Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · Ceretropic
Reddit Nootropics Testing (Next Round)
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 70 points
Well, it seems like it is that time again. The holidays are over, my shoulder has healed from surgery, and I at least have a little extra time to get back into the swing of things. So I say it is time we pick the next round of nootropics to purity test.
The first one on my list is heavy metals testing for Himalaya brand bacopa. They have been very sketchy with me asking them for their testing, and stopped responding to me altogether when I mentioned that they were selling their "India only" version of bacopa in the United States. I have a strong feeling that there are high lead levels in their product. We shall know soon enough.
Second, I think that given the recent reports, we need to test some of Nootrabiolab's products. There have been reports on Longecity of fake product going out, but they were limited and not proven. Now that we are getting more reports of issues, I think testing is definitely warranted. Should it be the sunifiram that has popped up as an issue recently?
I think that we should pick another two products on top of the first two to be in this round. What does everyone think they should be? Are there any other recent adverse reactions to any products that I h…
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shydominantdave · 3 points
Why test a product like Himalaya's when we can make an educated guess that it likely contains bad things. Wouldn't we want to test a product that we have high hopes for? (A relatively inexpensive product). This way we don't waste the funds needlessly on a company that doesn't even have the decency to reply to our emails, like Himalaya.
EDIT: I've been wanting to buy bacopa for many months now, but haven't due to safety concerns. Himalaya has long been crossed off my list - the second they dodged inquisitions. If my vote means anything, I vote for testing a better brand, like vitacost's bacopa.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
I see the point of this testing program to find bad products. That way vendors will be more likely to start testing their own stuff, for fear that we will test it and find out it is not pure, or something else entirely. Ultimately we want to make it financial suicide to send bad products, because we will be there to call them out on it.