Comment · Tue, January 27, 2015 · Ceretropic
Where can I buy oxytocin?
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BrainsAreAwesome · 15 points
I am looking for some oxytocin for its benefits, doesn't need to be a nasal spray, just pure liquid oxytocin would be excellent as I can use it in a homemade nasal spray. So are there good vendors to buy some of this?
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time_again · 4 points
Anyone know how reputable that company is/anyone use oxytocin before?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
They are selling sublingual Oxytocin. Oxytocin is a 9-mer peptide. Those sublingual drops are 20 IU per drop. The international unit for Oxytocin is about 2mcg. So those drops are delivering 40mcg. Do you think a 9-mer peptide dosed at 40mcg is going to do anything sublingually? Absolutely not.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8568623
That study used 684mcg of Oxytocin sublingually, and found it to not even come close to the 2mcg IV. So we know their sublingual crap is out of the question. The fact that they are even selling it calls everything into question. However, perhaps their spray is different.
Their spray has 20mcg (10 IU) per spray. I assume .1ml/spray, but they do not say any specifics about the formulation, which is another red flag. The studies I know of started at 48mcg, and went up to 144mcg. So the bottle on that site is lower than the lowest intranasal test I can find. Perhaps they intend for you to use multiple sprays? I don't know. There is not much on that site that would say to me that I was getting a good oxytocin spray, at a dosage reasonable for effects.