Everybody knows about sports doping which is used by athletes to act on the edge of their psychical possibilities. However, there are pills which can do the same for a brain.

In the world of sports people are struggling to get rid of drugs enhancing physical performance, meanwhile a great number of various specialists are seeking for remedies to sharpen their minds and improve mental skills and talents.

Despite the fact that side effects haven’t been fully studied yet, the world brainpower comprising scientists, musicians, corporate executives, students and even professional Texas Holdem and poker players won’t refuse taking brain enhancers to have their minds clarified, control their emotional state and have better concentration.

Paul Phillips, a 35-year-old professional Texas Holdem player says that these pills let him play much better than if he would play without taking them at all. He considers that thanks to such drugs as Adderall (the attention deficit drug) and Provigil (the narcolepsy pill), he has won over $2.3 million playing in different poker tournaments.

Among great variety of medicaments which are called “cognitive enhancers” the most popular are the following: Ritalin, which is usually prescribed to schoolchildren as a remedy for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and beta blockers, e.g. Inderal, a drug for heart diseases treatment. Many drugs of a kind have being investigated today, like Aricept, which is normally given to Alzheimer’s patients to slow the decline.

It is worth mentioning that these enhancers haven’t been tested in healthy people to a great extend, but the scientists have clear understanding and knowledge on how they affect the brain at physiological level.

These drugs are considered to be just precursors to the efficient and profitable product which numerous labs throughout the world are trying to develop.

The difference between the human growth hormone, anabolic steroids, blood-oxygen boosters used by some athletes and brain drug is that the latter doesn’t provoke such outrage as that do. For instance, Texas Holdem players who resort to the help of brain pills say that this doesn’t give them any extra-advantage as the drugs allow them to fully use their present skills and knowledge in practice in the best manner.

As the matter of fact, under the law or any other regulations, to take these enhancers is completely legal, as no one can bring a lawsuit against you because you use prescribed medicine to improve your mental state.

According to Charles E. Yesalis, a doping researcher and emeritus professor at Pennsylvania State University , people will always search for the ways to become more successful in their professional field or in life in general. If there were drugs for such specialists as journalists, teachers, bankers and others, they would use them too.

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