Comment · Wed, April 10, 2024 · ND Owner
Ginger dosing, what is the ratio to root powder?
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Glad-Arm-9897 · 2 points
I would like to use ND ginger as a testosterone/fertility booster. Rodent extrapolations show 10-15g of root powder and the human study that was very promising didn't specify the dose -.-
What would be a ND ginger equivalent to 10-15g?
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Glad-Arm-9897 · 2 points
I found here that fresh ginger only has 75mg/100g of gingerols and dry conversion is x4 so I will start with 2caps should be sufficient. However this study also states that freeze dried root has 266mg/g of gingerols which is a whopping 26% how is this even possible with just freeze drying and not even extracting gingerols?!
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
The result showed that unpeeled skin of fresh ginger rhizome had the highest 6-gingerol content (75.25 ±2.03 mg/100g fresh weight), higher than peeled skin of ginger rhizome (68.15 ± 1.43 mg/100 g fresh weight). When compared 6-gingerol content in peeled with unpeeled skin of ginger rhizome in different drying methods it was found that 6-gingerol content in freeze dried unpeeled skin ginger rhizome had the highest 6-gingerol content of 266.43± 1.18 mg/g dry weight. The different heat drying methods showed that HA50 had 221.82±2.56 mg/g dry weight.
I think the abstract has a typo. They are using mg/100g for the fresh weight content, but then switch to mg/g for dried? I think they forgot the "100" in the second set of data. If the fresh ginger only has 0.075%, there is no way the dried ginger has 26%. That would be 346 times the amount. I can tell you there is no way any dried ginger has 26%. We used a 20% extract in our Alcohol Defense, and it was almost impossible to work with. You had to have full PPE with face masks when encapsulating it, because of how potent it was. It was burning the encapsulation team's eyes just by what was in the air. It's why we moved down to a 10% extract instead. That paper was likely saying they found 0.266% in the freeze dried sample. Also, take a look at this paper
https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/7/1646
Using some heat to convert the gingerols to shogaols resulted in more potent effects.