Brain Tonic & Sugar in Drinks

This is one of the weird stuffs I saw on the shelf in the US: Brain Toniq. I don't know what it does to you, but I want to try tasting it. Ingredients List I think this is not the first time I see blue green algae on the list. Seems like it is gaining popularity. But what about the rest of them? Choline? Eleutherococcus extract? Rhodiola Rosea extract? What the hell are those? They're not something that normal people would know. I'm a...

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Double new year

Well, I'm utterly late but I hope everyone - celebrating or not - had a wonderful Christmas and a blissful Gregorian New year. In about two weeks I will be celebrating Chinese New Year, finally with my family after three years had passed. I had been busy the moment I landed on my hometown because it was only 2 days before Christmas and I still had quite a few essays to worry about. With so much to unpack and organize, things were pretty hectic...

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