Comment · Wed, September 30, 2020 · ND Owner
Removing magnesium stearate from capsules?
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lambdaba · 1 points
I've purchased piracetam capsules when powder became unavailable. From estimates they have something like 100-150mg magnesium stearate, which I'd like to remove for many reasons (potential harm + reduction of absorption)
Is there a reliable way to do so? I've noticed part of the powder foams on top when mixing with water. I suppose this is mostly the magnesium stearate, is that enough or is there some more reliable procedure?
What they were answering
Manima1 · -1 points
He asked how to remove it, not your opinion on it..
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/06/23/whole-food-supplement-dangers.aspx
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Mercoloa is trash pseudoscientific propaganda playing on people's fears for clicks. Please ignore almost everything they say.
That study you posted is an in-vitro study using BOVINE serum albumin... It's NOT free stearic acid. It's a BSA-stearic acid complex that they evaluated in a Petri dish. Just so I am clear, humans don't have bovine serum albumin in their blood, because we are not cows. It has ZERO relevance to humans. Even if it was an in-vitro study on free stearic acid, you can't apply massive amounts of something mixed in a Petri dish and use that as justification for what it would do in-vivo. Currently ALL the valid scientific data shows that stearic acid is beneficial to humans. There is no valid scientific research showing stearic acid, or the salt magnesium stearate, is anything but completely safe and beneficial.
This is a massive problem right now. Blogs and sites are spreading around false and misleading propaganda to make people question and fear things. They profit off you freaking out over safe things, and getting clicks from it. There is so much false and misleading information online at the moment that I can't even begin to quantify it all. They prey on people's psychology to stir up drama, then use people's propensity to share things on social media as a way to propagate that propaganda. It's honestly the biggest challenge the modern world is facing right now, because it affects EVERYTHING. Climate change, politics, health, vaccines... you name it! False and misleading information spread by bad actors, or willfully ignorant people, has caused so much damage to people's ability to determine what is real and what is fake. It's next to impossible for many people out there right now to properly assess the validity of something they see online. I honestly don't know what can be done about it, and I fear for the future of our society because of it. Uninformed emotional opinions are now held at the same level or higher than properly source and scientifically sound factual data. Everyone loves the dopamine hit they get from feeling outraged so much that they are literally addicted to controversy. Then bad actors use that to profit off you. It is eroding people's trust in the scientific method, and creating an ever-growing split between objective factual discourse and emotionally charged propaganda.