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I took the Doctor's Best brand of goji berry extract. I say "took" instead of "take" because I discontinued the supplement last Thursday due to a loss of efficacy. I was doing pretty well on it in terms of both my anergic depression and my cognition until I decided to stop taking kanna, an herb that I had been taking primarily for my cognition. A few days after I stopped the kanna, my depressive symptoms became worse, as did my cognition. I tried restarting the kanna again only to realize that neither my cognition nor my energy level would reach the level that they were at before I stopped the kanna.
Surprisingly, I noticed little difference between the way I felt just before I discontinued the goji berry extract and the way I felt after I discontinued the supplement. That leads me to suspect that I might not have been benefiting from the goji berry extract as much as I thought I was, especially as far as my anergic depression was concerned. In retrospect, I think that the goji berry extract was best for its cognitive-enhancing properties, but even these properties might have been due to synergy between the goji berry extract and the kanna that I was taking instead of just the goji berry extract itself. So, even though I would still say that the goji berry extract reduced the severity of my anergic depression and enhanced my cognition at one point, I'm not sure how strongly I would recommend the supplement, especially as a stand-alone treatment.
I hope that you have a good experience with goji berry extract if you decide to take it, but also keep in mind that I ultimately discontinued the supplement due to a lack of efficacy and did not feel any worse once I was off of the supplement.
Tomatheus
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