Not everyday. lol – that’s the first important point to make. Nootropics should be cycled, for the most part, with the exception of compounds like ALCAR, and perhaps Vinpocetine.
But one can get away with taking Aniracetam somewhat frequently. You’d probably be looking at 3-4 days a week, with the remaining days off of it, to help keep the effects stable and consistent.
But just recently marked the 12 year mark of me taking Aniracetam in my nootropics journey. And boy has it been amazing. I use it in a variety of ways, as we discussed on the Youtube channel recently.
- I use it sometimes in a morning supplement regimen of Quercetin, NAC, ALCAR, Krill oil, Zinc, Vitamin D, and a few others. Usually at a mere 300-500MG. If I keep the dose at 500MG, I don’t require a choline source with this strategy.
- I use it in combination with other racetams, like Oxiracetam, and a stimulant, like Teacrine. A stack like that usually looks like this: 300MG Aniracetam/400MG Oxiracetam/50MG CDP Choline/75MG Teacrine/50MG Theanine.
- I use it in replacement of making lists. I hate making lists, so sometimes, I’ll just dose 300MG Aniracetam by itself, and process a list of things that need to get done, in my head. Aniracetam is notorious for enhancing your ability to put information in, and out of your working memory, also known as “memory io.”
And a few other use cases. But I just realized that my first experiment with Aniracetam was literally 12 years ago. How crazy, right? Back in the days when I was but a wee, inexperienced nootropics experimenter, trying to learn how to use Nootropics.
I’ve taken whole months off of Aniracetam before, not necessarily for strategy sake, but because I was experimenting with hosts of other compounds during that month. But generally, it’s been in the mix in my nootropic schedule more often than not.
There was actually a study on the long term use of Aniracetam that goes way back, that looked at its use in people with cognitive decline. In the study, it noted that:
Our findings indicate that aniracetam (a nootropic compound with glutamatergic activity and neuroprotective potential) is a promising option for patients with cognitive deficit of mild severity. It preserved all neuropsychological parameters for at least 12 months, and seemed to exert a favorable effect on emotional stability of demented patients
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493642/
Pretty damn interesting, right? But not surprising. Aniracetam is what we call “neuro-protective,” in that under certain conditions (cognitive decline, agents that are anti-cholinergic in the mix), Aniracetam protects neuronal functioning from degradation or inhibition. I mean, the stuff is really pretty awesome.
But what should the dose be?
Good question, and ultimately, it depends. The “generally recommended dose” for Aniracetam is 700MG, and typically with a choline source (Alpha GPC, CDP Choline). But what I’ve found in consulting people on Nootropics, and putting regimens together for business professionals all around the world is, people respond better to lower doses, so long as the stack is put together intelligently.
Like – you could put a stack together like this, and get great results:
- 500MG Aniracetam
- 5MG Noopept
- 100MG Dynamine
- 80MG CDP Choline
- 10MG Vinpocetine
Is the Aniracetam dosed super high? No. But the stack also contains a medium-ish dose of Noopept, which will work similarly in terms of mechanisms of action (forcing acetylcholine release), and you’ll end up with a great effect.
I’ve seen Aniracetam work extremely well microdosed, which I know sounds silly, because we’re not talking about psilocybin here. But it actually works. For that, you’d want to run a strategy like this:
- 200MG Aniracetam
- 1 hour later, 200MG Aniracetam
- 2 hours later, 300MG Aniracetam
And you could run that strategy either early in the morning, in your first batch of productivity, or later on the day, in your latter batch of perhaps night time work. Either way, it produces a stable enhancement in working memory and processing power.
And those are just a few strategies for using Aniracetam. There are a ton more in our various courses, and particularly, for people new to nootropics, Nootropics Ground Zero, but also in Nootropics Master Class, and Nootropics God Course.
A tool to always have in the arsenal
Aniracetam is a useful tool in the nootropics arsenal. I am comfortable knowing it’s around, and that I can use it at my disposal, whenever I need the working memory and processing enhancements that it creates. That is, when I’m not taking Cortex, which just lights me up and puts me in the zone to crank out my to-do list.
It has been heavily tested, both in a clinical environment, as well as with hundreds of thousands of nootropics enthusiasts, all around the world, for many years.
And dare I say, out of all the racetams, Aniracetam is my favorite?
Confidently, I can say it is. And after 12 years of cycled use of it, I love it no less than I did a decade ago.
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If you’d like to watch the video on my uses of Aniracetam, hit the play button below.
Thanks for reading!
~ Ryan