The story behind the FDA raid of Nootropics Depot

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 15 pts

That is not an objective description... This is a more objective description by the FDA and DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nh/pr/arizona-company-and-ceo-plead-guilty-distribution-drugs-not-approved-fda-and-will-pay-24

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 25 pts

...continued... Now a little backstory here... we did sell tianeptine years prior. I explained it in the podcast, but I will reiterate some here. I went through a bad depression when I was younger, and almost took my li

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 9 pts

Read my reply above. We stopped selling tianeptine years before the government came into our facility. NewMind, Powder City, Nootropic Source, and many others continued to sell tianptine LONG after we stopped... some to

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 11 pts

That's incorrect. It had nothing to do with labeling at all. We did not label these compounds as supplements, didn't make disease claims, and didn't make structure function claims. We called them nootropic compounds, and

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 10 pts

That is incorrect. Here is a snapshot of our piracetam in November 2021, the month before we were raided. https://web.archive.org/web/20211222040313/https://nootropicsdepot.com/piracetam/ We did not give effect claims

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 5 pts

Tianeptine, adrafinil, piracetam, aniracetam, oxiracetam, phenylpiracetam, pramiracetam, etc. You can read my long comment on it above. We had stopped selling tianeptine years prior to the government coming into our faci

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 8 pts

Sorry if my phrasing wasn't clear. The tianptine MARKET was toxic, not the compound itself; toxic meaning something I didn't want to be associated with, which is why we stopped selling it in 2017/2018.

Comment · Sun, February 8, 2026 · 6 pts

It's easy to say that in retrospect, but nobody knew tianeptine could be abused when we brought it out. We sold tianeptine sodium for less than 3 years. When it was clear what it had become, we stopped selling it. Other

Comment · Mon, February 9, 2026 · 3 pts

When we first brought it out, the SSRE effects were interesting, as no other antidepressants had that effect. When we learned it had opioid affinities, that wasn't a bad thing at first. Your body has endogenous compounds

Comment · Mon, February 9, 2026 · 6 pts

It's still ongoing, and we have NDAs, so I can't say the exact names of who is involved, but everyone here would know the name if I said it. However, we are studying Erinamax, eriancine A, and other erinacines for their

Comment · Mon, February 9, 2026 · 1 pts

When everything went down with the government, I was instructed by my legal team to say absolutely nothing to anyone about it. That's exactly what we did. We went completely silent on it for two years. This opened the do

Comment · Mon, February 9, 2026 · 2 pts

I mean, that might sounds interesting to us, but would the average Netflix watcher find it interesting enough?

Comment · Mon, February 9, 2026 · 3 pts

LOL, it does sound interesting when you put it that way. A good screenwriter and director would make all the difference for how engaging it would feel.

Comment · Tue, February 10, 2026 · 2 pts

Well yeah, that happens all the time with the glycosides in plants. Our body usually cleaves off the glycoside groups before they go to work in the body. It's like the difference between baicalin and baicalein. The glyco

Comment · Tue, February 10, 2026 · 4 pts

I am being a bit opaque, because sometimes I have to be for multiple reasons, but rest assured we are taking all this into account in our research. We are absolutely doing cell culture work with individual bioactive comp

Comment · Tue, February 10, 2026 · 4 pts

We've already done some molecular docking studies in software, to give us an idea of what they might be. We will be pairing that up with receptor knockout assays in the cell cultures. We will be blocking various receptor

Comment · Wed, February 11, 2026 · 2 pts

Yeah, that's true. I meant in the US. We get fucked by our pharma system here. It's about profits first and foremost.

Comment · Wed, February 11, 2026 · 5 pts

Well the opioid affinities for some of the TCAs are delta and kappa opioid receptors, not mu opioid. Even then, they are low affinities. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19828880/ >At the cloned mu-opioid receptor, TCA

Comment · Wed, February 11, 2026 · 5 pts

I know it is not quite fair, because the amount of people that use each is very different. However, sometimes you have to put things in proper context. It's easy to see a CNN or NPR piece on "gas station heroin" and then

Comment · Thu, February 12, 2026 · 3 pts

We will publish all the data, including the negative results, as that is useful for understanding what each bioactive is and is not doing.

Comment · Fri, February 13, 2026 · 3 pts

This is why I was so confused when they raided us. We were going so much farther to comply with the regulations than any other vendor in the space. I could have sold way more product had I been doing what every other noo

Comment · Fri, February 13, 2026 · 4 pts

Depends on how you calculate it. It cost me around $15M directly, because I had to sell all the company crypto to pay legal fees after we had the crash in 2022. It was around $4.5M in seized and destroyed inventory from