Category: Supplements

The measured effects are real and they are tiny. What 315 randomised trials found, why the trial dose rarely matches the bottle, and what people who…

L-carnitine ferries long chain fatty acids into the mitochondria, so it is genuinely part of how fat is burned. That is not the same as making…

Anabolic steroids do build muscle, which is exactly why the rest gets left out. They also switch off your own hormone production, push cholesterol the wrong…

Yerba mate is a caffeinated South American tea that gives a mild, measurable lift to energy expenditure and fat burning, mostly because of the caffeine. Small…

Apple cider vinegar pills are not what the research tested. Nearly every trial used liquid vinegar. The only published analysis of vinegar tablets found acetic acid…

Ozempic is a prescription semaglutide injection licensed to manage type 2 diabetes. It imitates GLP-1, a gut hormone released after eating, so the stomach empties more…

Creatine helps your muscles rebuild ATP, the fuel they burn in the first few seconds of a hard effort. Filling up muscle stores makes short, maximal…

Monk fruit is a genuinely useful sugar swap. Its sweetness comes from mogrosides, which carry no sugar and no calories. But what is in the packet…

Shilajit is a mineral rich resin with real but narrow human evidence behind it. Small placebo controlled trials point to less strength loss after fatiguing exercise…

Amla is a genuinely vitamin C rich fruit with a small body of human trial evidence behind it, almost all of it about blood fats. Pooled…

Sesame seeds are a genuinely nutrient dense food, rich in fat, protein, magnesium and, in their unhulled form, calcium. What the trial evidence does not show…

Jeera is a spice, not a treatment. Cumin has been tested in a handful of small, short trials, and those point to modest shifts in fasting…