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[SearchingForAnswers]

I've been noticing more and more vendors touting the bioavailability of their products (please don't mention specific vendors). Products containing curcumin, cycloastrongenal, CoQ10, etc.... seem to be giving you less for more, but promising better bioavailability.

 

What I'd like to know is how legitimate these claims are.

 

Can anybody comment on this?

[Mind]

Can't help you on this one, but it is a good question that I am wondering about as well. To find out, we would need to search nutritional studies where "regular" was trialed against "bio-available" versions. 

[Telo]

You mean things like this?:

  

TA-65 vs. Cycloastragenol bioavailability:

 

https://www.revgenet...atically-better

 

https://www.revgenet..._eid=4ec51f66cb

 

That's a BIG difference.

They don't say what sources of Cycloastragenol they used in the comparison.

Legitimate? I don't know.

 

 

 

 

[SearchingForAnswers]

Ok, on the chart it says "500 units ta-65 md", in 2 capsules. But on their product label, it's 100 units and doesn't say "MD". So, 2 1/2 capsules? Is the MD assumed?

Edited by SearchingForAnswers, 22 February 2015 - 01:27 PM.

[SearchingForAnswers]

OK, I see. The small bottle has only 100 units per capsule... wow, that's expensive. So they are saying $100 is a "trial"? At $100?

[Telo]

Ok, on the chart it says "500 units ta-65 md", in 2 capsules. But on their product label, it's 100 units and doesn't say "MD". So, 2 1/2 capsules? Is the MD assumed?

 

I'm not familiar with what the "MD" and the "units" mean. All I know is that when Revgenetics analysed TA-65 a couple of years ago, each capsule contained 5 mg cycloastragenol.

 

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that mean that, according to the TA Sciences bioavailability data, TA-65 is actually less expensive than the "generic" cycloastragenol if you're going by how much actually reaches the blood stream. 

 

https://www.revgenet..._eid=4ec51f66cb

 

I wonder how much the bioavailability would vary between different brands of cycloastragenol like Terraternal or Crackaging etc.

and whether it's safe to assume that these will not be more bioavailable than the cycloastragenol tested by TA-Sciences.

I mean, the molecule itself is exactly the same, right?  So it must depend on what else is in the capsule.