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saladon · 47 points
You know what you need to do!
As much as your product descriptions are already pretty detailed, we would all benefit greatly from a more layman's, ELI5 version of how the three different Cistanche products feel for your personally.
MYASD and Prettychill?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
So the reason we are starting to offer more non-extracted whole spectrum versions of things is multi-fold. For one, some customers have said that our products are too potent, and would prefer to have a tested and trusted version of certain plants whole. This is why we are starting to do that more. Also, we sometimes don't fully know all the actives in a plant. We know the main ones a lot of the time, and we can standardize for those, but we don't fully understand what all we are losing in that extraction process. Offering full spectrum non-extracted versions will help ensure those compounds are not lost. The reason we didn't release the supercritical CO2 extract as standalone yet is cost. It's a very very expensive product to make, because it was all custom done for us using new equipment. We are still doing some science on it to elucidate all the other actives that are being concentrated in the supercritical extraction. Perhaps once we have done that, we might offer it as a standalone.
It looks like Cistamax actually has a lower dose of an active than one pill of the OG cistanche.
It has slightly lower echinacoside, but over double the acetoside/verbascoside. Our OG Cistanche will always have the most echinacoside, but we wanted to hit on all the parts of the Cistanche plant with CistaMAX. Moreover, I think acetoside/verbascoside is the more potent active in regards to growth hormone and testosterone, as it up-regulates the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis.
It also promotes bone mineralization.
It is also mood-boosting, by up-regulating tyrosine hydroxylase and increasing the expression of certain 5-HT1 receptors.
Verbascoside: A neuroprotective phenylethanoid glycosides with anti-depressive properties
So we wanted to concentrate more on verbascoside this time. CistaMAX has more verbascoside than any Cistanche on the market, and it is not even close. Each capsule of our CistaMAX (in this batch) has 43mg of verbascoside. Each tablet of our OG has 20mg. Most other Cistanche products on the market that we tested had single digit verbascoside numbers, or none at all.