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Not many people know where to buy meldonium, but in reality there are several good vendors online. Not much was known about this seemingly miraculous medicine before January of 2016, when it was banned by WADA (World anti-doping agency). Now the word Meldonium is quite familiar around the globe but few know about its origin and actual uses . In this article you will read where to buy meldonium and what is Meldonium.
It was studied and developed in Latvia which at the time was occupied by Soviet Russia and was called Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. This is why there is a quite wide spread presumption that it is made in Russia. Although Meldonium technically was developed in USSR , it was developed in territory of Latvia and by Latvian , and is manufactured almost exclusively in Latvia. Thus it is more appropriate to consider the drug Latvian origin. The substance was discovered by Latvian in 1970 his name is Ivars Kalvins and researched in Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis.
When talking about the this drug, one thing should be clear from the start- Meldonium is the active ingredient and the medicine is made by several companies from which best known is Grindeks or sometimes called Grindex with brand name “Mildronate” . Grindeks is located in capital of Latvia, Riga. Mildronate is distributed and can be bought In Baltic States , Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. But there is hope for the rest of the world to get Meldonium in forcible future as well, because Grindeks is officially researching Turkish and China markets. It should be noted that Meldonium is no longer patented, therefore there is few other Meldonium manufacturers from which biggest is “ Olainfarm” which is also located in Latvia .There is also few small Meldonium manufacturers in Russia and Belarus but their impact on the market is negligible. others who wonder where to buy Meldonium should search for trustworthy vendors online. One great criteria is to use online shop who offers PayPal payments, this shows that they are comitted to deliver your order.
The main use of Meldonium is for treatment of diseases of heart and blood vessels. The underlying scientific principles are quite difficult to comprehend and explained in mortal human language. Thus I will not use smart long chemical formulas and principles here. Almost always it enough to know that Meldonium is doing its magic by influencing metabolism in positive way and doing it with help of improving oxygen consumption in cells.
Since improving running is all about improving ones oxygen intake and consumption, thus the possible doping effects of Meldonium in sports becomes clear. There also is evidence in scientific community of usefulness of Meldonium in conditions beside heart diseases as treating Alzheimer, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. Also there are reports of increased sexual activity in certain animals which were used for scientific study. Mildronate is on of the most popular medication to increase energy levels because it has very little side effects and has been used for this purpose for half a century.
It is quite common for people who live in regions where Meldonium is sold over the counter, to use it to tackle long term stress and increasing overall energy levels. The usual usage cycle is about month or two and then it is recommended to stop. Doctors in these countries prescribe Meldonium to pateints after viral infections , after stressful periods in life or general fatigue. it has been helpful for Long covid as well. Doctors also suspect that because of emerging new cases of post viral illness, more people will search where to buy meldonium. Because illness itself is poorly understod and rarley there are effective treatments, meldonium is one of them. Among knowledgable doctors meldonium is one of the supplements for CFS ( Chronic fatigue syndrome) .
After the ban of Maria Sharapova from sports community at the start of year 2016, there was a explosion of demand for Meldonium which was noticed by venturesome people in Russia and Baltic states , especially home country of our star drug — Latvia. The selling was easy because the 250mg Meldonium version is over the counter medicine in all the countries where it is sold. From early year 2016 to late summer, Meldonium could be easily bought in Ebay, after that listings were starting to disappear. Right now the listings are becoming almost non existing.
It should be noted that there are 3 most common types of Meldonium:
250mg capsules
500mg capsules
500mg/5ml ampoules.
Currently there are several vendors online that sell Meldonium Mildronate and ship to Germany. If you want to buy Mildronate you have to notice 2 things with the seller.
1) First they should ship from country inside the European Union. Many vendors ship from Russia, this is bad news because German customs check packages from Russia and if you get lucky with customs, you still need to declare the package which is inconvenience . Ideally shipping should be done from Latvia, since this is the country of origin for this product. Even more there is some limit of how many packs is allowed to be shipped for personal use inside the EU. If you want to try Meldonium, it is perfectly safe to buy the non prescription version
2) They should sell Grindex or Olainpharm products, these are the only 2 manufacturers who make Meldonium inside the European Union. other brands could have bad quality or be fake.
Nowadays when there are more people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome because of covid pandemic, there should be more researches about Meldonium. Unfortunately research needs a lot of money. But there already are some scientific papers you can look into if you want to know more about Meldonium.
I will note some significant latest research papers from last 5 years:
In year 2018 there was an very interesting study published in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness , this scientific paper wanted to investigate the effects of meldonium on exercise performance and fatigue in healthy young men. The study group consisted from 20 healthy young men. As with any scientific paper , the scientists divided it in groups. First group received Meldonium and second group received water ( placebo group). The meldonium-treated group received a daily dose of 500 mg of meldonium , they took it for 4 weeks.In order to understand the effects of meldonium on exercise performance, scientists used machine called cycling ergometer. The young men had to cycle at a constant load until they were exhausted. While health specialists carefully measured oxygen uptake, power output and the time to exhaustion.
So what did they found out ? The results of this experiment showed that those who took Mildronate had higher maximal power output and significantly longer time to exhaustion compared to group who took empty pills. Interestingly enough mildronate-treated group also had lower oxygen uptake, which means that their body used oxygen more efficiently.
In year 2018 there was another interesting study. The neuroscientists wanted to study Meldonium effects on patients with serious illness called Multiple Sclerosis(MS) and their fatigue levels. In this study researchers involved 60 patients with MS diagnosis . Half of them received placebo dose and half of them were given 500mg capsule once a day for 4 weeks. This is the same regiment as the last study.
To understand the effects of meldonium on fatigue, the scienstist used special questionnaire, cognitive function test and some biomarkers to measure the impact of fatigue on daily activities. And the results showed that those MS patients who were given Meldonium had much lower fatigue scores than those who were given placebo. To measure cognitive function, scientists used test called Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT),this test measures information processing speed and working memory in patients. Also with this test results showed that Mildronate treated test subjects had higher cognitive function than the placebo group.
In this study they also measured biomarkers in the blood, they measured Interleukin-6, Tumor necrosis factor-alpha, Transforming growth factor-beta and Brain-derived neurotrophic factor . Scienstists saw that the group who took Mildronate-had lower levels of these inflammatory markers . This was another strong indicator of impressive positive Meldonium impact.
More recent study in year 2021 researched Impact of Meldonium in people with Chronic Heart Failure. Authors wanted to see what impact meldonium has on exercise and hemodynamics in heart patients This study was relatively large and included 100 patients with chronic heart problem diagnosis. They were divided in two groups, one group received 500mg meldonium for a month and other group received empty capsules. The patients' exercise capacity was measured using short walk test. But their blood flow was measured using echocardiography and blood tests were taken to measure B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels.
Authors showed that the Meldonium group could walk much longer in the same time period compared to non Meldonium group. From echocardiography results, researchers concluded that Meldonium group also had improvement in their heart function. Also they saw improvement in blood serum bio marker ‘’ BNP’’
This study concluded that Meldonium Mildronate does improve exercise capacity and hemodynamics in tests subjects with diagnosed heart condition. All the improvements were attributed to mildronate's ability to reduce inflammation, improve mitochondrial function and its ability to improve cardiac function.
For the inside information of selling Meldonium , I had the chance to interview one of the owners of one of the few legitimate web-stores of Meldonium out there. The person wanted to stay anonymous. He told me that he started to sell Meldonium in Ebay when the listings were booming and in the best of times Meldonium could be sold for 80$ per pack of Mildronate 500mg.
He replied that it is semi legal because the 250mg is over the counter medicine but 500mg are prescribed. And any sane person would think that If you can buy half the dose of prescription drug without prescription its safe for using. Also there are very few side effects to this medicine.
The reply was that his business in Ebay had a painful stop, at the time he did not knew that it could end in PayPal limiting his account without any warning and freezing his money for long time. His exact words
Yes, I understand that it could be interpreted as drugs selling online but it is Meldonium, this wonderful medicine which can help so many elderly people to which people except few countries in Northern EU has no access. This was my drive to open my own store to give a chance to buy this medicine freely. As I found out this was not so easy as well. The first struggle is to get people to trust us, about 50% of customers make an order but does not come around to paying. We are resolving this by offering small orders by 10 capsules so the customer can start to trust us, it is effective. The second and biggest struggle is the payment system, at first we had freely available electronic card payment system. Little we knew that VISA and MasterCard allegedly are making control payments for these kinds of businesses. Later it turned out that behind these control payments are big pharma giants which does not want cheap but quality all the same analogue medicine flooding the USA market. That’s why no online pharmacies offer automated electronic card payments.
I hope i shed some light for your quest on where to buy meldonium.To conclude, some countries has hope to have this medicine in their pharmacies soon but others like USA and Canada will have to relay on online vendors to supply them with this wonderful substance for foreseeable future.In year 2019 Meldonium still remains sold officially only in Baltic states and few other countries as Russia and Ukraine. It seems that getting medicine in new markets is very time consuming and hard because we haven’t seen any real progress in this field regarding Meldonium and new markets.
