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Cornel Stanciu

Cornel Stanciu

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and leading addiction psychiatrist specializing in kratom use disorder research and treatment.

Jul 8, 2026

22:46
Stanciu says that Feel Free is different from other kratom products on the market because of the peculiar relationship between kava and kratom.
22:54
Um, the, the combination of, uh, of, uh, these two botanicals certainly is concerning.
23:00
Both kratom and kava can inhibit metabolism of certain, um, pharmacological agents, but also of each other, which increases their, uh, their potency.
23:12
There's also the issue of kratom products that are available on the market right now.
23:16
Caps- capsules or, uh, liquid, uh, extracts, which extract just the highly potent, uh, compound from, uh, from the kratom plant, and really concentrate it to where one could ingest a capsule that may be the equivalent of, say, three trees worth of leaf.
23:36
It's, it's very, uh, very dangerous for, um, the consumer.

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