Seven questions worth asking before you buy any supplement
None of these is specific to one product. They work on any bottle, and they will save you more money than any discount code.
1. What is the serving size?
If the big number on the front needs three capsules to reach, the bottle lasts a third as long as it looks. This is the most common way a label is technically true and practically misleading.
2. Is anything hidden in a blend?
A proprietary blend gives one combined weight and no individual amounts. It is legal and common. A label that prints every amount separately, as the supplement facts page does, is giving you more to work with.
3. How does the amount compare with the research?
Look up the ingredient and see what quantity studies actually used. Sometimes a capsule matches it. Sometimes it is a twentieth of it. Both are worth knowing before you spend.
4. Who is the seller, and where is the address?
A real company name and a real postal address on the carton is a minimum. You want to know who to write to when something goes wrong.
5. What exactly does the guarantee cover?
Sixty days from what date — the order or the delivery? Are opened bottles accepted? Who pays return postage? Is the shipping charge refunded? Those four questions separate a real guarantee from a slogan.
6. Will they send a certificate of analysis?
A batch certificate shows what a specific production run contained and what it was tested for. No seller is obliged to hand one over; plenty will if asked, and how a company answers the question is itself informative.
7. Can you actually keep taking it?
The question nobody asks in the shop. A supplement that needs three doses a day, or a scoop measured into a drink, gets abandoned in week two far more often than one that is a single capsule with a glass of water. Format decides whether a bottle gets finished, and a finished bottle is the only kind that was worth buying. The how to take it page shows what one day looks like.
Questions on this article
Price tracks marketing at least as closely as it tracks quality. The panel and the company behind it tell you more than the figure on the checkout.
Reviews can tell you about delivery, packaging, capsule size and refunds — things a customer genuinely knows. They cannot tell you what a product will do for you.
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