Brian420pm
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I've been listening to, watching videos of and reading the work of Dr. Alexey Peshkovsky and I'll try to summarize his work here and how it might apply to us home DIYers. I'm new to this so forgive my ignorance and please let me know of any errors.
Homogenizing your end product CCO in water breaks down all the particles to smaller sizes. The process, as you can imagine, increases bio-availability, and other pharma products show a 5 to 7 times increase.
The trick is, once you have your CCO, carrier and surfactant mixed together, you add water and mechanically SHEAR the material, with vibration or rotation, to smaller and smaller particle sizes. There are different levels of emulsification... macro and nano.
The stuff we make without further treatment is MACRO if we mixed it in water, over 1,000nm (1 micron) particle size. NANO is <300nm. Once you get to <100nm, your product becomes translucent, since light waves are 400nm they simply wash over the particles with little disturbance.
You can buy equipment that will take your product down to <20nm. I found a hand held unit looking like a dremel for $170. The mixing bits are $300 and up (google "rotor homogenizers"). Complete packages with a stand and control box, motor and bit are usually >$1,000. One filter step is required after mixing to remove any particles that could have come from the mixing bit... this can be done with a syringe filter or buchner filter process.
The advantages are:
Companies are now experimenting with water extractions, and this is most likely part of that process. This method probably precludes using an LCT oil to extract with, it would be too much oil.
My take away from this... too expensive! lol What if I modified my own dremel bit and see what size the particles are when done? How would I measure particle size to do this testing?
Does this mean I could take just the resin heads from say dry sifting or water hash, use the proportions of water, oil and surfactant as noted above, then just BEAT IT, Beat It, beat it.....?
Homogenizing your end product CCO in water breaks down all the particles to smaller sizes. The process, as you can imagine, increases bio-availability, and other pharma products show a 5 to 7 times increase.
The trick is, once you have your CCO, carrier and surfactant mixed together, you add water and mechanically SHEAR the material, with vibration or rotation, to smaller and smaller particle sizes. There are different levels of emulsification... macro and nano.
The stuff we make without further treatment is MACRO if we mixed it in water, over 1,000nm (1 micron) particle size. NANO is <300nm. Once you get to <100nm, your product becomes translucent, since light waves are 400nm they simply wash over the particles with little disturbance.
You can buy equipment that will take your product down to <20nm. I found a hand held unit looking like a dremel for $170. The mixing bits are $300 and up (google "rotor homogenizers"). Complete packages with a stand and control box, motor and bit are usually >$1,000. One filter step is required after mixing to remove any particles that could have come from the mixing bit... this can be done with a syringe filter or buchner filter process.
The advantages are:
- 5 to 7 times (?) increased bioavailability (how much and how fast the active ingredient is delivered)
- less oil carrier and surfactants needed (water becomes your main carrier at 85%, oil and surfactants total around 10%)
- stable (shelf life is many months)
- easy dosing (more uniform absorption, not as dependent on fullness or levels of fat in stomach)
Companies are now experimenting with water extractions, and this is most likely part of that process. This method probably precludes using an LCT oil to extract with, it would be too much oil.
My take away from this... too expensive! lol What if I modified my own dremel bit and see what size the particles are when done? How would I measure particle size to do this testing?
Does this mean I could take just the resin heads from say dry sifting or water hash, use the proportions of water, oil and surfactant as noted above, then just BEAT IT, Beat It, beat it.....?