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Ingredient quality
Named, standardised extracts — or a proprietary blend hiding the doses. One of those is a red flag.
Independent supplement reviews
I read the label against the studies, then I tell you what is really in the capsule.
No affiliate-first rankings, no "clinically proven" copied off the label, and a review a brand paid for says so in its first line. Every review checks the doses in the capsule against the doses the research used, prices it per serving, and says so when a formula falls short.
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Where do you want to start?
Six shelves, and every review on them reads the label against the studies.
Method
How every product gets scored
The same five questions, in the same order, for everything on this site. A product can have a beautiful label and still fail four of them.
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Dose vs. the evidence
The studies used a dose. Does the capsule contain it, or a tenth of it? This is where most formulas quietly fail.
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Formula transparency
Full disclosure of every milligram, or a "proprietary blend" number that tells you nothing.
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Value for money
Cost per effective daily serving, not cost per bottle. A cheap bottle you take three of is not cheap.
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Brand trust
Third-party testing, a real address, and what happens when you try to get a refund.
In brief
How this site works, in three pictures
Two of these count the live catalogue and redraw themselves as it grows. The first has no numbers in it at all, because it is a method rather than a claim.
What "reviewed" means here
The same five steps for a $19 bottle of B12 and a $69 nootropic stack. Step two is the one that decides most verdicts, and it is the one almost nobody publishes.
- Paid reviews say so A review a brand paid for says so in its first line, and goes through the same five steps.
- Read the label against the studies Find the dose the research actually used, then find the dose in the capsule. This is where most formulas quietly fail, and it costs a lot of them their score.
- Say what the evidence does not show When the research behind an ingredient is thin, small or not done in people, the review says so instead of repeating the label.
- A review, not a trial Nobody here takes each product for weeks and reports how it felt. A review is the label, the studies and the price, and it says so.
- Price it per serving Cost per effective daily dose, not cost per bottle. A cheap bottle you have to take three of is not a cheap bottle.
What is actually on this site
Published posts per section, counted live. Nootropics and supplements carry the site by a wide margin, which is why they get the first two menu slots.
Published posts, counted live.
Two kinds of page here
Comparisons settle one product against another. Reviews take a single product through the five steps above. A post that does both is counted as a comparison, because that is the question the reader arrived with.
- Comparisons 69%
- Reviews & guides 31%
Comparisons
Head to head
The comparisons people actually search for, settled with doses and prices rather than adjectives.
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