Ingredient pillars
The ingredients on the label, reviewed honestly.
Most supplement marketing pages talk about the formula. Most supplement formulas are the same eight ingredients, recombined. These pages cover what each ingredient actually is, what the published evidence says it does, the dose that produced any effect in trials, and which products reviewed on this site contain it. Use them as a sanity-check before paying for the bottle.
Weight management
Chlorogenic acid
Green coffee bean extract. Real mechanism, weak trial base, almost always under-dosed inside a metabolism blend.
Weight management
Green tea extract (EGCG)
The workhorse thermogenic. Small but real effect, plus a hepatotoxicity ceiling the marketing pages skip.
Glycemic / weight
Chromium picolinate
Studied at 200–1,000 mcg. Listed at 20–35 mcg on most labels. The textbook label-credibility ingredient.
Cognitive / sleep
L-theanine
A rare ingredient with a real, reproducible short-term effect at a dose that fits in a single capsule. Not a fat burner.
Dental
Oral probiotics
Strain-level evidence is real and narrow. Most "rebuild your oral microbiome" claims sit far outside the trials.
Antioxidant
Grape seed extract
OPCs have real human RCT evidence — for venous insufficiency and blood pressure. Not for hearing or tinnitus.
Adaptogen
Astragalus
TCM heritage and credible polysaccharide research. On Western labels it is almost always under-dosed by an order of magnitude.
Cognitive / dopaminergic
Mucuna pruriens
The only botanical with a direct dopamine-precursor mechanism. Either pharmacologically active or a token dose — rarely in between.
Label structure
Proprietary blends
Not a trade secret. A legal carve-out that lets a brand show ingredients without showing doses. The category's central problem.
Buyer protection
ClickBank refund mechanism
Almost every supplement on this site shares the same 60-day platform refund. The seller can't override it. Most buyers never use it.
How we read an ingredient label
Every pillar page on this site applies the same checks: studied mechanism, studied dose, what the dose actually delivered on the label tends to be, the safety profile, and the populations for whom the ingredient is a clinically real concern, not a marketing one. We never invent trial numbers we can't verify, and we hedge specifically when the evidence is thin instead of bluffing specifically.
If you came in looking for a specific product review, the supplement reviews section is the better starting point. If you came in looking for what an ingredient on a label is doing for you, you're already in the right place.