cantstoppeating
Member
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2014
- Messages
- 585
A recent thread about depression got me interested in enhancing mental performance in the most general and global sense e.g. attention, working memory, recall, reaction time.
Since Peating is about maintaining a relatively high oxidative metabolism -- by doing things like reducing prolactin, serotonin, estrogen and increasing dopamine, C02, GABA -- we'll naturally experience relatively enhanced mental performance. Though I'd like to compile and explore a list of resources that specifically relate to enhanced mental performance if nothing more than to provide a more appealing gateway into Peating.
If you have any resources and experiences in enhancing mental performance, please share them.
The first plausible route to specifically enhancing mental performance I've come across is the combination of l-theanine and caffeine:
The effects of l-theanine, caffeine and their combination on cognition and mood
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18006208
"... In addition to improving RVIP (Rapid Visual Information Processing) accuracy and ‘mental fatigue’ ratings, the combination also led to faster simple reaction time, faster numeric working memory reaction time and improved sentence verification accuracy..."
The combined effects of L-theanine and caffeine on cognitive performance and mood
Gail N. Owen1, Holly Parnell1, Eveline A. De Bruin2, Jane A. Rycroft1
"...This study represents a systematic assessment of L- theanine and caffeine interactions and replicates previous work which suggests a synergy between these two tea components. In particular, L-theanine and caffeine in combination appear to improve, significantly, aspects of memory and attention to a greater extent than caffeine alone. The levels of L-theanine and caffeine used here are higher than those found in real tea beverages and also in the reverse ratio as in tea the caffeine level is typically higher than that of L- theanine (approximately 2:1). Further studies should therefore be aimed at establishing a full dose-range effect for L-theanine and caffeine in combination."
The ratio of l-theanine to caffeine is between 5:3 and 2:1. So if you're taking 100mg caffeine pills, you'd need to take along with it 170-200mg of l-theanine.
Since Peating is about maintaining a relatively high oxidative metabolism -- by doing things like reducing prolactin, serotonin, estrogen and increasing dopamine, C02, GABA -- we'll naturally experience relatively enhanced mental performance. Though I'd like to compile and explore a list of resources that specifically relate to enhanced mental performance if nothing more than to provide a more appealing gateway into Peating.
If you have any resources and experiences in enhancing mental performance, please share them.
The first plausible route to specifically enhancing mental performance I've come across is the combination of l-theanine and caffeine:
The effects of l-theanine, caffeine and their combination on cognition and mood
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18006208
"... In addition to improving RVIP (Rapid Visual Information Processing) accuracy and ‘mental fatigue’ ratings, the combination also led to faster simple reaction time, faster numeric working memory reaction time and improved sentence verification accuracy..."
The combined effects of L-theanine and caffeine on cognitive performance and mood
Gail N. Owen1, Holly Parnell1, Eveline A. De Bruin2, Jane A. Rycroft1
"...This study represents a systematic assessment of L- theanine and caffeine interactions and replicates previous work which suggests a synergy between these two tea components. In particular, L-theanine and caffeine in combination appear to improve, significantly, aspects of memory and attention to a greater extent than caffeine alone. The levels of L-theanine and caffeine used here are higher than those found in real tea beverages and also in the reverse ratio as in tea the caffeine level is typically higher than that of L- theanine (approximately 2:1). Further studies should therefore be aimed at establishing a full dose-range effect for L-theanine and caffeine in combination."
The ratio of l-theanine to caffeine is between 5:3 and 2:1. So if you're taking 100mg caffeine pills, you'd need to take along with it 170-200mg of l-theanine.