Thanks brother. I have seen mixed results with different Amazon products containing Tudca. I'm currently taking Nutricost and it's one of the cheaper brands. I have blood work scheduled in about a week so hopefully my liver enzymes are decent. I have been taking different brands from Amazon on and off for the last few years trying to stay consistent as possible as I had double hernia surgery and wanted to keep my organs healthy as possible. I worked up to 1500 mg a day but was having stomach issues but now I'm thinking it was just the brand. Currently taking 500 mg first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and 500 mg in the afternoon. Should I work back up to 1500 mg?
I'm still unsure what blood panels are being done but lipids are being checked for sure and since I have been in recovery and due to lack of exercise I'm worried about my lipids as well. I know Tudca helps with lipids to a certain degree. Thanks again for your response
You're welcome. I'm glad to help in any way that I can.
I can't give you any advice on products or brands that I wouldn't take myself to be honest with you (speaking on Amazon brands). As someone that works in the industry, I'm very very cautious of what brands of anything I'll use. There are some great brands that I use and trust, but not a single one of them is an Amazon only type of brand.
I personally use 500 mg. two to three times per day of CEL TUDCA. I try for 3 times per day, but I sometimes miss the middle of the day dose from just getting busy and forgetting. I've never had it bother my stomach and we've never had any feedback from anyone that I can remember with ours hurting their stomach - so I can only speak for ours in that I think that you would be fine with 1000 mg. or 1500 mg. per day.
Also with CEL's, you would really be getting the dosage that you are aiming for.
I see many things on there by brands that exist solely on there or almost solely on there that if you were to take the sale price and subtract Amazon fees, it would cost them more to actually make than what they sell it for.
We were one of the first brands to introduce a TUDCA product many, many years ago and TUDCA is a very expensive raw material and there are a lot of junk raw materials out there as well as a lot of raw materials that are mixed in that they may be for example 50% or 70% TUDCA and the remainder something else - so that brands can deceive or be deceived if they do the testing for presence, it will show up present, because it technically is, but if they do the more expensive testing for the percentage purity, then it wouldn't show up as anything close to pure.
I have seen the results for many of the brands on Amazon and also have paid to test some ourselves over the years, which for legal reasons we can't release them publicly. However, NOW Foods has tested some products by Amazon brands on different ingredients and released the results publicly and the results were terrible - and this is on much lesser expensive raw material items than TUDCA - so you can think on that for yourself in that if they'll BS and lie over cheap raws, of course they will over expensive ones.
CEL TUDCA on Amazon is 33.80 per bottle - its one of those things where if you go with another brand and 'save' 4.00 or 5.00, if you aren't getting actual pure TUDCA, did you really save money or did you just waste money to begin with? Plus, if saving a couple extra dollars is the most important aspect, DPS has it at 29.99 per bottle.
I hope that helps.
