Alcar and pine bark ( taken together ), for me a mental buzz comparative to a 3 mg nicotine
I’ve been taking for about 3 weeks and can’t tell if there’s an increased compounded effect from duration of dosing or not ?
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That’s the first time I’ve heard of this combination having a stimulating effect! What dosage are you taking, and did you feel it right away on the first dose?
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500mg ALCAR 100mg pine bark (I’d like try pycnogenol , basically same thing )
Yes first day noticed my brain felt a bit wired 
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Please update if you keep getting a good stimuli from the combination. I’ll try it myself.
One question that comes to me, is whether supplement effects are long-lasting or fade as the body adapts. I have had a few stimulating supplements with good initial effects but after some time the effects disappeared or was dramstically redused. Arctic Root was one of them
With Stimulants — tolerance is sometimes real and fast. Caffeine is the clearest example. With daily high-dose use, the brain upregulates adenosine receptors and the liver clears caffeine faster, so the same dose yields less alertness and performance benefit — tolerance can build within about two weeks. The fix is a “stimulant holiday” of one to two weeks, which lets receptor sensitivity normalize. And then the great effect is back. But skipping morning coffee?
The we have structural/performance supplements — like Creatine and beta-alanine that work through tissue saturation, not receptor stimulation. So no receptor that adapt. And they have a permanent effects.
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