Comment · Mon, November 25, 2019
ND Gotu Kola and testosterone
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v5xMkTNHXt8qRE7aT7st · 7 points
Gotu Kola seems like a very promising herb to me, but I've read that it can have an adverse effect on testosterone levels. Do the ND tablets share that quality, or are they different somehow?
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v5xMkTNHXt8qRE7aT7st · 2 points
Those readings would certainly be interesting to know. If the values do end up being low, it might even be a good specification to include on the product page, since from what I've read this is the primary dealbreaker that turns people away from this truly unique extract.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Okay, I looked it up and isothankuniside and thankuniside are not explicitly quantified. However, the madecassoside, asiaticoside, asiaticoside B, madecassic, asiatic acid, and termilonic acids add up to 39%, which is the vast majority of the total tritepenoids in the extract. So the isothankuniside and thankuniside should be low or not there at all. To know for sure we would need to get some reference standards for those and modify our methods to quantify them, though. I will speak to the lab about doing that.