Nicotine for Cognitive Enhancement & Improved Brain Health
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
4.5 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
David Tomen is the founder of Nootropics Expert–an online source featuring research on nootropics and neuroscience and tips for better brain health. In this episode, he shares his knowledge of nicotine and other brain-boosting supplements. To your surprise, you will hear how nicotine, when used occasionally in low doses, can help improve mood, memory, cognitive performance, reaction time, and concentration. Listen in to hear the science behind it all and what may help you enhance your cognition.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
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| 0:30.6 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or |
| 0:36.0 | treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information |
| 0:39.6 | without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hi, everyone. Today I speak |
| 0:45.9 | with David Toman on the topic of nicotine for condative enhancement. Now, if you haven't |
| 0:52.9 | heard of nicotine for condative enhancement, |
| 0:55.7 | I think you should give this episode a listen. Now, of course, there is some baby with bath |
| 1:01.8 | water regarding nicotine as a unhealthy substance as it's been conflated in with smoking |
| 1:08.7 | and, let's say, chewing tobacco. But if you use just nicotine |
| 1:12.9 | in a low dose, it can help prevent neurocontinative decline. And it can also improve |
| 1:20.3 | cognitive performance, short term and working memory, verbal fluency, reaction time, among some other cognitive benefits that one can |
| 1:30.3 | experience from nicotine. But the dose and the frequency of use are somewhat important, |
| 1:37.1 | and David had written a very well-den article on this. So I wanted to have him on the show |
| 1:42.3 | to really expand upon the topic of how can we use |
| 1:46.7 | nicotine for brain health effectively. And I think you will find this interview, both utilitarian |
| 1:54.3 | and interesting. Please head over to iTunes and leave us a review if you have not yet. And with that, we will now go to a very interesting interview with David Tomin on the topic of nicotine. |
| 2:09.5 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Dr. Ruscio radio. This is Dr. Michael Rusho. Today here with David Tomin, and we will be discussing the topic of nicotine as this pertains to, I guess, health overall, but with a focus on cognitive enhancement. |
| 2:25.7 | And David wrote a fantastic article on this. |
| 2:28.2 | I was just telling him before we started the recording that our research team was having a hard time weeding through so many papers on |
| 2:37.8 | nicotine or nicotine gums or lozenges, what have you, for smoking cessation, but it was a lot |
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