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Can I take a capsaicin and a mint supplement together? Is that enough to get the effect?
by hyperhello 6mo ago
Can I take a capsaicin and a mint supplement together? Is that enough to get the effect?
- aappleby 6mo agoNo, the article title is misleading. This is in-vitro research only.
- dylan604 6mo agoIt is funny how that is the thing people turn to rather than just eating food. Let me eat junk and be happy while taking supplements.
- IncreasePosts 6mo agoWhat part of their post indicates they eat junk? Maybe they just don't want to have spicy minty meals every day
- hyperhello 6mo agoI don’t just eat junk, but it’s hard to experiment with a whole dietary change when you have sporadic inflammation. I guess that’s why we do scientific studies, right?
- IncreasePosts 6mo agoSorry to pry, but since you're here, what are the symptoms of sporadic inflammation? Any clues what causes it?
- hyperhello 6mo agoLiterally just getting old. I’m not even old, just not young.
- dlcarrier 6mo agoNormally I'd agree, but in this case I'd opt for the supplement. Spicy mint is a pretty repulsive flavor.
- nosrepa 6mo agoYou'd still get a certain effect when it comes out.
- darth_avocado 6mo agoYou just need Indian food not supplements
- VitalStack 6mo agoThe in-vitro caveat is the key issue here. The "100x" figure refers to inflammatory marker measurements in isolated mouse macrophage cell cultures, a setup where compounds are applied directly to cells at controlled concentrations. Oral supplementation involves digestion, absorption, metabolism, and distribution to tissues that make those in-vitro concentrations essentially unreachable. Taking capsaicin and peppermint supplements together is unlikely to cause harm, but you're not replicating the study conditions. The in-vitro result is interesting as a mechanistic signal. It suggests a possible interaction pathway worth investigating, but it doesn't provide dosing guidance for humans. This gap between study type and real-world applicability is exactly why I built vital-stack.com for supplement interactions in my database, I surface the study type and mechanism alongside the conclusion, so you can judge how much weight to give it.