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AllWeight lossAppetiteFocusEnergySleepAnxietyMoodMemoryPerformanceRecoveryPain & inflammationDigestionLibidoHormonesBlood sugarHeart & lipidsSkin & hairImmunityLongevity
SardinesMostly positive
“Eating a tin of sardines (with skin and bones) a few times a week has replaced most of my supplements, especially fish oil. No weird burps, just long lasting energy!”
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Olive Leaf ExtractMostly positive
“olive leaf is great too, I mega dose that when I feel that cold coming on and it really helps”
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Olive Leaf ExtractMostly positive
“Designs for health olive leaf extract helps me dramatically”
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Olive Leaf ExtractMostly positive
“I would keep the Curcumin...and OLE for heart health.”
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Chia SeedsMostly positive
“My stool came so moist and soft, easily passing through... I can't remember my stomach and colon feeling so good”
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Chia SeedsMostly positive
“I'm into 20g of chia seeds (soaked overnight) but the dirty hole is back”
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Chia SeedsMostly positive
“This and chia seeds has helped me a lot regarding digestion issues but it helps ALOT with my blood sugar”
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Chia SeedsMostly positive
“I added psyllium and chia seeds to my morning smoothie and kept the rest of my diet the same. My ldl went down 21 points into the normal range.”
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Berberine PhytosomeMostly positive
“Berberine actually has a pretty substantial amount of research on it for lowering LDL cholesterol. While the phytosome version doesn't have specific studies for LDL lowering that I'm aware of, it made a massive difference on my bloodwork personally.”
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Berberine PhytosomeMostly positive
“I've tried it twice now... on both occasions I've felt this extreme fatigue & tiredness alongside a very low mood.”
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Berberine PhytosomeMostly positive
“as someone with T2D and a CGM, I noticed substantial changes in how high my blood sugar would spike, and for how long”
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Berberine PhytosomeMostly positive
“Berberine phytosome, 4-DMA-7,8-DHA + n-acetyl-glutamide...They all make me more alert and focused, lower my coffee intake from 4 espressos to 1”
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Potassium CitrateMostly positive
“Potassium citrate also helps me too, and reduces hunger. I take 450 mg(elemental content) a day.”
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Potassium CitrateMostly positive
“was adding potassium citrate to my squash throughout the day, not realising it was irritating my stomach (so many variables going on). By the time I worked it out I’d given myself severe gastritis”
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Potassium CitrateMostly positive
“I always feel great when I supplement potassium citrate - 2.5 grams a day. I feel more sociable and my body aches less.”
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Potassium CitrateMostly positive
“After supplementing with potassium citrate pills I felt compelled to warn you. heart suddenly starts pumping unusually hard. It starts beating erratically”
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Vitamin K2 MK4Mostly positive
“I ran out of my K2 MK4 drops for the first time in a couple years since I've had long-covid and I started to feel extra worse after a couple weeks.”
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Vitamin K2 MK4Mostly positive
“I stopped using high dose (5-15 mg) Vitamin K2 (MK4).”
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Vitamin K2 MK4Mostly positive
“People taking high-dose MK4 (including me) report their teeth starting to feel 'squeeky clean' from the tartar prevention”
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Vitamin K2 MK4Mostly positive
“my teeth most of all have never looked and felt better”
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Caffeine ReductionMostly positive
“I was quite surprised how much my caffeine consumption was affecting my anxiety levels until I reduced it.”
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Caffeine ReductionMostly positive
“Going off caffeine completely/not consuming caffeine 5-8 hours before sleeping. No effect at all. I tried it multiple times.”
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Caffeine ReductionMostly positive
“The best things for boosting my energy was reducing my caffeine intake and exercising more (jogging).”
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Caffeine ReductionMostly positive
“What helped me was no coffee at all and max 2 cups of green tea a day for the last 3 months. My sleep quality has gone way up and my anxiety levels way down.”
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Red MeatMostly positive
“I started eating red meat. (before I only ate chicken meat). Not only is my brain power increased, but my cardio endurance got increased by probably 60%.”
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Red MeatMostly positive
“I had a big steak last night and noticed I felt energized and my eyes looked less tired.”
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Red MeatMostly positive
“Iodine and actually red meat + organ meat...has improved my periods from very heavy, painful and debilitating to shorter, lighter and no pain”
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Red MeatMostly positive
“Increase your red meat. My libido really cranked up. Like right after a steak.”
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SaltMostly positive
“Once I started increasing salt I felt massively better, I also started supplementing iodine.”
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SaltMostly positive
“adding salt to my diet helped the symptoms of low blood pressure but didn't make the fuzziness go away.”
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SaltMostly positive
“I started adding 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp daily to my diet and I felt incredibly better and more energetic.”
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SaltMostly positive
“My husband's doctor told him to salt his food liberally for this issue.”
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Citrus BergamotMostly positive
“Lowers blood glucose, reduce inflation, and helps stabilize HDL/LDL (in my experience a 15% positive correlation).”
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Citrus BergamotMostly positive
“Bergamot gave me insane muscle pain that lasted weeks and it is a similar mechanism to prescribed statins.”
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Citrus BergamotMostly positive
“Here are things that I have used to drop mine over 100 points: Whole foods...Flush type niacin...Citrus bergamot”
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Citrus BergamotMostly positive
“for your cholesterol you could look into Citrus Bergamot. It’s quite good, I use it myself.”
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Pomegranate ExtractMostly negative
“surprisingly what made a difference for me was pomegranate extract/concentrate...I'd guess perked up vascular function helps to clear metabolites of exercise better.”
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Pomegranate ExtractMostly negative
“Here is a list of what I tried that either had no effect or little effect”
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Aged Garlic ExtractMostly positive
“Aged garlic extract has worked wonders on my heart. So much so that I don't worry about it anymore after starting Kyolic (the basic green bottle) at 2 capsules twice a day with meals, for the last couple of months.”
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Aged Garlic ExtractMostly positive
“Aged garlic has done wonders for my BP”
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