What One Qualia Supplement Review Warns About the Future – Huffington Post

Being involved in the nootropics industry for the past 5 years, I was interested to see one Qualia supplement review call the new stack a God pill. I countered with a more modest and balanced review of Qualia here, but it has given me concerns for the future of cognitive enhancement and personalized medicine as a whole.

Biohacking, nootropics, and personalized medicine is becoming more popular than ever. According to a 2017 report, health investment in 2016 reached an all-time high of $8 billion. This isnt surprising, but the fact that $765 million of that investment went in to personalized medicine and quantified self businesses.

The quantified self movement has come a long way in one decade. From a group of renegade Silicon Valley technologists and entrepreneurs, it is reaching far greater audiences in the current era. As these audiences are more mainstream (and less early adopters), the marketing techniques and methodologies will increase their sophistication and lead to plenty of misleading situations. From here is where my fears originate.

I will not purport to know what the author had in mind with the phrase God pill to describe the Qualia nootropic, but Ill give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest he was making a point about the potency and merits of the stack itself.

With 42 ingredients, Qualia is quite different than most of the nootropic stacks that come out on the market. Rather than proprietary blends, inadequate doses, and low-efficacy drugs, the Neurohacker Collective has devised a product that incorporates the opposite approach in all accounts.

The Neurohacker Qualia nootropic has transparent doses, which are usually from some of the most well-researched or cutting edge compounds. Its rare to find a mainstream, successful nootropics company who is wiling to add things like centrophenoxine and noopept into their formulation, but the NHC is going that extra mile.

Perhaps the biggest surprise to most people is that Qualia is the only nootropic stack that is in my weekly regimen. I cycle a number of various nootropics, but most of the time my efforts are focused upon achieving a specific purpose and all-encompassing products rarely help.

The product alone is no God pill, though it is perhaps the most comprehensive and well-formulated nootropic stack currently on the market. Luckily, there are technologies coming online that make the guess-work and marketing hype less daunting now than ever before.

One of the main reasons the quantified self and personalized medicine world is growing so rapidly is because of the new technologies coming online. These personalized tracking tools allow us to see whether a supplement or treatment is worthwhile because we have our unique biofeedback to reference.

For less than a couple hundred dollars, I use an HRV monitor daily to check my stress and a sleep tracking device recommended by Stanford sleep researchers to understand my sleep quality. If Qualia was too stressful for my body, for example, the HRV might show the results the next day. If I was burning out from using Qualia, the sleep tracker could help me find that.

Outside of the home, the devices are even more specific to the cognitive enhancement and nootropic world. In a recent visit to the Peak Brain Institute in Los Angeles, California, I got to experience a QEEG brain mapping to determine what effect (if any) nootropics were having on my brain. What usually costs a few hundred dollars can give us direct feedback about how specific nootropic combinations are effecting our brains in the short-term.

As these technologies become more demystified and democratized, its possible for individuals like you and me to better understand whether certain therapies and techniques are actually beneficial.

With that data comes far greater understanding of ourselves and, more importantly, the power to make better decisions. In this environment, it doesnt matter what the marketing materials might say. The proof is in the data.

In the meantime, nootropics enthusiasts can take God pill references with a grain of salt and deconstruct how supplements influence their brain through the tools we have available and a subjective, mindful experience. It may sound cliche or something straight out of a yoga teachers mouth, but we must listen to our brain and body first and foremost. Even with all the data in the world, if something doesnt feel good, its important to trust our intuition.

The same holds true for certain nootropic stacks. While I have said that Qualia is a great nootropic, I never consume it more than 2 - 3 times per week. Its part of my unique biochemistry and experience that I accept and embrace. Over time, you too can develop the awareness of what is helping and what isnt. This is the first defense against marketing techniques that are less than truthful.

If you want to read my full Qualia review go ahead here: Review

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What One Qualia Supplement Review Warns About the Future - Huffington Post