How To Judge Any Supplement Fairly (Ours Included)

This method works for any supplement, and we would rather you apply it rigorously to ours than buy on enthusiasm.

Four rules and one uncomfortable question.

Rule 1: write a baseline before day one

Score the thing you actually care about, out of ten, before you take anything. “How did mornings feel this week?” is enough. Without a baseline you are comparing week eight against a memory of week zero, and memory reliably rewrites itself in the direction of whatever you spent money on.

Rule 2: change one variable at a time

If you start the drops, a humidifier and a walking habit in the same week, you will learn nothing about any of them. Start one. Give it four weeks. Then add the next. This is slower and it is the only way the answer means anything.

Rule 3: keep the notes written, weekly

One line every Sunday. Not a journal — a number and a few words. Eight lines at week eight is a dataset; eight weeks of impressions is a mood. The day-55 decision is only possible with the former.

Rule 4: set the decision date in advance

Before you start, write down the date you will decide. For us that is day fifty-five, inside the sixty-day window. Deciding in advance is what stops “maybe another month” from quietly becoming a year.

The uncomfortable question

Some of what you notice will be expectation. That is true of every supplement ever sold, ours included, and a brand that tells you otherwise is not being straight with you. The baseline and the notes will not eliminate it — but they will stop you from mistaking a hopeful week for a trend, which is the main thing standing between you and a wasted year of purchases.