Behind the Scenes at Nootropics Depot: Inside Our Pharmaceutical-Grade Testing Labs 🧪

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 5 pts

I think Price Plow definitely words things differently than I would, but we are already there. The standards we hold right now would be considered "pharmaceutical grade." I think maybe what they were referring more to is

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 3 pts

We are actually doing testing for a lot of brands now, which is pretty cool! I have always just wanted real proper lab testing being done by brands. If we can help other brands do it right, great!

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 4 pts

I think one of the shorts they did for this actually had Drake on it, which made us all say it should have been Kendrick Lamar instead. LOL

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 3 pts

Vertical integration in our case is for lab testing, finished supplement manufacturing, R&D, fulfillement, and marketing. That's 100% of what we sell. We still contract out production of the raw materials. You have to. S

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 4 pts

Got you! I thought you just thought other brands were not like us. Even if they hadn't used Drake in the short, I think it's a good song to use. LOL

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 3 pts

That's up to the brands themselves if they want to post. We don't have a certification arm of Omnient yet, which would be ISO 17065. However, we are thinking about doing that soon. That would be like the NSF or USP seal

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 4 pts

Yep, they recently sent us samples for testing. They were finally able to get an erinacine A product that contained it. It's much different than the one they have been selling for years. That old one had no erinacines in

Comment · Sat, February 7, 2026 · 6 pts

Absolutely! We have some special projects going on right now where we have done just that for some other species. We are the first in the world to cultivate some mushrooms that have only been able to grow in the wild til

Comment · Mon, February 9, 2026 · 3 pts

Actually, yes! [Here is the chromatogram from the Amyloban lion's mane](https://imgur.com/a/Pj7257e). We found 1.38mg of hericenes and hericenones per capsule. That's getting really close to our 1.7mg per capsules for o

Comment · Mon, February 9, 2026 · 5 pts

95% of supplement brands use contract manufacturers to formulate, encapsulate, and package the final bottles. If they do any lab testing at all, they have to send off to other labs and rely on them. They use contract ful

Comment · Mon, February 9, 2026 · 5 pts

HAHAHAHAHA! Eli Lily?!? You think Eli Lily synthesizes all the precursors they use in their drugs? Eli Lily doesn't even synthesize all their drugs, either! They also now outsource some of their R&D. https://www.lilly.c

Comment · Tue, February 10, 2026 · 3 pts

I'm no longer even sure what you are arguing. We used to use contract manufacturers and contract labs just like most other brands in the industry. We got lied to and let down constantly, so I built a cGMP certified manuf

Comment · Tue, February 10, 2026 · 4 pts

>1) Vertical integration. AFAIK, as per the cGMPs (21 CFR Part 111), all cGMP co-mfg have to test the ingredients they work with: ID, contaminants, etc. Some will test it in house, some will outsource it. Some (most) wo

Comment · Tue, February 10, 2026 · 4 pts

Yes, ours is more heavy on hericene A/B and C, along with hericenone C and D, and has more total peaks. Amyloban has more hericenone F and G and fewer peaks. We also have two more unlabeled peaks that we think are herice

Comment · Sat, February 14, 2026 · 2 pts

> I could be because of the scale but based on just eyeing the chromatograms it seems like your extract is quite similar in the proportion of hericenes, but ill take your word for it since you are the man with the number

Comment · Sat, February 14, 2026 · 1 pts

> Im very surprised that the Amyloban is that "one sided". It really does not look like it, no clue if i can blame the wobbly baseline or if i just have to bite the bullet and get glasses. You have to look at the actual

Comment · Sat, February 14, 2026 · 1 pts

>Thats very interesting. I just did a quick google search and it does not seem to be very soluble in ethanol, it was about 0.5-1 mg/ ml in what im presuming to be 95% EtOH AND it seems to be very prone to oxidation. The

Comment · Wed, February 18, 2026 · 8 pts

Yes, we have worked on both chamomile, valerian, and garlic. In fact, we had a chamomile that felt like a benzo! It was crazy. It was only stable in an ethanol tincture, though, so we never brought it out. I can revisit