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Chapter 6 · Matter Athletica

Neuropharmacology and Stimulant Use

March 14, 2025

i think it's a big problem in in our games everyone like because research is so available and yes open open source you know publications and you can go to like i think it's like uh there's a pump c now where it's like you can download basically whatever study you want if you have like a university access you go to pub man and all that sort of stuff everyone's so free to read information but they don't understand or know how to interpret it we're getting so many people not even comprehending or understanding neuropharmacology or psychopharmacology and just being like oh i had a positive reaction to this and it is really prevalent in the health industry because they all think they understand from doing a pt course they understand neuro anatomy brain function and neuro and endocrine systems like no i'm definitely adhd i felt better on this drug and you realize like you just said there there's a neurochemical responsive difference between you and that person it's not just a a perception or feeling we're not talking about like uh gender sex spectrums where it's like i feel different you physiologically are neurologically different in the brain compared to someone else the way you respond to dopamine the way you produce dopamine the way your receptors respond to dopamine the way the the thing that dopamine does the interaction between adenosine versus stimulus and epinephrine it's such a different mechanism compared to someone who's like i took this drug and all of a sudden i felt fantastic for you know six to twelve hours it was work done that's great you just benefit from amphetamines but that the actual clinical differences uh it's it's it's a neurological structural difference not oh i feel a certain way yeah that couldn't describe basically most of the fitness industry at the moment any better is how much everybody thinks they interpret information understand because it applies to them yeah but they actually have no idea what they're looking at no not at all i mean it's any stimulant's going to make you feel better that doesn't mean it's fixing a problem like when i take when i take an add medication i don't get hyped up i get calm Yeah. Now there's a, there's, if I take enough of it, I will. So like if I'm taking 70 milligrams of advance and I go, I'll take one 50. Now I can feel what everybody else feels, which I'm like, this is great. But at like 60, 70 milligrams, I'm just like super calm. It's like I almost took a like a Xanax. But I'm always telling these guys, I'm like, listen, have you ever done cocaine? And everybody in the fucking fitness industry's done cocaine. And they're like, I like, did you feel better when you snorted?

a line of cocaine i felt amazing i'm like okay you're just taking basically a pill of that like oh no wonder i feel good i'm like yeah no one ever says i felt bad after a bump of cocaine except maybe australian cocaine just mostly baby laxative that's why you do a line you have to take a shit and the the amount that i i know that it's fucking it's like speed mixed with ketamine mixed with something else it's like if your cocaine is giving you away for 24 straight hours it's not cocaine. You should not be feeling this 12 hours later. I mean, like I can't sleep for the entire night. It's like, that's not cocaine. You just took someone's meth. Basically. You just took whatever they, whatever they had, whatever they scraped off the floor. 1% cocaine and methamphetamine. The hilarious one I used to work at Nutrition Warehouse, this guy would rock up this really like, like when you picture a rich Persian man, he's driving in a Lamborghini, rocks up in like a purple, like just absolute peacock, comes in in a suit and buys two kilos of creatine i'm like oh working out today buddy yes i'm working out today it's like yeah yeah sure that's what you're doing that's the the muscle muscle growth pre-workout but actually moving on to two topics of conversation there that i really want to get into that will be we side rail ourselves completely at all times um