While it's relatively harmless if you're healthy, it poses a small risk, especially the more you take. A lot of people take it 25mg with 200mg caffeine three times a day but I never have and my results have still been dramatic. I recommend taking 12.5 mg (half of a 25mg tablet) with 100mg caffeine your first week or two to ease into it. I'm terrible at keeping weight off though so I started it again today. I lost about 30lbs over 3 months using it with a low calorie diet and exercise. I've been taking it off and on for years. issued ID logging requirements for purchasers of Sutafed and other drugs, etc.)īeing that ephedra is the plant from which ephedrine HCL is derived, both are banned in the US. Unfortunately for the pharma companies, there is no suitable substitute for pseudoephedrine available, so they had to stick with it and deal with the restrictive requirements forced upon their distributors by the DEA (i.e. But tweaker chemists, being the tenacious little devils they are, figured out how to use pseudoephedrine as well. which was supposed to have prevented the meth issue. It has similar effects as ephedrine, but is a different molecule. Pharma companies that used Ephedrine in their products (certain decongestants, Nyquil, etc.) had to find a substitute, and developed pseudoephedrine - the name being an exact definition of what it is: "not genuine ephedrine". No, Ephedrine was banned because of the meth issue. I wouldn't suggest Ephedra even as a last resort even used safely (as pure ephedrine), the effects are merely "pretty good". Is it just best only buy supps with ephedrine HCl in measured amounts so you know exactly how much ephedrine your ingesting (and you're not getting ripped off with low potency)? Ephedra should absolutely not be trusted as a diet aid. but I wouldn't put my trust in the companies selling it. I would expect that the variance in ephedrine content would depend on factors like how the plants were harvested, how carefully they were monitored, etc. Obviously those are the two extremes, but the point being what it is is that the range is very large. So if you were to ingest 1g of Ephedra, that could (theoretically) get you anywhere from 1.5mg to 22.5mg ephedrine. It contains 0.5-2.5% by weight of total alkaloids, of which ephedrine accounts for 30 to 90%. Its already been said, but Ephedra will vary. IIRC each pill of bronkaid is like 200mg psedo so for a 20 pack box you're looking at 3 or so grams of meth, possibly? I have no idea how much meth is necessary to get high so that's about as far as my scientific estimates go. So you can probably get between 70-85% overall yield by mol, so you're probably looking at 65%-80% mass yield since psedo is a bit heavier than meth? You can probably do siginifigantly better in extraction and it's possible that isolation isn't required/done because the side products aren't harmful but I have no idea. I would guess extraction from the binder is like 90-95% efficient (unless new formulations have some sort of anti-extraction binder), reaction is another 90-95% efficient and then isolating the product is another 90-95% efficient. That seems like a pretty easy reaction to do, so the number of steps to convert is probably fairly small and well studied for such a simple side chain replacement. It looks like pseudo's only difference is that it has an extra OH group on the side chain. Pseudo and meth have pretty similar structures and can be converted pretty easily to my knowledge. Well I've never made any, so this is just me speculating:
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