Neuroborean
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the thing is that kratom doesn't have 1 or 2 alkaloids, it has around 40 different actives.getting Kratom with quality alkaloid content.
The conditions/factors that affect the quantity of each alkaloids are very very complex: place/soil, period of the year, individual tree/genetics, wild vs plantation, tree age, drying/fermentation process...
It's quite certain that those factors make real differences and you can even feel subtle differences between vendors because of how their supply could have different methods and how those factors are in each supply area.
It's also quite certain that those factors are almost impossible to standarize so the "recipes" the vendors or suppliers have for each strain are different, so you mostly cannot rely on those marketing names.
Mitragynine and 7-ohm are the most active alkaloids but getting a "balanced leaf" or a "stimulating leaf" or a "potent opioid-like leaf" is something real, that surely depend on those complex factors and on those different alkaloid ratios (that you cannot really control easily).
I agree that the potency overall depends on the "alkaloid content" if you refer to mitragynine content, because most people want to find a potent leaf in terms of mitragynine feeling (that is basically it's uplifting, adrenergic stim-like activity) but well, I think it's more nuanced than that (even if it's not as varied as the number of strains there are).