Scientists recommend brain drugs for healthy people

I agree with jamesk, focusing is easier said than done. I know why it's difficult for me to focus: I have severe depression. Antidepressant after antidepressant, I'm in a better mood, but they've done nothing to stop the distraction. Amphetamines, though? Work like a charm.

and how that ties into this topic, and also with what i know to be a far much more superior technology, is the concept of whole, completly natural products, being condensed down to an encapsulated resin, or made into a tea, to achieve these focusing effects. i dont specifically know of a plant that has these same effects on people (maybe the coca plant?) but i do know that hundreds of purposeful plants known to traditional south american medicine men for example, are unknown to our culture. i think we're really wasting time and creating depression by trying to fix somthing that isn't broken (our planet, and thus, our way of life), or rather, we should really fix something that is truly broken, our connection to it all.

what we need is to realise our planet is perfect and has all the solutions for any ailment, psychological need, or physical need, and probe indigenous people's much more vast knowledge of healing, of plants, and animals, not to mention their universe/al, as opposed to, world view, then to begin the tranformation of the people who were kicked out, or seperated from the garden/eden/the natural world (europeans)

I always wanted to hear this kind of message, let us hurt ourselves if we want to. It scares me when they say it, it really, really does scare me!

I agree for the most part. However, most of the drugs they're talking about have limited scientific knowledge underpinning their safety and biochemical mechanics. We KNOW eating right and exercise is good for you, but a lot of the drugs they mention need a lot more study to put them in the class of "diet and exercise".

Sure people have a right to put whatever they want in their bodies, but comparing Modanifil to diet and exercise?

I think a lot of people are getting ahead of themselves. Not too long scientists we claiming Serotonin = happy chemical, and now we know how far from reality that concept is.

just smoke dmt..the ultimate performance enhancer

"All you really need is to focus..."

For some of us this is easier said then done. There are many levels of focus, like walking, sprinting, or juggling; the trick becomes maintaining more intense levels of focus for longer periods of time. This is all caffeine does. Why not enable the public with more focus-boosting options?

Or we could just practice things like memory and learning techniques in school. Or just use our heads more in general. The more you use your head, the better it works, after all.
All you really need is to focus and decide to do what you have to, and actually do it instead of coming up with excuses to do it later. That's how it is with me, and I'd be willing to bet I'm not alone here.