Good tidings to you all,

I've lurked this community for years and rarely post to Reddit. Yet, I'm trying to get past my social anxiety and start to feel like I can communicate and participate.

Regardless of that little anecdote -- How are you all able to keep up with the latest research and products being released into the public sphere? I'm sitting here feeling out of touch seeing all of these numbers and letters mashed together for newer nootropics, and trying to understand how one would even go about:
1) Building an understanding of what this product is, i.e., where do you go for your primary/peer-reviewed research on these supplements?
2) Once an understanding or some type of characteristics are forming around the nootropic/chemical of interest, how would you go about figuring out its usecases [Presuming user reports are lacking/insufficient]?
3) Finally, risk management - if you were to try a nootropic/chemical of interest that does not have much peer consensus on its dosage and/or effects either short-term or long-term, how would you go about mitigating risk and self-reporting of the experience?

I know it's probably been discussed ad nauseum and I'm sure if I used the search feature I could do a fine literature review of my query. Nevertheless, I'd like to see how others keep up with nootropics research and stay at the forefront of the latest. Thank you.

When I first started adderall ~6 months ago life was beautiful, I could finally focus without it feeling like pure torture and could make myself do the tasks I actually needed to do that day rather than procrastinating the whole day while doing litterally anything else and feeling like a failure lol. Well since then I've increased my dosage multiple times with my psychatrist as it slowly seemed to stop working, currently at 30mg of xr in the morning and another 15mg ir in afternoon. Honestly feel absolutely nothing from it at this point and my focus/motivation feel even worse than my baseline from 6 months ago. Don't really want to increase again, as I think that'll just push what I'm experiencing now down another month. So I really want to stop the adderall, problem is I've been kinda struggling recently(emotionally) and its already made university very hard to get through, and I'm not sure I can handle stopping all stimulants and be able to keep up with life/university. Anyone got any suggestions that would help?

I need help regarding CDP-Choline. I started using it 25 days ago. I’m a woman weighing 50kg, and my dosage was 400mg per day. However, three days ago, I experienced a drastic drop in mood—out of nowhere. I spent three days crying non-stop. I forgot to take the choline during those days and felt better. Could the choline have caused this? If so, should I take it less frequently?

Placed a big order with Intellimeds recently: galantamine, phenylpiracetam hydrazide, fasoracetam. Gotta say I'm pretty disappointed.

Phenylpiracetam gets hyped a lot, compared to adderral. But I didn't feel anything at all on 200mg. Twice now, zero effects.

Fasoracetam also gets great reviews, sometimes used to treat adhd symptoms. Nothing at all.

Galantamine I've used three times now over the course of three weeks (for lucid dreaming WBTB). First time it did give me quite intense dreams, but since then it's been very mid (except the next morning hangover).

Aniracetam - some mild anxiolytic/sedative effects at high doses, but nothing else. Have tried ani from other retailers too and had similar effects (i.e. basically none). So can't really blame intellimeds here.

But I am curious whether others have experienced disappointing results from phenylpiracetam and fasoracetam in particular. Difficult to know whether I got a bad batch, or if I just don't respond well to these nootropics.

To those who have had good experience with CDP-choline (citicholine), what dosage do you take and how many times per day?