Dave Asprey

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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance · Dave Solo Pod: The Original Smart Drug Masterclass : 1518 · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Will make you more of what you are.

If you're a dick, they'll make you a big dick.

So be warned.

Now, if we look at the studies, and keep in mind, I've been mentored by one of the fathers of nootropics, and these things absolutely work.

We understand mechanistically how they work, but clinical studies can add some interesting data.

So, in a 2002 meta-analysis of 19 double-blind placebo controlled trials of parasites.

TAM looking at almost 1,500 older adults with cognitive impairment, they took between 2.4 and 8 grams a day.

And there was a statistically significant improvement.

That is meaningful, especially because we can observe it in ourselves and we have some mechanisms for what it does.

But a newer meta-analysis in 2024 of only 18 studies and half as many patients only looked at memory, and it found that.

Processams didn't help with memory.

And they said that there was massive inconsistency in the underlying studies because the trials disagreed wildly.

So I don't think there's a lot to be learned from that, other than that, we could handle some more research on the whole Rastam family, but given that most of them are not patentable, I'm not going to count on that happening anytime soon.

But something else did come out in 2016 that's useful by Zen.

Et al.

And it was published in a journal called CNS Drugs.

And this was a systematic review that found paracetam specifically helped for aphasia after stroke.

Now, this is how I use the Racetam family.

Whenever I go in for a procedure where I am going to be put under sedation, I always take either paracetam or anarastetam because it's neuroprotective.

And protecting your brain when you may have low oxygen or you may have microstrokes, which do happen from general anesthesia and procedures, that would be a good idea.

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