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Re:Modafinil-Induced Changes in Functional Connectivity of H... by LolWolf on Saturday April 08, 2017 @11:11PM (#14070233)
Yeah, this is the reason I rarely take chronic doses and certainly nothing more than 1-2 pills a week. Tolerance usually doesn't build up much, but the comedown the day or two after long periods of dosing (personally >2 weeks, every day) made me somewhat more scared of the drug.

That being said, I highly recommend it, but to be used with caution.

Re:Modafinil-Induced Changes in Functional Connectivity of H... by benevol on Sunday April 09, 2017 @03:38AM (#14070967)
Taking medication on a regular basis without having previously sanitized and perfected your life style (nutrition, sports, sleep, meditation, breathing...) to achieve perfect health is not very intelligent.

By the way, if you take this drug, you will notice your urine will smell differently (different chemical composition). That (logically) means that your body either retains something it should have gotten rid of or the opposite, meaning your are changing the chemical composition of your body. Science has no idea how this drug actually works (we only know that there is some kind of effect) and has no idea what its long-term effects are.

Re:Modafinil-Induced Changes in Functional Connectivity of H... by schoen on Sunday April 09, 2017 @03:50AM (#14071002)
> That (logically) means that your body either retains something it should have gotten rid of or the opposite, meaning your are changing the composition of your body.

A change in the chemical composition of urine strongly suggests a change in the body, but doesn't "logically" prove it. In the simplest case you could imagine consuming some kind of dye which is simply excreted and not metabolized, which could change the appearance of your urine, kind of like in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeturia

(where the urine change itself mainly reflects what the body did not absorb).

Another possibility is that the body breaks down the drug and excretes all of the reaction products. In principle, that could occur without consuming any other substance, just by applying energy to cause a reaction to occur, or by providing a catalyst.

Also, some chemical changes in the body are beneficial (though the typical random change is most likely not).

Re:Modafinil-Induced Changes in Functional Connectivity of H... by anonymoushn on Sunday April 09, 2017 @01:42PM (#14073411)
If you ingest a bunch of extra sulfur and then expel all of it, it does not follow that you are changing the chemical composition of your body.