The Supplement Format Guide for People With Gut Issues: IBD, IBS, and GERD
When your digestive system is the problem, swallowing more pills isn't the answer. A format-first approach to getting nutrients past the organs that can't...
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Medications That Steal Your Nutrients: PPIs, Metformin, Birth Control, and the Absorption Problem
Medications That Steal Your Nutrients: PPIs, Metformin, Birth Control, and the Absorption Problem I run a sublingual strip company, and this is one of...
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Pill Aversion Is Not Just for Kids: Why 4 in 10 Adults Dread Their Vitamins
Pill Aversion Is Not Just for Kids: Why 4 in 10 Adults Dread Their Vitamins I run a sublingual strip company, so I have...
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The Seasonal Mood Toolkit: Building Your Winter Support Stack Before October
Every year around mid-September, the same thing happens. The light shifts. Sunset creeps earlier by two minutes a day. By October, you're commuting home...
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Resveratrol's 1% Problem: First-Pass Metabolism and the Under-the-Tongue Fix
The number that should bother you In 2004, a pharmacologist named Thomas Walle gave six volunteers a 25-milligram dose of radiolabeled resveratrol — the...
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Sublingual vs Swallowing: What the Pharmacokinetic Data Actually Shows
Most "sublingual vs oral" content is marketing dressed up as science. Here's the actual pharmacokinetic data.I've published a lot of articles about sublingual absorption...
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Dissolving Is Not the Same as Delivering: How to Read a Strip's Claims
"Dissolves in Your Mouth" Is Not the Same as "Absorbed in Your Mouth" I run a sublingual strip company. You'd think I'd want every...
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The Honest Science of the Under-the-Tongue Route: What Works and What's Marketing
A supplement brand founder separates real sublingual pharmacology from marketing hype — with the peer-reviewed data, FTC enforcement history, and an honest accounting of...
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Glutathione Supplements: What the Research Does and Doesn't Support
What Glutathione Actually Does (And Why Everyone's Suddenly Talking About It) Glutathione is a tripeptide — three amino acids (glutamate, cysteine, and glycine) bonded...
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Melatonin and Sleep Onset: What the Research Says About Timing
You set an alarm. You brush your teeth. You swallow your melatonin pill, climb into bed, and then — you wait. Twenty minutes. Thirty....
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Your Body's 6 Filters: What Actually Happens to a Supplement After You Take It
Six Filters Sit Between the Label and Your Blood A note before we start: an earlier version of this article got this wrong. It...
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Pre-Workout Without the Synthetic Stimulants: An Honest Look at the Category
Most pre-workout supplements are engineered to make you feel something — not to make you perform better. A clean pre-workout strips away the theater...
