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Cognitive, Mood and Energy

Nootropic peptides, wakefulness agents and mitochondrial compounds - three unrelated approaches shelved together.

This category contains three genuinely unrelated groups. Nootropic peptides such as Semax and Selank come from the Russian research literature and act on neurotrophic and anxiolytic signalling. Wakefulness agents such as modafinil act primarily through dopamine reuptake inhibition. Mitochondrial compounds such as NAD+, SS-31 and MOTS-c act on cellular energy production rather than on neurotransmission at all.

Because the mechanisms do not overlap, the subjective experience of each is different in kind, not degree. A mitochondrial compound does not feel like a stimulant and is not meant to.

Several of the peptides here are supplied as nasal sprays rather than injections, which is a delivery decision based on the intended target rather than on convenience.

What to weigh up

Different mechanisms feel different

Expecting a mitochondrial cofactor to feel like a eugeroic is a category error.

Nasal delivery has its own handling

Sprays still require refrigeration once opened and have a shorter in-use window than people expect.

Sleep is upstream of all of it

Every compound in this category performs worse against a sleep deficit. DSIP and melatonin address that directly.

Modafinil is a licensed medicine

It is prescription-only in the UK, licensed for narcolepsy and shift-work sleep disorder.

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This page covers what serves the goal. For what each compound actually is - class, mechanism, half-life and storage - see the reference library.