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• What is Oxidative Stress?

  Oxidative stress is a target phrase nootropic users recognize when reading about the neuroprotectant and antioxidant properties of different substances, and the harmful and counterproductive of others. Nevertheless, do you really know what does oxidative stress entail? Here we explain it to you in simple words. While oxygen is essential for human life, it also…

• Melatonin: A Review

  Melatonin is an endogenous neurohormone found in animals, plants, fungi and bacteria that serves as a modulator in the nervous system and as an important neural antioxidant. In animals, it is a hormone that anticipates the daily onset of darkness; thus, the hormone can be used as a sleep aid and in the treatment of…

• Fish Oil and Cognitive Support: Without Consensus

  Humans are currently getting fish oil from the tissues of oily fish such as sardines, salmon, and tuna. However, the fish itself does not produce the famous omega-3 fatty acids contained in the oil, but they rather accumulate them by consuming microalgae, the original holder of EPA and DHA (too bad we cannot synthesize it…

• Contraceptives: a Nootropic for Women?

  Besides the nervous system, the endocrine system is a major communication system between the body and the brain. While the nervous system uses neurotransmitters as its chemical signals, the endocrine system uses hormones. Thus, the pituitary gland secretes factors into the blood that act on the endocrine glands to either increase or decrease hormone production….