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Kavinace by Neuroscience is no longer available as a supplement.  April 10th, 2019, the FDA issued a letter to several nutraceutical companies to discontinue supplements containing 4-amino-3phenylbutyric acid.  The FDA has determined that 4-amino-3phenylbutyric acid, also commonly referred to as Phenibut is not a dietary supplement. We published a previous Kavinace article shortly after the FDA letters were sent out.  As of the letter dated April 10th, the companies had 15 days to comply.  This left people that had taken Kavinace safely for years in a bit of a quandary.  Kavinace is, I mean, was a dietary supplement that many people took to help with staying asleep.  It contained 950mg of a combination of taurine and 4-amino-3-phenyl butyric acid HCL per capsule.   Most people did well on one to two capsules taken at night before bed.  It wasn't a sleep medication, like Ambien or Unisom but did help to raise GABA to help with staying asleep at night.  I used this myself and with patients to stay asleep a