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In the Scheunengut guide, we explain vitamins, minerals, plant compounds and dietary supplements clearly and with a solid scientific grounding – from correct intake to the right product for you. Use the search or the topic filters to quickly find what you need.
Buying Maca: Forms, Colours & What to Look For
In recent years, maca has grown from a regional Andean plant into one of the best-known plant-based powders on health food store shelves and online. Anyone looking to buy maca...
Buying L-Carnitine: Forms & What to Look For
If you're looking to buy L-carnitine, you'll quickly run into a confusing range of choices: powders and capsules, different forms like tartrate or acetyl-L-carnitine, plus wide price differences and brand...
Combining Turmeric and Omega-3: What Actually Matters
Turmeric and omega-3 tend to show up together in guides, forums, and on store shelves. If you're looking into a balanced diet and sensible supplementation, you'll run into both fairly...
Buying Garlic Extract: Black Garlic & What to Look For
Garlic is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the kitchen – and in concentrated form as a capsule, powder, or fermented product, it's now a popular food supplement. If...
Buying Pomegranate Extract: Ellagic Acid & What to Look For
Pomegranate extract is one of those supplements where the label claims vary wildly from brand to brand. One manufacturer advertises an extract ratio of 45:1, the next states an ellagic...
Buying Ginseng: Ginsenosides, Origin & What to Look For
Ginseng is one of the oldest plants in traditional East Asian herbal medicine, and today it is available as capsules, powder, extract, or whole root. That very variety is what...
Buying Barley Grass: Powder vs. Juice Powder & What to Look For
Barley grass is one of the best-known green superfoods on the shelf, yet the range of products can feel overwhelming. Powder, juice powder, pressed tablets, organic or conventional, cheap or...
Iron & Vitamin B12: The Duo for Blood Formation
When it comes to blood formation, two nutrients keep popping up together: iron and vitamin B12. Both play a role in your body's production of red blood cells, which carry...
Buying EAA: Amino Acid Profile & What to Look For
EAA powders are among the most popular supplements in strength and endurance sports - and also among the hardest to compare. At first glance, the labels all look similar, but...
Buying Berberine: Purity, Bioavailability & What to Look For
In recent years, berberine has become one of the most sought-after plant compounds in dietary supplements. Anyone wanting to buy berberine quickly runs into a confusing range of offerings: different...
Buying Artichoke: Extract, Cynarin & What to Look For
The artichoke is one of the most traditional cultivated plants of the Mediterranean region and is now found as an extract in many dietary supplements. Anyone wanting to buy an...
Buying Alpha-Lipoic Acid: R-ALA & What to Look For
Anyone looking to buy alpha-lipoic acid quickly runs into a confusing range of choices: capsules, powders, different forms, and widely varying prices. Terms like R-ALA, racemic, or sodium R-ALA appear...
Combining Selenium & Zinc Sensibly
Selenium and zinc are often mentioned in the same breath. Both are essential trace elements, both occur in the body only in tiny amounts, and both regularly come up together...
Buying Probiotics: Strains, CFU & What to Look For
The market for products containing live bacterial cultures has become difficult to navigate: capsules, powders, and drops advertise high numbers, exotic strain names, and plenty of promises. Anyone looking to...
Combining Omega-3 & Vitamin D: Does It Work Together?
Omega-3 and vitamin D are almost always right at the top when it comes to dietary supplements – two of the most popular supplements out there. No wonder: fish rarely...
Combining Magnesium & Potassium: Using the Electrolyte Duo the Right Way
If you sweat a lot – during exercise, in the sauna, or on hot days – you quickly run into the topic of electrolytes. Two names almost always come up...
Buying Potassium: Forms, Dosage & What to Look For
Potassium is one of the most important minerals in the body and is present in almost every cell. Anyone considering a potassium supplement quickly runs into plenty of questions: which...
Combining Iron & Folic Acid: What to Watch For
When it comes to forming red blood, two names almost always come up together: iron and folic acid. The two are considered the classic duo for blood formation – and...
Combining Coenzyme Q10 & Omega-3 for the Heart: The Honest Guide
Anyone looking into heart health or longevity will almost inevitably come across two names: coenzyme Q10 and omega-3. Both keep turning up together in forums, guides and on supplement shelves...
Calcium & Magnesium: The Right Ratio
Hardly any mineral duo gets mentioned in the same breath as often as calcium and magnesium. And almost every time, one particular number comes up: the 2:1 ratio. Twice as...
B Complex & Magnesium: How to Combine Them Sensibly
Hardly any duo appears together on shelves and in forums as often as B vitamins and magnesium. That's no coincidence: both nutrients play a part in the body at similar...
Ashwagandha & Magnesium for Your Evening Routine
When it comes to an evening or wind-down routine, two names keep coming up together: ashwagandha and magnesium. In forums, in supplement stacks and on the labels of evening combination...
Vitamin D3, K2 & Magnesium: How to Combine Them Correctly
Anyone who looks into dietary supplements will sooner or later come across a trio that almost always appears together: vitamin D3, vitamin K2 and magnesium. In forums, on product packaging...
Omega-3 & Vitamin E: Do They Go Together?
If you read the ingredient list of an omega-3 supplement, you'll almost always stumble across a second name: vitamin E, often listed as tocopherol or alpha-tocopherol. That's no coincidence, and...
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