Comment · Wed, January 18, 2023 · ND Owner
When is the mystery Brazilian herb that boosts dopamine being realised?
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Potential_Wonder_775 · 23 points
What month will it being realised roughly?
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Semtex7 · 2 points
This is why we need you to start selling them :D. I completely agree. All I have experience with is that certain batch from barlowe's that did what it was supposed to do. Who knows what happens with the next one.?
I have to ask..that comment sounded a bit like we should not expect to see them under the ND banner soon? Tell me I am wrong please.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
I can't start selling them till we solve the issues... but yes, we are working on them! We are also discovering some interesting things about the plants from Brazil, and the adulteration that happens there. So muira puama should be Ptychopetalum olacoides. That's real muira puama. However, in northern Brazil there is a plant called Croton echioides that many people are selling as muira puama. Well in Brazil they call that "Northeastern Marapuama." I think shady companies in Brazil are taking Croton echioides and labeling it muira puama, then selling it to people in the US. We are working with a professor at a university in Brazil to solve all this stuff. Then you have catuaba. That should normally be Trichilia catigua. However, some people make it with Anemopaegma mirandum instead. To complicate things, we don't know which one is the one that is good. We have gotten multiple samples from suppliers in Brazil, and one of them I really really like. However, we are still not sure which species it is, as there are no reference standards. We are working with botanists to validate non-extracted bark, which we have done already. However, it looks like the extraction process is altering the plate response drastically, so we can't directly use the botanist data. We have to take the bark that was validated by the botanist, then try to mimic the extraction done on it in Brazil, then test that to see if the TLC plate response matches. It's a whole thing...