Featured · Dosing·6 min
The case against round doses
Why your multivitamin contains 500 mg of vitamin C, even though the dose-response curve for ascorbate is nowhere near round numbers.
June 18, 2026
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Field notes from our pharmacy team.
Short essays on dosing, sourcing, and the things mass-market supplement marketing usually skips. Written by the pharmacists who weigh your bottle.
Quality·5 min
What "FDA-registered" actually means
Registration, approval, and inspection are three different things. Here's how to read a supplement label without falling for the marketing.
June 9, 2026Read →
Sourcing·4 min
Sourcing KSM-66® without the marketing
We don't pay for branded extracts unless the standardization data supports the price. A note on how we evaluate adaptogenic actives.
May 27, 2026Read →
Ingredients·7 min
Magnesium forms: please stop arguing
Glycinate, threonate, citrate, malate. The differences are real but smaller than the supplement aisle will tell you. A pharmacist's plain-text take.
May 14, 2026Read →
Science·3 min
Why we publish our X-list
The actives we will not formulate, and the reasoning behind each one. Updated quarterly.
April 30, 2026Read →
Inside the lab·5 min
The pharmacist as default, not upsell
How a single licensed reviewer changes the economics of a supplement bottle, and why it should be table stakes.
April 12, 2026Read →
The dispensary, once a month.
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