I’m starting this supplement routine on November 10. I’ll review it on January 9.

Before breakfast

• Acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR), 500 mg.
• Life Extension Rhodiola extract, 1 capsule (250 mg).

With breakfast

• Nordic Naturals ProDHA Xtra, 2 softgels (960 mg DHA and 410 mg EPA).
• Thorne Basic Nutrients 2/Day, 1 capsule.
• Life Extension citicoline, 1 tablet (250 mg). Two tablets contain 500 mg.
• Uridine, 1 tablet (250 mg).
• Kenay CoQ10, 1 capsule.
• Kenay PQQ, 1 capsule.

Before lunch

• ALCAR, 500 mg. Daily total of 1,000 mg.

Before dinner

• Himalaya Bacopa, 1 tablet (500 mg whole-plant powder and 250 mg extract).

With dinner

• Life Extension Neuro-Mag, 3 capsules (144 mg elemental magnesium).

These are daily doses.

August 10th review

This was probably the weakest NeuroForge cycle so far.

I did not notice anything extraordinary. No unusually deep thinking, no obvious increase in verbal fluency, no feeling of being cognitively “on” in the way I sometimes had in previous cycles.

At the same time, this was also a poor cycle for testing cognition properly.

I somehow did not have the same drive to push hard. Almost no chess, no piano, and very little deliberate learning.

Most of the effort went into work and preparing for another certification. That was probably the one area where I performed at a very high level.

So the result is mixed.

The cycle felt weak, but the testing conditions were weak too.

And NeuroForge 5.0 Light may simply have been too light.

Compared with earlier versions, I removed Alpha-GPC, Rhodiola, Ashwagandha, Thorne 2/Day, Lion’s Mane, and Gotu Kola, while Citicoline was never added.

That may have cleaned the stack up too aggressively.

I may simply have removed too much.

That needs another test before drawing a stronger conclusion.