Comment · Tue, October 10, 2023 · ND Owner
Long-term review of Erinamax?
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CrimsonMax · 29 points
Could people provide their long-term experiences with Erinamax?
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
I'll relay some things I have learned after time with Erinamax. I've taken it in all sorts of combos and dosages now, including a bunch of R&D extracts we are working on. I have really gotten a feel for it. I took one a day for a bit, then two a day, then two twice a day combined with tiger milk. The combo with tiger milk seems to be a very effective combo. Almost everyone I have spoken to with insane results has been combining Erinamax with tiger milk. I think there is something special there. As to those reports, we have been getting a bunch of insane stories of people getting almost unbelievable nerve regeneration. One of those people is my mom. When she was pregnant with me, she cut the tip of her finger off with a kitchen knife. At the time, she was a very good violinist, bassist, and pianist. She likely would have gone down a very different path had she not cut her finger that day. However, that injury resulted in horrible nerve pain every time she pressed the tip of her finger on anything. As you can imagine, that's not ideal for someone playing the violin, bass, or piano. The pain was so bad that it resulted in her giving up playing any instruments. Then she had me, and her life went down a different path. Every day for the past 38 years she has dealt with that same nerve pain in her finger. She would always be mindful of grabbing things too quickly, or doing something like throwing the football around. It was just a constant thing she had to live with for almost 40 years. However, a little less than a month ago I got her on daily tiger milk and Erinamax. This past weekend, I get a call from her late at night. She literally wakes up before 4am, so she usually does not stay up late. Getting a call from her later in the night usually means something bad, so I pick up thinking something is wrong. Her voice is somewhat frantic on the call, but it is not for any bad reason. She says that her nerve pain in her finger is gone! She was literally crying because it had been almost 4 decades of living with it, my entire life, and she just expected that it would always be that way. However, after less than a month on tiger milk and Erinamax, it was finally going away. Not fully. She was still getting tingling, but the nerve pain was gone. She was so excited, and said she wanted to tell people about it, because she had no idea it was even a possibility of having it recover. This is far from the only story I have heard from people taking it so far, too. I've heard similar reports from customers that have been taking the combo. I think there is something very interesting happening with tiger milk and Erinamax stacked.
Now some other things I have noticed from my testing of our Erinamax extracts we are working on is a very unique improvement to vision and an increase in mood. I've also been testing a bunch of different extracts of the fruiting bodies of multiple different Hericium species and strains, and none of them have given me the vision changes that a very specific extraction of Erinamax does. It's very acute (15-20min) and the best way I can describe it is like turning the color saturation of the world up a notch. Paired with the improved mood and focus that accompanies it, and the effect is very very nice. I also do not think this effect is happening because of erinacine-A. I've tried pure erinacine-A multiple times. It doesn't have this effect. My current theory is that it is the erinacine-S in Erinamax. Based on some initial testing, there is about 0.2-0.3% erinacine-S and erinacine-C. Erinacine-S has been shown to increase neurosteroids, like pregnenolone and progesterone, in the brain. After some more testing, taking the Erinamax extract with pregnenolone makes this effect more pronounced. A drop in pregnenolone and progesterone in the brain is associated with postpartum depression, so increasing it in healthy people likely is what is resulting in these acute effects. NGF takes longer to work, but it might be having an ancillary effect. It does take extracting it in a very specific way to feel these effects strongly, though. More work is needed to fully elucidate it, but it's a really cool novel effect!
As for other effects from Erinamax, I find it make stimulants stronger. That's likely due to modulation of norepinephrine. I also get better sleep on days when I take Erinamax, and that is a common report from other people. I've also done a bunch of combos, and apart from tiger milk it goes well with a bunch of other things. I find combining Erinamax, tiger milk, poria, lion's mane 8:1, and cordyceps 10:1 is really nice when paired with some caffeine. We are working on some combo products for the future. I think I am going to start moving to scale one of our Erinamax extracts up to production size in preparation for release. One other interesting thing that happens with this extract is that it self-emulsifies when mixed with water, which is not a common effect. Pretty interesting!