Hey, this is Mike Cashew and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast.

This week's guest is Daniel Schmockenberger, co-founder and director of research and development at Neurohacker Collective, a company that specializes in developing things to improve cognitive function.

Their only product out now is a ne neutropic called qualia, which is basically

to supercharge your brain. And so when I went into this conversation, I had intended to talk

all about neutropics and ways to, you know, what are some legal medicines that people can take to improve their

brain function. But what we actually ended up talking about was, first off, how to, what are

basically the prerequisites for someone to be meeting before using these types of supplements.

So we talked about adrenal fatigue and how to know if you're drinking too much caffeine.

We talked about sleep, a little bit about nutrition.

Because the basic premise is that if you don't have some of these basic or all of these basics down pat, then it's like

putting a turbocharger, and I'm using his wording here, a turbocharger in a car without an

engine. So putting a turbocharger in a car without an engine means that the car will go nowhere. But if you have an

engine without a turbocharger, then your car will still move. So we talked about the engine

portion of the equation on this one, and then we're going to do a follow-up soon. Daniel is an

incredibly intelligent guy, and I learned a ton from this one, and I know you will too. Enjoy the show.

What's up everyone?

This is Mike Cashew.

I'm here with Daniel Schmocktenberger, co-founder and director of R&D at Neurohacker Collective.

Daniel, I know you're an incredibly busy guy.

Thank you so much for making some time to do this with me,

man. I'm very excited. Happy to be here with you. This is fun. Awesome. So we, you know, before

the show started, just now we were talking about my personal experience with caffeine and the fact

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