Phosphatidylcholine and medications.
Phosphatidylcholine is in the Distil supplement database, evidence Grade B. The page below lists every medication we have explicitly assessed it against.
Phosphatidylcholine is a phospholipid usually sourced from lecithin, including a sunflower form for those avoiding soy. It supplies choline for acetylcholine and it is a structural part of cell membranes, which is the reason it is sold for memory and for the liver. We no longer recommend it for either, and it is worth saying plainly why. For memory, the only trial of the supplement in our records gave a single dose of 10 or 25 grams to college students and tested them ninety minutes later, and only the 25 gram dose did anything. That is between twenty and eighty times a normal supplement dose, and the dose closest to the normal range did nothing. The modern trials that look promising are of choline alfoscerate, a different compound, and the large positive study people cite is a survey of how much phosphatidylcholine men ate rather than a trial of taking it. For the liver, the well-known fatty liver result comes from Realsil, in which phosphatidylcholine is the carrier that gets silybin into the body, so the credit belongs to silybin, which has two meta-analyses of its own. The one trial in our records that put phosphatidylcholine into a mixture and compared it against a control found no difference between the groups. Typical doses run 300 to 1,200mg daily. Side effects are mild and mostly digestive, with a fishy odour possible at very high doses. If your aim is memory or liver support, citicoline and choline each carry their own evidence and are the better place to look.
We have not yet completed an explicit assessment of medications for Phosphatidylcholine in the Distil interactions database. We surface this distinction deliberately: the Distil checker tells you when we have explicitly assessed a pair and when we have not, because both are useful information. If you take Phosphatidylcholine alongside a medication, the checker below will surface anything already in our database, and the missing-item form at the bottom of the page routes uncatalogued pairs into our next curation pass.
What this list does not say. Pairs not flagged here are not implicitly safe. They are either not yet in our database, or fall outside our inclusion scope. Use the checker below to surface any medication, and submit a missing item if you take something we have not catalogued.
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