Rhodiola Help

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I’m thinking about trying Rhodiola. Has anyone else tried it before?

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Relora? Had no effect on me and was quite expensive.

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https://www.iherb.com/pr/Now-Foods-Rhodiola-500-mg-60-Veg-Capsules/335

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Ahh, my apologies. I thought Relora was the generic name. What are you hoping to get out of it?

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It’s good for stress I’ve read. Good for my mood. I always find something more important to buy and it always gets left out.

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I’m also interested in trying rhodiola. keep us updated

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I just also read that’s used for fatigue. How long are the duration of effects.

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I just read rhodiola reduced stress induced binge eating in rats. I haven’t found how long it lasts though.

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Seems to help my symptoms. Just make sure the product you’re buying has 3% rosavins and only 1% salidrosides because I’ve tried it with 3% salidrosides and 1% rosavins and it made my symptoms worse. Salidrosides work on dopamine and rosavins work on serotonin. That Now product you linked is the right kind.

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Thanks for the help.

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No problem. 151515

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Yeah just started it - got it for a like $5 sample on ebay - best herb I have tried ( and I have tried HEAPS) . Great mood uplift with the crash afterwards. Makes me forget my delusions , paranoia etc and interact normally with people ( even better than normally ) . I am only worried that my body adjusts to it and down regulates whatever it is that is helping me so I take it very sparsely and not every day.
But great herb ! Better than Bacopa ( Brahmi) , Ginko, Ginsing, St Johns Wort , Ashwagandha (which is a good adaptogen) just to name a few.

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Wow - great research. Any links regarding this?

I just quickly scanned for Rhodiola and found this - Holy molley !..

“Salidrosides possesses potent anti-oxidative properties and protects against dopaminergic neuronal death”

Great article on selfhacked and examine ( I cant link as I am a newbie) but here are the urls
https COLON //selfhacked DOT com/blog/rhodiola/
https COLON//examine DOTcom/supplements/rhodiola-rosea/

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I just googled this. It has a lot on the benefits of it.http://www.limitlessmindset.com/nootropic-ingredients/319-rhodiola.html

Just scroll down to the part where it says Rosavin vs Salidrosides. It talks about how rosavin works on serotonin and salidrosides works on dopamine. It suggests to use both versions of rhodiola but I found with a dominant Salidrosides version my symptoms get worse. Either way, rhodiola has both rosavins and salidrosides in any version, so you are getting the benefits of both chemicals but a rosavin dominant version clears up my symptoms instead of making them worse. However, this is just personal experience, I don’t think there’s anything on the internet saying that it’s worse for schizophrenia in that forumulation. Most common rhodiola supplements are 3% rosavins and 1% salidrosides anyways, so there’s not much to worry about.

EDIT: I just re-read that part and it suggests finding one with 5% rosavins and 1% salidrosides and trying that and then comparing it to 3% rosavins and 1% salidrosides which I’ve never tried to do. It doesn’t talk about 1% rosavins and 3% salidrosides formulations but you kind of get the idea.

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Don’t buy from that powder city link though, that site is dead now. When you go there it just sends you to another site anyways.

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Here’s a site with technical stuff https://www.mdidea.com/products/herbextract/salidroside/data06.html

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Opps ! Just checked my orders …Its $1.50 (incl free postage) for a sample 5 grams (cant believe they can send it so cheaply ) At the risk of breaking some type of this forum’s protocol here’s the ebay link …just replace COLON with “:” and paste it into your browser…I find these cheap samplers so useful as a lot of times we have to shell out big bucks for supps etc that we dont respond to anyway . Getting samples mean we can try out something to see if it works for us.

httpsCOLON//www.ebay.com/itm/PURE-Rhodiola-Rosea-3-Rosavins-1-Salidrosides-Extract-Powder-Natural-Adaptogen/172322657744?var=471141122114&hash=item281f3b15d0:m:mq6QXD2Ef31jP7ad1i_WZLQ

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You can buy it in bulk powder to get it cheaper than buying pills. BulkSupplements is a site, so is PureBulk to get supplements in powder form. Just look them up on google.

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So there is a crash? Or did you mean to say there is no crash?

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Opps - NO crash todate.
Its been about two weeks of every alternate day or every third day. Also I generally microdose as I tend to be hyper sensitive to things anyway.
But so far all good - best herb I have tried.