

Introduction to Nootropics: Staying Smart When it Comes to Smart Drugs
While I was in university, one of the lessons that clearly stood out was that throughout history, humans have always had an intimate relationship with drugs. As a species, we have been using them for centuries to alter not only our health, but also our state of mind—so much so that some naturally occurring substances have fundamentally changed the course of human history. Caffeine, for example, is a primary psychoactive ingredient in two of the most globally exploited, traded