want energy and focus, a balanced and healthy diet is the way to go. Eat small and eat regularly. That's how our bodies evolved. The supplements are there to help, not to carry us through the day. High sugar diets bog you down, and avoiding food for extended periods of time will do the same. The machine needs *clean* fuel. Brown rice > white rice. All natural or organic > American conventional. Learn your fats. You don't want LDL and trans fats. You want HDL [olive oil, canola oil, avocado oil]. Dodge non-nutritional carbs, and avoid mixing them unnecessarily [you don't need pancakes *and* toast; pick one]. Whole grain breads > white bread, most pancakes, and most waffles. Vary your diet. Eating the same meals every day will make you fall off and isn't very satisfying. It's also not the most efficient way to achieve your health goals. Minimize caffeine and take your supplements with meals. I also can't stress this enough: regular daily exercise will balance testosterone in males and females. If you want an edge when it comes to intellectual tasks, *workout.* We *all* perform significantly better with a solid fitness routine. Hormone imbalances are destructive to cognition and mental health. Just as it's possible and unhealthy for a male to have too much testosterone and a female to have too much estrogen, it's also possible and unhealthy for a male to have too much estrogen and a female to have too much testosterone. Both bodies produce both. *Be active* and your body will naturally handle the rest. Furthermore, tap water is contaminated with estrogen. It's a serious modern environmental issue caused by medical pollution, unnecessarily high legume production, and over-prescribing birth control. *Purify your water* to the best of your ability. Finally, get enough sleep. It takes seven to eight hours per night. Long life, greater focus, and more energy are easy to figure out but difficult disciplines to master. There is no shortcut to date. To find that type of solution, we need to be heathy first. Eliminate distractions, leave toxic work environments, disengage interactions when fights are brewing, and make health the core of political action. That way, we'll be able to think and remain productive. And I can also confidently say that the next step will be to actually *cure diseases.* Diseases cause undue stress, and the general public shouldn't care about corporate profits in that regard. It's *their* job to serve the public and find ways to monetize according to the global market. It's *not* our job to keep them in business with inferior products and services. Diseases that cause destructive undue stress are: HSV-1, HSV-2, HIV, cancer, pneumonia, emphysema, autoimmune diseases, gum disease, glaucoma, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, heart disease, PKD, Parkinson's, PCOS, HPV, nail fungus, etc. If we actually do something about those afflictions, we'll be well on our way.

Listening to this on 2x speed while on my modafinil stack

Enjoyed this, thank you! I've found very profound results using a daily mushroom gummie. It has Lion's Mane and several others that have effectively replaced my ADHD medicine. Auri is the brand!

None of these things are really sustainable in the long term though. I used to abuse things like Adderall, Provogil, Ritalin, Focalin, etc. and after a while, it really took a toll on my body and just burnt me out. They work great in small doses here and there, but that is really tough to do. I just think it’s bad news all around. If you want to have energy and be productive, the best thing you can do is simply to eat well, sleep well and get a good amount of exercise. There is no easy fix or pill for it. Just my opinion based on my own experience and research, but honestly, who thinks I’m wrong??? If there was an easy way to do things, people would do it and it would work, right???? There are no easy fixes in life- no miracle pills. That’s just how it is. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Excellent doc

I really like the presenter. And would love to meet him for no other reason then just for a walk. Worlds apart, that won't happen; so I'll simply state. You're doing great. Close you're eyes too that truth and sleep well👌🏻

13:38 his supplements 16:00 21:00 loved his mode 23:12 where being junky is legal , Silicon valley

Do these pills have a bad effect on the kidneys or not?

As someone who struggles swallowing even a single pill, I was extremely impressed by how quickly this dude swallowed a bunch of them right after one another. Also, I wouldn't use these pills exactly for that reason. I hate swallowing pills, sometimes I even fail entirely and have to stop attempting. If it's some kind of pills dissolvable in water and drinkable I would try them.

noopept is by far the best nootropic; that and just being here/now

Microdosing natural mushrooms of various types for their uses, is one of the best ways to "biohack" as you call it

it's not about living as long as you can, it's living as well as you can.

Very well done. I really enjoyed this. Kinda shocked they didn’t touch on Lion’s Mane at all

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You downplay and at times omit the full list of the damaging and deadly adverse events, contradictions and side effects caused by pharmaceutical products.

I enjoyed your video but I have to tell you this : even if a large group of people believe in the same lie it can still be a lie. having gone deep down the Rabbit hole of supplementation probably deeper than anybody you met in that community please let me share my three cents of hard earned wisdom : The three things you disliked the most are the ones that would help you the most increasing your health and performance over the long-term: light jogging(and weight training) exercise) regular fasting (and a low carb keto diet) and lots of sleep! Maybe if you rewatch it, you will realise that yourself

I've been taking DMAE supplements since i was like 16 yrs old. I started using them to slow down aging peocess, but then i realized they were helping me focus too since i have ADHD forever, so hapoy. Now , i just read that they are considered nootropics, too! 😮😮

lsd lets the mind notice many things that it would normally tune out. personalities mannerisms patterns...

“If you could take a pill that’s makes you smarter and live longer would you?”… NO!

Personally I think "smart" has lost its definition .

very Interesting!

I find doctors love to over prescribe. Modafanil has been a real game changer for me, especially when it comes to memory. I’ve learnt to only consume half of a 100 mg pill. And if need be, consume the rest by noon. I also avoid taking it everyday. Don’t mix with caffeine or alcohol. Regular exercise and healthy food consumption and I’m ahead of the most people. Id rather take 50mg., instead of energy drinks. Hands down, much cheaper and safe drug than adderall.

I believe the ancient Chinese Medical Masters created an amazing system of being aware, grounded, selfless, and in harmony with heaven and earth. Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and Acupuncture are in my opinion a natural path to transcending one’s health to optimal levels. Health is a state of true and honest awareness and self assessment - the gentleman in this video was very aware of his negative health issues. Seeking the path to self realization and transcendence is not easy to achieve. For me, health is hard work and effort and consistency. I don’t just want to live long, I want to live fully functioning and cognitively. When man searches in vain to find heath and happiness, he inevitably looks within.

the ending was wholesome. liked it

Nice seeing Stanley park, Vancouver.... after all the jet setting, 40 flights a year. You came to quite low-tech west coast ambience, from the high intensity silicone valley and around the world.

A friend told me once " i don't put in my body anything that hasn't been around at least 10 years to see what happens to others

The placebo effect. 😂

I'm only half way through this doc, but it seems to me the best "bio hack" is to live naturally. You know, the way the human body has evolved to function optimally over the course of millions of years. No drugs, no chemicals, spending time in nature, eating naturally, etc.

Thanks!

If it was the limitless pill 💊, I would take it. But there is always a downfall to these drugs

hydroxycut hardcore elite from muscletech is all you need..as close as you can get to the NZT

Some of the formulations of nootropic capsules like Bacopa M and Rhodiala R. include plants and herbs recognized for their medicinal benefits in ancient medicine literature like Ayurveda, TCM and other traditional herbalism practices. Apart from the over the top packaging and wasteful packaging to increase the brand perception and demand a good price, I like that it would help get the natural medicinal plants to the people. Synthetic extracts and isolated molecule products are sometimes more potent and don't have buffering cofactors as its natural counterparts.

Excellent conclusion! Now, LIVE IT!

I 'll try anything once. It's all about the journey. Fact is; I knew the answer before the question was asked !

He should take some pre workout, pre workout with nootropics in it, then adderall, then moda, then coke, then meth then nootropics and last a cup of coffee then give us feed back.

Anything anybody can recommend to combat narcolepsy? And live closer to a "normal" life?

Done and tried this. Sometimes it is better to look at the past and why they were healthier. The older generation was part producers of their own food and cooking material amongst other things. They were wellbeing orientated even though they did not know about it. Growning up on the farm, we were up early working till 8, having breakfast, working till 12 and having lunch followed by a 1 hour sleep. The goal was never chasing money. Money is world evils. Rather chase happiness and fulfillment. So much to say on this topic

I watched it all thank you very much! a lot of useful info, i think the doctor talk with the doctor at 42 minutes in should probably be in the start of the experiments haha Also another point that you said around 41 minutes, scared of all the tests you did, and that scared you but taking all these pills doesn't scare people? haha I do not like pill drugs, mostly natural and even then you cannot fully know what you get. I learned a lot thank you! Balance as I imagined is important, body, mind, soul, mental and were still humans, so ups and down have to happen thank you again amazing video! great tips and a good understanding, thank you really for trying this on your own! great to learn, we humans are getting ourselves to be complicated haha

Word of warning anyone who's from Vancouver BC claiming to be a profit of mental enhancement. Should look at the rest of the city . And question what he's selling .