Comment · Tue, July 20, 2021 · ND Owner
Can someone explain Tongkat Ali dosing to me?
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troppofigocanadese · 28 points
I watched this Youtube clip with Andrew Huberman talking about it on the Joe Rogan podacast. He said to take 400mg/day.
But everyone here talks about the dosing as 2% or 10%? How many mg are in each of those 2 options?
Below is the link to the YT clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJWmJo3w\_0Y&ab\_channel=PowerfulJRE
What they were answering
callitblues · 2 points
Interesting that 2% gave you nausea, but 10% did not? Any ideas why?
No one really ever knows.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
We are still trying to figure out which compound in there could be causing the nausea. It is likely one of the other quassinoids from the tongkat root. This would make sense, as the 2% is much more concentrated than powdered root. However, something in the extraction process between the 2% and 10% doesn't pull this other quassinoid over as much, while pulling eurycomanone over. There are 24 quassinoids that I know of. Eurycomanone is just one of them. Using eurycomanone as a marker compound is good, but it is not the full picture. We are trying to develop some methods to get a better holistic snapshot. Based on that data, we might even tweak the extracts a bit or create a combination product that hits on all the actives.