AVOID DMAE

“So moving on to tyrosine, we had 500 milligrams in the original formula. So basically nothing. At the time, I was under the impression, you know, tyrosine, an efficacious dose was like 500 milligrams to a thousand. You know, that's what we were told back in like 2016, 2017. That was a high dose back then. It's like, if you had 12, well, like a thousand to 1500 milligrams of tyrosine, it was like, oh, like you're, you're pushing it, buddy. Now I'm like, you know, 10 grams plus is like the dose that is in the study.”

“So just keep in mind, like you taking OG rush in 2017, 2018, when you're like, you know, fresh to the scene of nootropics and, you know, exotic pre-workouts or whatnot, it can't necessarily be apples to apples compared to how your brain responds even just via aging, but also like via what you've exposed yourself to from a nootropics, stimulants, etc. standpoint and how cognitively adapted you become to that like level of exposure.”

“Malate is going to be something that is not actually chemically bonded from my understanding when it comes to these ingredients. You're going to ultimately just have malic acid, which would typically be broken out as a separate ingredient to not inflate a perceived input like citrulline, like citrulline malate is notorious for being perceived as efficaciously dosed when in reality, the actual citrulline yield is pitiful because it's like citrulline malate when it's not actually chemically bonded.”

“Cause it was literally just like a prop blend with no like reasonable dosages of anything related to actual performance. It was essentially just a prop blend of a shit ton of caffeine and, you know, 50 to 75 milligrams of DMAA, and then like a sprinkling pixie dusting of, you know, citrulline and some other stuff. And, you know, that just speaks to how effective stimulants are, that they could literally like pull the weight of an entire workout.”

“Rush has been non-existent since, I don't know, many years at this point, because it is something that we didn't want to sell, unless it could live up to its name, which, you know, Gorilla Mind Rush, it was like the Rush-driven productivity monster formula that needed to be insane. Like it needed to work extremely well. And when new evolutions and like regulatory compliance started to evolve over the years, you know, things change when it comes to what you can, what is considered like gray area in a formula.”

“DMAE, it's a cholinergic and it is something that works. However, it is from what I found over the years to be essentially a poor man's alternative to what is a more tried and true approach to cholinergic backfilling to try and maximize acetylcholine output, which is a stack of, I find to be the best is alpha GPC. And if you need that acetylcholinesterase inhibition to attenuate the degradation, you know, you would have the huperazine, which is highly efficacious in the literature backed as well.”

“Like even when we first, I remember when we first started making Gorilla Mind Rush, we were looking at straight L-Dopa via Velvet Bean. And, you know, some, a prototype formula that we developed before we ever started the company. I remember actually like literally making myself like bedridden from how much dopamine conversion I had from the the Velvet Bean inclusion. It was just like overkill. If you overdo it in any of these kind of angles, like it can be a net negative dramatically, like it could ruin your day.”

“If 1,3-DMAA was like you felt like running through a wall, 2-amino was like, I don't know, you had the energy to run through the wall, but you were smarter to not do it, and you would, I don't know, do something intelligent with your time. I don't even know how to make the comparison, but it was like cleaner, more euphoric. You would get way less of a crash as well. It was something that was actually kind of like the perfect stimulant for getting work done and feeling great while doing it.”