Comment · Wed, October 13, 2021 · ND Owner
What they were answering
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Swanson doesn't properly lab test their products and won't provide COAs when asked.
Comment · Wed, October 13, 2021 · 35 pts
To start, Paul Stamets is acting in bad faith to try and distract people from the fact he is selling mostly ground up rice and calling it a mushroom. He has to try and change the topic so people stop talking about how hi
Comment · Thu, October 14, 2021 · 10 pts
I've been trying to fight this misinformation for years. https://www.reddit.com/r/NootropicsDepot/comments/kkumb9/accuracy_of_betaglucan_analysis/ghbvril/ I that comment from this past December I also link comments fro
Comment · Thu, October 14, 2021 · 4 pts
That's what my uncle said about Fleischmann's vodka. He died from multi-system organ failure a couple years back.
Comment · Thu, October 14, 2021 · 5 pts
I linked them in the comment I linked above, but I will link a few here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/67yctr/why_the_lions_mane_youre_buying_is_probably_bunk/dgu9fuc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics
Comment · Thu, October 14, 2021 · 12 pts
The thing is that he has had years... decades even... to provide us with the scientific evidence proving his theories on mycelium on grain. He's got the margins to fund these studies. You know how cheap it is to make myc
Comment · Thu, October 14, 2021 · 5 pts
LOL, Fleishmann's is just shitty bottom shelf vodka. My uncle would have died no matter who made the alcohol he consumed. He was an alcoholic. The impurities in Fleishmann's I am sure didn't help, but it was the ethanol
Comment · Thu, October 14, 2021 · 6 pts
Yes, we did years ago and found they did not meet label claims for active ingredients and had high heavy metals. I would never personally consume anything made by Swanson. The issue with places that don't properly test a
Comment · Fri, October 15, 2021 · 4 pts
There is a diminishing return on quality. However, the difference between bottom shelf and mid is massive compared to mid/top. I think that is what most people conflate. Shitty spirits are almost universally worse for yo
Comment · Fri, October 15, 2021 · 4 pts
I have to be careful to avoid litigation. My team didn't even wanting me mentioning people by name, but the facts are the facts. Their stuff failed our testing... It just is what it is. Labdoor is an affiliate marketing
Comment · Fri, October 15, 2021 · 3 pts
It really depends on the product. To do the full panel we do on synthetics at a 3rd party ISO certified lab would likely cost about $800-$1,500 per batch. Some things need specialized methods like 2D NMR, where other one
Comment · Fri, October 15, 2021 · 1 pts
Russian Standard is 100% wheat. They say Russian white winter wheat. It's a good vodka. I have not heard of Żubrówka. It seems they use bison grass to make it? It's banned in the US because it contains coumarin from the
Comment · Fri, October 15, 2021 · 1 pts
Ain't nobody got time for paragraphs! This is especially true when I am ranting!
Comment · Mon, October 18, 2021 · 1 pts
That's interesting. I might have to try it the next time I am in Europe.
Comment · Mon, October 18, 2021 · 1 pts
I prefer things with a hint of the grain that they were made from, too. If there is no flavor, what's the point?
Comment · Mon, October 18, 2021 · 1 pts
Yeah, didn't we talk about this via PM? Sigma Aldrich doesn't do QC lab testing. They sell reference standards, but they are not a QC lab. I was saying there is zero way they are doing proper testing or quality control p
Comment · Tue, October 19, 2021 · 3 pts
Yep! Now go get some iodine and put the Om stuff in a water solution, then drip a few drops of iodine in the solution. It will turn bright purple showing you it is mostly starch/sugars. I've done this with many brands ov
Comment · Tue, October 19, 2021 · 2 pts
LOL, he's too busy off in the woods tripping on mushrooms to care these days.
Comment · Tue, October 19, 2021 · 3 pts
The issue is that I tested people's products and called brands out for years. That's how I got started in this industry. I was testing and calling out shady companies before I ever decided to sell nootropics. However, as
Comment · Tue, October 19, 2021 · 2 pts
Povidone-iodine is a complex of iodine and polyvinylpyrrolidone. The iodine is already complexed with a polymer, which will make it unable to cause the reaction with the starch in solution. You need a free iodine solutio
Comment · Tue, October 19, 2021 · 2 pts
Damn, they did good on that costume!
Comment · Fri, November 12, 2021 · 3 pts
Depends on the flavors you are going for. For a light Lowland style, I really like Glenkinchie Distiller's Edition. For a good Highland, I really like Glenmorangie Bacalta. For a Speyside, you can't go wrong with Balveni
Comment · Wed, December 1, 2021 · 2 pts
Smirnoff is good for mixing. Any grain neutral spirit based one would be. You don't really get subtle flavors once you start making mixed drinks with it, as least with vodka mixed drinks. For scotch-based mixed drinks yo
That's about what I expected. These are just internal COAs. To start, analyzing nitrogen content is not an appropriate methodology for amino acid assay. This is the same shit China got away with on infant formula and spi
Replying to MisterYouAreSoDumb · I have said proper lab testing and quality control is important for the industry. Whether or not that proper lab testing is being done by a 3rd party lab or an in-house lab depends…
...Continued from above... That's the novel stuff. What about the basic everyday stuff? We do that all in-house? Hell no! We still have to send off TONS of samples to other 3rd party ISO certified labs, for methods we h
Replying to DDsPLZ · Given the existence of "dry labs" offering COA's, i.e. an empty building that will sell you whatever COA you like... aren't COA's useless? I see people tell me not to buy from ND…
I mean, yes... somewhat for the average consumer. This is why we made this video. COAs aren't totally useless, as you can spot inconsistencies and get a better idea of whether or not the brand has any idea about analytic
Replying to TestSubject008765 · I saw it on the sub somewhere that niacin helps the lions mane cross the blood brain barrier. What about blackpepper helps the absorptions of nootropics? I’m starting to think th…
Ahh, that's right. Paul Stamets same up with that niacin theory. He's an idiot when it comes to chemistry and pharmacology, though. I think the niacin thing is total bullshit, but I will speak to our PhD lion's mane rese
Replying to HenryVonWilheimer · Will you be releasing any of the Erinamax extracts you were testing out that would be standardized to a higher amount of Erinacine-A and/or other interesting erinacines? Also w…
Yes, we are still working on extracts of lion's mane mycelium. However, some beta testing we did make me pause, as I think the idea that extracts are better might not be true. Everyone parrots around that like it is fact
Replying to bignatedogger · how come you don't post test results of the amount of active ingredients in your Lion mane?
We do. There is a spec sheet up on the page, and we can get you the COA from a batch if you want. Since you have posted in /r/MushroomSupplements, which is a subreddit that regularly spreads false information and has a v