Alpha GPC Choline Brain Supplement for Acetylcholine (60 Count, 600mg Servings) Advanced Memory Formula, Focus and Brain Support, Focus Supplement (Manufactured in The USA) by Double Wood

Consistently ramps up my alertness during complicated or stressful tasks.

Easy to take and works very well. I can tell a difference in feeling better. Helps with the piracetam I take for better cognitive function as it deletes choline. This product works great if you need to get choline levels up.

Great Quality product.

This product did not receive five stars because of its association with hallucinations had by my 90-year old mother, who has been diagnosed as having dementia. The Alpha-GPC was stopped by her attending physician. It is my take that prescribed pharmaceuticals should have been adjusted instead, whereas the clarity gains were lost. Concerning the clarity gains, she was able to recognize and converse with me 10 hours after the initial serving -it was given at bedtime. The hallucination episodes occurred a week later. After two weeks, my father recalls the entry codes for the house and no longer has difficulty using the two remotes required to both hear & watch TV programs. Moreover, now during conversations with him, he references details that I find as astounding as when I was a child. He is now 91. I have taken acetylcholine facilitators for many years as a prophylactic, and have experienced no side effects with this formulation, while experiencing a slight increase in alertness. The quality of alertness is equivalent to a cup of coffee without feeling speeded up nor feeling edgy as with coffee. That said, this product is worth trying for those having problems with recall. It has less additives than any formulation I have found and it is in pill form rather than a liquid or powder.

Having done a lot of research on various supplements, I have found that Alpha-GPC is one of the strongest and most effective of the choline supplements. I bought this particular supplement for both my mother and I because pharmaceutical grade means that there are less fillers, and the product is more "pure". My mother gets 1200 mg per day because she has dementia, and this is the effective dose used in studies. For her, this is split into two. So she gets 600 mg twice a day. I take 600 mg once a day. Almost immediately, I noticed an increase in energy and I felt more mentally in-tune.After a couple of weeks, I noticed that this effect was going away and I actually was feeling more tired than before. With some research, I found out that Uridine should also be taken with Alpha-GPC as a choline regulator. So I bought the Uridine in this brand, and started taking 300 mg per day. That did it. The energy came back, and I am feeling really good. My mother is getting 300 mg twice a day of the Uridine. These supplements should be taken in conjunction with an Omega-3 supplement for effectiveness.UPDATE 11/22/16I have changed the supplements for my mother and myself so that we are both taking multi-supplements that include most of the individual ones we were taking. Although I continued use of Alpha GPC and Uridine for my mother, I stopped taking them. I started feeling tired all the time, and my level of ambition dropped dramatically. I went on like this for a few months, and then started wondering why I felt tired so much when my sleep patterns hadn't change and my stress level in taking care of my mother was the same. One day, I decided to try taking Alpha GPC and Uridine again (2 Alpha GPC and 1 Uridine daily). Within a couple of days, my energy level increased and I feel more awake. This also seemed to improve my emotional state because I feel better. Since I made no other changes, I have to assume that these supplements have helped improve my energy level.

I’m studying neuroscience at Tulane U so I bought this product after learning about the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, hoping it would increase the acetylcholine concentrations in my brain. Acetylcholine is important for learning (Look up long term potentiation) as well as sleeping/dreaming. This product definitely helps both. From the first dose I took I felt like my mind was more *on* and that I was more mentally present. I was able to stay engaged in class and took better quality notes and was able to learn things quicker when I studied new Topics for the first time. Homework was less of a chore.I have to do a lot of intense studying and drugs like adderall are commonly used by my peers. I avoid them because daily stimulants only work for a short time before the quality of your sleep and waking mental state deteriorate. However alpha GPC improves the quality of your sleep. I had more vivid dreams and woke up feeling more rested. I don’t want to say this is some panacea but I have yet to find a downside to this product. It does make you more tired at night, but this makes sense because of the higher quality work your mind did during the day. And of course, you need to sleep to let your mind fully process the memories you made all day long.Bottom line: if you’re looking for a mental boost and you already found your way to this product, go ahead and try some.

I definitely felt more focused and also had more energy at the gym, but nearly every day that I took this I got a headache without failure. I made sure to take it with food, and I also reduced the dose to one capsule per day and still the headaches continued. I may have had two days out of the whole bottle where I didn’t have a headache.