Claudia Kerssemakers it is the same in America. If the FDA has not approved the product you can not make claims.

Claudia Kerssemakers Great point. I often see the phrases ‘may assist with...’ or ‘aids with’ on supplements too. These are indeed based on therapeutic guidelines for the advertising of prescription and non-prescription substances, different for each country/region. We have similar regulatory guidelines here in AUS. You’ll also often the the markers ‘AUST R’ or ‘AUST L’ on bottles/boxes here. The R indicates medicines assessed for safety, quality and effectiveness (ie. they do what they say they do as substantiated by evidenced-based, peer reviewed research). The L indicates low risk ingredients that are assessed for safety and quality, but not effectiveness (ie not a strong body of evidence to determine they absolutely will have the desired effects, but they aren’t harmful either, if taken as indicated). I wonder if other countries have similar labelling requirements?

It is the same in New Zealand, we have to get very creative with language lol

Claudia Kerssemakers Has

In American corporations it is called "Health Supportive Safe" language to avoid lawsuits. Supplements must not be sold with a drug action, so make any claims to cure, treat, or prevent, otherwise they go through FDA testing and likely will fail.

howcanwestopit so true!

Support / encourages / enhances etc....

:DDDD

Lol!

@@distortedsteeve2980 *laughing in Type 1*

@@shelbymachado8712 hahahaha I see you lol

Don’t potatoes have lectins? I don’t buy the hype, but some doctors think you need to avoid those.

Wait...whaaaaaaaat?? 🤦 You're kidding right? 🤣

Ayce Venture I agree that word holds a lot of weight

I mean, I think a lot of people have dismissed mushrooms and instead acted like they were "gross" etc. Mushrooms have definitely been excluded. I understand what they're saying but they could have said it differently.

Hipsie some people just dont like mushrooms. it’s not racism shut up

I think they should substitute the world "racism" for "discrimination"....People do seem to "discriminate" against mushrooms, but scoffing them based on looks and biased perceptions about the way they taste, but "racism" denotes that mushrooms are a "race" and they are not.

And I'm def one of those people who gets anxious/ crazy feeling after one cup of coffee! I love the flavor though so I stick to 1/2c just because I like it!

Same here, go team Mommy Milk! I started mixing grounds half and half with decaf. Helped me a lot.

Coe, I have breastfed all four of my boys, including my identical twins! I just drink full caf, dark roast because that's what my husband likes and drinks a lot more than I do. Plus, we grind the beans fresh every day so grinding two diff varieties would be...too much work! Ha!

Fair point! My hubby doesn't drink coffee, so it's all me.

Marie Johnson Just as a side note, you should probably not start a supplement if you are breastfeeding unless you find a claim that specifically states it safe for breastfeeding. Something's are safe for both the baby and mother to take orally, but dangerous for the baby if the mother takes while she is breastfeeding. Codeine is a good example of this. It's safe for both a baby and a mother to take orally, but it's not safe for a mother to breastfeed her baby while taking codeine. That's because codeine is not a drug, it's a prodrug, so it's the body that metabolizes codeine into the drug (morphine) which can then be passed to the baby in its drug form in the milk.

Cbd is a legitimised form of treatment for pain, anxiety, sleeping problems and also epilepsy. If she tries to deny this I will lol.

I think if she were to deny anything it would be the wild claims about cannabis oil curing cancer lol even people I know who hate weed with everything in them have accepted the medical research on CBD

CBD has helped my anxiety induced insomnia but that's about it for me. It doesn't do anything for my depression at all and it doesn't leave me calm enough to go out in public so it's not super effective on my anxiety either. But i also have no metabolic reactions to a lot of drugs like benzos or painkillers so i might just be unlucky with cbd too.

How much do you take to sleep Teya?

CBD gave me a REALLY bad stomach pain, it took me more than a week to recover from it - my dad tried it a long time but it stopped working after a while, yeah did not work well

I mean, they are either being paid for it or at least getting free stuff so...

Yeah, I had to unsub from some I used to enjoy watching because they started selling stuff like FS in every video :/

She didn't do all that much research, either. Mushrooms have been used for their medicinal qualities for thousands of years. (See my post above for links.) That doesn't mean you should buy this particular product, but there are plenty of other ways to include mushrooms in your diet.

It's a mix of things.. I think most of them are so focused on the point it's vegan that they miss on quality reviews and misrepresent studies.

heipaadegduP i second this

I second this

I'd would love to see an in depth video on probiotic drinks and supplements in general and for her to shed light on existing research on human microbiota. On the one hand, microbiomes are super fascinating. The very fact that we are hosts to vast unique, complex ecosystems with whom we depend on for immunologic, hormonal and metabolic homeostasis is as intriguing as it is humbling and since we still have so much to uncover in terms of identifying all these billions of bacteria and the roles they play, it makes for an exciting and relatively new area of medical research. On the other hand, products containing a couple of dozen different probiotic strains get touted as these wonderous cure-alls for everyone with very little scientific substantiation. People are going so far as to give themselves at home D.I.Y. fecal transplants in the hopes of curing everything from halitosis to autism to cancer.

Probably she would attack them, too. Western medicine is mostly profit driven, and prevention doesn't make money. Also, Kombucha and Water Kefir can't be patented, so there is no money in researching them, either.

heipaadegduP probiotics saved my life for a chronic health issue in my country we have a community of people who give out Kefir for free and they frown upon people who want to make money of that. It helped many people.

I am also very sensitive to coffee even though i love the taste. Teaccino and black teas are typically ok with my tummy and can be mixed with creamer the same way you'd do with coffee but i also really like matcha for flavor and the fact that the caff is lower and it has other stuff in it that keeps you relaxed so no jitters. Also sometimes i find that decaf coffee with a little bit of regular coffee is fine for me in like a 3 to 1 ratio. I don't need much if any caf to function so it's more for when i really need an energy boost. You might have an easier time with teas ^_^

Try using L-Theanine with your coffee.

Surprisingly, cold brew coffee gives me less jitters than “normal” coffee, maybe give that a shot if you’re so inclined? Tea’s also great as far as jitters are concerned, for me at least.

Me too! I can kinda handle coffee if I have something on my stomach (I get jittery but I don’t feel sick) but otherwise, I can’t enjoy a “first sip of the day” 😅

The four sigmatic breakfast coffee really made me feel above all that you get what you pay for. And when you’re paying for your health it’s worth it, especially for these Starbucks kids who spend that much on coffee all ready. I would be willing to buy the instant blend that you mix into hot water to share with skeptical or interested people, it’s delicious! Comes in individual packets which would be perfect for sharing.

Same it's awsome

Same. I use their protein powder as well and after consistently using it felt some much more energy and mental clarity

How does it taste?

just buy some wild foraged chaga. Way cheaper.

Omg thank you 😊 I’m definitely looking this up☝🏽❤️

That’s interesting, thanks for sharing

I think you're wrong. Regardless of whether lactic acid is predominantly in the form of lactic acid or lactate, the generation of lactate tends to acidify the medium since the pKa of lactic acid (pKa1 = 3.86 in aqueous solution) is much lower than the pKa of its substrate glucose/glycogen (pKa ≈ 12) (i.e., at any pH within physiological range the ratio of dissociated lactate to lactic acid is much greater than the ratio of deprotonated glucose to glucose). That's why the yogurt ferments turn milk (or whatever substrate you give them to ferment) into a more acidic product. The sugars (e.g., lactose) are taken from the medium to become substrates for glycolysis, and the resulting pyruvate + H+/pyruvic acid is turned into lactate + H+/lactic acid and pumped out of the cell (or released into the medium by diffusion): Glc + 2 ADP + 2 Pi ⟶ 2 HLac + 2 ATP + 2 H20 (glucose fermentation) 2 ATP + 2 H2O ⟶ 2 ADP + 2 Pi (muscle contraction) 2 HLac ⇋ 2 Lac- + 2 H+ (medium acidification) There isn't that much ATP stored in the muscles. After a couple of seconds or less, the consumption of ATP + Creatine-P will be compensated by the net synthesis of ATP from glycolysis. Otherwise, you'd run out of ATP + Creatine-P. Once the stationary state is reached, the primary source of acidifying products is the buildup of lactate (in anaerobic conditions, without the generation of lactate you would run out of NAD+ so glycolysis couldn't proceed any longer): Glc + 2 NAD+ + 2 ADP + 2 Pi ⟶ 2 Pyr- + 2 H+ + 2 NADH + 2 H+ + 2 ATP + 2 H2O 2 Pyr- + 2 NADH + 2 H+ ⟶ 2 Lac- + 2 NAD+ (in the muscle) A different story is whether the burning sensation that you feel in your muscles is the result of the acidification of the muscles, and whether other processes may be also contributing to the muscle acidification. ATP turnover isn't one of them.

Perhaps you mean during AEROBIC exercise, when there's little generation of lactate (because the end products of glycolysis and fatty acids become fully oxidised in the mitochondrion) and the ATP/ADP ratio may be kept shifted relative to resting conditions.

@@marujitadiaz9019 essentially what you're claiming though is that glucose/lactate is an acid/base reaction, while its a straight conversion. Glucose (pKa around 15) --> lactate (pKa around 4) involves the loss of an H+ in the form of inorganic phosphate (tribasic phosphate to dibasic phosphate). You're arguing about the pKa of lactic acid, but at cellular pH it is lactate, not its conjugate acid. "Tends to acidify the medium" doesn't hold up because the surrounding phosphate buffers the increase in H+ concentration. However, when enough ATP is converted to ADP, the concentration of dibasic phosphate is much, much greater, which is ultimately the source of the protons. While you can certainly draw a balanced reaction with no production of a proton in the conversion of glucose to lactate, you're entirely missing the kinetic component. The rate of the degradation of ATP far outpaces the rate of ATP generation, still leaving the free H+. While I do agree that pyr-->lac is necessary in anaerobic conditions, you cannot do long-term anaerobic exercise. The cellular concentrations of creatine-Pi are only roughly double the cellular concentration of ATP, aka, not that much (223 vs 446 mmol). When you're talking about the kind of exercise she's doing (more than a few minute sprint), it's far more likely that she's burning fatty acids, which muscles have a much higher concentration of (roughly 4,000,000 mmols). While it takes longer for this response to kick in, Swayze is talking about a 20-30 minute exercise. I've linked below a great paper that further summarizes this if you'd rather look at the primary literature's explanation rather than my own. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15308499 All the best, I know this is a well-ingrained myth and it is deceptively easy to believe but unfortunately the biochemistry just does not point to lactate as the ultimate source of the increasing proton concentration.

Cheaper, too.

Yes and many of them (not reishi) are common in many parts of north america

Absolutely! I used to use Reishi powder. I may get back into it. Adding to my coffee would be easy enough. With a lot of these things you can buy the individual mushroom/herb cheaper than these fancy pants supplements.

@@jennoscura2381 But do you get the point of it being absolutely useless though? Why would you mix that shit into your coffee?

@@harrypoderskis2608 Did you actually watch the video? That is not the point at all, and she never mentioned mushrooms are useless. The point is that this company is claiming that there is extensive research, and is making claims on the health benefits, while there is not enough evidence to claim this with certainty. She even mentioned numerous interesting studies. For a lot of people, the evidence that is currently available may be enough to try out what mushroom could do for their health, and maybe it works well for them.

LMAO FRAUD SIGMATIC I can't.

Did you try four sigmatic? It’s the highest quality coffee I’ve ever had. Flavorful (coffee, not mushroom flavor) and I felt great in the first week. It’s delicious and works.

Does this rule apply to all states?

Yeah, you've got the right idea. In America, it's completely legal to make any supplement of any kind and as long as there is even a little bit of evidence, that I might do something, I can make any claim. For example if a study came out that said that blueberries might help improve the flow of blood in the brain by 0.5%. Well, then I can make a sugar supplement, add a little bit of blueberries in them and say, this is the "Great Memory Pill." Also, if Swayze Unnatural Vegan, checked the back label of these supplements, they would all read "This product has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not to intended to treat, diagnose or cure any disease of any kind."

Tiffany Lyn 100% what I was going to say

The Seitan Recipe you’re better off making your own Seitan recipe or finding one online.... she obviously isn’t going to provide it. She’s seen your comment about 200 times and hasn’t once mentioned the recipe.

Maybe she'll post the recipe when you hit 1000 days. It's a nice, round number 🤗

lmao these comments never get old

Kimberlee Green I have a feeling she’s never gonna post it ... but that’s just me. There’s a chance her recipe wasn’t that amazing anyway (since none of us have tried it) so if you really want to try some good Seitan you’re better off looking up a recipe online instead of waiting for hers 🤷🏻‍♀️

Some obsessive cheap assess would just donate to her pateron by now. However you are admirably consistent.

It's the chaga in it. Just but wild ground US or Canadian chaga. It's much cheaper.

Marianne that’s because all of those things are legitimately useful

@@cleopatrastarseed8558 I'm sorry but they're not. The worst example is spirulina whose fake B12 depletes your B12 storage - and it doesn't show up on the regular B12 blood test.

I’ve been taking spirulina everyday for the past two years and since then my health has improved significantly in a variety of ways... I guess it’s just the placebo effect again ?

Also essential oils have helped me with many things too. Lavender helps me relax and sleep at night. Peppermint helps me focus at work or school. Lemongrass helps me when I spend time outdoors to keep the bugs away and prevent bites. If I get a cut i used a diluted form of Tea Tree to disinfect.

Marianne Also, if you already seem to have your opinions made about essential oils and spirulina, then why are you asking her to make a video about them? Aren’t you just as capable of doing research as she is? Unnatural Vegan is cool and all but she has no degree in Nutrition, she’s just a KZfaqr. Trust yourself and your intuition and your research, don’t depend on others to provide you with answers.

JLeigh1721 probably because cacao is the raw form and by making it “hot” it can no longer be considered raw/cacao. Just my guess.

Cacao is simply raw chocolate.

A. O'Connell Cacao is actually a less processed and heated form of cocoa. This, it contains about triple antioxidants and nutrients as cocoa. Truth.

@@JLeigh1721 for me it's that Portlandia skit, I can never take the word cacao seriously again. Probably unrelated tho 😂

Meh, the fair trade chocolatey powder thing I can get is cacao. I also like the extra anti oxidants and prefer the taste of that specific one.

I know sge sound like sge hasn't had the d in years kinda a whiny negative tone to her voice.uggh waaa waaa...it makes u feel amazing

Trekkifulshay #sponsored lol

Julia B Yet many of them claim they've been drinking it for years and how convenient several other people all decided to tell the internet about it the same week.

Trekkifulshay yeah honestly, if their claims were true, why didn’t they mention it before? 🤔🤔

They're all about da money

Yeah I was going to say ... putting on the professor cap without actually trying what you’re talking about.

Have you seen any weight loss benefits since drinking this type of coffee?

@@celestegetscrafty9761 no, I haven’t .

@@ifizzell me too. For 5 years and I love it.

I love the product too. I enjoy the taste. I don’t like other coffee

There's a chemist here on KZfaq named Myles Power that does a lot of debunking videos. He has a big series on GMOs with lots of great, simple information to pass along when someone asks you why you'd be pro-GMO. Not a vegan channel or anything, but great for us frustrated nerds.

Banning glyph will allow room for harsher chemicals in our food. Not a good move

Pro GMO? LMAO.

I know next to nothing but I met in person a group of women (mainly older women, mothers and grandmothers) in Argentina who were campaigning against Monsanto because insane amounts of people in their village had health issues they related directly to Monsanto. They wrote a letter to Obama and even got a letter back in which he basically said, "I can't do anything, they are untouchable." This is just my anecdotal first-hand experience. But I tend to be, obviously, very wary of Monsanto (which doesn't mean I'm necesarily anti-GMO). They seem to be a shady over-powerful corporation that have caused substantial ecological and human damage. I hope your investigations are fruitful. Share any stuff you learn. Thanks.

I have a really hard time with the thought of consuming cordyceps myself thanks to that game (which is absolutely *brilliant* and one of my all-time faves).

Miranda MacLeod i’ve been using reishi to help me sleep too, it seems to work for me as well

Interesting. I have pretty severe insomnia that’s thankfully being kept under control right now by other things, but I will definitely keep reishi in mind.

I wish the products were cheaper buuuut, I realize the work force behind specializing these brews and recipes, and testing every batch to make every batch the quality the customer depends on, it costs a lot.

@@calcm7496 As the comment is over a year old now, I can say with certainty Four Sigmatic is not at all worth the money you pay and you can get much better products from other companies. You are paying for the hype and pretty packaging

@@Mirandacloud what company or companies would you recommend for mushrooms? i am trying to incorporate at least chaga, reishi, and lions mane but am open to all. mainly aiming to help reduce inflammation

Eugh no thanks. I’ve had juices that have celery in them and all of them make me gag. I couldn’t imagine drinking it by itself.

@@mook_butt8037 Same :( I believe it's good especially if it's homegrown but the taste is horribleeeee

I don’t think she understands ph in the gut at all.

Yes please!

Dennis Amatium What makes you say that? I’m pretty sure that book is written by a well know vegan doctor. I think she would at least read it to point out anything she finds incorrect about it.

Dennis Amatium Well that was a lot lol I guess everyone should just do their own research after watching these types of videos to get the best results for themselves. As far as her making fun of the companies claims I have to agree because there isn’t enough research to back up anything they claim and they are putting much lower doses in their products than what is used in the few experiments. I don’t doubt that they have good effects on health and the body but those are pretty radical claims. Anyway, I will continue to watch her videos because I enjoy them and I don’t look at her as a scientist or a God but rather just another outlook on things.

Dennis Amatium You don’t have to be here buddy 😂 No one is forcing you to watch her videos and commenting with hate is just a waste of time really.

Why do you want her thoughts? She's not a doctor lol

You have to prepare it with a cream like coconut milk or cashew milk and one packet only makes 4oz which is TINY. when i make it, i have to use 3 packets to 12oz of canned coconut milk T^T it's very pricey. i bought it to try out so i have to use it now. I really like the cinnamon kick to it but it doesn't actually help me sleep at all. Magnesium supplements to a better job at relaxing me than the reishi coco does.

I got a free sample of the cacao, and I totally agree, it was awful. I even added some mylk and sweetener, and that didn’t help.

You overpaid for sure! Most health food stores sell those packets for under $2, I get mine for literally under a dollar on sale

I almost bought some from their sale that theyre having.. but i cant get over the price Local shop sells single packets so i want to taste it first

yes Paul Stamets! he has some really awesome videos out there too- and an interesting look at WHY there isn't too much in the way of mushroom research!

M M honestly even if it’s just a placebo, as long as it appears to be helping that’s great !

I swear I read somewhere that research is being done into the placebo effect itself as a way of treating people for minor things. Like, even if someone KNOWS they're taking a placebo, they still improve.

That's way too expensive unless drinking it is also making you richer...

Why don't you like Joe Rogan? His interviews are always very interesting.

Hair is dead cells

Colin And because of that it can look pretty unhealthy if it’s not properly maintained, what’s your point?

Have you tried cold brew? It's allegedly about 67% less acidic than regular hot brew coffee. Not sure about it but something to try maybe if you really love coffee

Idk if you're near a location but 'Philz coffee' has really low acidity it's so good you can taste the difference. My boyfriend has herd and he can drink it. They do sell bags online but it's expensive

I just water mine down with unsweetened soy milk lol

I would assume caffeine free coffee may help too. I have a mental blank at the moment but there is also a tea beverage that tastes coffee-ish and i can't remember the name of it! Definitely health food stores have it. Potentially is a root of a herb.

@@azugirl111 cold is worse for me. Right now coffee gives me heart burn and palpitations so I'm avoiding it for a while

darzey why? :)

@@MrBlodhund Because of reasons specified in this video? Obviously if someone pushes this brand, they haven't done enough research to realise none of this drinks work. So, why would you trust someone like that. Plus, usually they are uneducated wannabe health "professionals" like Raw alignment.

Do you trust any boys about talking about these things

itsmyhannah never, Hannah

itsmyhannah 😘

LMAO. Very silly comment.

True, but a side by side comparison of this coffee versus the mushroom coffee, using equal meassure of product, equal brewing method, and equal volume of water, would be in theory accurate. But which coffee? Different coffee has different pH levels anyway.

punkybrewstar83 maybe they could use a coffee of a similar roast to compare to. But then you'd have to figure out the average ph of that roast in other coffees. Then again the acidity concern is kind of ridiculous considering if you are avoiding coffee for its acidity (usually around 4.5 to 5) you also have to keep in mind lemonade and fruit juice and fruit in general is usually more acidic. Also, the presence of caffeine makes the coffee's ph read more basic slightly but makes the stomach produce more acid. The same is also true for milk.

Lauren Lewis Yeah- UV is just entertaining their reaching really- if you get heart-burn you should just cut out coffee- I've just accepted that my heartburn is in large part because I refuse to lol.

I think she's talked about her views on intersectionality, and she's commented on Blaire White and Stef Sanjati's views on veganism and might have mentioned what she thinks about transgendered people and possibly the politics? (but it's mostly about veganism, I guess), but yeah.

Arguably, this video isn't about veganism

Maybe you should suggest the other things you’d like to see her make videos about

She has a film review channel but she doesn’t post there much

Absolutely. You also have the whole factoring in the placebo effect and the sort of opposite of that where someone takes something with a certain expectation and then you get mixed reviews. Not to bring drugs into the picture but with the recent legalization of marijuana in a lot of states, some people love weed and it calms them down makes them less anxious while some get paranoid. It's a sort of 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' type of thing.

ScuzoidMelee I mean... they ARE very forward thinking when it comes to food and nutrition...

They do the same with Europe. I'm European and live in Europe, and so many times I see American products with the advertising claim "It's been really popular in Europe for years!" about fancy, expensive stuff I've never seen before.

I love it when people act like Asians are some sort of magical/mythological creatures. They're just people, yo. It's funny to imagine the opposite happening. Like someone in China eating chicken noodle soup to treat their cancer.

Ramen, it MUST be good for you! haha

Yes omg 😆

Just let the E. C. kid keep playing with their toys

way to miss the point haha

I love the coffee too

She isn’t reviewing the taste. She is reviewing their claims. 😅 I don’t have to do cocaine to review the effects it has on the human body

​@@Caffeinated_Gorgon 🤣 omg just imagine!

That’s a really cool solution, way to innovate! It doesn’t sound to me like you’d need to spend 100 bucks a month but the benefits are there. I think there’s more research than unnatural vegan was able to pull up. Based on my experience with the product I don’t think this video is the most accurate portrayal but I definitely respect the effort.

Maggie M that’s just you. Everyone is different you can’t just say it’s bogus yeah for you but not for many. That’s the point it’s alternative shit.

Your experience wasn’t good, that’s a shame! Not everything works for everybody, but i has the opposite experience. I’m a daily coffee consumer and these blends work well for me! Definitely keep in touch with your doctor about this strange reaction.