Comment · Mon, August 15, 2022 · ND Owner
Why another Glutathione after just releasing an expensive version?
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
We originally wanted to release them at the same time. However, we had to keep failing S-acetyl L-glutathione batches, because the quality was not there. It took us a while to get a batch in that actually passed. My original plan was to bring out S-Acetyl Glutathione, which has a lot more research and data behind it, then have the more novel phenylacetyl version with it as a cool new thing that nobody had ever offered before. Then when the we kept having quality issues with the S-acetyl batches, I just decided to release the phenylacetyl first. Then we finally got a good batch of the S-acetyl in, and we decided to get it out. It was never the plan to have them come out at different times so close to each other. It just kind of happened that way.
I can't express how much work goes into getting all these new product releases out. Sometimes it takes multiple years to finally get something out. We have 4 products right now that we have been trying to release for the past 9 months, but things just keep getting in the way. Testing problems, customs issue, suppliers promising dates then falling through. If you had asked me November of last year when these product would be out, I would have said probably January, yet here we are in August and are still not ready. Hell, our kanna extract was supposed to have a working R&D batch late December. We still do not have it. Maybe by December 2022 we will... It's an absolute pain in the dick holding things to the level we do. We won't cut corners, so everything has to be perfect before we can move to a production batch. Making everything perfect in the current environment is a lot harder than it sounds. We put plans in place for product releases, and then sometimes we have to pivot and make the best of what we can make happen. We literally have ingredients we have been working on for 7 years. I shit you not. It took us that long to get a maca out. Our lion's mane project has taken more time and money that I can even quantify at this point. Then sometimes we make a breakthrough on something, and things finally fall into place, so we finally release it quickly. However, it is difficult to predict how things will go, so we always have a massive amount of potential new products in the pipeline. Right now we have over 20 we are actively working on. I can't tell you for sure which one will be next, though. It will depend on a number of factors. Maybe we finalize a method and approve the raw material on one, so we can move to production. Maybe one finally gets released from customs and gets to us. Maybe the supplier that has been saying "just two more weeks" for the last 6 months will finally get us the batch they have been promising. We are all working really hard to get these new products out. Sometimes the timing is not perfect, but we are doing the best we can in the current environment.