Nutrition

The front label tells you the weight of the oil. The number that matters is printed smaller. Here’s how to read it, and which five actually pass independent testing.

Fish oil is sold as the safest supplement on the shelf. Randomised trials found it raises atrial fibrillation risk, and the effect scales with dose. Here’s how to hold that alongside the real benefits.

The critical window for folate closes before most women know they’re pregnant. And the MTHFR test everyone’s selling? The medical genetics body says don’t order it.

If you’re plant-based, this is the one supplement I’ll tell you outright that you need. And if you take metformin, nobody has probably mentioned B12 to you at all.

The supplement question on calcium is genuinely unsettled, and almost nobody says so. Here’s both sides, plus the thing that does more for your bones than any pill.

Most supplement pages will not open by telling you that you might not need this. The 2024 guidance says healthy women under 75 with decent sun exposure probably don’t.

For a decade we were told to test and supplement. In 2024 the Endocrine Society reversed most of that. Here’s what actually changed, what’s still solid, and where women differ.

Rebuilding iron stores takes months. The supplement that works is the one you’re still taking in month three, which makes tolerability the whole question.

You had blood work. They said it was normal. That test measured haemoglobin, not iron stores, and the difference is why so many women spend years running at eighty percent.

Most of this aisle is confectionery with a protein claim on the front. Five bars survived a proper label check, plus the four that didn’t and exactly why.