Comment · Thu, May 9, 2024 · ND Owner
I'm refreshing the new product page like a maniac. Who's ready to make some purchases?
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Heisendoof · 26 points
Definitely buying the supercritical cistanche, but will also grab the mystery product if its black ginger! What are you guys planning to buy?
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3ric843 · 6 points
Is there any reason one would choose to take the full spectrum over the supercritical?
Is there any active that isn't extracted by CO2?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
There are some things we don't yet know or can't quantify yet, so that's the idea behind the non-extracted. We can design extraction methodologies to pull certain things over in higher amounts, but we don't really know all that we are losing. The supercritical CO2 extraction we did seems to do a really good job with Cistanche, and makes much higher amounts of verbascoside. However, there are certainly things we are leaving behind that are not soluble in supercritical CO2. This could be things like glycoproteins/peptides and polysaccharides that might be biologically active, and we have not yet fully elucidated them. Also, there are some small molecule organic compounds that are just not going to come over. In fact, doing supercritical CO2 extractions on Tongkat doesn't really bring anything over. We discovered that the hard way. So you will always be concentrating certain things, and losing other things, with extractions. Different people also react differently to specific extracts, which is why we do so many versions of things. It's hard to predict how each individual will reach to each version ahead of time.
I personally get stimulated from the supercritical CO2 Cistanche, so I wouldn't take it before bed. However, you might not. You'll have to play around and see.