09-10-2011, 01:22 PM
Great info Bryony, thanks for the links. There is a bit of scholarly reearch on PM which I use www.scholar.google.com to find. That part of google weeds out all the BS and promotional sites masquerading as providing info.
I have had similar thoughts to Beverly as to the quality and quantity of Ainterol capsules which I have been using for over a year (except for one or two bottles I tried of another brand from an eBay seller one time.) I used to lightly pinch a capsule or two to see how full they seemed to be. There seemed to be empty space in the Ainterol capsules but I had no way to tell if they really contained 500 mg or not.
Fast forward to last spring: I knew I would be taking PM for the long haul and decided a manual capsule filler would be worth the small investment since bulk PM from Ainterol is about half the price/mg of their caps. Being rather anal about some things I also bought a milligram scale to make sure I was filling my caps to 500 mg. Turns out when I firmly pack a "0" size gel cap its right around 500 mg, usually slightly over (like 512 mg or so.) When I pinched the caps I filled, they definitely didn't have as much empty space as I remember the Ainterol pre-filled caps having. Unfortunately I have no way to verify this now since any pre-filled caps I bought are long gone. My conclusion: maybe the Ainterol caps are not really 500 mg, though like many other users I definitely got many changes using their prefilled caps.
Just something to think about.
I have had similar thoughts to Beverly as to the quality and quantity of Ainterol capsules which I have been using for over a year (except for one or two bottles I tried of another brand from an eBay seller one time.) I used to lightly pinch a capsule or two to see how full they seemed to be. There seemed to be empty space in the Ainterol capsules but I had no way to tell if they really contained 500 mg or not.
Fast forward to last spring: I knew I would be taking PM for the long haul and decided a manual capsule filler would be worth the small investment since bulk PM from Ainterol is about half the price/mg of their caps. Being rather anal about some things I also bought a milligram scale to make sure I was filling my caps to 500 mg. Turns out when I firmly pack a "0" size gel cap its right around 500 mg, usually slightly over (like 512 mg or so.) When I pinched the caps I filled, they definitely didn't have as much empty space as I remember the Ainterol pre-filled caps having. Unfortunately I have no way to verify this now since any pre-filled caps I bought are long gone. My conclusion: maybe the Ainterol caps are not really 500 mg, though like many other users I definitely got many changes using their prefilled caps.
Just something to think about.