higher power r-ala

[jcp2]

The price on this seems pretty low, just wondering if anyone has had good luck with it. I here so much about how it can degrade and how some r-ala is not all that pure.

 

[BHERTZ]

Not sure exactly what you mean by degrade or impure. Essentially what you are getting at is that chirality of any organic molecule which can be denoted as R or S. The human body almost always prefers R. (The naming doesnt really mean much, it's a lesson in stereochemistry which is the spatial relationships of side functional groups the carbon center.) S-ALA has been speculated to be neutral or actually adverse to the human body. That's why companies (not just in the ALA business) spend tons of $ making sure they have just R chirality in their compounds.

I may be answering the wrong question here, so feel free to ask again if I did just this.

Some people are quick to say it doesnt matter what you get (i.e. - buying generic ALA) but I am fairly convinced that R-ALA is the way to go. K-R-ALA is simply a salt form of R-ALA attached to K (Potassium). I have yet to read more about this further modification.

Higher Power has always worked fine for me, so I would not worry right now.

 

[jcp2]

Not sure exactly what you mean by degrade or impure. Essentially what you are getting at is that chirality of any organic molecule which can be denoted as R or S. The human body almost always prefers R. (The naming doesnt really mean much, it's a lesson in stereochemistry which is the spatial relationships of side functional groups the carbon center.) S-ALA has been speculated to be neutral or actually adverse to the human body. That's why companies (not just in the ALA business) spend tons of $ making sure they have just R chirality in their compounds.

I may be answering the wrong question here, so feel free to ask again if I did just this.

Some people are quick to say it doesnt matter what you get (i.e. - buying generic ALA) but I am fairly convinced that R-ALA is the way to go. K-R-ALA is simply a salt form of R-ALA attached to K (Potassium). I have yet to read more about this further modification.

Higher Power has always worked fine for me, so I would not worry right now.

I'm sorry i didn't word that better, i have heard of companies bottling the generic version as pure R, i was just curious to see if people have had good results with this product becuase the price was rather inexpensive. I am always a little skeptical when price is good.

 

[BHERTZ]

I have a bunch of supps sitting on a shelf here and I was glancing through them. I have an Anabolic Pro-Line bottle of R-ALA while my NOW nutrition milk thistle blend has just regular alpha lipoic acid in it.

On the back of the R-ALA bottle it says that the active is specifically R-Alpha Lipoic Acid.

I believe they can not make false claims, so if it says R, its probably R. If I was a company I'd bank on the fact that most people are not informed or up to speed with their basic organic chemistry lol