Comment · Tue, June 27, 2023 · ND Owner
Do any ND supplements contain AHCC?
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7empest-tost · 5 points
I’m looking for a good active hexose correlated compound (AHCC) supplement. I noticed ND does not have a specific AHCC supplement but wondering if any of their mushroom extracts have this compound? Or perhaps an AHCC supplement is in the works, u/misteryouaresodumb??
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
AHCC isn't a compound. It's a trademarked name by one company making a shiitake extract: Amino Up Co., Ltd. Many companies on Amazon selling what they claim to be AHCC are just lying, and violating the Japanese trademark. A lot of them are just random mushroom combos saying AHCC. Liars, cheats, and fraudsters is basically all this industry is. The people that made up the name AHCC don't even know what the active inside it is... They speculate it's some random acetylated α-1,4-glucan, or a mixture. They have done no scientific testing to validate it, though. It's just a liquid culture shiitake mycelium they gave a fancy name to make people think it was a real compound. They say "with acetylated alpha glucans," but they literally have no lab data proving that. You can't standardize to AHCC, because it doesn't exist. It's just a trademarked name. Anyone selling you AHCC online right now, other than I guess the Japanese people that named it, is just defrauding you. For us to bring out an AHCC supplement, I would merely just have to pull it out of my ass like all the rest have. I think you expect better of us.