BulkSupplementscom Mucuna Pruriens Extract Powder - Mucuna Pruriens Supplements, Mucuna Pruriens Powder - Vegan & Gluten Free, 500mg per Serving, 500g (1.1 lbs) (Pack of 1)

excellent quality and freshness, very potent, I make a paste of 1/2 to a full tsp with ghee and honey and eat a little straight then put in cup of warm water and milk, I think this is the best way for absorption since eating raw has too much tripsin inhibitor and heating too much makes it deactivate the l-dopa, i find eating too much is not aborbed well and too intense, this is very potent stuff, great though! next im gonna try and incorporate it in baked cookies, I make astragalus cookies and I love them , the gentle heat from baking the cookie might be just enuf for this. I mixed in a paste with ghee and honey a drop of copaiba essential oil some black cumin seed oil tsp of macuna and a tsp of ashwaghanda and i also take full spectrum cbd from hemp, these all do similar things to help endocrine or reproductive organs and auto immune problems, the mixture tastes great and seems to help quiet my gentic auto immune disorder i have but it is very potent so i cant eat a lot if it or eat all the time tgeres a fine line, when i eat too much esp raw paste without heating i get a little pressure around my eyes and tgey turn red, however im always so inflamed from Ankylosing spondylitis i get blinding uveitis in one eye for the last 10 years often things that help me later to be less inflamed give me more inflammation response in the first two weeks i assume this is because i get reiters syndrome and i am allergic to dead pathogen bodies.

Interesting stuff. Let me start by saying I've been "hacking" my own health/mental health for years, and have gotten pretty good at being able to tell the difference between depression due to serotonin issues, dopamine issues, etc., because they do take on different forms with different symptoms. I always prefer to take a natural route when adjusting anything with my body chemistry. Not to say that pharmaceuticals don't have their place, they do, and my issues are mild to moderate, not severe, so I can give myself the time to figure out what works for me, and since this supplement DOES most definitely alter the mood, I'd recommend taking your time and being cautious and aware of changes, good or bad. Okay that being said, I'm on day 4 of supplementing with mucuna and the results are quite nice. I'd been in a funk and just lacking pleasure or joy, and decided on it being a dopamine issue. I've used tyrosine to boost dopamine previously, and it helps to an extent, but this jumps it over the finish line for me. I've been more content, finding joy in the very existence of things, feeling more optimistic and less compulsive and feeling less desire to seek pleasure in things like ice cream...you know, the things we turn to when we just need a mood boost. I'm staying at a low dose because it's working, and also because as with most substances that affect neurotransmitters, there's a sweet spot...too much, and you can get the opposite effect that you're looking for. For this product specifically, I trust Bulk Supplements, have used many of their products and will continue to do so for the quality and VALUE over buying encapsulated products whenever possible. This supplement has an earthy, barely sweet taste. I wouldn't say it tastes delicious but there's something naturally appealing about it, maybe because I can associate the taste with a good feeling, I don't know, but it's not bad.

I've been taking this supplement for quite while now and I have to admit that the claims about this product and the active ingredient, L-dopa, are entirely true. I started taking this twice a day and noticed an immediate boost in brain power, libido, and sleep. And it continues to work great for those things.However, other things started to happen and I believe that this product was responsible for. I was starting to lose my ability to recover from my workouts; I felt more drained, as if I didn't have that extra get up and go. I also stopped losing weight, although my I continued to increase my strength.By accident, I stopped taking it altogether for a couple days and I started to feel that umph again even though my workload actually increased and I was still sore for working the days before. I went out and got some work done around my house and played with my kids, which is a heck of a workout in itself.I read that these effects might happen with constant use, but most people aren't affected like this by l-dopa so I gave it a shot. I guess I was one of the unlucky few that it does affect like this.I firmly believe that this is a quality product by Bulk Supplements, who've never done me wrong. I will continue to order this product because it does increase brain power and libido which may come in handy in the future if there's some heavy mental lifting you need to do.

A friend told me about this velvet bean stuff he uses for its dopamine qualities so i ordered some and now add it to my tea twice a week, sometimes 3 but not more than that. It definitely has an effect. I find when i take it at work or before i go out (especially when i'm feeling lazy) I can very easily get through the rest of whatever is going on without problem and kinda having fun. It's not something that really slaps you in your face as a substance but it does have a noticeable effect not unlike a low dose of caffeine that stays with you the rest of the afternoon.Ive been using this for 3 months or so and I find it to be very effective when I add it to my supplement tea that consists of shilajit, passionflower extract, and guarana extract (with the macuna every 2-3 daysof course). The stack gives me an almost limitless clean energy and keeps me incredibly sharp all day in a math heavy job with no crash. Every so often i will use kratom on top of all that and THAT is the ticket. To me that combination is like 10x better than Adderall with absolutely no crash or psychoses and the world needs to know.This product by itself is good but together with others it is great. Powder clumps weird and you need super hot water to break it down which sucks but it's going into tea anyway so whatever.Keep it natural kids.