About This Site

This site exists because supplement labels are written in a language most buyers do not speak, and that gap is where bad purchases happen.

What we are trying to do

Translate. Not simplify to the point of being wrong, but take the terms that make a label impenetrable — 4:1 extract, standardised to 95%, proprietary blend — and say what they mean for the person holding the bottle.

How we decide what to believe

• The ingredient panel beats the advertising. The panel is a legal document with rules about it. A sales page is not. Where they conflict, we say so and go with the panel.
• Amounts matter more than names. A good ingredient in a tiny quantity is a name on a label. We do the arithmetic and compare it with what studies used.
• Where we had to estimate, we estimated kindly. Two lines on this label cannot be worked out. Rather than assume the worst we chose the figure most favourable to the product.

Three corrections we make every time

"FDA Approved" does not exist for supplements. The accurate phrase, which the bottle itself uses, is made in an FDA-registered facility. That describes the building.

"Eliminate joint pain" and "rebuild cartilage" are medical claims. Supplements may say they support normal function; they may not claim to treat a disease. The bottle stays inside the line — the advertising does not.

Crossed-out prices are not savings. There is no evidence this product ever sold for $358, $537 or $1,074.

What we will not put on a page

Invented customers, made-up star ratings, review counts we cannot source, countdown timers or stock warnings. The sales page we looked at has a thirty-minute timer on it. We did not copy that.

The obvious question

We earn a commission when someone buys through our links, and we have written a page saying the dose is small and the advertising does not match the label. Fair to ask why.

The answer is that a page which always says buy is not information, it is an advert with more words. Someone who reads all of this and buys anyway will not feel tricked afterwards. Someone who decides against it has been helped. Both are better than the alternative, and the disclosure at the bottom of every page is there so you can weigh what we say knowing how we are paid.

Where we are the wrong source

A hot or swollen joint, joint pain with a fever, stiffness lasting more than an hour in the morning, or pain after a fall. Those need a doctor, and some of them need one soon.