Comment · Tue, June 7, 2022 · ND Owner
Interactions checker would be extremely helpful for a lot of us
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AvgAIbot · 33 points
An interactions checker for ND products would be awesome.
Many of us end up having big stacks; it’d be nice to know if any products didn’t play well with each other.
I know it’s a huge project. An easier step would be to maybe put a warning on the product page for products that have specific bad interactions.
Or am I just misinformed and pretty much any ND products can be taken together without serious issues?
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IncreasinglyTrippy · 2 points
Yes but just like there are general rules of thumb for synergies, which you often list on your product pages, there must be the inverse as well, no?
If you take X you probably don’t want to combine it with Y, etc…
Of course people’s mileage will vary there still but I suspect there are some combination that are just likely to be sub optimal, or things that can counteract each other, and so on. Is that not the case?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Yeah, there can be general rules for some things. However, adverse interactions are harder to really generalize. How many people have to have a reaction before you consider it a combo that you might warn people about? 1 person? 10 people? 1 in 4 people? The other thing is that if you put up any sort of warning, the internet then spreads it around like gospel. People hear a warning once, and they start repeating it to others without even verifying if they react that same way. I've seen tons of people say things like: "Don't mix those two things together! They are bad when combined." Then when asked about it, people say they heard it somewhere on some forum. It really can cause issues where hearsay spreads like proven fact.
There are a few rules of thumb I can think off the top of my head, though. Too much zinc is bad, so taking things with high doses of zinc together could lead to issues down the line. Taking N-acetylcysteine after drinking alcohol is bad. Combining too many things that hit AMPK with MAOIs is not fun. Combining MAOIs with serotonin releasing agents and re-uptake inhibitors is not good. I'd have to brainstorm a bit, but it is not as easy as suggesting potential combos of things.