Comment · Tue, June 21, 2022 · ND Owner
Lab Testing Results Of Turkesterone, Beta Ecdysterone, and Gorilla Mind Sigma
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 866 points
Okay, so I am finally getting around to make a post about the results of some of the lab testing we have been doing. I've had the results for a bit, but I've been holding off on officially releasing them because frankly it stresses me out these days. It's the same song and dance every time, and it is one I have been doing for a decade now. I release results showing other products are not what they claim, then people attack me and claim I am lying to sell more product. Sometimes the attacks are relatively harmless, and just raise my blood pressure a bit for a day or two. Other times they are death threats to me, my family, and my team. It's not fun sometimes. You'll notice I don't do this nearly as much as I did back in the day on /r/Nootropics. I was younger and more gung-ho then, and had a lot less on my plate. Plus, my family and team kind of pleaded with me to stop doing it so much because of all the attacks and threats. This is why I have not been releasing things like this as much these days. It's not because product quality magically got better in the industry, I can tell you that much! Anyway, let's just get into it.
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TurquoiseGroundhog · 2 points
/u/MisterYouAreSoDumb, curious, what sort of educational background / what line of work were you in before you got into nootropics? I think I saw you discuss it somewhere before but can't seem to remember.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
I was in telecommunications. I started out installing and supporting telecom networks. Then I migrated into teaching. I would fly all over the world and teach people how to install a support telecommunication systems. As time went on I got into certification and courseware development. I started actually developing the training programs being used by other teachers, and then creating the exams and certification programs to test if students actually knew what they were doing. I worked with psychomatricians to go into the science of determining how people learned best, and how to assess their competency in that field. This was all through Accenture. After a while they wanted me to branch out and create courses and certification programs for other areas. I would be brought into a company to learn a specific process, then work with subject matter experts on creating training and exam programs for it. For example, I wrote the Verizon LTE field technician exam. I created courseware and exams for healthcare companies, financial institutions, and even steel and aluminum manufacturing businesses. I had a lot of fun teaching. It was really fulfilling. I also got to see most of the world. However, after years of being on the road 50-75% of the time, I got burned out. I flew millions of miles on planes. I didn't even own a dresser for years. I just lived out of my suitcase. After so much traveling, you start to despise it. I needed a change.
As for my background in chemistry, that has come from the real world experience of building an analytical testing lab from scratch, and creating the processes and quality systems to ensure things are done right. I've hired some extremely knowledgeable and qualified people, who I have learned as much as I can from over the years. We have people with masters and PhDs in chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and biomedical engineering on the team, and ones who have worked in labs in both the supplement and pharmaceutical industry. I've hired people that used to work for Waters, Agilent, and Thermo Scientific. We partnered with Arizona State University, and offered internships to chemistry students there for school credit. My current lab director was a chemistry instructor at ASU, actually. The best way to learn is to surround yourself with extremely intelligent, knowledgeable, experienced, and passionate people, then soak up information like a sponge. Still, I am just the dumb dumb managing the operation. Put me in front of one of our UPLCs without any direction, and I wouldn't be able to get you meaningful data. I understand how they work and can interpret data. However, my qualified lab technicians are the ones that can actually do the chemistry. It takes a qualified team all working together to accomplish great things.