The Western world is accepting the wonderful benefits of kratom, the southeast Asian herb, which is used for ages as a traditional medicine for pain and as a stress-buster and energy booster.
Kratom in New York was never so popular! And with New Year’s Eve just around the corner, people even want to gift their loved ones a box of kratom to let them start 2022 with new energy!
Users of kratom often wonder about the duration of its effects. And those who wish to go kratom free for a while after taking it for a long time wish to know how soon their body system would be clean of kratom.
For this, we must understand the half-life of kratom.
The benefit of knowing the half-life of kratom
Once you know for how long kratom would be in your system, you can schedule your doses accordingly and avoid overdose. It is good to educate yourself before you purchase this herb from a New York kratom vendor.
What’s half-life?
Half-life is the period of time a drug takes to cut down its plasma concentration by half.
To put it in other words, it is the period of time our body, specifically, the liver takes to break down the drug.
For example, if you take a 100 mg drug that has a half-life of 30 minutes, this means the drug would take 30 minutes to reduce its concentration to 50 mg and another 30 minutes to reduce to 25 mg, and so on. Usually, medical experts believe that a drug takes 5-6 half-lives to get completely removed from the body system under normal conditions.
Half-life of kratom
Pharmacological studies of kratom are still on. To date, no formal research on this herb exists that can tell its half-life accurately. A few studies are conducted, but on animals as of now. However, in 2015, a study was conducted and published as “Pharmacokinetics of Mitragynine in Man” by Mahidol University of Bangkok, Thailand. The study suggests kratom half-life be around 3.85 hours (plus and minus 0.51 hours).
Further, the study suggests that the chief alkaloid of kratom, mitragynine, harbors a terminal half-life of 23-24 hours.
So what does it mean?
According to experts, it means that your body would take around 24 hours to eliminate 50 percent of the kratom dose you take!
So, before you decide to increase the dose of your Green Maeng Da Kratom Powder, think again!
That’s why experts advise going kratom-free in between to help your body clean your system of this herb. Too much kratom in your system can also raise the chance of developing tolerance to the level that you may feel nothing when you take it the next time.
Elimination also depends on how you take a substance. So, how do you like your kratom near you? If you smoke its leaves, it gets eliminated faster. If you drink tea, it may take some time. If you ingest as powder, gummies, capsules, or softgels, it stays in you for longer.
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