Semax intranasal 10-week log — cognitive and mood tracking

Semax is the one that gives me a legitimate 'clicked into gear' feeling. Selank is more about anxiety for me.

Week 2: focus 7.4 avg, mood 7.3 avg, task-switch 5.1, sleep 7.0, Anki 85%. Noticeably easier to sit down and get into a flow state in the morning.

Good that you have a 2-week baseline. Placebo is strong on cognitive compounds.

Week 4: focus 7.6, mood 7.4, task-switch 4.8, sleep 7.2, Anki 87%. Holding the improvement. Friends noticing I seem 'on' in the morning more than before.

The stressful-week dip is common. Semax doesn't override the rest of your life, it just raises the baseline a bit.

Week 6: focus 7.3, mood 7.2, task-switch 5.2, Anki 85%. Slight regression this week, I think because work was unusually stressful. Hard to separate signal.

Week 8: focus 7.7, mood 7.3, task-switch 4.5, Anki 88%. Back to the trend. Started testing whether dosing late afternoon messes with sleep — no, but I also noticed a late dose does nothing as far as I can tell.

Week 10 final + washout plan: focus 7.5, mood 7.3, task-switch 4.7, Anki 87%. Dropping to nothing now for 2 weeks and will re-test to see if it sticks.

The washout re-test is the actual payoff of this log. Most people skip it.

Washout week 1: focus 7.0, mood 6.9, task-switch 5.5, Anki 84%. Noticeable slip already.

Washout week 2: focus 6.6, mood 6.9, task-switch 5.8, Anki 83%. Back to near-baseline on focus and Anki, mood held a bit.

Conclusion: for me, Semax produced a modest but clearly positive bump on focus and retention that did NOT survive washout. Mood was a smaller effect. Going to resume at 1mg/day as a workday tool, skip weekends.

Gold standard on the cognitive side. Adding to the example list.

I'll give it to you — this is about as well-designed a self-trial as you can do on a cognitive compound without a blinded placebo. Nicely done.

nice log man, the washout data is legit. makes me wonder if stacking it with something like NA-Semax would hold the gains longer or if youre just fighting biology at that point. also unrelated but i've noticed most desk workers who complain about focus loss are actually just dehydrated, so maybe worth checking if you're actually drinking water lol. anyway respect for the rigor here, too many people just vibe check their compounds and call it a day.