"Clinically studied ingredient" and "clinically studied dose" are different claims. Only one of them tells you anything.
A brand can say "clinically studied ingredient" and be completely accurate while giving you a fraction of the amount any study used. The phrase describes the ingredient. It says nothing about the amount.
A clinical dose is simply the amount that was actually used in the published research. It is not a marketing term and it is not proprietary — it is written in the methods section of every trial, and anyone can look it up.
Fairy dusting
The industry term for including an ingredient at a level far below the studied amount is fairy dusting. It is legal, common, and hard to spot without doing arithmetic.
It works because the ingredient can then appear on the front of the label. The label is true. The dose is not useful.
How to check
Find the studied dose, then compare it against the Supplement Facts panel. Two things to watch while you do it:
- Compare daily totals, not capsule sizes. Many trials use a divided dose — 500mg taken three times a day is a 1,500mg study, not a 500mg one.
- Compare the same weight. For minerals, trials report the elemental amount, and labels often report the compound. See elemental vs compound.
If a product contains meaningfully less than the amount used in research, the ingredient is on the label for marketing rather than for effect.
What that looks like here
The doses on this site are set against the published ranges, not under them. The comparison is on every product page; this is the short version:
| Ingredient | Commonly studied | Ours, per serving |
|---|---|---|
| Creatine monohydrate | 5g daily | 5g |
| Berberine HCl | 1,000–1,500mg daily | 1,200mg |
| Collagen peptides | 2.5–15g daily | 11g |
| Myo- : D-chiro inositol | 40:1 ratio | 2,000mg : 50mg |
Where a range is wide, the honest thing is to say where in it you sit rather than quote the top of it. Collagen research runs from 2.5g to 15g; 11g is near the upper end, and we would rather write that than call it "clinically dosed" and leave you to guess.
Where proprietary blends come in
A proprietary blend lists several ingredients under one combined weight. A "750mg Metabolic Blend" tells you the total, never the split. It could be 740mg of the cheapest ingredient and 10mg spread across the rest, and the label would be accurate.
Blends have a legitimate use: they protect a genuinely novel formulation from being copied. They are also a convenient way to avoid stating amounts.
You cannot verify a dose inside a blend. That is the point of the format.
More is not automatically better
A dose above the studied range is not a stronger version of the research — it is outside it. The studied amount is the one with evidence attached, which is why matching it is the goal rather than beating it.
What we do
Every product here is a single ingredient with its amount printed. There is nothing to disclose because there is nothing combined. It also means every dose on this site can be checked against published research without asking us anything.