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Lyle Phillips Short Clip 2 Productivity Biohacking with Modafinil

25 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue advising occasional use of modafinil as a 'smart drug' to boost productivity during intense work phases (e.g., book-writing deadlines). The speaker describes typical dosing (a ~200 mg pill), estimated duration (one pill ≈24 hours; half pill ≈12 hours), cautions about moderation to avoid tolerance, and attributes effects to increased dopamine and serotonin signaling that makes tasks feel rewarding.

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About 200 milligrams.

About 24 hours.

About 12 hours.

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Every once in a while. You need the big guns. You need the, oh, I am in book writing phase. And I'm on deadline. Three weeks, I'm gonna be sleeping four hours a night and freaking L? Theania. My coffee is not gonna do the trick, I guarantee there's one. And I would consider this to be a smart drug. Okay. You'd only want to use in moderation. Okay. To ensure that you don't have. You don't build up tolerance to it. Okay. Is called modafinil. Usually a pill of that comes as about 200 millig. Okay. One pill would give you hyper productivity for about 24 hours. Got it. Half a pill, about 12 hours. Okay. What you need to realize, though, is that the mechanism of action is that it floods the cell receptors with dopamine and serotonin. So everything feels rewarding, particularly work checklists and task.