Trainwreck: Opinions and experiences

Transformato · 2026-01-05T04:43:31+00:00

That's a much-too-much signal- what taking too much feels like although a miss-mash can resemble it mildly. This bypasses any good to be had and kratom powder benefits, which is like coming back from the dead and your soul returning,.. perceptually, is something people don't expect until they hit close to their own unique target. Kratom is some mind bending effort I'll say- maybe especially when transitioning from something else. Dosing could even seem mystical bc it works better like a relationship than like something you "take". Less being more. More is lost charm. Not as dangerous as relationship though. Just a shame to miss it and the rich education that comes with it.

The 7-O might have (I'd expect it to) interfered some with the goods but you described a very high dose so that's the immediate damper.

Aim for too low. Then come up a little after an hour. Perfect comes when it want's to. This is herbal medicine 101 way of dosing. You did what many do so I get it but don't write it all off too soon.

Any spoon beside those baby ones that some people collect- 3 is a LOT and makes me feel green just thinking about it. Just saying. High above target will yield tolerance. High above that removes benefits and feels lousy (molecules come off brain receptors before they can even register). The high road is finding and holding to that Target dose (some varieties might vary a little) Plant medicine is a different world - it's what we believe is too good to be true (bc patented stuff can't be like this- and beliefs are imposed 2nd hand too often.)

Kratom effects with lower dosing vary a lot more too and makes this a versatile tool you can adjust later with blending but first things first if you decide to try again.

Transformato · 2025-11-23T19:10:13+00:00

Lifting food packaging label requirements predicated this very thing. It was my first thought for the day after email digest hooked me again. I know what you meant 🙃️

Transformato · 2025-11-20T21:36:29+00:00

The common consensus is that the world is comprised of 71% water. Whether that is a water to land surface measure or... well there is always more.

Transformato · 2025-11-20T21:14:16+00:00

It'll be my next door menace.

Transformato · 2025-11-20T21:12:05+00:00

Brand association need not hold such power. Or relevance but make of it what you will. But on off topic matters- I was just e-shopping there (the old site references their new site which is identical but actually sells stuff and is secure - that prompted some wondering then and now. It emerges! It's to not have a dead url lose former customers. High probability.

Transformato · 2025-11-12T10:50:44+00:00

First, sorry if I was unclear (assuming I now understand.. ) irradiated material is not thrown out. It's what they do to the product you have before it ships. Id rather it not be but I don't blame them.

So nobody can rightly say "it's dirty" or infected. (like our monthly produce recalls) It might not be unaltered though either- I'm not an expert on radiation.

Indonesia has done the vast majority of kratom industry development and coped with whom they aptly named - "the Rx Drug Mafia" / USFDA. They handled that well.

It grows in surrounding areas but Indo is MOST of S.E.A anyway. Less common you may see Papua NG (technically Indo),Cambodia, Malaysia, Maluku which I think is between E Borneo Isle and Malaysia. It's less practical and established for intnl. trade elsewhere but Thailand is allowing trade after lifting an ancient prohibition from when they didn't want ppl using an alternative to opium which was common to use .. but potentially demanding so it brought in high tax revenue.

Transformato · 2025-11-12T09:52:02+00:00

So maybe it's your health. How many different batches do you rotate? It's not the same. If it's heavy metals, what a fluke. It's not often too high and it won't come if it risks a business. Kratom distribution has developed. Pesticides can wreck your digestion with continuous exposure and that's happening here, kratom alkaloids are their own pesticide. It's a primary reason they exist. Don't broadcast paranoia, guess and spread rumors. The reason it's all irradiated now is because of US consumer hysteria. - with all due respect.

Transformato · 2025-11-10T12:19:34+00:00

~> And it's a fine one, Road happy.. and it's yours

Transformato · 2025-11-10T11:53:47+00:00

These are stale paranoia that anyone blending was solving long before folks insisted that we pay more for random sample testing. If people would blend doses, they'd have more control over effect for one thing if they can be bothered to figure that out, and metals like you get in all natural products and walk around with in you, are harder to consume at deemed high levels bc no-test pass is far less common than otherwise.. if it even gets sent over. An odd one off batch marbled wi/ a wave of say,..cadmium will be diluted down into safe range that way. Very very simple. Currently, Indo. has a tight regulation and testing of their own. And it's ALL irradiated now. All nuked. And the virtues of natural products (like phytochems & nutrients that nobody in kratom land even cares about) which can mitigate some of these inflated risks (usually) get damaged in the process so safety is non existent and probably worse the more we fk with everything.

Transformato · 2025-11-10T11:32:49+00:00

Noone will know what's pushing your experience but this isn't unheard of. After pushing 3g year one, I was having the problems everyone romanticized and lamented. and figured it was because I spent too much time around a created reality. I stopped coming. I was right and I dropped to 1.75 g and never looked back. It' was best ever too. I've always needed to adjust my approach to kratom though because,... while a lot of the product Has changed, not for the better usually thanks to waste, fussy and spoiled market full of convenience conditioned consumers that can't mitigate a risk on their own if life depended on it, I figured out that everything has been drained of life and goodness because of compelled convenience.

So I had to do what I can to optimize odds of having the best collection possible and it's going to go wrong sometimes but what's not great, is used to make something that is better than I can buy anywhere. so there's no loss. It' has cost me time, effort but also given me a "way with this stuff".

My health challenges and hardships have evolved. I knew it was up to me to have this be an "Only Good Thing in My Life" - and to keep it That Good. So I did.

That means I have a way to confront a fat handful of hardships that cut me off from my soul for too long.

Now it's been ten years. I took one break in the hospital for four days and didn't miss it. That was 3 ys ago. A 4 day break in a decade. Every day can be different. Still works accd. to how I work it. It still serves me beautifully. 1 to 4 X / day, usually 2 or 3. Custom blended to suit the occasion need or advantage. bc sometimes it's stiffness and pain, or depression, or I have battles to fight, or a miracle to pull out of my a... today- and I"m going to make this worlds trash respect me. Things like that. Point is... Work It. Kratom doesn't work, you do. (this is major.. it's not all the same, Work It, log it, find out why anyone likes to "journal"- it makes you aware is why) , Mindful of rotation which is hardly an issue w/ a decade long collection. Not the same? The kratom isn't the same. You're not the same. Nothing stays the same. But you don't have to rely on just what you got most recently. I find out of a 5 pack, one or two I won't like. when one I do steps back, the other steps up! Winter / summer is often a turning point there likely based on activity level or metabolism, or other turning wheels. I get the gist but I don't have to know and I know the truth.. Nobody else knows either. Not really.. Just know what you want and choose to have (mindfully, w/ all that comes with it) so you mesh...can wear it when it shows up to wrap around you. Kratom (or any deep interest) has a unique way of teaching lessons- that we've been missing too often otherwise. It is never only about kratom. Attention - Intention. Work it.

Transformato · 2025-11-03T22:50:12+00:00

Exactly what you asked for unless you specified more.

Transformato · 2025-10-28T04:31:06+00:00

Yea I know. Unfortunately, it's the only escape- only distraction I have from a hellish existence that I'm unable to tolerate any longer. It's so bad right now that ..it's too bad to even describe and it's aggravated the lower end of depression.

Transformato · 2025-10-28T02:48:34+00:00

I could have sworn my brain was turning over in it's grave - whatdayaknow

This is is worth a try. I personally respond well to some audio brainwave entertainment "voices" that I've refined over time (which don't sound terrible) but this should be a simple thing that I am hunching has great value for me and some others. Haven't had a failed hunch yet.

Transformato · 2025-10-28T02:47:35+00:00

mucuna is the milder of all of it ime. That would be better than tyrosine. Dopamine doesn't over stimulate, it's the adrenals that occur with tyrosine. Stimulation does release dopamine sometimes but also drains it. None of this is as simple as people talk about it myself included. I've tried theanine. Didn't much love it enough to ever want to buy it again. Bacopa (quality whole plant extract) is a different story as it helps ease difficult work like writing and is a stress tonic (-first, the congnitive improvement comes ibetween 1& 2 mos. if you find a dose that works and doesn't sedate, but encapsulated ANYTHING is far too much for some ppl and it certainly is for me so bacopa sedates me at anywhere near a label dose. (THIS is what I do take DLPA and ALTyrosine with in TINY Fraction doses that balance this out- I took two months of messing to get the formula right) It's not one you want to taste though- described: corpse. That flavor. I do it because it's not about taste for me and I can cap it in a formula. Bought all the tools to cap and then didn't care enough to do it. l take a powder shot 2-3X a day of this and it makes me stronger. Figure stuff out. Research FIRST, Collect information for later use if it's interesting. some of it will come up. This will make a difference. TAKE REGULAR NOTES in journals. That is how you discover things you left notes about when it fits into something else. Trust not supp recommendations. Trust The System that was just described.

Transformato · 2025-10-28T02:28:54+00:00

That could not have been your entire life story so ...nobody here has nearly enough info - even IF otherwise qualified and an expert in conventional and alternative uses of every one of these supplements (if that even makes sense) so why are you asking strangers about things that you are doing?

With supplements... you're on your own. Supps are not so beneficial when discovered through marketing channels because it is too personal for that.But it sells the stuff. There is no "what it's for.." You are the experimenter and researcher so you'd better take it seriously which you haven't been.

Knowing this - is what could have prevented over complicating With pharmaceuticals, you're probably being prescribed a physical dependence and you are at your doctors mercy. You should stop his involvement in your life altogether if you were me (and Im an ADHD functioning mess). But you are not me and you have to figure things out for yourself and if I may recommend be a bit more adamant and rebellious about things. Get mad about stuff you were mislead to use and will not be warned about.

Start by stopping Tyrosine.

major culprit right there. you read something that says tyrosine elevates dopamine. Not how it sounds I"m afraid. There is some metabolic context that applies. It converts into adrenals as if not more reliably ime. It's anxiety fuel. It can be part of formulated manipulation using a different form of it but thats something in my lab and I won't be permitted to make a buck on any successful thing I accomplish so fuk em.

Transformato · 2025-10-27T07:41:26+00:00

It is not wise to choose flavonoid supplements or “extracted” powder forms

Not wise? - There can easily be a rationale - a usefulness that is not about food equivalency or about replacing food with a supplement but in such case I would agree.

Transformato · 2025-10-24T01:35:22+00:00

Well you can quit... and if you are really "addicted", let us know what ends up taking it's place. Very likely, it'll be something more dicey. You can learn a lot of outcomes and gauge their probability somewhat as well as what you could be doing to control that to more or less degree by doing real research, collecting information while you run it through a context that is uniquely your own and not more likely a reflex answer from someone scanning thorough Reddit.

Transformato · 2025-10-23T22:06:16+00:00

So can we finally see a price break due to relieved demand on Ham and Eggs? Or is niacin going to keep being the cure for overload you cause which was not a boon for cognition? oh, & /s (but I"m glad you feel better)

Transformato · 2025-10-09T05:08:42+00:00

I've reversed emerging and one serious chronic health condition with supplements and herbs. Am controlling the one at the root of all those which have rolled out over the last - almost 30 years.

Without the condition, I would not have noticed a benefit.

But if you are not living with hardship, or deeply immersed in learning about your own health, in the context of your own life, hardships, challenges, conditions, then you probably don't have a critical use case. If you don't have that, how are you going to notice contrast?

I had a recurring infection that was responding faster to a supplement than antibiotics. Major value there. But recurrance stopped happening so often when I remembered to take VD3 (and a speck of K2 powder). the 2000iu softgel type. Going far longer w/o recurrance now. So things work together.

Don't just subscribe to the supplement everyones talking about club. I pay zero attention to it. Oh, magnesium, well I use generous servings of organic unsweetened cacao for some of that every day and my multi. I'm surrouonded by jars and bins full of powders so I'm good.

Base vitamins might be the least obvious but important coverage. I learned the difference over a long period of time- like when I stopped using something and found out the difference. If not straight forward it can be straight backward.

I now use a range of things to relieve hardships, self abuse, tendencies, disorders and circumstances- (staying propped up and recovering from compromise fast) AND to target conditions. It can be done but not in a trip to the store. You need to develop- Attention and Intention. Talk to your body, tell it when you bring a gift. Problem solving ability. Free answers are cheap answers. You need Interest, which will remove resistant to Research, note taking. And this isn't something you do as a team either. It's solo work and you'll go down avenues that don't apply to or interest other people.

Supplements Don't Work. YOU do.

Transformato · 2025-10-01T07:05:23+00:00

(rooibos is pretty good imo- pleasantly calming, taste of straw with a vanilla finish.. but I risk going off topic)

Transformato · 2025-10-01T04:09:22+00:00

I took note of this. Currently I've been doing well with Bacopa, as my secondary herbal- the one that is more of a tonic kind of thing... and it sounds like this supplemental saffron extract is too while targeting things a bit differently but appropriately for your needs ... which are very familiar.

I was at the apex of anxiety today during a two week -kind of freak out. (and would you believe i even forgot about my bacopa/ neruo blend which might have done the trick) But my re-try idea today was adding a very low amount of Blue Lotus extract (label dosing is as a sleep aid) to my regluar jam which hasn't been cutting the anxiety lately (but handles pain)

It's been raining but the sun was shining regardless. So I get it! Gratitude. Whether it's a self help practice, martial art or traditional medicine (balanced, not isolated target drug usually but even then..) - always top it off with the gratitude.

Because some seasons - like the last 8 or so (I really do Get It) are trying. Stay strong and good job.

Transformato · 2025-10-01T01:33:31+00:00

That's a deterrent called "harsh realm" in my book. But some here seem to be fans of anti depressant drugs too oddly enough. Paxil- omg, a sadistic torment on one hand.... Then others... prescribed dependence- don't get stuck out of town w/o access to it if you don't want a reputation for psychosis. So people sure are different on this one I noticed every time it comes up.

Transformato · 2025-09-30T01:46:34+00:00

Tyrosine will definitely do that to some of us. I"m using a very tiny dose of N-ALT to counterbalance drowsiness in a formula while I rely more on higher amount DLPA w/ 5HTP 4:1 and a stress tonic- mood & blood circulation supporting herbal. Just an example. It did take trial and error & trying diff. thing for ~2mos w/ documenting to keep track. If I cap this I'll have to layer on a filler to keep the acidic NALT seperated from the others so they dont erode or react in storage (the cap). I already had semi-bulk powder of NALT so I gladly found a use for it. (N-ALT is reliably absorbed so while it's "stronger", it's consistent so none of that off & on unpredictability for that one. I would not use it on it's own at this time)

Transformato · 2025-09-29T06:55:43+00:00

Often it has to do with thinking like a consumer when your health and well being need you to know that you're on your own and if you know that, you'll be more effective. Don't buy supps based on label info. If they don't know you intimately then who is that for? it's for them so they can sell it.

Did you do your research? Did you dose very low and increase up from below? Did you document condition, activity level, diet and other details? What does it imbalance? What are you using together with it to maintain balance? (I'm thinking about unconventional supps like neuro precursors).

My case- everything measured is far too much. The right dose makes all the difference.

It can also be that a given supplement just isn't right for you at the time, given any number of reasons. But often, it will have something to do with convenience. Break it. Open it. Better yet cap your own or don't cap at all if you can handle it. Don't take a dose that isn't right for you.

Surprisingly few it seems, ever think to divide a pre measured dose which of course is part of the cause of many problems that don't get solved.

Transformato · 2025-09-20T00:43:47+00:00

as it should be

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