Ingredients

Liposomal Iron: Ferrous Fumarate and Alternate Day Dosing

Iron is one of the oldest supplements in the pharmacy and still one of the most poorly tolerated. That combination has driven decades of formulation work, and more recently a rethink of something m...

Liposomal B Complex: Active Forms and Why They Are Specified

A B complex is not one nutrient. It is eight loosely related water-soluble vitamins that were grouped together historically because they were first isolated from the same sources, and that turned o...

5-MTHF: Methylfolate and How It Differs from Folic Acid

Folate is the point at which nutrition nomenclature becomes genuinely confusing, and the confusion is not accidental. Three different words are in circulation for three related but distinct things....

Curcumin C3 Complex: Standardisation, Bioavailability and the Evidence

Turmeric has been in kitchens and traditional medicine systems for centuries. Curcumin is something narrower: one group of compounds isolated from within it, present in the root at a far lower conc...

Setria® Glutathione: The Molecule, the Form and the Absorption Question

What glutathione is Glutathione is a tripeptide, made from three amino acids: glutamate, cysteine and glycine. It is synthesised inside cells in two enzymatic steps, and it is one of the most abund...

Nicotinamide Riboside: NAD+ Precursors and What the Trials Measured

Few supplement ingredients have travelled from laboratory obscurity to consumer shelves as quickly as nicotinamide riboside. That speed has produced an unusually wide gap between what the molecule ...

Liposomal CoQ10: Ubiquinone, Absorption and the Evidence

Coenzyme Q10 is one of the most researched compounds in the supplement category and one of the most difficult to formulate. Both facts come from the same source: it is a large, fat-soluble molecule...

Vitamin D3 and K2: Why the Two Are Formulated Together

Vitamin D and vitamin K are two separate fat-soluble vitamins with two separate histories. They arrived on the same label relatively recently, and the reason is not marketing convenience. They sit ...

AvailOm® Omega 3: Why the Lysine Salt Form Matters

Most omega-3 supplements answer the same question, which is how to get EPA and DHA into a capsule. Fewer of them address the second question, which is what happens to those fatty acids after the ca...

Magnesium Bisglycinate: The Chelated Form

Magnesium is one of the most abundant minerals in the human body and one of the most frequently misunderstood on the supplement shelf. Two products can both say "magnesium 110 mg" on the front and ...