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Wednesday, August 09, 2017

NEUROPLASTICITY

When our skin is cut, the best we can do is to put a Band-Aid on it to keep the two parts of the cut skin close to each other, we disinfect the cut to avoid infection and then wait for our body to seal the cut that at most will result in a simple scar, or when a bone of our skeleton brakes, all we do is to make sure to position the two parts of the bone in the straight or closest to its original position and either cast or bandage it as rigid as possible and then – again – wait for our body to reattach the two parts of the bone together, here the trick is double, i.e. make sure that the two parts of the bone are aligned as close to the original alignment and wait 40 days for our body to have enough time to repair with sufficient rigidity and resilience the bone fracture in order to give it the same properties like it’s new (never fractured).
When it comes to this identical ability of our body for the brain we have a specific term in use since centuries, that’s neuroplasticity, or neuro is all that relates to the organ named brain and plasticity that refers to its capacity to reform itself around the injured (dead) part(s).
This is another of the main reasons that made me want to give it a try with nootropics, in fact as you can learn reading the website-articles I link below, this is one (if not the main) of the very interesting effects of the nootropics that make me want to keep taking – as I had said earlier – at least until the bottles I have will be empty.
This decision is actually very related and connected to my idea that medicine is a guess-science, simply because everyone has a different reaction to any medication or supplement taken.
So while the articles I found say that these nootropics help neuroplasticity, I surely won’t know until I’ll have tried – very much like I won’t know if taking an aspirin to get rid of my headache will be sufficient and successful.


  1.  http://peaknootropics.com/nootropics-brain-injury-damage/
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026746/
  3. https://discourse.soylent.com/t/performance-enhancement-at-the-cost-of-potential-brain-plasticity-nootropic-study/13238
  4. https://smartdrugsforcollege.com/what-is-neuroplasticity-and-how-nootropics-can-speed-it-up/

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