Im from Argentina, and when I tried Uruguayan Standard Yerba (Canarias, Waldo, Barão, Rei Verde, etc) , I felt in love with it and cannot drink any other styles (argentine, brazilian, etc). These taste like grass!
Ive read so many horror stories about it, many developing horrible symptoms like insomnia because of it, it scares the hell out of me
I dont want to quit my biggest love : Mate, because of my acidity gastritis problem.
I’ll put it simply: sublingual supplements do work, and they can work in a very noticeable way. Science recognizes their high bioavailability. Denying that is just ignoring the facts.
Is vitamin D making you feel worse? Put it under the tongue.
Is B1 making you feel worse? Under the tongue.
Is zinc destroying your stomach? Under the tongue.
Is B12 doing the same? Under the tongue.
Can’t tolerate any form of caffeine? Even as little as 20 mg of caffeine under the tongue can do the trick. (You always have to be CAREFUL with caffeine powder. It’s very easy to overdose.)
What about magnesium? Wrecking your gut? Under the tongue works for that too.
Finally, can’t tolerate any salt? Now you know what to do.
Taking things sublingually is how you give this stupid disease the middle finger.
It contains histidine. No matter what THEY say it's good for MCAS... it is NOT!! I don't remember a worse and longer lasting reaction to any compound. Please be careful!!! I took it for gastritis and I'm really regretting it now! Such a small capsule!
I used to salt my food a lot since childhood until adulthood, and I think it is the main factor which contribuited to this horrible mess
All my life, since childhood, I’ve had histamine intolerance or MCAS, and neither I, nor my family, nor the doctors knew how to tell me. I had all the classic symptoms, but I’ll only mention the insomnia here: nights without sleep, waking up at 4 in the morning, waking up every hour, urinating a lot and sweating.
Finally, after several years and decades, I’ve managed to connect the dots with other symptoms I had. After starting a practically zero-histamine diet and adding some supplements, my life has changed completely. I can finally sleep.
Since I have other (not gastric) histamine symptoms, I will give it a try, for my gastritis. Will it help? Hopefully! Well, made some research and 20mg seems a reasonable dose (Im very minimalist). Will try taking it in the morning. The question is : with or without food? Some experienced heartburn on empty stomach. Thanks!!!
Benfothiamine✔️ Simply as that😃
I have strong stomach pain coincidentally with my new p5p intake
....it will NOT let me sleep!!! I'm only on 500 mcg (like, the baby dose) and this stuff still has me wired at 2 a.m. even though I take it with breakfast. The dopaminergic kick is incredible, don't get me wrong. I feel sharp, motivated, like I could reorganize my entire life... at midnight. Instead of sleeping, I'm in bed doing rotisserie chicken impressions, flipping every 20 minutes. My sleep is so fragmented I’m basically microdosing consciousness.
Look, if you’ve got a partner and you’re planning a full-night Olympics in the bedroom, this stuff is gold. Forget oysters, forget Viagra—folinic acid is the real MVP hahahaa. But I’m aggressively single, and I have to be a functioning human at 6 a.m. This insomnia circus isn’t sustainable.
It sucks because I love how folinic makes me feel. Miles above methylfolate. Methylfolate makes me anxious and jittery; folinic makes me feel like the main character. But at what cost? My sleep?
Has anyone else been nuked by 500 mcg? Any hacks to shut this thing off at night? Niacin? Glycine? A priest? I’ll try anything short of quitting, because quitting feels like breaking up with the only supplement that actually gets me. Thanks in advance, fellow sleepless mutants.
I had bad luck with both cyano and methyl. Did any of you have bad stomach acid experience with Adenosyl? Thanks
Does anyone know any type which doesnt irritate our already weak mucosa? I tried chloride and it was like drinking battery acid. Poor of me!
For those having insomnia problems with folinic acid, did it resolve with time? I’m taking a minimal dose of 400 mcg, and it’s helping me a lot, but it’s also preventing me from sleeping. Does the body get used to it over time? Thanks.
I’m not declaring victory yet, but I think I may have found a great ally — and it’s called taurine.
I originally tried it just for sleep, and to my surprise, it actually helped. I’m extremely conservative with supplements: I dislike megadoses and always stick to a minimalist approach. The dose I took was tiny — roughly 1/16 of a scoop dissolved in a little water.
But the craziest part came afterward: I started realizing that my MCAS episodes were dramatically reduced.
I’ve experimented with a few other things before, mainly Vitamin C and magnesium, and while they helped somewhat, taurine completely overshadowed both effects for me. The difference was very noticeable.
At one point I stopped taking it for a couple of days, almost by accident, and my MCAS symptoms gradually came back. Then I took taurine again — and wow. Symptoms calmed down once more. That really caught my attention.
After searching around this sub, I found several other people reporting similar experiences with taurine, which makes this even more interesting. It genuinely seems promising: a natural, relatively gentle, and surprisingly tolerable form of relief.
Of course, this is just my personal experience — not medical advice, and definitely not a “cure.” But for someone who reacts badly to many supplements and medications, finding something simple that actually helps feels like discovering gold.
Sublingual delivery led me straight into overmethylation.
I honestly laugh whenever someone claims the sublingual route is “pseudoscience.” It absolutely is not. In some people, it can be dramatically potent — fast, intense, and almost shockingly effective at delivering compounds into the bloodstream.
To give an example: before, I was taking 1 mg of methylcobalamin orally with seemingly optimal effects. But the moment I switched to the sublingual route, everything changed. Even with only around 200 mcg of the powder held under the tongue, I suddenly tipped into what felt like severe overmethylation.
The result was chaos: intense mania, crushing anxiety, relentless insomnia, racing thoughts, and an overall sense of mental overstimulation that bordered on madness. It was far stronger than anything I experienced with the higher oral dose.
Of course, not everyone who takes methylcobalamin sublingually will react this way. People have very different neurochemistry, genetics, and tolerances. But my experience convinced me that sublingual absorption is very real and, for sensitive individuals, can be extraordinarily powerful — sometimes too powerful.
I had problems with methyl, now Im planning to switch to Adenosyl. Any experience? Thanks
I have big problem with the methyl b9 and b12. Should I buy Adeno ? I dont seem to have problem with folinic @ the moment