Comment · Sat, May 25, 2024 · Nootropics Depot & Natrium Health
Consumer Labs latest results for Ashwagandha are disappointing. Nootropic Depot, LEF, Swanson, others fail.
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flashlightsmurf · 119 points
Consumer Labs tested Ashwagandha supplements recently, only 5 of 13 of the products they tested passed. Some of the products that failed were very popular, so if you aren't seeing any impact maybe that's why.
As usual they tested ones with rice fillers for heavy metals and potency. All the failures were because products did not have the claimed amount of withanolides expected. Tests were sent to second lab to confirm.
Every product containing KSM-66 failed, there could be a problem with Ixoreal. There are details in the article about some disputes they had with Ixoreal and how to test KSM-66 (our formula is too advanced) but the monograph was never updated and so CL did the same tests, found the same results, and reported the same lol.
Products that failed:
* Life Extension Ashwaganda
* Nootropics Depot Shoden
* Pure Encapsulations Ashwagandha
* Swanson Ultimate Ashwagandha
Their top pick was NOW® Ashwagandha 450 mg.
During the LEF super sale I purchased a year supply of Ashwagandha, now I need to see if I can get my money back :/
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Dry_Cheesecake_2613 · 7 points
Noo not my ND's Shoden 😭
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Nootropics Depot & Natrium Health
Your Shoden is fine. They didn't test it properly. They are only looking at 8 of the over 40 withanolides. The entire point of Shoden was to expand the scope of the methods to look at a larger grouping of withanolides, and then extract a more full spectrum of them. Using the outdated UPS method on it is silly when the entire reason Shoden exists is to look at more than the 8.