Why is EVERY lions mane brand Chinese

Comment · Wed, October 13, 2021 · 5 pts

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 · 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