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James_Miller comments on Open thread, September 22-28, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: James_Miller 25 September 2014 04:52:57PM 0 points [-]

but I remember faintly that someone on LW got into problems by taking potassium as a nootropic.

I remember this too.

Comment author: gjm 26 September 2014 11:04:15AM 0 points [-]

You're not thinking of gwern and magnesium?

Comment author: gwern 27 September 2014 11:15:53PM 2 points [-]

Potassium didn't work out too well for me earlier either: http://www.gwern.net/Zeo#potassium

Kind of weird given how people generally seem to regard both potassium and magnesium as good to supplement. Someone mentioned that it might be important to keep the ratio of potassium:magnesium constant (so separate testing is not good) but I dunno how plausible that is.