Comment · Thu, November 24, 2022 · ND Owner
Travel Back In Time To Recover Our New Product: Cognance - Bacopa Reimagined
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TTran1485 · 3 points
How is this any different than just dosing your 24% product higher since Bacosides get metabolized into ebelin lactone anyways? Just no tiredness effects from the new product? I’m scratching my head trying to understand how this is a panacea that changes Bacopa
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Because your body doesn't make very much ebelin lactone naturally. It's a fairly complex process to metabolize significant amounts of it. You'd have to start with an extract high in bacoside A3 and bacopaside X, as the other bacosides go down a different path. Then you would need to have your body carefully control the hydrolysis to make lots of jujubogenin. Then once your body has made a lot of jujubogenin, you would need it to then acid hydrolyze it in another multistep process. However, after the hydrolysis step it's likely mostly in your small intestine, which has a neutral pH. You'd have to have it go back into your stomach to lower the pH, and even then your body is just not a controlled environment enough to result in anywhere near the amounts of ebelin lactone you would get from Cognance. It was tricky for us to figure out how to do it in a lab, much less hoping that your body will make it in meaningful or consistent amounts.