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Tiffany Kuo
@tiffanyamykuo · Co-Founder of Multiply Labs
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.
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Matthew Boyle
@matthewboyle25 · Matt
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?
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Tiffany Kuo
@tiffanyamykuo · Co-Founder of Multiply Labs
@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.
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Mark Shields
@laebshade · SRE@Twitter
@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.
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Ashwin Kumar
@shwinda · Working on Sway (www.swayfinance.com)
@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!
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Tiffany Kuo
@tiffanyamykuo · Co-Founder of Multiply Labs
@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.
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Tiffany Kuo
@tiffanyamykuo · Co-Founder of Multiply Labs
@shwinda Thanks for support! Looking forward to making it easier for you to stay strong and healthy!
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Joelle Alcaidinho
@joelle_writes · ACI Researcher, misanthropic gadabout
@tiffanyamykuo can you change the size of the pill?
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Tiffany Kuo
@tiffanyamykuo · Co-Founder of Multiply Labs
@joelle_writes Because we 3D print the pills, we can change the size of the pills! Because we have many other variables (supplements and release time), our initial product will have only one size - the size of a small standard vitamin.
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LA_Banker
@la_banker · Swimsuit model
@tiffanyamykuo "that can be customized to release different supplements at various times throughout the day."
Can you help me clear up a bit of skepticism I have regarding this statement?
Nutrient metabolism is governed by many variables – empty stomach vs. full stomach, absorption interactions (e.g. grapefruit), dilution, etc. How do you account for these? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say you're (just) introducing some delay mechanisms which are at the behest of the aforementioned (and other) factors?
Forgive the questioning but products one pays to ingest require a higher level of scrutiny.
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Fred Parietti
@fred_parietti · co-founder, Multiply Labs
@la_banker This is a very good question! We should first specify that our capsules are not made of polymers with pH-dependent solubility, so we can avoid the influence of staying more or less in the stomach due to the presence of food. You are right that there are many subject-specific factors that determine the release and absorption of supplements. However, our manufacturing technology allows us to modify the design of the pill, tailoring it to the needs of a customer. For example, if you feel that our "later release" happens to soon, we can update the next shipment based on your feedback (by delaying even more the release of the supplements). The end result of this iterative process is the unique, customized pill that suits your personal preferences.
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LA_Banker
@la_banker · Swimsuit model
@fred_parietti That's very cool that it's adjusted based on feedback. Innovative!
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Fred Parietti
@fred_parietti · co-founder, Multiply Labs
@la_banker Thank you very much! We're looking forward to receiving your feedback and implementing it in your pills! :)
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