I didn’t notice until it was all empty. The place I order from takes 2 weeks to ship, so I have been without it this whole week and next week. I did not realize how much it had been helping my pain, but now every single nerve hurts. On the plus side, it has given me the ability to draw incredibly accurate nerve diagrams, because I can feel each one start to finish. So if I ever do go back to finish my masters degree in neuroscience, I will have an advantage over my classmates.
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Im sorry youre in so much pain. Thats really rough.
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Getting pretty expensive, isn’t it?
Damn near $70 per bottle. Worth it, but I wonder how expensive it actually is to produce.
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Nearly $120/bottle in Canuck bucks.
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Oh man. That sounds so awful! I remember having a kidney infection and being able to trace the outline of my kidney due to the pain when I was only -2 years old. But what you describe is so much worse! Ugh. You poor thing!
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I am not a massive fan of patented extracts in general. The supplement market is largely unregulated and thus in taking a patented extracts one would think that the standardisation provides a form of quilty which it does. The thing is that there are few RCTs of patented extracts vs other formulations. In any case these RCTs would likely be underpowered to show real benefit if any actually existed. These trials also suffer from the same bias as the trial conducted by pharmaceutical industry and as analogous the same critiques apply. There is however a distinction these trials do not seek not FDA or otherwise governing body approval and are thus held to a low bar of scrutiny. Patented extracts often exist because of the same conundrum pharmaceutical companies face towards the end of a patient how does monetisation work in a market that has generic competition? You can look at the pharmaceutical available formulations of stimulants as a good example. As there is a bottle neck in regulations of stimulants seeking approval for new drugs and chemicals is risky and unsupported due to legality. Therefore amphetamines remain as clinical best in class and or a tleast most powerful. How do you then monetise regular old amphetamines, by creating patented delivery methods. Adhd medications is mainly just amphetamines and methylphenidate each with like 10 different patented delivery methods.
There is little to no research fund by pharmaceutical companies into supplements due to the problem of monetisation which is separate from that of the real efficacy of the compounds. The difference with supplements is that the actual mechanism of action of many raw herbs and plant products has not yet been elucidated. This is the main argument really in favour of patented extracts, active components and bioavailability. One of the issues for consumers is that monetising patented extracts means paying a multiple of what you would otherwise pay. In this instance, I would see it likely better to just use a trusted band at lower cost and increase the dosage.
I would point you toward reading the posts created by the owner of nootropics depot on Reddit. They are a great company.
The other good brands I know are:
Jarrows
Thorne
Life Extension
Pure Encapsulations
Pretty sure none of them stock lions mane.
The price of amyloban is unreal and fully unwarranted. I stopped taking BROQ for the same reason. As appears to be common to these market leading patents extract of hyped up molecules that are just beginning to show real promise. The price, in comparison to the available evidence, is fully unjustified.
I would fully encourage you to complete your masters if you ever do feel like it is possible, I believe, stay hopeful.
I don’t need Amyloban for my head these days. I originally bought it to help with managing positive symptoms and it did to some extent as it acted like a booster for my AP. I’m no longer on an AP so there is nothing to boost. What I didn’t expect Amyloban to do was remove the majority of the chronic pain I have from injured nerves. It was bad enough that I had an open-ended scrip for Vicodin and I was addicted to it because of how much I had to take. Amyloban let me give up the Vicodin scrip. I have tried the cheaper lion’s mane extracts, which don’t work. I don’t notice any reduction in pain. I don’t know what’s in the discount supplements, but I doubt they have much lion’s mane like they are claiming.
I’m willing to pay for quality supplements if they work and this one really does.
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What he said. It doesn’t affect the head so much, but the pain relief is unparalleled, and it is the only pain med that doesn’t make me fuzzy-headed.
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I thought you said you stopped this supplement because it caused blood pressure problems? Or something similar.
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It did lower my blood pressure. But now I take Ritalin, so I don’t get that problem. The Ritalin raises it enough.
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Ah, ok. I was wondering what changed. Glad it is helping!
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Two words: SALT SHAKER!
One more word: WHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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I did do the math once, and I think it worked out to the amyloban being 10x more concentrated than the cheaper lions mane. Which does make sense when it also costs 10x
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@shutterbug are you buying direct from the site? It is $30 cheaper for me to buy off amazon.
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I have a lot of luck with the lion’s mane. I can’t afford to take it regularly. No way I could do the amyloban.
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Regular lions mane = chanterelle mushrooms
Amyloban = truffles
…at least that’s how it feels every time I hit the order button.
I also purchase off of Amazon.
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Maybe, but like with truffles, some of us can only afford the essence.
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I have been using my health spending account from my benefits for mine.
I don’t have that. But the lion’s mane I useworks well for me. I just need to budget it in every month if pissible. It works great for my anxiety and also for my husband’s nerve pain.
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