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

硅谷的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。

Often they're referred to as nootropics.

通常被称为益智药。

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.

她为一家销售添加了蘑菇、酮类以及某种称为聪明药的水的公司工作。

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

所以是基于证据、有研究支持的神经成分，有效剂量，等等等等。

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

很难说益智药是否真的有效，这有助于的流行。

It's full of nootropics and adaptogens.

富含益智药和适应原。

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效果。

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

所以我买了健剂，里面有姜黄、生姜、康普茶和一些促智药。

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

非正式地说， 这些药物很受“促智药” （据称可以力的化学物质）爱好者的欢迎。

And so this is Brian Cooper, and he's basically taking a nootropic, that's a controlled substance.

这是布莱恩·库珀，他正在服用一种被称为聪明药的受控物质。

But we take nootropics for feeling fantastic.

但我服用聪明药是为了感觉超级棒。

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

更近一段时间，这种被称为益智药的现实版补充剂得到了名人的背书。

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

对我而言，确实具有显著的提升情绪和认知功能的效果。

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

是的，从认知的角度来看，我认为亚甲蓝确实非常有帮助。

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

实际上， 我的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。

When I first tried it, I remember I was using it specifically to enhance memory and like for its distinct nootropic effects.

我初次尝试时，记得是特意用来记忆力，以及体验其独特的认知效果。

Now, the next day, you're just going to be needing more nootropics in the first place, more methylene blue, more NAD-boosting compounds.

现在，到了第二天， 你首先就需要更多的聪明药，更多的美蓝， 更多的烟酰胺腺嘌呤二核苷酸补成分。

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上有一种流行的视频类型，网红拍摄自己进行繁复的早晨例行活动，他会泡冰浴、背诵正能量话语、精心准备提神益智咖啡。

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.

市场研究公司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%的速度长。