Kava Candy - My Latest Discovery

[op12]

Disclosure: I have absolutely zero financial interests in Kava Candy as a business. I do not own stock, I am not an investor, I do not know the owner or any employees. This is just a review of a new discovery that I have made.

Kava is a well known herbal supplement that has been used in the South Pacific for thousands of years to help people with anxiety, mellow out, be more sociable and to sleep. The traditional ingestion method is too time consuming, the effects are too strong and thus not appropriate for the work place.

Kava Candy (Link) is a neat solution to those issues. It comes in a package that looks like a gum/candy package and the dose is tuned to make you feel mellow at work without getting sleepy. I have been trying them for a week now and I have found that they take the edge off of my work place stress/anxiety.

They don't make me "stoned". My job is analytical, I need to think clearly and quickly and they don't impact that aspect of my intellect. In actuality, the drop in anxiety helps me to think more effectively.

Kava itself tastes bad to some people. The candies are made to help mask that and they taste good. Kava numbs your tongue mildly for about ten minutes, an effect I kind of enjoy.

If you suffer from work place stress/anxiety I would recommend researching these and trying them out.

 

[BlueLaser]

Be careful, kava has been linked with toxicity and liver problems. Might want to consult your doctor before you start using it daily. Some studies have suggested mould was the problem, not kava, but never hurts to go in and get your blood checked before you start taking it and then regularly again for a little while to make sure. It may also have a lot of undocumented and unknown interactions with prescription drugs.

 

[op12]

Be careful, kava has been linked with toxicity and liver problems. Might want to consult your doctor before you start using it daily. Some studies have suggested mould was the problem, not kava, but never hurts to go in and get your blood checked before you start taking it and then regularly again for a little while to make sure. It may also have a lot of undocumented and unknown interactions with prescription drugs.

I researched that extensively before trying. It appears it was due to two problems.

1) some vendors were using the stem and leaf which can be toxic. The roots are not toxic. Other vendors were extracting the kavalactones using alcohol which is a no-no.

2) some liver toxicity events were from people who were drinking at the same time as ingesting large amounts of kava. So only do only one or the other, not both.

 

[George The Curious]

It's a drug alright, with known hepatoxicity and dont mix well with alcohol and some prescriptions.

 

[BlueLaser]

I researched that extensively before trying. It appears it was due to two problems.

1) some vendors were using the stem and leaf which can be toxic. The roots are not toxic. Other vendors were extracting the kavalactones using alcohol which is a no-no.

2) some liver toxicity events were from people who were drinking at the same time as ingesting large amounts of kava. So only do only one or the other, not both.

The liver toxicity study you're talking about was the one done in Australia on the native population there. It isn't the only study done that found possible hepatoxicity ties to kava.