Comment · Thu, September 24, 2020 · ND Owner
Cognizin Citicoline
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Gress555 · 0 points
Hey hey. Will non-branded citicoline ever become available? I assume it's a profitable brand deal that stops you from selling regular citicoline?
Had to go with Alpha-GPC 50% and hope I'm able to avoid the hygroscopic nature of the product through dessicants.
Cognizin is only capsule form so no controlling dosage or sublingual ROI and seems to have no readily available information as to why it cost so much more than citicoline. The only info is on the Cognizin website showing rudimentary graphs, without even providing axis/values for said graphs, as well as those graphs being for Cognizin vs control, rather than Cognizin vs citicoline. They don't even make public what it is they're selling, other than that it's a 'version of citicoline'.
I just dropped $120 on you guys as a test run, your prices are usually the best compared to every other supplier and your obvious passion for nootropics given the NDS-201, this subforum etc. Just wanted to understand the reason for stocking Cognizine over regular Citicoline.
Thanks in advance.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Cognizin is only capsule form so no controlling dosage or sublingual ROI and seems to have no readily available information as to why it cost so much more than citicoline.
What do you mean? We sell it in powder.
https://nootropicsdepot.com/cognizin-citicoline-powder/
There is no generic citicoline freebase in the US. Everyone else out there is selling citicoline sodium, but just calling it citicoline. The issue with that is that there was an investigational new drug (IND) filing for it back in the 90s before it was sold as a supplement, so it is illegal to sell as a dietary supplement in the US now. You can only sell the freebase, which is what Cognizin is. That doesn't stop people from selling citioline sodium and just lying on the label, though. We have tested all the "generic" stuff out there, and it is all citicoline sodium. We dealt with a lawsuit regarding it a few years ago, which is how we know all this. It was an obscure IND filing, but our lawyers agreed that the statutory construction was valid. Selling citicoline sodium in the US is violating the law, and certainly mislabeling the sodium as the freebase is also violating the law. That doesn't stop people from doing it, though. All the generic citicoline you are seeing being sold right now is technically violating the law. Chinese suppliers just call it citicoline, and very few brands test anything properly, so many of them likely don't even know they are selling the sodium salt.