Smart Drugs: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential - One Pill at a Time | ENDEVR Documentary

The question is: would you try a smart pill? Or not? I’ll do a poll on Community ☝🏼

Optimised sleep, a balanced diet, regular exercise and emotional regulation = limitless

😂 This guy saying he's worried about his health and trying to improve it, next scene eating instant noodles.

"How to avoid picking up a dumbbell at all costs" documentary

Bryan Johnson has the right approach, use data. If you are not exercising, sleeping great, and eating well don't even think about optimizing that last 3%

Sleep health vastly underrated in terms of its huge impact on health of the brain and body!

I cant wait until biohackers discover cocaine

This is the perfect example regarding the problem of people and the expectation of instant gratification. Unfortunately, everything that's healthy or good for you takes effort and awareness. Nothing is as easy as swallowing a pill.

This is more about greed than it is about health and better living. Money money money money money. Sickness.

I’m a medical student and most of people here are on Nootropics. I’ve personally tried a few and 200mg Modafinil with a couple of cups of coffee worked best for me.

One of the major side effects I experienced was a diminishing sense of empathy. When neutral, I could easily empathise with people and give things time, be patient. On nootropics, it’s all about making progress and it’s impossible to just sit down in silence.

Apart from that, I experienced a slightly elevated heart rate (exam fear probably contributed as well) and a super focus where I could easily pull off 4-5 hours of non-stop study sessions(at the peak I was studying for 15 hours a day).

I liked the experience but it’s not something I’ll adopt as a lifestyle since empathy is important for me, especially in our profession.

Would love to hear from medicos and their experience with Nootropics.

Also, ENDEVR, great documentary as always!

So in conclusion, you answered your own question in the first 60 seconds. You work too hard and depend on work too much to cover other parts of life which you feel less satisfied. Everything else is just attempting to brush this under the carpet. If I was undecided pre-viewing, 52 minutes later, deciding that I'd wouldn't touch these pills was easy to make. Unless you place work and money above all else, I couldn't quite see the benefits.

This came full circle so beautifully, love how life was trying to teach you something more valuable about yourself. That you're already good enough.

"I wanted to be more active so i did drugs, then i spiraled out of control on the count of all the different drugs so i went to a doctor, and she said [you should probably stop doing drugs], then i went to a therapist and she said [you should probably stop doing drugs], in the end i found out that i should probably stop doing drugs.....for now"

The duality is strikingly awful. While fast typing tech bro has an entire pharmaceutical library of mystery drugs, we also have thousands of people jailed for a simple cannabis plant. There's an entire category of people who microdose LSD and party drugs. Meanwhile, the poorest amongst us die in record numbers to fentanyl and legal drugs.
When was social change supposed to come, again?

I was pleased to hear he came full circle to the conclusion that we're human and ended with the wisdom that we use to work with our hands, now we work with our brains, and in the future, we'll work with our hearts (i hope).

Exercise & eat well. There you’ve been hacked.

I lost my brother a couple years ago due to something similar, thank you for bringing awareness to this topic.

i really liked your last sentence. I would like to add "let us not forget that our hearts is what make us not just human, but living creatures"

A guru once said thus: "The nature of truth in the existence is that, what looks likes poison if you consume it, it becomes the elixir of life. What looks like the elixir of life if you consume it, it becomes your poison. In the pursuit of fullness, hasn't the whole humanity poisoned their own lives?"

Thank you so much for sharing this thriller. I practised extreme overworking in 1996-97 exclusively on coffee and the movie kept me stressed all the way. Interestingly, afterwards I often found myself in situations where I had to overwork. However, I never managed to earn an adequate amount of money. The thing that makes me feel depressed is when I refused to overwork I would still find myself in situations where I had to overwork. I'm feeling much better now, though I had to pause the video and it took me two days to watch it to the end.