Evidence-led analysis
Honest, cited reads on the supplements people actually take. We sell no supplements, so nothing here is a sales pitch: just the evidence, and what it does and does not support.
Two things people believe about Lipitor and supplements are backwards. The CoQ10 everyone takes may not help, and red yeast rice is a statin in disguise.
Everyone knows to space calcium and iron away from Synthroid. Two other supplement interactions get missed: one moves your thyroid level, one fakes your blood test.
Ozempic barely interacts with supplements, it is not cleared by the liver enzymes that cause interactions. The real supplement issue is what eating far less leaves out.
The warfarin advice everyone repeats, avoid leafy greens, is half wrong. The real rule is consistency, and the interactions that actually raise your risk are the supplements nobody warns you about.
The natural mood supplements sold side by side, St John's Wort, 5-HTP, SAMe, are the exact ones to check against Zoloft. Two are a hard stop. Here is why.
Autophagy is real, and the switch that controls it responds to fasting, exercise and weight, not to a capsule. What the spermidine and urolithin A evidence does and does not show.
A 2026 genetics study in Gut linked vitamin B1 metabolism to gut motility and IBS. It is a GWAS and a dietary association, not a trial showing B1 treats IBS. What the evidence does and does not say.
Palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) is one of the few IBS supplements with real randomised trials. What they show, what they do not, and why it sits at Grade B: promising, not proven.
Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro take the weight off, but some of it is muscle. What the evidence actually says: the 40% headline is overstated, and protein plus resistance training are the two levers that matter.
At least 19 of England's 25 most-prescribed medicines have a common supplement that interacts with them, lined up against real NHS prescribing volumes.
Google had indexed 22 of our pages. Eight days later it was 354. The honest version: four separate pieces of work, done weeks apart, that only paid off when the last one landed. A builder's field note on Crawled-currently-not-indexed.
A UK regulator told ZOE its Daily30+ ad could not say 'just real food.' Both the ASA and Tim Spector were right, and both missed the structural point: every word on a supplement package has to be defensible to a regulator and meaningful to a shopper at once.
Why the back of a supplement bottle tells you more than the front. Magnesium, folate, omega-3, vitamin D and curcumin: the form on the label is the dose your body actually sees.
A, B, C, D, and the list we publish but never recommend. How Distil grades every supplement compound on published evidence, why the grade has to be per-form not per-name, and why the rejection list is the real product.
A supplement report business that doesn't sell supplements. The reasoning behind Distil's anti-funnel design, the rules behind the personalisation, and a look inside the coordination most stacks don't do.