Review (5/5): Pleasantly Surprised Due To The Low Price & Some Negative Reviews Here
From some of the reviews, plus the lowest price of all the other kava I've found on Amazon, I was ready to be disappointed, but I'm happy to report this is either just as good, or at worst, quite nearly as good, (in my experience, at least), as any Kava I've gotten here.
I should tell you I rarely drink kava for the kava krunk experience. I use it as a kratom potentiater. So this point, I have yet to test this for the krunk factor. Generally speaking, kratom is a natural upper and kava is a natural downer, but when you do kratom first and wait for the effects to come on, kava will then actually boost the kratom upper experience, by making it stronger and even longer lasting.
The thing about kratom, at least for me, when the kratom effect starts to end, taking more kratom only provides minimal results. Maybe just 15% of the first dose. However, in fairness, that first dose lasts for many hours, and it's so satisfying, I don't find myself wanting to do more and more, the way i would crave traditional drugs like alcohol and the like, so I never felt cheated by the fact that to get the full kratom experience again, I would need to get some sleep in between doses.
Then I saw a YouTube viideo on kava's ability to potentiate kratom effects and was delighted to discover that a dose or 2 of kava will provide up to about a 2/3 effect of the first dose of kratom -- way better than taking a second dose of kratom by itself. I don't always chase kratom with kava to get things started, but if i ever want more kratom effects several hours after dosing, I will either take kava and more kratom, or sometimes just the kava.
I don't know how mixing the two turns the kava downer into and upper, but in my experience, it does so every time. Body chemistry can vary, so your mileage may vary, as they say, but I think most people will have similar experiences.
if I had never done kratom, I might have been more impressed with the kava krunk / downer experience, but when I compare it to the kratom upper experience, it pales so much in direct contrast, I generally save the kava to use as an upper via the kratom interaction.
Although sometimes, if I'm close to going to sleep at the end of the day, at that point I found I can still do kava by itself and it will still provide me with the norlmal krunk relaxation sleepy time effect.
By the way, yohimbe bark mixes very well with kratom as well. It gives energy and an interesting body buzz experience that even by itself is pretty good, but with kratom is downright exquisite. I buy it here on Amazon. Puritan's Pride Yohimbe Bark extract. A lot of men take that instead of viagara, by the way.
I would recommend to anyone who is taking prescription medicine happy pills to switch over to kratom. I have no side effects of any kind, nor does anyone I've turned onto kratom, but I admit I'd not be happy if I ran out and couldn't get more. Much the way millions of people would not be happy if they could never get another coffee buzz.
Kratom is great for aches and pains as well. Many people who used to be addicted to sythetic opiates that needed to deal with pain, have been able to get off those opiates by switching to the 100% natural opiate of kratom, which is the powder form of leaves from the Indonesian tree, mytragyna speciosa.
There are 3 reasons people tend to do kratom.
1) Mood boost
2) Pain alleviation
3) Energy boost
If you are a coffee person, chances are you are a kratom person in waiting. You'll probably never go back to coffee, but be forewarned. It tastes horrible. If you mix it in a drink, you will probably have a difficult time getting it down, so the "toss and wash" method is the way most people take it. Put a semi heaping teasppon's worth in your mouth and wash it down with your choice of beverage. Within 10 or 15 minutes, you should be good to go.
More and more gas stations are starting to sell kratom in capsules, but the price markup is highway robbery. I just saw an 8 gram package selling for $14. That almost $2 a gram. I get 1000 grams (KG) for $70 delivered.) True, its not in capsules, but you can buy capsules for pretty cheap and a set up called The Capsule Machine, probably here on Amazon I'm guessing, if you absolutely must have it in capsules. But thing about the price difference. That KG bag I get for $70, would be I guess about $1,800 at those gas station prices.
You can find kratom vendors on the webiste raddit . Do a search once you get there to find the kratom sub-reddit.
OK, here's my last tip to you guys. As great as kratom is for helping you have energy and feel pleasant and have patience and empathy for others and motivate you to get things done, there is something a thousand times more useful for that.and so much more... It's called brainwave entrainment. Most B. E. is in the form of binaural beats.
They are tones you listen to but you must use headphones / ear buds. It changes your brainwave patterns in such a dramatic way, increasing the synapses in your brain, and the interconnectedness between the spheres of the brain, providing a type of exercise for your brain, that in the past, you used to have about 30 years of deep mediation practice like a Tibetan monk practicing 12 hours a day, to experience.
It is great for stress reduction and personal growth on many levels. It increases the amount of stressfulness you are natural able to deal with before acting out in the various and sundry ways we humans react to stress with, which are all negative. (Things like abusing alcohol and other drugs, overeating, angry outbursts, road rage, saying hurtful things, gambling, having heart attacks, yell at the kids, kick the dog.... everybody reacts to too much stress differently, but yes, all that and so much more.)
You should listen to B.E. sound tracks without doing anything else. Close your eyes, while preferably seated in a comfy chair with feet on the floor, but you can lay down if you insist. Best to stay awake, but no multi tasking is allowed. The amazing thing is even if you fall asleep, you will still benefit, although not as much as if you stay awake.
Unlike kratom, you probably will not be immediatlely blown away with your first experience. You might notice a sense of relaxation, but the truly big time life help, the increasing of your ability to handle situations without feeling stress, increases over a long period of time. It's gradual, starting with several weeks, and then more so as it turns into months and then a year.
In a year, if you do B.E. daily, in many ways you will be like another person. A better person. You'll have more life skills and more compassion and you'll be better at your job and better in your various relationships.
You have find B.E. soundtracks on YouTube.