ALA - I made my own 500mg capsules

[SirWanksalot]

I purchased all needed materials from beyond-a-century

ALA - ($16.50 for 50 grams - 33 cents a gram) (comes in double sealed bottle with 250mg serving spoon)

Cap-M-Quick device - ($10.20)

Cap-M-Quick Tamper - ($4.25)

Gel Capsules size 00 - ($11.20 - 750 count)

The "00" size capsules will hold 500mg of ALA if the product is tampered liberally. With a 50 gram order - it works out very nice because the way to measure is to just fill the caps and tamper and then repeat fill and tamper until they will not hold any more. The Cap-m-quick device holds 50 caps at a time so to do a 50 grams bottle will take two sessions.

I 1st did 50 caps - my second batch was then 10 caps at a time ( a real bitch). I did this to ascertain how many mg's per cap with some accuracy. Once done I came out with 100 caps exactly.

You can do two 50 cap batches per bottle ( just remember to tamper/ fill multiple times thus packing the ala in tightly allowing for more product).

1) ALA powder is yellowish in color with the consistency of powedered / sifted sugar.

2) Use a clean "smooth" surface under capsule making device, this will allow for any spilt ala to be recovered. I used enclosed scraper (plastic card) to reclaim all visable ala.

3) I wasted about 250mg of ala in the capsule making process.

4) Entire process takes about 25 minutes per 50 caps

5) ala was air exposed for about 15 minutes per 50 caps

6) I used an old Nutriteam ala jar to hold caps

Note: Old ala from nutriteam had an expiration date of September 2004 - Assuming Nutriteams caps and beyond-a-century's bulk ALA came from the same batch (highly doubtfull but allows us to make some conclusions). Because I air exposed my ala for 15 minutes during capping, I say take of six months until expiration - so in a nutshell, My home made caps will be OK until March 2004. At 3 grams a day (6 caps) I will be out 17 days, so I will not worry about hame capp'ed ala going bad.

Note: Note: Once you have cap-ping equiment, it's nice because you can cap anything, I made some ginger root caps to aid in protein digestion.

Beyond-a-century total shipping was only $4.75 (that also included 1 kilo l-glutamine, 1 kilo Ascorbic acid, 100 grams Quercitin, 100 grams chasteberry)

 

[SirWanksalot]

Mg is a measure of weight not volume.

If I have 50 grams of ALA and that 50 grams fits into 100 count of the 00 size gelatin caps then simple math dictates that each cap has 500mg.

I have a 1 kilo ascorbic acid container sitting next to a 1 kilo glutamine container. The ascorbic acid (vitamin c) container is about half the size of the L-glut container even though they both weigh 1 kilo.

note: my measuring is based on the 50 grams in the ALA container actually being 50 grams (i did not weigh it). I too was thinking (and hoping)that I could get 900mg into one "00" capsule. That would have been very nice.

 

[BackDoc]

Sir, if you would, I've got some questions:

1-can you tell me what brand the ALA is?

2-If you use them, could you tell me if you test your level of ketosis is measured to be with ketostix?



33.00 for 100 grams is a spectacular deal (over twice as good as my current deal), and well worth encapsulating yourself. if it is good quality, then i will certainly buy there.

Sirwanksalot deserves some good karma for the recommendations.

 

[SirWanksalot]

Sir, if you would, I've got some questions:

1-can you tell me what brand the ALA is?

2-If you use them, could you tell me if you test your level of ketosis is measured to be with ketostix?

1) the bulk ALA powder comes in a white plastic container from beyond-a-century. I imagine they buy in huge bulk then package it down into there own labeled 50 gram containers. So I guess this would be generic ALA. It smells really potent - like rotting aparigus

2) When I remember to check urine - it's usually trace ketones.

 

[EngiCream]

Great post, thanks for taking the time to write that up.

 

[SirWanksalot]

Bumping to save bro's some dough..........

 

[ChillyDog]

Great post man! This is exaxtly what I have done. I got about 522mg or ala per cap but just call it 500. Sooo much better then mixing the ALA with water - that burned pretty bad.