Help for finals

These herbs will improve your memory like crazy! Seriously, you should give them a shot if you're feeling a little under-prepared for finals (like me), heh. Oh, and you won't be going through a depression like the adderall kids do!

Huperzine A: I take 50 mg every 2 hours when I'm studying hardcore or just really needing to get things done. Half-life is about 4 hours and can leave you feeling kind of dumb for a half hour or so.

Galantamine: I take 4 mg usually just once in a day because it has an 8 hour half-life.

Dosage is tricky. Too little = nothing. Too much = depression symptoms, not cool. I currently take the huperzine because the galantamine I have is in 8 mg form and I'm too lazy to break it open; plus I once took the 8 mg galantamine on an empty stomach and felt like absolute shit for 8 hours; 2 of which were in the bathroom. I don't know why, but it's pretty important to take these with some food; or at least it is for me to, heh.

Huperzine: GNC $14.99
Galantamine: search for Galantamind on the net (google.com/shopping) $28 or so.








Also, remember for you crazy people out there, there is always the pharma route where you can buy Aricept (donezepil), Memantine, or Exelon (rivastigmine). These are Alzheimer's drugs and Exelon is even available in a trans-dermal patch form.

Half-lives of the pharma drugs:

Aricept: 70 hours (almost 3 days)
Memantine: 60 - 100 hours (2.5 to 4 days)
Exelon: 1.5 hours (patch - 24 hours)

I looked up prices for these from indian pharms and they come to:
Aricept: $ 77 for 50 x 10mg = around $0.77 per day
Memantine $180 for 50 x 10mg = around $1.14 per day
Exelon: $ 38 for 50 x 6 mg = around $0.76 per day (not sure about patch)

I thought about doing one of these, but have had good luck with the huperzine. I bet there are some people out there taking this stuff that don't have Alzheimer's though, and I bet they don't forget much, but I also think they might experience significant down-regulation of their nicotinic acetylcholine receptors because of the huge half-lives. Though it may be a tad bit unethical to use the pharma without having Alzheimer's, it's a way lesser offense than all these college kids absolutely abusing adderall and such.