Supplements
Quality, form, and what actually reaches the patient.
6 essays
- How to Read a Supplement Claim
A field guide anyone can run on any bottle: three questions that sort the serious from the sold. The move a grifter never makes — run it on the bottle you already believe in, too
Evidence & MethodSupplements - Reading the Omega-3 Evidence Honestly
The big fish-oil trials seem to flatly contradict each other. They do not — the contradiction dissolves the moment you read each one by dose, form, baseline, comparator, and endpoint. A worked example of how to read a literature without cherry-picking the answer you wanted
Evidence & MethodDosingSupplementsMetabolic Health - The Mineral You're Quietly Short Of
Magnesium — a real deficiency the standard blood test routinely under-detects (it can only see the one per cent that sits in your blood), a few genuinely proven uses, several modest ones, and at least one thing it is sold hardest for that it does not do. The discipline is telling them apart
Evidence & MethodDosingMineralsSupplements - What the Old Pharmacy Got Right
The traditional Asian pharmacopoeia was not ancient wisdom to be revered — it was a vast, unindexed library of molecules. The handful that became medicine did so only after modern chemistry isolated the compound and a trial tested it. The credit belongs to the molecule and the method, not the mysticism
Evidence & MethodThe Asian LineageSupplementsMetabolic Health - Not All Supplements Are Created Equal
Why country of origin is a weak signal, and why the bottle on the pharmacy shelf is not the same product as the one in the clinic
Evidence & MethodSupplements - The Bolus Dosing Problem
Why your monthly vitamin D capsule is probably not doing what you think it's doing
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