PQQ, NMN & Ubiquinol (new links)

 https://nutrioplongevity.com/blogs/news/the-four-cellular-horsemen-pqq-coq10-nmn-and-nadh

I’ve been meaning to blog about my new Nootropics stack for ages. 

I’ve moved through & out of most of my magic sidebar, all that are still listed served me well at various stages. But I’ve cleared the deck as I wanted to check out these 3 high performers of repute that are especially recommended for older people & those wanting improved cognitive performance whilst protecting themselves from dementia, Alzheimer’s etc, the risk of which is escalated with all forms of long term mental & nervous system illness.

The linked product article calls this stack the 4 horsemen but actually NMN is a precursor to NAD+ in its own right, as is NADH, I think the 2 different versions are popular because they use different pathways in the brain & are synergistic in their own right. I noticed Dr Mercola recommended straight up B3 Niacinamide itself recently to nearly everyone, for a range of metabolic, anti-aging & neurology enhancing purposes so that's a cheaper alternative to both NMN & NADH right there. Check out the difference here.

Anyway, I’ve cheaply sourced my 3 horsemen separately & its a really good combination & I’m really enjoying it, I feel more joined up mentally & I’m having less anxiety so this is a huge win, probably a happy bi-product of it’s neuroprotective aspect. I’m still on a Saffron just one 15mg a day which I definitely feel the benefit of & im on that for the long haul. I briefly used Methylene Blue & had a recovery of some, what I think was retina damage, wtv, it had a really positive effect on my vision which was one of the reasons I was interested in it. I will go back to MB later I feel. (I’ve actually just used it to good affect as an anti microbial on one of my dogs, it has so many uses) 

I would say with PQQ, NMN plus Ubiquinol (easier to assimilate CoQ10) I would not deem it necessary for young, fit people or for older people who feel they have optimised their nutrition really well but I’m personally on a mission to restore as much of my neurology as possible that was damaged by not only rolling Bipolar 1 episodes for several decades but endless retraumatisation with all the comorbidities & missed dxs as well as other actual real world traumas.

Here’s a nice article about PQQ

https://drlewisclarke.com/pqq-the-benefits-and-why-your-brain-cells-need-it/

And one about NAD+

https://draxe.com/nutrition/nad-supplement/

& this rat study on Ubiquinol kind of infers why it stacks with PQQ & NMN for brain health

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1990519X21030111

Screenshot from that: 

auDHD link to creative thinking

 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/22/autism-creative-thinking-study

Well yes, I think so. 

So, I’ve tasked myself

So I’ve tasked myself to start a new blog, from a new, more up to date place of understanding & awareness of my situation as I’d let the old one drift away from me in the light of my recent neurodivergent diagnostic insights.

The jokes do just write themselves when you can justifiably describe yourself as having ***all*** of the most well known diagnoses but it’s also too easy to be blasé when trying to explain to others less knowledgeable when I’ve spent decades in depth delving into mental health subjects trying to get well.

And well I have got, comparatively well anyway by my own difficult difficult adult life standards only with an apparent default status of permanently disabled. 

That’s emotive in itself. And then there is the arriving at the Neurodivergence Party only to discover that all my time in the wilderness has not been very well spent as all these youngsters are having an absolutely brilliant time at the ND thing & I still haven’t completely pinned down what the parameters are or even whether or not that attempted pinning is appropriate or actually possible.

There’s still time.