From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 18:23:29 MST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Ramonsky" <alex@ramonsky.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 6:30 AM
Subject: Re: Performance enhancement with selegiline
> Gentlemen;
> I do not know if this is relevant to your discussion, and please forgive
> me for butting in, but...
>
> ...'Geddy' has been taking Selegiline (R-(-)-Deprenyl hydrochloride) @
> 20mg daily since 21st December 2002. Geddy is a 44-year-old male human
> in average health who does not suffer from any neurological disorder,
> and is basically taking selegiline to see what happens.
> We are monitoring him. He intends to stay on the drug indefinitely
> unless there are deleterious effects.
> For obvious reasons Geddy wishes to remain low-profile! We're happy to
> discuss this trial and any clinical results if contacted WITH PGP at
> alex@ramonsky.com
> He is however happy for the world to know the following:
> He has noticed several changes since beginning the trial. The first
> change was an increase in confidence, he felt calmer and less shy and
> was able to communicate more easily. He felt more confident and
> assertive in business environments. Then he noticed that an annoying
> nervous habit of wiggling his toes had stopped. He feels he can control
> his emotions more sensibly and think more rationally under stress.
> His dreams have become more vivid, and he feels his fantasy life and
> imagination have improved. He explains an odd sensation of 'thinking too
> fast to be able to verbalise it', which is the only downer so far. On
> the whole he seems a great deal happier as an individual.
> We may have to wait some time to see if he lives longer, of course. But
> other data are coming in, all along the way. As far as I know, this is
> the first trial of a healthy human?
> : )
> AR
### If he's happy with it, more power to him. It is not proven that
selegiline will make you live longer, but then it won't cut your life short,
either. As long as it makes the user lead a happy, useful life, it's good.
Rafal
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