Thank you everyone for the input. I'll reply to all of the above posts together.
a-Cedrene is included in the new OL products, but they use a 70% version. The 70% part is why I was never willing to do one when I had people asking me to to begin with, because it is derived from Cedarwood Oil. So the 70% a-Cedrene wasn't what worried me, its what the other 30% was.
And no offense to OL, but I called it before they ever launched back when they were hyping it that it was going to destroy people's stomachs. Nothing against them, its just that the 30% remaining components from Cedarwood Oil I expected to be brutal on people's stomachs and that's what seemed to happen to some people.
It's important now to take a look at the actual studies on a-Cedrene. Nowhere in the studies did I find any mention of a standardization like 70%; therefore, it would be reasonable to conclude that the studies would have been done on a 95%+ and notably, there didn't appear to be issues with stomach upset.
Now, let's look at possible causes of stomach upset with a-Cedrene.
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@Resolve10, great comparison to the issues with Forskolin and that comparison applies in more ways than one here.
There could be two different reasons for the stomach upset with a-Cedrene at a lower %:
- 70% a-Cedrene is of course 70% a-Cedrene; the worry wouldn't be the 70% a-Cedrene, it would be what the remaining 30% is and being that its derived from Cedarwood Oil, and Cedarwood Oil would cause all sorts of stomach upset and digestive disturbances.
- cAMP - one of the methods of action of a-Cedrene is that it increases cAMP; and one of the side effects of increasing cAMP in the body is digestive disturbances; so there is always a possibility that anything that increases cAMP may bother some people's stomachs.
The digestive disturbance aspect related to Cedarwood Oil we can fix that part by going with a higher percentage, which would be between 95% and 99%.
The individual by individual person's response to whether cAMP bothers their stomachs or not, there's nothing that can be done about that part because that would honestly just mean that its working, but that your body had to get adjusted to it.
This has obviously never been specifically studied as to what % is what, but I very strongly think that most of the digestive disturbance issues related to a-Cedrene 70% were related to what the remaining 30% is, rather than the cAMP aspects.
I hope that all makes sense.