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Non-sense.. A lot of these "smart pills" are more than likely placebos that are not well studied. I take a prescription amphetamine and even that has it limits, and begins to stop working in time. A lot of people notice this, and they up their dosage and become dependent on these kind of pills to do any kind of work at all. Not a bus I would hop on without doing some research first.

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I've found piracetam to work as described, but that the benefits just don't match up to the price/costs.

agree..and then there is the fact that the human body cannot properly digest vitamins. Most of the time the vitmins are excreted intact

Victims? Did you mean vitamins?

Nope. Definitely victims.

That's not very accurate.

For example, I don't get nearly enough sun throughout the year. My vitamin D levels fell to a 5, which can be extremely dangerous long-term.

I started taking D3 supplements and three or four months later I raised my vitamin D levels to a healthy range.

If your body is starved for a particular vitamin, and you take that vitamin as a supplement, the body will be far more likely to extract value from said supplement. Vitamin D for example is among the most common deficiencies, and is very easy to correct via supplements. The reason most vitamins don't make a difference is because most people are not especially deficient in a lot of things.

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