Editorial Policy

Every page on this site follows the same ten rules. Here they are, so you can hold us to them.

The ten rules

1. Record every published list, trust none. Three pages publish three formulas; all three are quoted, and the panel on the bottle received is named as the only authority.
2. Set every ingredient beside its studied dose. NIH ODS and NCCIH references for every ingredient on any list, so a reader can see what a dose would look like — and that none is printed.
3. Grade in three bands and say why. Supported, Partly, Flagged — each with the reasoning that put it there.
4. Name every interaction with its ingredient. Grapefruit with statins, licorice with blood pressure, berberine with pregnancy, gymnema and chromium with diabetes drugs.
5. Safety first, literally. “Not a diabetes treatment” and the hypoglycaemia caution appear near the top of every relevant page.
6. Never estimate. A proprietary blend hides the split; this desk never guesses it.
7. Do the arithmetic. Bottle volume divided by dropper count; blend total against combined studied doses.
8. Timeline caps every claim. Glucose trials run eight to twelve weeks; no claim runs ahead of that.
9. Name what does more. Medication, a post-meal walk, fibre, sleep and a glucose meter are named wherever they outperform the product.
10. Link to authorities, not sister sites. External links go to NIH, FDA, NIAMS, AAD and FTC — never to other pages selling the same product.

Why we never estimate

It would be easy to write “probably around 9 mg of gymnema” for the 22-ingredient version, and it would read authoritatively. It would also be invented. A proprietary blend hides the split, and the only honest statement is that no split of 200 mg reaches a studied dose for any of its 22 ingredients.

Sources

The three selling pages fetched at the time of writing; the supplied brand artwork; NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and NCCIH fact sheets; the FDA consumer update on grapefruit and drugs; NIDDK and FTC guidance. All are linked from the pages that rely on them.