Cerebral Health Numbing Choline (Results)

A few reports have come out over the past few months about choline bitartrate ordered from Cerebral Health. People were noticing that if the choline came into contact with their mouth, it would numb their tongue and throat. Obviously this is not a property of choline bitartrate, so we were concerned. I had a Redditor send me a sample to have testing done.

Before sending out for testing, I took a small amount and placed it on the tip of my tongue. Sure enough, it immediately numbed my tongue and even moved down into my throat. It was a very substantial numbing that occurred, and lasted for 10 minutes or so. So I sent a sample out to the lab to confirm if it was in fact choline bitartrate, or something else.

The lab just called me to let me know that the sample was NOT choline bitartrate. They said that some of the peaks matched up, so it is a similar compound. However, it would take more testing to prove exactly what it is. I feel that it is most likely choline salicylate, as that is used as an oral numbing agent. That would also explain the matching peaks on the test, since the structures would have similarities. But it is definitely not bitartrate.

The lab will be sending me the official results soon, but I wanted to make this post now, so that those of you using choline from Cerebral Health, or frankly any of their products, can have the information and decide what they wanted to do about it. I will be editing this post with a link to the full results once I get them.

Here is a picture of the numbing choline.

EDIT: They were quick! Here are the official results