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Two pieces of reading that are not about buying anything. The first sets out what the published research supports across this whole category, ingredient by ingredient, with the amount each trial used. The second is a scorecard of seven checks you can carry to any label, applied at the end to the product this website sells.
Built to pay its way for a reader who never reaches the order page.
The two guides
What the evidence supports across metabolism supplements
Chromium picolinate is the most studied ingredient on this shelf and its own Cochrane review calls the effect it found of debatable clinical relevance. Green tea catechins, capsaicinoids and L-carnitine have real meta-analyses and small numbers. Raspberry ketones have no human single-ingredient trial at all. The guide walks the whole category with the dose each trial used beside it.
Seven checks to run on any metabolism supplement label
Are the amounts printed? Does a blend total exist? Do the printed figures reach what the research used? Is every ingredient named in order with its plant part? Is there a batch with a human behind it? Does the refund policy match the seal on the pack? Seven questions, each answerable in a minute with the bottle in your hand.
Neither page is a sales page and neither is written to lead anywhere in particular. The second one scores this product against its own scorecard and it does not score well on two of the seven rows, which is printed rather than quietly omitted.
Both were written from public sources that anybody can open. Every study named carries its full citation at the foot of the page it appears on, with the amount that trial used, because the amount is the part that decides whether a research finding has anything to do with a bottle.
Where to start, depending on what you already know
- If you have never read a Supplement Facts panel closely, start with the seven checks. They are a reading method rather than a verdict, and they work on any label in any shop.
- If you want to know whether this category does anything at all, start with the evidence guide. It leads with the pooled results rather than the mechanisms, which is the order that answers the question fastest.
- If you already know the chromium literature, skip to the section on proprietary blends. The interesting problem in this category is not which ingredients are in a bottle but how much of each, and what a declared blend total does and does not settle.
- If you are comparing two labels right now, the scorecard is built to be filled in twice. Seven rows, two columns, and the differences show up immediately.
This website sells one product and says so at the top of every page. The material below is written so that a reader who decides against it still leaves with something useful, and the product pages are where the selling happens. The supplement facts page reproduces the panel row by row if that is what you came for.
Sources with nothing to sell you
Five public pages behind both guides, none of them written by anybody who benefits from your decision.
- Weight Control. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/weight-control
- Using Dietary Supplements Wisely. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/using-dietary-supplements-wisely
- Dietary Supplements. MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine. https://medlineplus.gov/dietarysupplements.html
- Nutrition labeling of dietary supplements. 21 CFR 101.36. Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, Office of the Federal Register. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101/subpart-F/section-101.36
- Questions and Answers on Dietary Supplements. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/food/information-consumers-using-dietary-supplements/questions-and-answers-dietary-supplements
Read the guides first, then look at RetraBurn
Two printed amounts, 21 names in declared order, three packs and 60 days from shipment. The panel is reproduced in full on this website so it can be checked against the guides above.
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