Comment · Sat, May 7, 2016 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
New Vendor Launch! Thrivous.com
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Arosophos · 27 points
Hi /r/nootropics.
My name's Lincoln Cannon, and I'm CEO at Thrivous. Thrivous is a brand new nootropic vendor. Sales of our first product, Clarity, began less than a month ago. And we're excited to share it with you. Of course I don't have to ask for it here, but please know I welcome your questions and feedback, both positive and negative.
Like many of you, I've been using nootropics for years. Most of the time, I've purchased individual ingredients to facilitate experimentation, and to avoid the high prices and secret formulas of premade stacks.
Over the years, when friends have learned that I use nootropics, they've often asked for recommendations. I tend to be conservative in matters of health, particularly when making recommendations to others, so I would generally direct them to natural supplements with the best supporting research for nootropic effect.
Several months ago, inspired by all the nootropic bottles next to my sink, my wife and I had a conversation about the [sorry state of affairs among premade stacks](https://thrivous.com/blogs/views/97432769…
What they were answering
Arosophos · 1 points
By the way, I think that helped me better understand one of your earlier critiques. It sounds to me like you're not opposed to in-house test labs, but that you were concerned when you thought both the primary supplier testing and the secondary manufacturing testing were being done by the same company. Is that accurate?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
In-house testing is perfectly fine, if you can show your methods and results using the appropriate equipment. Treat the primary supplier COA from China as just a little bit over worthless, because they usually are. All the fake or impure batches we get in have legitimate Chinese COAs. They just lie on them. Legitimate testing has to happen stateside, with a lab that has the capabilities to do it properly. If the contract manufacturer has the capabilities to test in-house, then I have no issue with that, as long as they will release their actual analytical outputs to prove they are doing it.