Silicon Valley types have been experimenting with other stimulants, such as nootropics, which are not in shortage.

硅谷人一直在试验其他兴奋剂，比如一些聪明药，但这些药品并不短缺。

In a popular genre of TikTok videos, influencers film themselves performing elaborate morning routines in which they submerge themselves in ice baths, recite affirmations and mindfully prepare nootropic coffees.

TikTok上有一种流行视频类型，网红们拍摄自己进行繁复早晨例行活动，他们会泡冰浴、背诵正能量话语、精心准备提神益智咖啡。

Often they're referred to as nootropics.

它们通常被称为益智药。

It helps that it is hard to say whether nootropics actually work.

很难说益智药是否真有，这也有助于它们流行。

Do you mess around with nootropics though?

不过，你有没有尝试过使用益智药呢？

She works for a company selling fancy water infused with mushrooms, ketones, something called nootropics.

为一家销售添加了蘑菇、酮类以及某种称为聪明药水公。

So evidence-based, research-backed, nootropic ingredients, efficacious doses, blah blah blah.

所以是基于证据、有研究支持神经增强成分，有剂量，等等等等。

And to me, it just had like a really good mood uplifting, nootropic benefit.

对我而言，它确实具有显著提升情绪和增强认知功能果。

I know that I have a few friends that we both are aware of who are using micro-dose, low-dose Welbutrin as a nootropic, daily nootropic, like way below the therapeutic threshold that you would be using in order to step in.

我知道有几个朋友，我们彼此都清楚，他们正在使用微量或低剂量安非他酮为促智剂，每天服用，剂量远低于治疗抑郁症所需阈值。

So I got the brain booster, which has turmeric, ginger, kombucha, and a bunch of nootropic sprinkled in.

所以我买了健脑剂，里面有姜黄、生姜、康普茶和一些促智药。

It's full of nootropics and adaptogens.

它富含益智药和适应原。

But yeah, methylene blue I do think is quite helpful from the nootropic standpoint.

是，从认知增强角度来看，我认为亚甲蓝确实非常有帮助。

Unofficially, the drugs are also popular with devotees of " nootropics" —chemicals that supposedly boost brainpower.

非正式地说， 这些药物也很受“促智药” （据称可以增强脑力化学物质）爱好者欢迎。

It turned out it was in fact too much lion's mane, a mushroom with supposed nootropic benefits.

原来是因为狮子鬃蘑菇摄入过多，这种蘑菇据说具有益智果。

Polaris, a research firm, reckons global sales of nootropics, which hit $11bn in 2021, will grow at an average annual rate of almost 15% until 2030.

市场研究公Polaris估计，全球益智药销售额在2021年达到110亿美元，并预计到2030年前将以平均每年近15%速度增长。

I have a ton of nootropics in my fridge, actually, for performance and getting extra dialed in when I need to.

实际上， 我冰箱里放了很多益智药，用于提升表现， 在我需要时能更加专注。

More recently, the real-life version of nootropic supplements, as such boosters are called, have received celebrity endorsements.

更近一段时间，这种被称为益智药现实版补充剂得到了名人背书。

It's so hard because, you know, we haven't even really gotten into nootropics that I, You know, I'll do something like, like this morning I took half a paracetam.

太难了， 因为我们还没真正谈到益智药呢。我有时会这么做， 比如今早我就吃了半片扑热息痛。

But we take nootropics for feeling fantastic.

但我们服用聪明药是为了感觉超级棒。

Then it's like, okay, let's leverage stimulants, let's leverage mitochondrial enhancers, let's take a shitload of like nootropics and like let's jack them up and get them like hyperprimed for work.

然后就像是， 好吧，让我们利用刺激物，让我们使用线粒体增强剂，让我们大量服用聪明药， 把它们果拉满， 让它们为超前准备好。