NA-Selank vs the amidate version, anyone tried both back to back?

Posted by optimized_grinder in Cognitive & Nootropic - 1 points, 2 comments.

So I picked up some NA-Selank a while back and the calm focus was nice, more or less what I expected from regular Selank but the duration felt a bit longer for me. Then I got curious about the amidate form because of how it supposedly holds up better and I have been rotating them the last few weeks. Honestly the amidate feels smoother on the anxiety side, like less of a quick come-up and more of an even keel through the afternoon, no?

But the focus piece is harder for me to pin down, some days I feel really locked in and other days it just kind of blends into the background. I am dosing around 300-500 mcg split morning and early afternoon, mostly intranasal. Curious if anyone else has stacked them side by side and noticed one wins on mood versus the other on raw concentration. Also wondering if the amidate hits the serotonin side more for people, I could just be imagining it.

Comments

• emma_codes: Anecdotally I've done exactly this back to back, NA first for a couple weeks then swapped to the amidate for another couple. The even keel thing you described lines up with what I noticed too, it definitely felt less spiky on the anxiolytic side, more of a slow build and gentler taper through the day. I never got that come-up jittery feeling with it. The focus piece I found the opposite actually, regular NA gave me a cleaner "want to sit down and write for 5 hours" kind of drive, while the amid
• optimizedsean: Interesting that we had opposite focus experiences, I actually got more of that "sit down and work for hours" feel from the amidate, while NA felt calmer but kinda blunted. Could just be how each of us responds to the serotonin side of things, or maybe timing between doses matters more than I thought, how long after pinning were you judging the focus?

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