The Supplement You Took This Morning May Have Already Failed You
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of bioavailability in supplements and how delivery affects health outcomes.
The label on a supplement bottle tells you what went into the capsule — not what reaches your cells. For a great many products, the gap between those two numbers is enormous, and it is invisible at the point of purchase The scientific term for how much of a compound actually reaches your bloodstream in active form is bioavailability. Most oral supplements lose a large fraction of their dose to stomach acid, poor solubility, and rapid elimination before they ever do any good Fat-soluble plant compounds and minerals are especially vulnerable, which is why two products with nearly identical labels can produce completely different results in the real world Across the research, one theme repeats: improving delivery improves outcomes. The active ingredient is rarely the limiting factor — the delivery is Understanding this single problem is the foundation of everything I am going to share over the next several articles, where I'll also introduce a new generation of supplements engineered around delivery from the molecule outward
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