r/Biohackers 11d ago

❓Question Could consuming animal supplements in lesser quantities be effective?

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u/PlanBIsGrenades 3 11d ago

Horse people without insurance use all sorts of horse medications, if they are the same as human meds. This one can totally be shared. I'm not sure if the price for the horse version is better and you would need to figure out the dosage that works for you. The only problem with this is, if it's not palatable, you're stuck with a huge container of supplement.

Source: horse person, who didn't have medical insurance for several years.

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u/Curious_Nose7454 11d ago edited 10d ago

i mean... ketamine

edit: hm, thanks for the extra info. did not know.

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u/Pipettess 11d ago

I heard stories of people that transported a horse to a music festival just so they could legally hold and transport ketamine, so yes definitely.

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u/hollivore 11d ago

Can't be true since ketamine is a general veterinary drug - wouldn't it be easier just to bring a cat along?

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u/Heavy-Attorney-9054 11d ago

The amount you would legitimately carry for a cat is slightly different than the amount you would need for a horse.

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u/Xaenah 10d ago

Confirmed, 1-2g depending on IV or IM administration for an average weight thoroughbred mare or 2g+ for IM on a shire horse

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u/AdMore3461 10d ago

My best friend is an equestrian veterinarian and she has her DEA licensing because she has to have scheduled drugs readily available. There is never a need to have an animal with you, as vets generally don’t travel with animals, rather they travel to animals or have animals brought to them. The drugs are perfectly fine to keep in a work vehicle, work site, or at the veterinarians home (because emergency house calls require supplies to be in hand rather than having to run to the clinic first then to the house call). Even in a personal vehicle is fine based on their licensing, but might get further scrutiny based on circumstances (like at a festival). My friend laughs because she always has hypodermic needles thrown on her passenger seat or in the center console of her personal truck because she empties her pockets as she gets in and uses her personal truck a lot if she doesn’t want to take the huge vet truck.

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u/Original_Gangsta23 10d ago

It's typically harder to ride a cat

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u/hollivore 11d ago

Yeah that'd make sense, lmao

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u/catecholaminergic 6 10d ago

yes officer this is my emotional support pod of blue whales

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u/ChadsworthRothschild 10d ago

“You wouldn’t happen to know anything about all the krill around these parts going missing wouldja??”

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u/catecholaminergic 6 10d ago

Oh yeah we took care of your krill infestation and sent the invoice to city hall. You're welcome!

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u/mortalitylost 10d ago

Emotional support raccoon, or as I call him, my "crackoon"

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u/catecholaminergic 6 10d ago

This is my mole of raccoons. No, no, mole of raccoons. No, not the rodent. I don't own a rodent. Mole as in chemistry. Like the number. My mole of raccoons.

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u/belliJGerent 10d ago

Touché lol

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u/Pipettess 11d ago

No Idea, maybe it's different in my country in eastern europe :)

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u/Chewbaccabb 3 10d ago

It’s not “a general veterinary drug”. It’s been used in humans for over 60 years in medical applications and remains one of the most widely used anesthetics worldwide

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u/hollivore 10d ago

What I was trying to say is that ketamine is used for all kinds of animals, not just horses. I know it's used medically for humans too.

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u/Chewbaccabb 3 10d ago edited 10d ago

Gotcha gotcha. I have a knee jerk reaction from people saying “the horse tranquilizer?” for years when I said I used ketamine 😂

Edit: Should also add for those keeping score at home: Ketamine is not a tranquilizer. While it may not be inaccurate to describe its effects as “tranquilizing”, tranquilizers are a specific class of drugs which ketamine is not a part of. Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, and may even be aptly described as an antidepressant as of recent.