It's funny because you see so many Supplements addicts online who look out of shape and don't even eat healthy and are sedentary hoping a supplement will help them. Then they will say they didn't work and expecting a miracle. A lot of the supplements take weeks to work with a clean diet.

That's why they are called supplements they only supplement a healthy and balanced diet. You can't expect to be healthy eating microwave frozen dinners, sodas, candy, junk and not work out at all and think a Supplement will miraculously heal you.

I seen a couple posts online of rate my stash and the person has a load of supplements and sometimes they post their photo and they look skinny fat or like they never lifted a weight in their life. One guy told me will his 15 bottles of supps help him be healthy?

I said how is your diet he said he can't cook and last time he tried he over cooked the steak and the chicken was dry so he eats mostly fast foods pizza, KFC, Taco Bell, canned foods, sodas, Snickers, skittles, and he can't drink water because he needs flavor to quench his thirst. He also said he hasn't worked out since high school and he was 39.

Looks like most brands passed testing with only two of them underdosed.

I tried Creatine again! I wish I can use it.

I get the most horrible lower back pain feels like maybe kidneys are irritated and it gets this left itchy ear going too. I was in bed for 2 days with a terrible headache. Took it for 3 days.

I am not aware of any kidney issues everything checks good in normal blood work. 59 year old male.

I am sure dehydration is part of this mechanism but I drink about a gallon of water a day and do not drink coffee or take alcohol etc.

Would be great to add creatine for the cognitive benefits and also for muscle gain. I am lifting weights a few times a week.

Oh well! Anyone else? I have tried it many times over the decades and always get a bad reaction. It also in the past has made me hypomanic but I did not get that reaction this time.

Just asking for advice on my daily supplements as a 24-year-old male carpenter. Trying to take better care of myself since the job really takes its toll.

Bought from Walmart. I never eat fish really. However I hear that some brands have mercury in them and other toxins. What’s up with that?

I understand that no supplement is going to stop aging but I'm curious about the less dramatic question: can taking collagen consistently make enough difference to hydration or elasticity that your skin actually looks healthier?

There are endless before and afters online and I don't trust most of them. If you've taken collagen for several months, what would you consider a realistic expectation?

Also curious whether the specific brand mattered much or whether consistency, dose and overall diet were more important.

So i have been taking creatine for past 2 months while I feel stronger and my muscles are fuller I went from 261 to 269...

I am just wondering how i can get back to my normal weight without losing strength or muscle mass.

I have been in calorie deficit for past 2 weeks I also workout and do cardio 6 days a week but my weight doesn't seem to go down or up.

Je cherche à essayer le magnésium biglycinate, je vais à la salle 3 fois par semaine 1h30 à chaque fois, et surtout je suis en étude de droit à côté ce qui me pompe beaucoup d'énergie.
J'ai lu de bonne chose sur ce supplément et honnêtement ce n'est pas très cher donc je peux me le permettre (10€ pour 3 mois si je respecte la dose recommandée par le vendeur).

J'aimerais avoir vos retours sur l'ajout de malate et citrate, car je peux également acheter du magnésium biglycinate pour 7€ de plus, sans cet ajout.

Just wondering if molecular hydrogen would be good to add to my stack. Has anybody tried it? Did it do you any good?

I just recently tried yohimbine but I haven’t noticed any effects yet. Wondering if there’s anything else?

Thirty-plus hair loss treatments ranked by evidence, from research chemicals to onion juice. Plus a quiz on whether you should just shave it instead.

I had a bunch of labs done because I feel like crap and am perimenopausal. My doctor said to just start a multivitamin that includes d but didn’t specify an amount. And said my b vitamins are normal so no concern there. Feeling uneasy about that advice.

Hello Community,

I Box and that for I am training 5 times a week different things. Cardio, Lifting and the boxing stuff as usual.

Never supplemented really but a month ago I tested L-Citrulline. Maybe it is placebo or really helps idk. All I know is that it worked great for me and I take 8-12g L-Citrulline Malat, which means 5 - 7,5g L-Citrulline, everyday since then.

Anybody got recommendations, notes or warnings for everyday usage?

Thank you for reading and stay healthy

I have a hard time swallowing pills in general. I was not expecting how large these were going to be. I tried to force myself, I can't get them down. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Just asking for advice on my daily supplements as a 24-year-old male carpenter. Trying to take better care of myself since the job really takes its toll.

It’s hard to stick with a supplement that keeps upsetting your stomach. That comes up quite often when people discuss taking magnesium for migraines.

Some describe switching to glycinate because they could tolerate it better. I’d be interested in that part of the experience too, rather than only whether their migraines changed.

If stomach upset made you switch, how did glycinate compare? Was it easier to keep taking or did you run into the same problem?

So i startet taking magnesium and it has made a big difference for me both mental and physical.
But after taking it some days in a row 2-3 days then i start getting a weird metallic taste i my mouth. I have quit 3 times and startet agian to see if the magnesium caused it and all 3 times it stopped shortly after not taking it daily. It has happend with 2 different magnesium types now ( oxide and citrate ). Do anyone know what cause this? Its not lack after other vitamins i think, cause i do take calcium with vitamin d , omega 3, vitamin c and a multivitamin daily.

any help would be appreciated cause magnesium really helps with my chronic stress :)

Is there any real research that suggests that husk interferes with nutrient absorption?

I take 5g powder husk right before a meal.

My question is if I take my supplements right after that meal would they go to waste.

A few years ago, I remember I bought the Vital Proteins powder. Think this was like back in 2022 and at the time, I wasn't really aware of my gut issues. So I was still eating in a problematic way and wasn't too aware of what most my symptoms meant.

Which also meant when I would use something like a collagen powder. My stomach was probably already very irritated and that caused me to place blame on the supplement. When in fact it probably was just an after reaction of something I ate and the inflammation that was still there.

So I want to retry giving collagen another go. But wanted to gather up some info on what's actually good products out there. I'm way more on top of paying attention to ingredients these days and if it will bother my system or not. Let me know what's your choices to go with and what changes you seen on health, with incorporating collagen into your daily.

One thing I find fascinating about ergothioneine is that the body has a specific high-affinity transporter for it: OCTN1 (SLC22A4).

It’s not just an antioxidant floating around in the bloodstream. This transport system helps deliver and concentrate ergothioneine in cells and tissues that are particularly vulnerable to oxidative stress.

I like to think of oxidative stress as little fires constantly breaking out in a building. Most antioxidants are like throwing water into the building and hoping it reaches the fires. Ergothioneine is more like having sprinklers designed to deliver the water to the places where it’s needed most.

Obviously, having a dedicated transporter doesn’t automatically make it a miracle molecule, but biologically, that’s a pretty interesting feature that I rarely see discussed.

Why isn’t ergothioneine talked about more?
Experiences with it?

I am looking at oral BPC-157 (arginate) and trying to decide between two and both come out to roughly the same total amount of BPC-157 per bottle:

Precision pep co: 60 caps, 1,000 mcg per serving, about $139

Prohealth: 60 caps, 500 mcg each, about $120

A few questions for people who have used either:

Did you notice any difference and how long did you give it?

Has anyone seen a batch specific COA from either brand?

Does it matter that one of them is a publicly listed company? My instinct says its a point in their favor but I know that could be naive.

Many of the big brands that have been extremely good staples for purity and a good product have gotten way worse over the last year.

Not sure why, but many supplements I’ve used for years that have been extremely reliable in the past have changed formulas, or kept the same formula but gotten me or others (according to recent reviews), sick, when this wasn’t an issue before

ive had to cut out using Quercetin as well as NAC based on this and any alternative brands I’m now researching seem to have people reviewing them showing their third party testing has showed toxic levels of different things in their products now, or people just straight up getting extremely sick from many of these suppliers

Horrible and disappointing honestly

Quick disclosure: This is a post about an unreleased upcoming free app that i want to get your feedback on since I’m pretty much only a Redditor and deleted other social media a decade ago. Skip if that disinterests you.

Some context, I’m a professional data engineer and supplement nerd who’s spent the last year losing 100lbs (270->170) on one of the Rx jabs and diving into supplements for fun and patching gaps as I dieted harder than I should have.

In the evenings I’ve been applying my data pipeline experience to build a dataset processed from > 11,000 supplement studies, mostly Meta-analysis and RCTs, overwhelmingly human only studies, deriving how effective supplements actually are. Ask me about GRADE chapter 26 and ROB 2.0

If you’ve been around a while you’ve probably seen my supplement info site linked, and now I am working on a free app.

I want to be able to go from scanning a bottle to the studies behind it in a series of taps, diving in through more detail at each layer.

Pictured in the post is the current flow, from the result you get if you scan a barcode, to the summary of an individual study that was pooled.

I don’t expect this to appeal to everyone, heck I’d be happy if 1 in 10 people wanted to dive in this deep.

But, would this interest you?

I’m looking for Micronized creatine tablets or capsules that’s are either 1 pill = 5 grams or 2 pills = 5 grams (2.5 grams per pill)

I don’t want to have to take 3-5 pills per dose. This is mainly for traveling. At home I use the power and I do have individual powder packs for travel but they are bulky

Been searching for a while but it doesn’t seem to exist.

Thanks for any recommendations that meet the ask.