Homotaurine (tramiprosate) appears to be a structure corrector

[seltzaman]

Tincup -I've been taking it as well and have only been able to find it on US.supersmart.com
But now I find it is no longer available there and I cannot find it anywhere else. Have you found another source?
Thanks -Craig

[Brian4]

This is such an important supplement I decided to buy it from

https://www.medchemexpress.com/Tramiprosate.html

(You need a business address, I think, to order from them.)

It's expensive, but, for 4/4s, worth it, I'd say.

[seltzaman]

Thank you, Brian. I saw on that site that they offer it for research only, not to patients so rather than try to navigate that and get a business address somehow, I looked further back in this thread and found https://www.intellimeds.net/homotaurine-powder which seems to have no such barriers. Will try that first. Again, thanks for your reply.

I'm 4/4 and watched my whole family on my dad's side (including him), for two generations, all succumb to AD and I highly suspect the 4/4 was the culprit in all of them. I'm the first to actually know I'm 4/4 with enough lead time to take action.

Craig

[Marinochka]

I ordered it on August 15 from supersmart as usual. The website is Supersmart.com. It is still 18 euro and it is still available there. I just checked. They changed the bottle a little.

[Brian4]

What makes me a little bit nervous about both SuperSmart and Intellimeds is that I don't have confidence that they are actually giving us homotaurine. It might be something else (normal taurine for ex.). Or they could be getting it in bulk from, say, Alibaba, and it could have dangerous impurities. That's another reason why I decided to pay extra and purchase from MedChemExpress. This treatment is that important.

I was also planning to do an assay of both SuperSmart's and Intellimeds' (putative) homotaurine, but finding a service to do it was a research task I didn't have time for.

If someone knows an easy way to do this, please speak up.

Brian

[seltzaman]

Brian, I kind of agree. The Intellimeds site seems kind of iffy - they only accept an international bank transfer or bitcoin. Considering a huge amount of bitcoin is used for fraud thus far in its lifetime, it seems your doubts are well founded. I attempted to order and the website was broken and would not provide the target account to send a bank transfer. I'm going to try to figure out a business address to have it sent to from MedChemExpress. But will also try to find a source to do an assay on what I have left from Supersmart and maybe go ahead and order from Intellimeds for the purpose of testing their product since the price is so low 200 grams is only about $25 with shipping and currency conversion.

[Tincup]

But will also try to find a source to do an assay on what I have left from Supersmart and maybe go ahead and order from Intellimeds for the purpose of testing their product.

If you find a testing source, I'm happy to contribute $$ to the effort.

[seltzaman]

Same here Tincup. I'm heading off on Vacation until the 9th but will start to look around.

[Brian4]

I as well would be happy to contribute!

[seltzaman]

I was told by Supersmart that there is a patent pending on homotaurine/tramiprosate and Supersmart can no longer sell it on the web anymore, at least in the U.S. They said they will get back to me with more information shortly.