Comment · Sat, March 21, 2020
⚠️ A word about COVID-19 and the Coronavirus ⚠️
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 84 points
I wanted to give our customers an update, since we have been getting a lot of questions surrounding the Coronavirus situation. We here at Nootropics Depot are currently operating like normal. However, we are taking the situation seriously. Currently, orders are being processed and shipped out like you would normally expect. However, things can change rapidly. We have been using enhanced biological protections at our facility, along with having multiple non-essential employees work from home, in an effort to social distance in a responsible manner. We have implemented a pandemic response plan, and have educated all our employees about the facts surrounding the current situation. We are ensuring that we as a company, along with all our employees individually, respond in a level-headed and intelligent manner to this ongoing issue. We will work to maintain normal operations for our customers for as long as we can, while ensuring that we are being responsible regarding the overall public health of our community. If the situation does change, and we are forced to alter our operations in a manner that might affect customers, or the timely fulfillment of orders, we will notify you via ema…
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Gene__Parmesan_PI · 2 points
However, you could not get it before now, anyway. We got it through our lab supply company as a reference standard.
Is this in the US? It was being sold on European websites for super cheap until recently.
We just bought enough of it to make doses for our employees/family if needed.
Shouldn't production be ramped up though? It seems to be effective at relieving symptoms at the very least. I don't see why this isn't huge news.
Have you read this?
and this
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550
It's not approved in the US yet.
Even as an antimalarial?
. The bromelain, rutin, acerola, and rose hips are too low of a dose to matter, but they won't hurt anything.
Thanks, that's good to know. Out of interest why do they bother to include this? Just for marketing purposes? I only bought it for the quercetin.
Quercetin is good. I am taking it myself. EGCG might be good, too. They both act as zinc ionophores. Then you can combine them with our Microzinc to help shuttle it where it needs to go.
Excellent. Thanks. So, it's best to take daily or only if you have symptoms? Appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thanks.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Is this in the US? It was being sold on European websites for super cheap until recently.
In both the EU and US now. It was not restricted 2 weeks ago, but now they are limiting everything. It's illegal to ship it outside of the EU now.
Shouldn't production be ramped up though? It seems to be effective at relieving symptoms at the very least. I don't see why this isn't huge news.
Sure... just like toilet paper, N95 masks, and hand sanitizer. Our government has completely fucked the response to this whole thing. It's a mess. I don't trust them to do anything right anymore. It's all lies. Plus, most of it is synthesized in China. They threatened to stop all pharmaceutical shipments to the US because they were upset our government was saying it was their fault this virus got out.
Have you read this?
Yes, both of them. Hydroxychloroquine is harder to find than chloroquine phosphate. It does seem to have less side effects, though. I am still trying to find some.
Even as an antimalarial?
Chloroquine phosphate is not approved in the US for anything. Hydroxychloroquine is approved in the US for malaria, though.
Thanks, that's good to know. Out of interest why do they bother to include this? Just for marketing purposes? I only bought it for the quercetin.
Yeah, it is called "label dressing" and is used by supplement brands to make it seem like their product is better to people who don't know any better. It's a shady practice that needs to stop. Customers will read a news article on X supplement. So if they see it as an ingredient, they will assume it will work like the article they read. However, they don't know it is waaaaaay under-dosed. So it allows shady companies to make their products look better.
Excellent. Thanks. So, it's best to take daily or only if you have symptoms? Appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thanks.
Right now I am taking it daily as a preventative measure.