Comment · Tue, December 10, 2019 · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
Best brand for KSM-66 Ashwagandha?
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ChickenParmYard · 13 points
Just the optimal brand. Highest potency, 5% withanolides, least amount of withaferin A, most pills for least amount of money.
Thanks!
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ChickenParmYard · 2 points
Holy shit that’s really funny you said that, I just ordered from them. Haha I find it weird they didn’t mention 5% withanolides on the bottle, is that implied in KSM 66? They mentioned that KSM extract gives 5% withanolides so I assume so, but I find it weird they didn’t mention it on the bottle itself
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
We took off the 5% claim until we can independently verify the accuracy of it. I wrote a big long thing on it recently.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NootropicsDepot/comments/dmlck9/consumerlabs_ashwagandha_testing_results/
We did the same for Sensoril. We are currently working in our lab to get some hard data on the actual amount of these withanolides. They are different withanolides than the standard 8 the the USP mongraph looks at. I went into a LOT of detail in the post, though. Have a read if you are interested.
Regarding patented products, I know a lot of people say they should be the same no matter where you get them. However, that is starting to not be the case. We are getting special specifications made for us by most of patent holders of the patented products we sell. This is usually so they can meet our more stringent heavy metals and residual solvent specifications, and will later also pertain to pesticide residues. This is because the standard specs they sell to everyone don't always meet California's Prop 65 law. So we have set much tighter specs on heavy metals to ensure every single thing complies with the strictest part of that law. Natreon already has a special Sensoril version just for us to meet our specs, and we are working on that with Ixoreal for KSM-66. The same goes for Bacognize from Verdure and a few other patented products we carry. The batches you get from us will be our versions that we are asking these patent holders to comply with our tighter specs on. We sell enough now that we have the pull to do that, and most of them are very receptive to working with us on these tighter specs. In fact, any new patented product we start selling now goes through our more stringent verification process before we even put them up, and complying with our tighter specs is a big part of that.