How to Choose a Quercetin Supplement: Forms, Doses and Bromelain Checks
A buying guide to quercetin forms, bromelain add-ins, cost per 500 mg and safety with common medicines, with label facts from our two quercetin products.
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Practical guides on supplements, herbs and natural health from the Remedy's Nutrition team.
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How to Choose a Vitamin D3 Supplement: Strength, Form and Label Checks
How to choose a vitamin D3 supplement: D3 vs D2, IU vs mcg, capsules vs drops, label checks and safety, with real label facts and prices.
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How to Choose a Magnesium Glycinate Supplement: Forms and Label Checks
A buying guide to magnesium forms, elemental magnesium on labels, daily limits and medicine timing, with real label facts from our own capsules and powder.
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How to Choose a Vitamin A Supplement: Retinol, Beta-Carotene and Safe Limits
Compare retinol, retinyl palmitate and beta-carotene, understand the 3,000 mcg RAE upper limit for preformed vitamin A, and learn how to read any vitamin A label before you buy.
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How to Choose a Vitamin C Supplement: Forms, Doses and Quality Checks
Compare ascorbic acid, buffered calcium ascorbate and chewable vitamin C, see what a sensible dose looks like, and learn how to read any vitamin C label before you buy.
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Selenium and Diabetes Risk: An Open Question Worth Knowing
Selenium is involved in glucose metabolism, and a meta-analysis of randomized trials looked at whether supplementation changes type 2 diabetes risk.
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Selenium Deficiency and Food Sources: Why Soil Decides
Brazil nuts are the richest source and the most variable. The amount in any plant food depends on where it grew, which is why deficiency is geographic.
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Selenium Dosage: 55, 200 and 400 Micrograms Explained
The recommended intake is 55 mcg and the ceiling is 400 mcg. Most trials used 200 mcg. How three ordinary sources add up past the limit.
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Selenium and Prostate Cancer: What the SELECT Trial Found
A randomized prevention trial tested selenium and vitamin E directly. It found no reduction in prostate cancer risk from either supplement.
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Selenium Side Effects and Toxicity: The Narrowest Window on the Shelf
The upper limit is 400 mcg against a recommended 55 mcg. What selenosis looks like, and how three ordinary sources add up to exceed it.
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Selenium and Thyroid Health: Two Reviews, Opposite Answers
A 2017 review found insufficient documentation. A 2018 review found autoantibodies significantly reduced. Same question, one year apart.
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What Is Selenium? Benefits, Evidence, and the Narrow Window
Selenium has 1,289 clinical trials behind it and one of the narrowest safe windows of any supplement. What it does and where the evidence disagrees.
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Was 5-HTP Ever Banned? The 1989 Story, Corrected
The withdrawal people half-remember applied to L-tryptophan and was traced to one manufacturer. Plus the contested peak X findings, both sides stated.
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5-HTP Side Effects and Drug Interactions
Nausea is common and mild. The serious issue is serotonin syndrome: SSRIs, SNRIs, MAOIs, tricyclics, triptans, tramadol, linezolid and St John's wort.
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5-HTP Dosage and Timing
There is no established dose, only 3 amounts used in trials. What each study used, how long to test it, and the 1 question that overrides the number.
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5-HTP for Anxiety and Mood
200 mg reduced an experimental panic response in 24 diagnosed patients and produced no effect in 24 healthy ones. Plus the fluoxetine trial's missing arm.
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5-HTP vs Melatonin and L-Tryptophan
They are consecutive steps in one pathway, not rivals. Where each enters, why the 5-HTP step is the bottleneck, and why 0 head-to-head trials exist.
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5-HTP for Sleep: What the Trials Measured
A 2024 trial gave 100 mg daily for 12 weeks: poor sleepers improved, good sleepers did not. And the famous 32-to-19-minute result was a combination.
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What Is 5-HTP? Uses, Evidence, and Honest Limits
5-HTP explained: Cochrane searched the literature, found 108 trials and could use 2, covering 64 patients. What that means for sleep, mood and appetite.
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Chromium Picolinate vs GTF Chromium and Other Forms
Picolinate, GTF, polynicotinate and chloride compared: which form trials used, how absorption differs, and why 200 mcg means the same on an honest label.
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Chromium Picolinate Side Effects, Dangers, and Who Should Avoid It
Adverse events matched placebo across 25 trials. The kidney case reports and doses, levothyroxine and diabetes drug interactions, and who should avoid it.
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Chromium Picolinate Dosage: How Much Should You Take Per Day?
The full dose ladder from the 25 to 35 mcg dietary need to the 1000 mcg trial ceiling, plus timing, food, thyroid spacing and how long a fair trial runs.
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Chromium Picolinate for Blood Sugar and Insulin Resistance
HbA1c falls 0.55 to 0.71 percent in type 2 diabetes and nothing changes in healthy adults. PCOS data, medication safety, and how to test it over 12 weeks.
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Chromium Picolinate for Weight Loss and Sugar Cravings
Pooled trials show 1.1 kg over 12 to 16 weeks and no belly-fat effect. Why 1000 mcg fat burners are not better, and where the craving evidence is stronger.
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Chromium Picolinate Benefits: What the Research Actually Shows
Each chromium picolinate benefit graded: HbA1c down 0.55 to 0.71 percent, a 1.1 kg weight change, PCOS insulin data, and where the evidence runs out.
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