Originally Posted by bluefoxicy

Yeah well, competitive sports belong on level ground. Life isn't fair and I don't treat it like it is; I take every advantage I can get and steer around the fair-play zones. If you want to play with those folks, keep your **** on straight; if not, then don't worry about it.

For what it's worth, I'm also a greatest-abuse-of-the-rules guy: I'm not into sports, but I hold the highest respect for the man who invented the forward pass in football--when he came up with it there was no such thing, no rule against it, and the game simply wasn't designed to function with any such thing ever occurring; he destroyed the game of football, until they adjusted the rules to compensate. This has happened to baseball, too--there are illegal plays in baseball that are illegal simply because they create no-win situations (particularly there's a pop-fly rule where you can catch or intentionally drop the ball, depending on how you want the game to go, without it costing you anything; this is illegal precisely because the game specifies that catching the ball is the goal, yet one day somebody figured out that not catching the ball was both legal and advantageous).

Look, it's not my fault you didn't make it illegal. That's fair play--if you were better than me you would've done it first.



You'd benefit from L-Theanine most likely in either case--though when it comes to your own body, you're the top authority. I mean think about it: if the doctors put you on MAOIs and they do bad things, you go back to the doctor and tell them these are bad and ask for a new professional opinion. If something you read online says certain things are good for you and you take them and it does things you don't like, why would you keep taking them?

"more complex cognitive functions" would probably include, I don't know, multi-variable differential equations in seven dimensions? I'm usually thinking of complex tasks (programming, etc.) or "under pressure" things (making decisions between 14 different options with approaching deadlines) that require strong analysis of alternatives. "Put sugar in my tea" is not complex thought (it's almost automatic recall, if you make a lot of tea--including exactly measuring the same heaping teaspoon of tea by tilting the spoon a certain way to pour off some of the sugar to get the measure just right).

My point was caffeine increases alertness, but places you in the situation of thinking under stress--caffeine is stress in a waxy, white powder form.

By the by, 8oz cup of coffee is like 95mg caffeine, so you're talking about some 250mg with your two 10oz cups. People go quite high with the caffeine--large cups, several cups a day, strong coffee (Starbucks is 14 times stronger, or used to be), and so on. Chronic use of caffeine does quickly build tolerance. It's not fair to discuss caffeine in the same context as phenotropyl (which simply isn't effective if you try to pull the same let's-use-a-lot-of-this-all-the-time crap), because people can, will, and do use caffeine chronically.

That said, I haven't looked into low, carefully controlled, spaced doses--something that's routinely done with Huperzine-A because you build tolerance too fast (and because it's viciously poisonous--you can get some at GNC or Vitamin Shoppe if you like, it's 0.1mg of a substance that does EXACTLY what sarin nerve gas does, so piling on large doses is not recommended)--so you may be right about acute benefits. You'd know more than me.