#55 - Kratom Roundtable: Natural Leaf vs 7-OH, RFK & Protecting Access

Join The Nimrod Pod as Lou Stump and Chet Liftkit sit down with Christopher Deaney of Christopher's Organic Botanicals and Jordan Richard of New Hope Botanicals for a hard-hitting industry roundtable on the fight to protect natural kratom.They break down personal recovery stories that turned lives around, the three main consumer profiles, what big gas-station brands got right and wrong, why full-spectrum leaf beats isolates and synthetics, the explosive rise of 7-OH “chemical soup,” DEA moves on MGM-15/pseudoindoxyl, RFK Jr. and the MAHA administration as the most pro-kratom team yet, NIH human trials on mitragynine, the path to a federal Kratom Consumer Protection Act, and exactly how consumers should shop, dose, and keep natural leaf mainstream without the pitfalls of isolates, ultra-concentrated extracts, and synthetic derivatives.