so I used "pregnenolone" as a search term for this group, and I found
no postings. Therefore, my first question is, Why aren't there any
postings on pregnenolone? Have people tried it and thought that it
didn't work?
This was already one of my questions actually. I have, throughout my
entire life, suffered from extreme absent-mindedness. An intelligent
and judicious acquaintance once told me, in a serious, half-astonished
voice that I was "the most absent-minded person that he had ever met."
I was identified as gifted in elementary school, which means that I
tested as having a 130 IQ or better; I took a professional IQ test a
few years ago and got only 125 (133 Verbal), but I was unimpressed
with the test-giver and also with my score and would like to take it
again--but, anyway, I probably have something like a 125 IQ but with a
terrible working memory and terrible executive command of myself. I
have great trouble making decisions on the fly though I am a very good
judge if I time to process and a pen in my hand. I would say that I
have poor spatial reasoning skills, but I think the main thing is that
I have a bad WM, which is, obviously, the reason that I work on TNB
all the time. (I posted elsewhere that I find TNB--especially speeded
TNB, which forces me to work intuitively--then I slow back down to
force myself to hold things in my head longer...--and that I like TNB
more makes sense in light of someone's post about people's executive
attention being more improve by TNB than by DNB...)
Anyway! Pregnenolone: the first time that I took it, I couldn't sleep
for about two days, and it always has that effect on me: making me
tremendously resilient against fatigue but, on the downside, making it
difficult for me to keep on a normal sleeping schedule. I actually
think that it has more effect on my memory, which is the point that I
am getting to, when I am tired than when I am well rested, and, in
either case, it takes a long time for my gut to absorb or my glands to
interact with it, which further exacerbates the abnormal sleep
schedule thing, *but* it has a *tremendously helpful effect on my
memory*.
That pregnenolone is efficacious in improving my memory (long as well
as short-term, by the way: it's really effective) is easily measurable
on DNB. (I haven't taken it much since I started doing TNB.) As I once
saw on this site, people with approximately 125 IQs tend to get stuck
around 4.5, which is *exactly* where I got stuck as far as DNB goes.
(I have been doing TNB n=3 with colors and letters intensely for about
two weeks, and my high is 78%; I usually hover around 55-65%.) The
only way that I have ever gotten higher than 4.5 (or 4.6?) was with
the help of pregnenolone (and/or creatine, which I'd like to start a
thread to talk about as well: it doesn't seem to have gotten as much
attention here as it deserves...but what really astounds me is that
nobody has posted about pregnenolone, which seems to me at least to be
the absolute wrecking ball of all supplements, of all supplements that
people who frequent this Google Group would be interested in.
Obviously, you should feel free to respond to any part of this post,
but among my main questions besides, Why hasn't anybody written about
it yet here? is, Is it probably my metabolic problem--low thyroid/
testosterone? That's what I theorize that I have; seems like a much
better explanation to me than ADD, which I am in the range for on most
tests--that makes pregnenolone so potent *for me*? That actually would
make sense to me since creatine, too, seems to have *massive*, I'd
almost say life-changing effects on my ability to stay on task and
make decisions and keep from being too, too scattered--something that
is beyond exasperating for me, seeing as how I have tremendous
intellectual ambition (in the humanities, as I mentioned elsewhere in
this bulletinboard).
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