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. Report the label as it is. Both sellers name six ingredients and print no amounts; this desk records exactly that and names the bottle received as the only authority for amounts.
2. Set every ingredient beside its studied dose. An NIH ODS or NCCIH reference for each of the six, so a reader can see what a working dose looks 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. Ginkgo with blood thinners and surgery, Rhodiola and Bacopa with antidepressants, Bacopa with thyroid medication, Rhodiola and L-Theanine with blood-pressure medication.
5. Safety first, literally. The Ginkgo blood-thinner caution and “read the label on arrival” appear near the top of every relevant page.
6. Never estimate an amount. No milligram figure is invented for a product that publishes none.
7. Do the arithmetic. Six studied doses stacked against a capsule's real capacity; a bottle's 30 capsules against each pack length and the guarantee window.
8. Timeline caps every claim. Eight to twelve weeks with a written baseline; no claim runs ahead of that.
9. Name what does more. Sleep, exercise, blood-pressure control and a blood test are named wherever they outperform the product.
10. Link to authorities, not sister sites. External links go to NIH, NCCIH, NIA, FDA and FTC — never to other pages selling the same product.

Why we never estimate

It would be easy to print “~300 mg Bacopa” and let the page read authoritatively. It would also be invented. The sellers do not publish it, and the capsule-capacity arithmetic says a full 300 mg alongside five other actives is unlikely. The only honest statement is that the amounts are undisclosed and the panel on the bottle is the authority.

Sources

The two selling pages fetched at the time of writing; the supplied brand artwork; NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, NCCIH and NIA fact sheets; FDA and FTC guidance. All are linked from the pages that rely on them.