Hey Product Hunt,
I’m Tiffany, co-Founder of Multiply Labs, and we want to make staying healthy and energized a lot easier! Like many of you, we often find ourselves not having enough time to be healthy (frozen food and pizza is not healthy) and drinking too many cups of coffee (the Starbucks cashier knows my name).
For the first time, we made it possible to create your own personalized supplement pill that can be customized to release different supplements at various times throughout the day. With one pill in the morning, you can have your standard health-boosting supplements released immediately and a burst of caffeine released later in the day.
After you tell us a little bit about yourself, we can recommend supplements for your personalized pill based on your needs and then use our 3D printing technology to build a pill just for you!
Check it out and let us know what you think.
This sounds like something amazing and could be breakthrough. @tiffanyamykuo Can you ExplainLikeImFive: How a single ingested pill can release different supplements at different times during the day?
@matthewboyle25 Thanks for the first question! We actually 3D-print a pill with different compartments using pharmaceutical materials. By varying the material we use and the thickness of the pill's compartments, we can control when these different compartments release the supplements.
@tiffanyamykuo when will I be able to increase the dosage in a single pill? Your dosage for Omega 3 is lower than prescribed by my doctor.
When will you have other supplements such as CoQ10 available?
The setup is cumbersome on mobile. Slider bars for weight and height only allows me approximations. This is poor design.
@tiffanyamykuo Amazing product! I can't wait for this -- as a weightlifter I've had to carry around pill boxes of supplements and remember to take them periodically. This is huge -- great job guys!
@laebshade We are constantly improving our product, so your feedback regarding mobile design is helpful! Over the next months, we plan on adding functionality to increase dosage for some supplements and increasing the offered supplements based on comments from our early access program.
I emailed multiple people working in the gut "space."
There's 2 primary issues with this product that essentially make it vaporware tantamount to something like the Anat Baniel Therapy.
* To time a release over various parts of the gut is too much of a challenge right now
* Different folks have different motility
@datarade Thanks for your opinion, but we disagree! Our peer-reviewed data&papers prove that our technology works. For example, in this study we show that the release profiles of 3D printed capsules are remarkably consistent: http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...
While in this other study, we demonstrate the release/dissolution properties of 10 more 3D printed, FDA-approved pharmaceutical polymers: http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...
So, the tech is solid and the science is there to prove it.
We know that the specific release time varies in the digestive system of every customer. That is where the power of 3D printing (=full customization) comes into play! If you feel like your pill releases your supplements (e.g. caffeine boost) too early or too late, we can modify its design and ship you a new version of the pill that is tailored to your needs (in other words, we can further delay or anticipate the release of the supplements). The end result of this iteration is a pill that is unique to you, because it was designed based on your specific feedback, which is determined by how your body works!
@datarade It's also important to add that the control of release time is one of the 3 unique features that we offer! The other 2 are the possibility to customize both the combination and the dosage of the supplements in a single, small pill. There is no other technology on the market that can offer any of these features!
@fred_parietti I dont dispute that the technology for 3D printing can create a pill for pulsatile deployment. The problem with the technology is that simple time based release is not the only parameter to establish an effective delivery mechanism. As you know, for example - the FSVs depend on location in the GI tract for optimal absorption. You can try to time release into the duodenal-colonic axis, but the number of variables will render your methdology of iterating useless. As a company, you would argue that the timed release is an upgrade on the current supplements, but that only goes to support the relatively small need as absorption is fairly effective in the current paradigm.
You could try to have everyone undergo a pill cam or Tc-99M Solid phase gastric emptying study, but also completely not feasible. If you throw in a touch of basic gastroenteritis or a transient intussception amongst a myriad of other fleeting conditions in the human gut, the timing of the release of your pill is rendered invalid. The technology needed to make timed or gated distribution effective would rely on more than just a 3D printed capsule form that yielded sustained releases.
@datarade Once again, we disagree with your posts. Luckily we got you to agree on the release capabilities of the 3D printed pills. You are not switching topics, and focusing on the absorption of the supplement. If you actually went on our website and used our pill customization interface, you would see that we put most supplements (vitamins, minerals) in the "release now" part of the capsule. In this respect, our pill behaves like a normal supplement pill, but with no eccipients and personalized combinations and quantities of supplements (unique features of our product).
Sounds like great tech! Can you share some peer reviewed evidence on the individual components/on the pill as a whole/the timed release being worth paying for?
@ajayn This is a great question! Here's the link to our flagship paper, which won the award for Best 2015 Paper in the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...
This paper shows our data on the release profile of the first-ever 3D printed (fused filament fabrication) pill shells.
@ajayn You will see that we only use FDA approved pharmaceutical polymers, and that their release profiles are remarkably consistent. Additionally, we also published this paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci... , where we verify the release/dissolution performance of 10 more FDA-approved pharmaceutical polymers! :)
@fred_parietti Thanks! Cool stuff. Any reason why you chose supplements instead of therapeutic agents(like, say, insulin)? I ask because I am generally skeptical of people spending a ton of money on supplements when they can just eat a little better 😄 + the evidence on daily supplements is a little iffy.
@ajayn You made a very good point! Our technology was born out of pharmaceutical research, and can be applied to the release of drugs. However, by starting from supplements we are able to bring this innovation faster to the customers, and solve the huge pain point of having to take multiple, mass-produced pills (this is a big problem both for pharma and for supplement pill takers). Moreover, many customers need to integrate their diets with personalized combinations of supplements, which we can provide with more accuracy than standard multivitamins (which usually include unnecessarily large quantities of supplements, in the one-size-fits-all approach). Finally, some supplements - like caffeine - are taken to improve concentration rather than to complement nutrition. In these cases, timed release and quantity become essential, and we are the only technology that can customize those.
@fred_parietti Thanks for the answers, all makes sense. This whole move towards personalised medicine is very exciting.
What is your/the company's opinion on the cost efficacy of nutritional supplements like Vitamins B, C etc.?
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