"First of all, let's take a moment and wait for all the amazing, well meaning hippies and planet earth enthusiasts to leave this review section. Go on, I'll wait tilI I hear your birkenstocks clop clop clop down the hallway before I begin. Heaven forbid anyone of them buy a product that isn't made from 100% organic and blessed by New Zealand made vegetarian duck farts. Yes this product comes from China, so by default everything is evil and cruel in the world and toxic and we're going to give ourselves cancer because it's not double certified and and kosher blessed by a rabbi's fart to boot. Wanting to use this product wouldn't have ANYTHING to do with the logic in seeing 10K plus positive reviews stating how these products have helped people (rolls eyes).

Now that it's just you and I, I'll continue. I'm here because I was searching for amino acids to buy in bulk without fillers. I wanted something priced fair and pure. After all my searching, Bulk Supplements had the ideal products. The only thing that was left for me to do was scan through all the reviews to see if such products would help me. I have a connective tissue disorder so I made it a point to buy all the aminos that had an effect in regards to tissues of the body. I also bought Glutamine as I read that helped people with their SEVERE bread/wheat/carbohydrate cravings as I have severe bread cravings for that and dairy. I work out often and can never lost the extra 25 pounds because of my food addiction to wheat and dairy. After one day I felt a difference so noticeable I logged in and bought the other remaining 4 amino Acids I needed but did not buy before do to not wanting to spend so much. But since they work and it seems most of these will last 6 months to a year, I opened the floodgates and bought everyone that was unique to me. I ended up buying about 8 products on my first purchase 6 weeks ago.

Coming from someone who has tried adding coconut oil, vitamins, probiotics, nothing ever seemed to make much of a difference. It wasn't until I started taking amino acids that everything moved forward for me in my health goals. THIS......STUFF.......WORKS! I also have chronic fatigue syndrome and I'm seeing progress in my energy and health. I want to add that I also bought the Potassium citrate. I can't EMPHASIZE ENOUGH HOW MUCH THAT ALSO HELPED ME! I work out every other day and I use the sauna for about 40 minutes. In conjunction with taking aminos and now getting about 5K (4700 the average, but I workout hard) mg of potassium citrate, I'm feeling so much better! Even in my workouts I had to increase the weight by about 20 percent on the machines I use, and I even had to add more reps onto my sets! My original workout felt like I never even worked out since taking these products! Now even with added weight and reps onto my workout regimen, I still feel like I didn't quite workout enough! But I keep my increases minimal as I don't want to go ahead to much. But I can't flipping believe how much these products have boosted what I can do in the weight room AND not feel like a gassed race horse when I'm done. This stuff is literally the MAGIC powder. And with how its helping me with regular health outside of working out and also keeping me from falling off on binge eating on pizza and ice cream, this stuff is it. I'll always be a consumer of these products.

Since I already ordered 3 times from this company (LOL) in the last 6 weeks, I got three free sample products to try that I WOULD NOT NORMALLY BUY! But since they also helped, I ended up adding them onto my next order! And to those people that complained about getting the free samples being just a marketing ploy and other nonsense, BUGGER OFF! There are products I wouldn't have bothered to try but since I got to try them for free and I liked them, I added them onto my next purchase. Because they worked for ME. You're getting a product that could very well last for a month and free shipping, all you have to do is leave a review if you like it or not. Yes, what a scam bulk supplements is running (rolls eyes).

As of now there are two other products I plan on ordering from them, the Melatonin and the BCAA 3-1-2 product. Again, I'm only doing this because of how much positive gains I'm seeing in my health and workout. Another bonus was I could never eat enough meat, I was always hungry for tuna, turkey, beef, I could never get enough and my grocery bill was always high. Now I can eat a normal serving of meat and I feel like I don't need anymore thanks to taking the Acetylcarnitine and the Creatine, components that are found in muscle tissue.

How I take my supplements is as follows- I take one serving size amount of each one in the morning. Then in the evening I take one serving size of only the msm, ascorbic acid, acetyl carnitine, Arginine, L-Glutamine, D-Ribose, potassium citrate. I take this because of budget, I want what I have to last longer, but these products are most important in keeping my cravings at bay so I take them once more at night. You can take some of these 3 times a day it says, but I only do them all once, and what I just listed twice. If I was rich and could afford $300 in supplements every 2-3 months I'd take them 3 times day. But since I'm not I make them last :)

In summary, what I take is what I feel my body needs. And I am 100% happy with the effects I have experienced. And as for odors like some people described when they open their packages, well.........Some of these are chemicals, aren't they? MSM will smell like a sulphur like smell, correct? Unless you want added scents to mask things (which I don't) I honestly have not had a problem with that. And for the foil cosing bag, what I did was go to Walmart and buy a package of the large sized mason jars and I use those to hold my amino's in. I can't see knocking off a star because of the foil bag seal. Just pour it in a wide mouth mason jar and get a measure spoon to dish it out.

If you're wondering what products I've used with this company, if you're reading this review then this is the product I purchased and have in my pantry. I'm not rewriting a review for each item, so I am copying and pasting a review to use on every item I bought from them. Any other questions please ask, but I find that as a person with health issues and food issues these items have helped me beyond anything else I've ever tried."

"I’ve been taking for a month now and feel less bloated"

"I bought this together with my first ever order from bulk supplements... so far I love this supplier! I found some independent lab testing which rated the purity of one of their products highly, so I hope I can trust them to be consistent in that regard across their product line. So far, so good.

Now on to the ALCAR itself... HOLY COW! Who decided that this stuff shouldn't require a prescription? I've been experimenting with all kinds of supplements and herbs for about 2.5 years now (for various reasons), and NONE of them ever caused as immediate, obvious, and powerful of a response as this one. This came completely by surprise, since most of the research I did indicated that this stuff is totally safe. I purchased it solely for helping reduce muscle soreness after long distance running (and other cross-training). Boy did I not know what I was getting myself into this time! And next time I'll pay more attention to the differences between L-Carnitine and Acetyl-L-Carnitine. :-)

The only substance I've ever ingested that elicited a more powerful response was a prescription medication (given to me by my doctor), which after only four days as a minimum dosage had me in the ER on the edge of psychosis. Thankfully, ALCAR didn't do THAT much to me.

My first three days on ALCAR were a quite exhilarating and slightly overwhelming hypomanic whirlwind. I slept less and still felt totally awesomely fresh in the morning and energetic all day. I had all the classic symptoms of higher acetylcholine: improved vision, salivation, eye moisture, motivation, quick thinking, etc. And wow, if that could be tuned back a couple notches and maintained indefinitely... the rest of life would play out quite differently!

But it was just too intense, and I was getting concerned, so on the fourth day I took none, and gradually came down throughout the day. By that evening I felt like total crap... brain fog, sluggish, cranky, etc. I took some ALCAR the next day in hopes of conquering that come-down, and it worked, and I felt pretty great without so much intensity. But then over the next day or two I started getting brain foggy and noticably depressed (for no good reason), and had some wicked strong appetite and carb cravings (which is all very unusual for me). So I came back off and haven't tried it again yet... after all of that, I'm kind of afraid to!

I love the way this stuff comes up and down so gradually, and a single lasts all day (actually into the next morning). If it were working well for you (lucky you!), and you felt it wearing off, I think you'd easily have a couple hours to take another dose before it totally wore off.

I also loved that feeling of freshness in the morning time... although I sleep pretty decently, I haven't had that feeling in many years.

After my "hypomanic trip" followed by a couple rather rough days of depression, I did a little more reading and found quite a few people around the internet who have had similar crazy reactions. It surprises me that the research studies and other official information sources fail to mention these risks, let alone explore and try to explain them.

At this point, I'm just leaving the stuff on the top shelf, because a week of normality sounds much better than ALCAR right now! If I ever try it again, it will definitely be in much lower dosage than is indicated on the label (measuring such a tiny amount might require some creativity!). And I'll probably try just a single isolated dose, and not take it for several days in a row. It's very tempting to use it to have a super-nice feeling weekend, but I'm very concerned about paying for it afterward. My hope is that in smaller doses, I might get benefits without any problems. But there is no roadmap to follow here... I mainly just feel like this stuff is way more powerful (and potentially dangerous) for some people than other people are willing to admit.

So do your research on this stuff and be careful with the dosage. Before experimenting with stuff like this, you should be aware of the symptoms of high acetylcholine and low serotonin and dopamine, and be grounded in and aware of all the things going on in both your body and mind. Had I not stopped taking it after only a few days, who knows what kind of situation I'd have gotten myself into.

I'm fully aware that some people claim to have taken very high doses of ALCAR every day for many years, and insist that it's no big deal. I'm just waiting for someone to ask questions about what other substances I might have been taking at the same time.

But trust me, I'm quite sure that it was the ALCAR that caused powerful responses for me. Each person's body and brain chemistry is different. If you try this stuff and it seems to do nothing... so be it... I'm not disagreeing with you that ALCAR does nothing for you. On the other hand, if you try this stuff and have a similar powerful reaction... don't say I didn't warn you!"