When he was eight years old, Dan Freed could not sit still in school.
"I remember coming home and bouncing off the walls. I was getting suspended. I'm in the principal's office. They're sending me to a psychiatrist," Freed says. "People thought I was stupid, lazy, or unmotivated. I started to believe it."
Doctors later diagnosed Freed with ADHD and prescribed the stimulant Adderall. This helped him focus, but also left him depressed and irritable.
It wasn't until he was an adult that Freed discovered nootropics, nutrient compounds shown to support motivation, creativity, mood, memory, and cognitive processing.
"Nootropics turned everything around for me and helped me form the positive habits that I built my success on," he says.
Freed is now the founder and CEO of Thesis, a leading nootropics company that makes specially formulated blends to enhance an individual's personal neurochemistry. I spoke with him recently on my podcast One Day with Jon Bier about his personal and professional........