Comment · Wed, August 5, 2020 · ND Owner
What does /u MisterYouAreSoDumb take?
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mavrich · 64 points
Just wondering if we could see what MisterYouAreSoDumb takes and why he takes which supplements?
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Chargers95 · 2 points
I meant specs! What's different about it?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
It's white! LOL. It's really cool, actually. It is a white, relatively tasteless, water-soluble curcumin. I will not deal with normal curcumin powder. Absolutely not. It gets everywhere and stains. It's hard to work with and does not dissolve in water. Just not worth it for me. This one fixes all that. It doesn't stain. It's easy to handle. It doesn't alter the flavors of things. Plus it is fully water soluble. So you can put it into drinks. You can bake with it. It's nuts. It's all the good effects of curcumin, but with none of the downsides of the powder.
What they have done is to take high curcuminoid extract of tumeric and hydrogenate them into tetrahydro, hexahydro, and octahydro curcuminoids. Then those hydrogenated curcuminoids are encased by a β-cyclodextrin. When you hydrogenate the curcuminoids, you actually modify the bonds in the chemical structure that are causing the color. It's actually the double bonded carbons in the center structure of the curcuminoids that results in the orange color. In chemistry it is called a conjugated pi-system. The electrons in the conjugated system are able to capture specific photons as the electrons resonate. This absorbs visible light, which allows for colors to show. In curcuminoids, the double bonded carbons in the center hydrocarbon chain are actually the ones absorbing visible wavelengths, and result in the orange color we know from curcumin/tumeric. However, hydrogenating them breaks those double bonded carbons, which means they no longer have free electrons to capture the photons as the pass by. So they no longer absorb certain wavelengths. This is why it is white instead of orange! Then the β-cyclodextrin allows them all to be water-soluble. Pretty damn cool!