Comment · Sun, February 2, 2020
I'd love input on favorite nd supplements.
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kavacoordinate · 5 points
After listening to stammets discuss lions mane I grabbed a few powders to try myself. Thankfully nammex released a great article on starch testing which revealed the powders I'd purchased from reputable sources were full of fillers. Wondering what has been everyone's experience with ND lion's mane?
next I have the gotu kola pro duct and cyracos. and I'm not sure if I'm using them correctly but haven't seen anything substantial with either. Having had amazing and noticeable effects with salidrosol and theanine sublinguals, I'm a believer in the quality of nootropics depot products. I typically will use anything sublingually as a first option. Perhaps I need to mix with water and go orally?
Lastly I've been stimulant sensitive for years as in I get irritable and racy so I have t be really careful when adding new supps. I'm looking for recommendations on non jittery stuff with mood and cognitive benefits. Theacrine and Theobromine intrigue me as well as good lions mane and cordyceps
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We test every batch of our mushrooms for beta-glucans on our UV-VIS using the Megazyme enzymatic methods. We also test for starch, or alpha-glucans, to ensure they are less than 5%. We also do a full fingerprint of the mushrooms on the HP-TLC, which confirms species, extraction type, fungal part, and will illuminate any bands that we don't expect for further analysis. Then we also do UPLC testing for content of the mushrooms. We do IR testing to see if there are any carbon-based things in it that we don't expect. After that we do heavy metals analysis with ICP-MS. Finally we do microbiological analysis. We also just bought a new gas chromatograph with headspace auto-sampler. So we are starting to do residual solvent analysis on every batch, too. There is nobody out there doing as much testing on mushrooms are we are.
Did you get the powder forms of Cyracos and gotu kola? What dose are you using, and when are you taking them?
For stimulation, I would say give our PanaMAX and cordyceps 10:1 a shot. That combo is great for people like you that get irritable and racy on normal stimulants.